Avalon
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7.7.2
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Features
Feature improvements include enhanced playlist copying, editing, LTI integration, and sharing. In addition, this release includes a preview of the MediaElement 4 player. See the closed issues for a full list of features and enhancements.
Improvements to Playlist Functionality
- Shareable via LTI link
- Shareable via private link
- Improved naming of complex works
- Add all items to playlist link added
- Copy playlist functionality added
- A new visibility option, Share by link, restricts viewing access to a playlist to users who have a unique and obfuscated URL
- Entire playlists can be copied
- Playlist items can be copied from one playlist to another
- Add Section to Playlist
- Add All Sections to Playlist
- Playlist markers can be clicked to navigate to their respective time points
Other Changes
- Tested for compatibility with Fedora 4.7.4
Bug Fixes
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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
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