Avalon 7.5

The Avalon team is proud to announce Avalon Media System 7.5. This release includes a Controlled Digital Lending feature and a variety of updates and bug fixes.

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

Upgrade instructions are available in the Avalon documentation.