Avalon 7.7.2
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Available for download at the Github releases page.
Avalon 7.2 includes support for supplemental files, an improved authentication flow for restricted content, and the ability to merge items, as well as variety of bug fixes and updates for supporting libraries and components.
Features
- Intermediate Page When Accessing Restricted Content
- Support for supplemental files
- Files of any type can be
- Files can be associated at the item or section level
- Merge multiple items
Updates
- Cron jobs now run through Sidekiq
- Dependency updates
- Structural Metadata Editor can be used when no audio data is present
- Added stereo mixdown to encoding parameters for video
- Added link to Sidekiq dashboard under the "Manage" menu
Bug Fixes
- Fixes for S3 transcoding
- Fix API issues with collection names
- Better aligned elements in the embedded media player
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Bugfixes
- Fixed Add to Playlist Bug Where Track Information Does Not Populate
- Add to playlist button disabled on iPhone Safari until user plays media item
- Fixed a bug where the Create Thumbnail action created unnecessary network requests
Release page: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.7.2
Avalon 7.7.1
Bugfixes
- Media file duration is now set to the value reported during encoding instead of the imprecise value returned by the mediainfo tool
- Action buttons on the item page are only enabled after the player is completely loaded
- Fixed slow loading of the Manage Content page
- Fixes for player styling and icon sizes
Captions
- Added missing SRT format support for caption files
- Captions have been removed from HLS manifests for greater compatibility
- Default language value for captions is set to the system default during migration
Updates
- Collection ID has been added to media object JSON responses
- Positional URLs for playlist items are supported again (i.e. avalon-site.edu/playlists/##?position=3)
- Fixes and improvements to the Avalon reindexing script
- Fuzzier searching added to the playlists listing
- The Create Thumbnail button is now disabled for audio items
- Security updates for smaller dependencies
Release page: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.7.1
Avalon 7.7
Avalon 7.7 includes significant changes to the media player, dependency upgrades, and a variety of bug fixes and minor improvements.
See the Upgrading Avalon 7.6 to Avalon 7.7 page for upgrade instructions.
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
Releases Page
https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases
If you have questions or need assistance, please email us at avalon-discuss-l@list.indiana.edu.
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