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Avalon Media System 7.8 Released
The Avalon Media System team is proud to announce Avalon 7.8!
Avalon 7.8 includes a new component for searching transcripts within the transcript viewer, increased API functionality, 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 added at the canvas level
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 for 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
The recordChangeDate field for media objects (a timestamp for the last descriptive metadata change) has been added to the Solr index as descMetadata_modified_dtsi
"Has Transcript" and "Has Caption" facets added to the facets in search for admin and collection staff users
File size limit for web upload changed to remove the 2 GB default
Added setting for configuring alternative tempfile location when uploading large files from the web
Bibliographic ID value added to the search index for instances where import is not performed
Documentation on upgrading to 7.8 can be found on the Upgrading Avalon 7.7 → 7.8 page on the Avalon wiki.
Full release notes and the changelog for 7.8 are available at https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases.