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Avalon Media System 8.0 Released

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Cameron, Jon Brandon

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Jan 30, 2025, 3:26:36 PMJan 30
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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.

Thanks,
Jon

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Jon Cameron
Digital Media Service Manager
Indiana University Libraries


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