Avalon 7.7.2

Bugfixes

• Fixed Add to Playlist Bug Where Track Information Does Not Populate
• Add to playlist button disabled on iPhone Safari until user plays media item
• Fixed a bug where the Create Thumbnail action created unnecessary network requests

Full Changelog: v7.7.1...v7.7.2

Avalon 7.7.1

Bugfixes

• Media file duration is now set to the value reported during encoding instead of the imprecise value returned by the mediainfo tool
• Action buttons on the item page are only enabled after the player is completely loaded
• Fixed slow loading of the Manage Content page
• Fixes for player styling and icon sizes

Captions

• Added missing SRT format support for caption files
• Captions have been removed from HLS manifests for greater compatibility
• Default language value for captions is set to the system default during migration

Updates

• Collection ID has been added to media object JSON responses
• Positional URLs for playlist items are supported again (i.e. avalon-site.edu/playlists/##?position=3)
• Fixes and improvements to the Avalon reindexing script
• Fuzzier searching added to the playlists listing
• The Create Thumbnail button is now disabled for audio items
• Security updates for smaller dependencies

Full Changelog: v7.7...v7.7.1

Avalon 7.7

Avalon 7.7 includes significant changes to the media player, dependency upgrades, and a variety of bug fixes and minor improvements.

Changes and Updates

• Ramp, a general-purpose media player component library using IIIF manifests as a data source, replaces the existing MediaElement.js-based player
• Application speed has been greatly improved on the Playlist and Item pages
• Multiple caption files can now be associated per media file, with language value assigned for each caption file
• New "Add to Playlist" form provides greater flexibility when adding media to playlists
• "Series" added as a new descriptive metadata field and is also indexed for faceting
• Improvements to accessibility that bring user-facing Avalon pages up to WCAG 2 Level AA conformance
• Transcripts can be marked as "machine-generated" to appear differently in the UI
• Added checkbox to set auto-scroll property for transcript viewer
• Previous and Next buttons added to the media player for easier navigation between sections
• The "Create Thumbnail" button has been moved outside of the media player
• Structural Metadata Editor now displays video when available
• Searching in the Timeline listing has been changed to allow for friendlier, fuzzier matching
• Changes to collection admin page forms for updating access control
• A new administrative facet allows filtering by item access level
• Many updates and additions to IIIF manifest generation
• IIIF Authentication has been removed from publicly accessible items
• Support for reCaptcha v3
• Support for Solr 9
• Rake task added for cleaning up stray files from encoding with FFmpeg
• Rake task added for migrating caption files to their new home in ActiveStorage
• A new system script has been added to improve reindexing from Fedora

Bug Fixes

• Many fixes for UI/UX on iOS and Android devices
• Fix for an extension error in some transcript files when downloading
• Protocol scheme (http/https) added to URLs in embed code
• Managers can now be added to the Editor role for a collection
• Structural Metadata Editor now shows an error message when no waveform is available

Full Changelog: v7.6...v7.7

Avalon 7.6

Avalon 7.6 includes major dependency upgrades in addition to a set of bug fixes and minor improvements.

Notable Updates

• Rails 7 and Ruby 3
• Long filenames can now be viewed in full on the Manage Files edit page
• Fix for missing files in the Google Drive adapter for Browse Everything
• Updated build of the Structural Metadata Editor
• Bug fixes for the media player
• Minor updates to IIIF manifest generation

