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Avalon 7.6 includes major significant changes to the media player, dependency upgrades in addition to a set , and a variety of bug fixes and minor improvements.
Upgrade Guide: See the Upgrading Avalon 7.5 6 to Avalon 7.67 page for upgrade instructions.
Notable Updates
Updates and Changes
- Ramp, a general-purpose media player designed for use with IIIF manifests, replaces the existing MediaElement.js-based player
- Improvements to accessibility that bring user-facing Avalon pages up to WCAG 2 Level AA conformance
- Application speed has been greatly improved on the Playlist and Item page
- Multiple caption files can now be associated per media file, and language can be assigned for each caption file
- Transcripts can be marked as "machine-generated" to appear differently in the UI
- New "Add to Playlist" form provides greater flexibility when adding media to playlists
- "Series" added as a new descriptive metadata field that also appears as a facet for browsing
- Many fixes for UI/UX on iOS and Android devices
- Fix for an extension error in some transcript files when downloading
- Previous and Next buttons added to the media player for easier navigation between sections
- Transcript component automatically scrolls along with media playback
- Searching in the Timeline listing has been changed to allow for friendlier, fuzzier matching
- Updates to IIIF manifest generation
- Support for reCaptcha v3
- Support for Solr 9
- Changes to collection admin page permissions forms
- IIIF Authentication has been removed from publicly accessible items
- Structural Metadata Editor now displays video when available
- Managers can now be added to the Editor role for a collection
- Rake task added for cleaning up stray files from encoding with FFmpeg
- A new administrative facet allows filtering by item access level
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.6.
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