For information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github.

Release 6

January 2017 - Replacing Fedora 3 with Fedora 4. Feature parity with Release 5.

Upgrades

Fedora 4, Hydra 10, Solr

New Models for Fedora 4

Ruby on Rails

Ruby support for 2.3

Fedora 3- Fedora 4 Migration tool with reporting
Preparation for SAAS Pilot

Run Avalon on AWS

Develop AWS infrastructure map

Running AWS Hosted Pilot

Pricing Models for SAAS

Additional transcode engine support

Support for Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Improvements to Playlists

Faster loading between playlist items

Track Scrubber: more granular scrubbing for playlist items and structural metadata segments

Documentation & Transparency

Server Mapping

Improved manual installation 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
Improve packaging

Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)

Better developer install methods

Better OVA

Release 6.x

Spring 2017 — Bug fixes and improvements to 6.0.

Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata
Player API
Continued work on AWS integration/support
Simplification of Development environment (e.g. nginx, ffmpeg transcoding)

Release 7

Moving to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack

PCDM support

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

Structural Metadata Improvements

granular seeking

move a master file to a different item

merge/split items

Better local transcode support

Release 8

Full feature list yet to be determined.

Publishing Out to External Media Sites

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming

Deeper integration with Hyrax Community

Further gemification/shredding of core components

Technical work to schedule:

Improve unit testing

SAAS solution

RDF

Implement 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

Internationalization

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 oral history tools