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
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