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Avalon 7.8

05 Aug 16:57
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Avalon 7.8 includes a new component for searching transcripts within the transcript viewer, dependency upgrades, and a variety of bug fixes and minor improvements.

Search, Navigation, and UI Updates

  • "Found in" text now appears in search results, indicating the number of matches for separate areas of the record: descriptive metadata, section metadata and transcript text
  • Upgraded to Ramp 3.2, which includes a component for searching within documents in the transcript viewer with rich navigation and match highlighting
  • IIIF Content Search service
  • Playback rate control: media playback speed can be decreased or increased with a widget in the media player
  • Catalog searches return more quickly
  • IIIF manifest URL added to the Share panel
  • Embedded media player now uses Ramp

Other Major Changes and Updates

  • Captions can be marked as transcript documents, allowing them to serve as both captions in the media player as well as a document within the transcript viewer
  • The Avalon API now allows for CRUD operations for supplemental files, including caption and transcript files
  • Batch ingest now accepts columns captions and transcript files and metadata
  • Transcript language can now be specified per file
  • New configuration added to provide a link for direct download of derivatives through the UI
  • New recordChangeDate field to track the last change to descriptive metadata
  • "Has Transcript" and "Has Caption" facets moved to the admin facet listing
  • File size limit for web upload changed to remove the 2 GB default
  • Added setting for configuring alternative Rack tempfile location
  • Bibliographic ID value added to the search index for instances where import is not performed

Bug Fixes

  • Short playlist descriptions do not results in buttons next to text
  • Playlist description is now collapsed by default
  • Poster and thumbnail images are no set to improper aspect ratios for certain video container files
  • Added handling for media whose ratio is defined in metadata and was not reported by mediainfo
  • Limit the number of stream tokens in a user session to avoid session overflow errors
  • Timecode values in the Timeliner tool display properly for media longer than 60 minutes
  • Fixed an internal error when saving a parent object fails
  • Parsing fix for SRT files

Special thanks to Thirdwave, LLC for contributing their code for search functionality in Ramp's transcript viewer.

Full Changelog: v7.7.2...v7.8

Upgrade instructions: https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AVALON/pages/2580086785/Upgrading+Avalon+7.7+to+Avalon+7.8

Avalon 7.7.2

29 Apr 13:18
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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

05 Apr 20:17
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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

22 Feb 15:13
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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

06 Apr 15:27
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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

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

Avalon 7.5.1

15 Feb 20:33
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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

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

Avalon 7.5

07 Dec 20:12
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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

21 Jul 13:58
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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

16 Mar 20:22
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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

04 May 15:32
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Updates

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