Avalon 7.5.1

The Avalon team is proud to announce release 7.5.1. Avalon 7.5.1 includes a variety of updates and bug fixes.

Updates and Bug Fixes

• Fix for issues selecting newly created segments in Timelines
• Timelines with custom scope on media files render as expected
• Transcript viewer now renders as expected when Controlled Digital Lending is disabled
• Fix for a track selection issue when the player is paused
• Long filenames can now be viewed in full in the Manage Files edit page
• Structural metadata now properly passed in API responses
• Filename handling improved for media files
• Updates for Rails and other dependencies

Avalon 7.4 provides significant updates to keep current with supported releases of core libraries and a small set of additional changes and bug fixes. For the code, see the Github release page.

Dependency Updates

• Rails 6
• Bootstrap 4
• Blacklight 7

Updates and Fixes

• Greatly improved performance for the Manage Users page
• Removing a user in Manage Users now removes the user from all system groups automatically

• Google Drive can now be used as a source alongside other filesystem options
• Increased sanitization and sanitization options for filenames during post-processing
• Remove Structure button now prompts for confirmation before removing structure data
• Default user session length reduced

Upgrade instructions are available on the Avalon documentation site.

Avalon 7.3 includes support for uploading files from Google Drive, a new component that allows users to view and download transcripts on the item page, and a variety of dependency updates and bug fixes. The release is available on Github at https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.3.

Features

• Upload files directly from Google Drive
  • Google Drive can now be added a source for the Avalon Dropbox file picker
  • Update settings.yml with your Google OAuth 2.0 Client ID and secret to enable
• Transcript file download and viewer
  • Transcript documents can now be added to item sections
  • A transcript component will render on the item when a transcript document is present
  • Upload in VTT or or DOCX format to view the transcript on the item page
  • Users can download transcript files and click VTT timestamps to seek in the viewer
• Support for Google Tag Manager values for enhanced Analytics data

Updates

• Ruby 2.7 support
• Updated Docker build
• Dependency updates
• Better User Experience When Removing Captions
• Better resizing for the Advanced XML editor

Bug Fixes

• Fix for broken copy functionality on playlists
• Fix for file handling when a collection folder is missing or misnamed

Indiana University is looking for a skilled software engineering leader to manage the development team working on Avalon and other projects. For more information, or to apply, please see the job posting.

Avalon is looking for a skilled developer to join our team as a Software Engineer, either to work onsite at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana or remotely. For more information, or to apply, please see the job posting.

Avalon 7.2.1 provides a small set of dependency upgrades, including an update to resolve the MimeMagic library issue in Rails.

For the code and more details, please see the release page on Github.

Avalon 7.2 includes support for supplemental files, an improved authentication flow for restricted content, and the ability to merge items, as well as variety of bug fixes and updates for supporting libraries and components. See more and download at the Github release page.

Features

• Intermediate Page When Accessing Restricted Content
• Support for supplemental files
• Supplemental files of any type can be attached
• Supplemental files can be associated at the item or section level
• Merge multiple items together and combine sections

Updates

• Cron jobs now run through Sidekiq
• Dependency updates
• Structural Metadata Editor can be used when no audio data is present
• Added stereo mixdown to encoding parameters for video
• Added link to Sidekiq dashboard under the "Manage" menu

Bug Fixes

• Fixes for S3 transcoding
• Fix API issues with collection names
• Better aligned elements in the embedded media player

Avalon is looking for a skilled developer to join our team as a Lead Software Engineer, either to work onsite at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana or remotely.

For more information, or to apply, please see the job posting.

Avalon 7.1.1 includes a number of smaller updates and bug fixes.

Updates

• Email and website contact fields added for collections
• Added probe service for IIIF
• IIIF authorization added to manifests
• Dependency upgrades; Rails updated to 5.2.4.2
• Structural metadata editor updates
  • Play/pause using the spacebar
  • Finer precision available for time values
  • Bug fix for parent suggestions when adding a new timespan
  • Fix for save structure flash message remaining indefinitely
  • Disable drag and drop during inline editing

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with quality selection and volume levels being reset between sections
• Fixed autoplay functionality for Playlists
• Zero-width space characters stripped from form input
• Derivative files are deleted when masterfiles are deleted
• The "Become" feature in user management respects LDAP group membership
• Fixed a bug with the replay feature of batch ingest

Check out Avalon 7.1.1 on Github.