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Releases

Current Release

Release 5: June 13, 2016 - Support IU MDPI/Large collection management. Support for moving from Variations to Avalon. 

  • Features for Variations to Avalon Migration
    Content ingest API
    • Playlists
      • Adding clips of media items to playlists
      • Edit, re-order and move playlist items to other playlists
      • Create public or private playlists
  • Access control enhancements:
    • IP based access control

    • Leases for access control (Start/end dates for user and group access on items)

  • Accessibility phase 2 Section labels able to be searched
    • Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
  • Fedora 4 timeline (when and how)

Release 5.0.1: July 14, 2016 - Bug fix release

  • Inconsistencies in Avalon’s media player on some mobile device browsers
  • Captions intermittently failed to appear on the media player when enabled
  • Users would occasionally encounter error screens when searching

Release 5.1: July 22, 2016 - Feature improvements release

  • Added markers
  • Various bug fixes 
    • Apostrophes in media objects causing a load failure 
    • Various smart phone display bugs 
    • Error handling for users clicking multiple times on upload
  • Added variations import for playlists (feature for institutions importing playlists to avalon).

Upcoming Releases

Release 6: October 2016 - Feature parity with R5 but on Fedora 4

  • Upgrades

    • Fedora 4, Hydra 10, Solr upgrade
    • New Models for Fedora4
    • JS media framework decisions
    • Ruby on Rails upgrade
      • Ruby support for 2.3

    Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata

    SAAS Preparation

    • AWS experiment
    • Develop AWS infrastructure map
    • Running AWS Hosted Pilot
    • Pricing Models for SAAS

    Additional transcode engine support

    • Zencoder or amazon elastic transcode decision
    • Rework AWS Instance when Materhorn is removed
    • Better local transcode support

    Improvements to Playlists

    Documentation & Transparency

    • Server Mapping
    • Improve Manual install 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

    Contributions to IIIF Framework

    Enable codeclimate against a repo

Release 7: TBD - Focus on Gemification

Exhibits Via Spotlight 

    • Spotlight integration and implementation
    • How-to Documentation

 Strategy for QA

    • Staffing and workflow
    • Integrated Automated Test environments

 Remove RTMP Support 

    • Drop Flash
    • 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

 Improve packaging

    • Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)
    • Better developer install methods
    • Better OVA

 Structural Metadata Improvements

    • granular seeking
    • move a master file to a different item
    • merge/split items

Release 8: TBD - feature list in flux

  • PCDM support

  • Publishing Out to External Media Sites

  • Additional Embedding Functionality

  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming

 


Technical work to schedule:

  • Improve unit testing
  • Supporting another transcoding engine (Amazon Elastic Transcoder/Active Job) 
  • Cloud solution
  • RDF
  • 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
  • Metadata
  • Internationalization

  • Technical metadata

  • 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 OHMS

 

 

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