Avalon 7.5.1

Avalon 7.5.1 includes a variety of updates and bug fixes.

Updates and Bug Fixes

• Fix for issues selecting newly created segments in Timelines
• Timelines with custom scope on media files render as expected
• Transcript viewer now renders as expected when Controlled Digital Lending is disabled
• Fix for a track selection issue when the player is paused
• Long filenames can now be viewed in full in the Manage Files edit page
• Structural metadata now properly passed in API responses
• Filename handling improved for media files
• Updates for Rails and other dependencies

Full release notes: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v.7.5.1

Avalon 7.5

Avalon 7.5 includes a Controlled Digital Lending feature and a variety of updates and bug fixes.

Upgrade Guide: Upgrading Avalon 7.4 to Avalon 7.5

Controlled Digital Lending

• When enabled, authenticated users must borrow an item to stream media streams
• Items can only be checked out to a single user at a time
• A new Checkouts page presents a table of a user's current checkouts
• Lending periods are configurable per item and via collection defaults
• CDL functionality can be enabled or disabled for each collection

Updates and Fixes

• Greatly improved performance for item view pages
• Video support in the Timeliner
• Unicode support for filenames
• Updated version of MediaElement.js player
• Fixes for login page redirect errors
• Fix for date sorting in tabular displays
• Fix for dynamic fields in resource description form
• Updated CORS configuration for cross-domain requests
• Better handling for common application errors
• Bugfix for caption rendering in a specific case
• LDAP group-based permissions work with API requests