Announcing Avalon Media System 8.0

The Avalon Media System team is proud to announce Avalon 8!

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 improvements and bug fixes. With the move to Fedora 6, all Avalon installations will need to migrate from Fedora 4 to Fedora 6. Instructions on migrating Fedora are included in the Avalon 7.8 to 8.0 upgrade instructions.

Major Dependency Updates

• Fedora 6

• Rails 7.2

• Ruby 3.3

Changes in Ramp 3.3

• Progress bar style changes made for improved seeking

• State management has been widely refactored

• Captions settings for user sessions are now saved to local browser storage

• New component added for Expand/collapse buttons in structural metadata component

• Fixed a bug where parameters in URLs passed to Ramp caused errors

• Multiple bugs fixed for mobile browsers

Updates

• Sharepoint and OneDrive 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

• The location for temporary files created during processing can now be configured

• Optimized waveform generation

• Improved handling of thumbnail and poster image generation

• mediainfo removed as a dependency

• Solr queries updated to improve response times

• Performance improvements to item edit pages and HLS manifest generation

Documentation on upgrading to 8.0 can be found on the Upgrading Avalon 7.8 → 8.0 page on the Avalon wiki.

Full release notes and the changelog for 8.0 are available at https://github.com/ avalonmediasystem/avalon/ releases.

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