What's Changed

• Upgrade to Rails 7 by @cjcolvar in #5058
• Fix development mode for rails 7 by @cjcolvar in #5069
• Fix mediainfo by @cjcolvar in #5070
• Refactor MediaObject methods for improving save performance by @cjcolvar in #5053
• SME with IIIF manifest by @Dananji in #5051
• Increase ruby stack size limit by @masaball in #5072
• Bump iiif_manifest to latest version by @masaball in #5076
• Fix missing code in SME IIIF PR (#5051) by @Dananji in #5077
• HLS captions for iOS by @masaball in #5082
• Fix two bugs in JSON update API by @mbklein in #5081
• Use old namespace for bibframe property to align with pre-existing data by @cjcolvar in #5083
• Ensure MODS data is indexed when media object is indexed by @cjcolvar in #5085
• Fix bug for expanding filename and hover text by @masaball in #5093
• Use active-fedora branch and update faraday to 2.x by @cjcolvar in #5088
• Override SearchService#count to ensure it uses the preferred http method… by @cjcolvar in #5102
• Improve hls caption implementation and add tests by @masaball in #5104
• Add timeout to waveform ffmpeg process by @masaball in #5105
• Upgrade dependencies for security patches by @cjcolvar in #5107
• Set id/uri translation lambdas for ActiveFedora::File by @cjcolvar in #5109
• Prevent reification when requesting manifest by @masaball in #5094
• Strip out childless paths from structural metadata to ensure valid manifest by @cjcolvar in #5113
• Enqueue media object indexing job when media object and children are reindexed by @cjcolvar in #5111
• New SME build by @Dananji in #5114
• Prepare for release by @cjcolvar in #5115
• Avalon 7.6 RC 1 by @cjcolvar in #5116
• Fix no-icon thumbnail height in browse by @Dananji in #5122
• Player exception bug fix by @Dananji in #5125
• Add executable bit to scripts by @cjcolvar in #5131
• Use bugfixed browse-everything by @cjcolvar in #5132
• Bump BE again by @cjcolvar in #5133
• Fix player controls getting hidden while scrubbing by @Dananji in #5134
• Fix player toolbar icons in Android when auto advancing to next section by @Dananji in #5135
• Pull in ActiveEncode patch version to fix google drive browse-everything case by @cjcolvar in #5138
• Fix for video player aspect ratio change when switching between sections by @Dananji in #5139
• Fix flashing error message in player when scrubbing by @Dananji in #5142
• Remove special handling of childless divs by @cjcolvar in #5145
• Override ActiveFedora and HydraAccessControls to ensure AccessControl… by @cjcolvar in #5144
• Bump rails version for latest security patch by @cjcolvar in #5146
• Avalon 7.6 RC 2 by @cjcolvar in #5147
• Avalon 7.6.0 Release by @cjcolvar in #5156

Full Changelog: v.7.5.1...v7.6

Avalon 7.5.1

Avalon 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 to Rails and other dependencies

What's Changed

• Necessary update of dependencies by @cjcolvar in #5011
• Resize XML editor window to make space in the editor by @Dananji in #5010
• Create collection page by @Dananji in #5006
• Add structural metadata param to additional endpoints by @masaball in #5021
• Fix bad refactoring by passing missing parameter by @cjcolvar in #5029
• Enable rendering of transcript viewer when CDL is disabled by @masaball in #5030
• Fix for broken timeliners with custom scope by @Dananji in #5035
• Bump ActiveEncode and update FileLocator by @masaball in #5042
• Allow file uris to include ? or # in filename by @cjcolvar in #5043
• Bump rails for security fix by @cjcolvar in #5045
• Force encoding of IndexedFile original_name to UTF-8 by @cjcolvar in #5046
• Fix track selection issue when player is paused by @Dananji in #5044
• Use latest build of development image by @cjcolvar in #5012
• Add ability to display full filenames on the media object edit page by @masaball in #5049
• 7.5.1 Release testing by @cjcolvar in #5050
• Fix timeliner bug when splitting segments by @Dananji in #5061
• Add timeliner splitting bugfix to 7.5.1. release candidate by @cjcolvar in #5064

Full Changelog: v7.5...v.7.5.1

Avalon 7.5

Avalon 7.5

Avalon 7.5 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
• Fix for access controls on API requests
• 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

Release 7.4

Avalon 7.4

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.

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

Release 7.3

Avalon 7.3

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.

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

Release 7.2.1

Updates

• MimeMagic version updated to resolve broken dependency
• Minor dependency changes and updates

Release 7.2

Avalon 7.2

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.

Features

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

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
• Fix LTI login when using environment variables