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For information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github.
Release 6
January 2017 - Replacing Fedora 3 with Fedora 4. Feature parity with Release 5.
- Fedora 3- Fedora 4 Migration tool with reporting
Preparation for SAAS Pilot
- Develop AWS infrastructure map
- 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
- 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
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
Moving to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack
- Spotlight integration and implementation
- Integrated Automated Test environments
- 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
- move a master file to a different item
- Better local transcode support
Release 8
Full feature list yet to be determined.
- Publishing Out to External Media Sites
- Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
- Deeper integration with Hyrax Community
- Further gemification/shredding of core components
Technical work yet to be scheduled:
- Improve unit testing
- SAAS solution
- RDF
- Implement PCDM
- 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
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