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Current Release
Release 5: June 13, 2016 - Support IU MDPI/Large collection management. Support for moving from Variations to Avalon.
Release 5.0.1: July 14, 2016 - Bug fix release
Release 5.1: July 22, 2016 - Feature improvements release
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Upcoming Releases
Release 6: October 2016 - Feature parity with R5 but on Fedora 4
Upgrades
- Fedora 4, Hydra 10, Solr upgrade
- New Models for Fedora4
- JS media framework decisions
- Ruby on Rails upgrade
- Ruby support for 2.3
Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata
SAAS Preparation
- AWS experiment
- Develop AWS infrastructure map
- Running AWS Hosted Pilot
- Pricing Models for SAAS
Additional transcode engine support
- Zencoder or amazon elastic transcode decision
- Rework AWS Instance when Materhorn is removed
- Better local transcode support
Improvements to Playlists
Documentation & Transparency
- Server Mapping
- Improve Manual install and upgrade instructions
- Move JIRA to Waffle/Github
- Fedora 4 Upgrade Path instructions
- Documented migration path from Variations
- Code style guide and standards
- Set RuboCop profile as part of build
Contributions to IIIF Framework
Enable codeclimate against a repo
Release 7: TBD - Focus on Gemification
Exhibits Via Spotlight
- Spotlight integration and implementation
- How-to Documentation
Strategy for QA
- Staffing and workflow
- Integrated Automated Test environments
Remove RTMP Support
- Drop Flash
- Investigate HLS on all platforms and its implications
- Create one player view in Avalon
- Re-implement media element customization against the main branch
- Adjust streaming security model
- Move to standard mediaelement
Better internal permissions setup
Gemification/Break interdependencies
- Streaming gem for another repo app
- Bulk metadata/editing gem
Improve packaging
- Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)
- Better developer install methods
- Better OVA
Structural Metadata Improvements
- granular seeking
- move a master file to a different item
- merge/split items
Release 8: TBD - feature list in flux
PCDM support
Publishing Out to External Media Sites
Additional Embedding Functionality
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
Technical work to schedule:
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Unscheduled Features
- Facebook integration
- Reporting and metrics
- Collections based group management
- Collections based master file handling
- Metadata
- Internationalization
Technical metadata
Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
Provenance metadata
PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks
Controlled Vocabularies
Import media from other sources
Image content/auxiliary items (how does Avalon fit with other initiatives?)
Integration with OHMS
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Avalon 7.8 (Summer 2024)
Features and Changes
- Search within transcripts on the item page
- Improved searching in the application—see which specific fields in the record are matched by search
Avalon 8.0
- Fedora 6 support with ActiveFedora
- Improved internationalization options
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For detailed information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github. |