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Release 6

January 2017 - Replacing Fedora 3 with Fedora 4; feature parity with Release 5
  • Upgrades
  • Fedora 4, Hydra 10, Solr
  • New Models for Fedora 4
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Ruby support for 2.3
  • Fedora 3- Fedora 4 Migration tool with reporting
  • Preparation for SAAS Pilot
  • Run Avalon on AWS
  • Develop AWS infrastructure map
  • Running AWS Hosted Pilot
  • Pricing Models for SAAS
  • Additional transcode engine support
  • Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder
  • Improvements to Playlists
  • Faster loading between playlist items
  • Track Scrubber: more granular scrubbing for playlist items and structural metadata segments
  • Documentation & Transparency
  • Server Mapping
  • Improved manual installation 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
  • Improve packaging
  • Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)
  • Better developer install methods
  • Better OVA
Release 6.x
 Spring 2017. Bug fixes and improvements to 6.0
  • Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata
  • Player API
  • Continued work on AWS integration/support
  • Simplification of Development environment (e.g. nginx, ffmpeg transcoding)

Release 7

 

Move to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack
  • PCDM support
  • 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
  •  Structural Metadata Improvements
  • granular seeking
  • move a master file to a different item
  • merge/split items
  • Better local transcode support

Release 8 

TBD - feature list in flux

  • Publishing Out to External Media Sites
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
  • Deeper integration with Hyrax Community
  • Further gemification/shredding of core components
 

Technical work to schedule:

  • Improve unit testing
  • SAAS solution
  • RDF
  • Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker. Improving installation experience. 
  • Scalability issues that may arise 
  • Automated functional testing
Unscheduled Features
  • Facebook integration
  • Reporting and metrics
  • Collections based group management
  • Collections based master file handling
  • Internationalization
  • 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 oral history tools

 

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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


 
Info

For detailed information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github.