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For information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github.
Release 6.x
Summer 2017 — Migration tools, Player API, and AWS support
- Fedora 3—Fedora 4 Migration tool with reporting features
- Player API
- Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata
- Continued work on AWS integration/support
- Simplification of Development environment (e.g. nginx, ffmpeg transcoding)
- SaaS Pilot—Avalon hosted in the cloud
Release 7
Moving to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack
For more information on Release 7, please see our standalone road map: Avalon 7 Road Map Below are features originally planned for release 7; some of these will be edited or removed as Avalon is written to use Hyrax as its base.
- 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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