The Avalon Media System team is proud to announce Avalon 7.7, a new release which includes significant changes to the media player and a wide variety of improvements and bug fixes.
Ramp, a media playback and presentation component library designed for use with IIIF Presentation 3 manifests, replaces the existing MediaElement.js-based player. Also developed by the Avalon team, Ramp's components are now responsible for rendering almost all aspects of the item and playlist pages, and Avalon's IIIF manifest generation has also been enhanced in turn.
Upgrading will require a full reindex of your Avalon instance due to performance improvements introduced in 7.7. This release also includes Solr 9 support, and we recommended upgrading your version of Solr to 9.x along with 7.7 if possible. See the Upgrading Avalon 7.6 to Avalon 7.7 page for upgrade instructions and notes.
Full release notes including bug fixes and changelog are available at https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.7.
Thanks,
Jon
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Jon Cameron
Product Owner, Avalon Media System
Digital Media Service Manager,Indiana University Libraries