Avalon 7.7

Avalon 7.6 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

Full release notes are available at https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.6.