Avalon 8.0 includes support for Fedora 6, improved UI/UX and browser support in the Ramp media component library, support for Microsoft cloud storage, and a variety of bug fixes and improvements.
Dependency Updates
- Fedora 6
- Rails 7.2
- Ruby 3.3
- Ramp 3.3
- Progress bar style changes for improved seeking
- State management has been widely refactored
- Captions settings for user sessions are now saved in the browser
- Expand/collapse buttons for structural metadata moved from Avalon to a new Ramp component
- Fixed a bug where parameters in URLs passed to Ramp caused errors
- Multiple bugs fixed for mobile browsers
Features and Changes
- Sharepoint can now be configured as a source in Browse Everything, allowing users to connect and upload media files directly from Microsoft cloud storage services
- Date is no longer a required field in descriptive metadata for items
- Subject field now links out to other items with the same subject
- Support for progressive download—Avalon can now stream MP3 files directly without transcoding
- Improved handling of thumbnail and poster image generation when certain derivative streams are unavailable
- The location for temporary files created during processing can now be configured
- Optimized waveform generation
- mediainfo removed as a dependency
- Solr queries updated to improve response times
- Performance improvements to item edit pages and HLS manifest generation
Bug Fixes
- Item deletion now properly removes child files from objects
- Encode jobs with invalid status no longer block the encoding dashboard from displaying
- IIIF Manifests are properly generated for items still being processed
Full Changelog: v7.8...v8.0
Upgrade instructions: https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AVALON/pages/2580086785/Upgrading+Avalon+7.8+to+Avalon+8.0