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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

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