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Current Release and Roadmap

Current Release and Roadmap

Latest Release: Avalon 8.1.1

Avalon 8.1 includes support for Rails 8 and other major dependencies, in addition to numerous updates and bugfixes.

Dependency Updates

  • Rails 8

  • Blacklight 8 (Bootstrap 5)

  • Ruby 3.4

  • Ramp 4

Features and Changes

  • Increased automated test coverage

  • Filter text fields available on Blacklight modals with many values

  • New setting added to create dynamic links to accessibility request forms

  • Increased WCAG 2.1 Compliance across the application

  • Improved response speed for edit pages

  • Supplemental file links can now open inline and defer to browser configuration for file handling

  • Metadata field and import changes

    • "Alternative Title" added as a descriptive metadata field

    • "Instruments" added to Note Type vocabulary

    • MARC 382 fields import as an "Instruments" Note

    • MARC 490/8xx and 730 fields now import to the Series field

    • Alternative titles appear in Blacklight search results

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where MP3 files with embedded images were processed as video

  • WebVTT files with header metadata are now parsed successfully in Ramp

  • Fixed an issue with Blacklight's locale file overriding site name in application settings

  • Resolved an error when submitting new users to roles on the collection admin page

  • Fixed an issue in the search builder causing errors for searches with certain punctuation characters

  • .keep files added for minio buckets to avoid accidental folder deletion

Avalon 8.1.1

Avalon 8.1.1 is a small bugfix release that resolves issues with forms that were reported after the 8.1 release.

Upgrade instructions: Upgrading Avalon 8.0.1 to Avalon 8.1

Full Changelog: v8.0.1...v8.1

Releases Page on Github

https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases

 

Avalon Roadmap

Avalon 8.2 (Winter 2025)

  • Support for Audio Description

  • Unit Objects for Management and Permission inheritance

  • Workflows for accessibility requirements

  • Timelines - WCAG 2.1 AA support

  • Improved Analytics Tool Support

  • Ramp React 19 upgrade

  • Update Ramp build process

  • Asset Pipeline Rework

Avalon 8.3 (Spring 2025)

  • Bulk metadata update tools

  • IIIF Auth 2.0 Implementation

  • Upgrade to LTI 1.3 and improve LTI workflows

  • Trick mode (preview thumbnails during player navigation)

  • Provide IIIF manifests for collections

If you have questions or need assistance, please email us at avalon-discuss-l@list.indiana.edu.

Contact us on our public Slack channel: samvera.slack.com/messages/avalon.

Joining a Slack team requires an invitation, but anyone can generate an automatic invite to the Samvera Community slack channel using the following form: Samvera Slack invite.

Interested in exploring Avalon? Please contact us at https://avalon.samvera.org/contact.

Github:  https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/