v5.1.5: Merge pull request #1519 from avalonmediasystem/staging

New Feature

• Introducing the Track Scrubber: more granular scrubbing when playing a media object or playlist item. Clicking the magnifying glass icon on the Avalon media player will open a second scrubber displaying only the current track (segment of structural metadata) or playlist item

Improvements

• Faster loading times for large playlists
• Faster switching items on playlists
• New environment variable method storage: most configuration options can now be specified via the execution environment instead of configuration files. This makes it easier to deploy Avalon using container or cloud systems (like Docker and Amazon Web Services) that use ephemeral local storage

Bug Fixes

• Masterfile duration reports correctly on android devices
• Fedora Noids properly generate share/PURL links
• Playlist auto-advance no longer skips items

Version 6.0.0 Alpha

This is a preview release for Avalon 6.0. It is provided so that interested Avalon users and potential adopters can take a look at Avalon running on the modern Hydra/Fedora 4 stack. The official 6.0 release will happen in late 2016.

Version 5.1.4

• Physical format is now properly indexed for media objects.

Version 5.1.3

• The Physical Description value for an item (displayed in the Format facet) is now taken from the displayMetadata datastream rather than MODS metadata. This resolves behavior where importing a catalog record might overwrite the real physical type of the item—for example, if a catalog record includes both audio and video materials derived from the same performance.

Version 5.1.2

• When a section's file location is nil, a dash is displayed rather than an empty value
  • This resolves an issue where the media player does not appear on media object pages containing sections with no file location values

Version 5.1.1

• Database migration ensures tables are UTF-8
• Public playlists now available to unauthenticated users
• Newly created Markers show Time value in tooltip

Version 5.1.0

Release 5.1: July 22, 2016 - Feature improvements release

• Added markers
• Various bug fixes
• Apostrophes in media objects causing a load failure
• Various smart phone display bugs
• Error handling for users clicking multiple times on upload
• Added variations import for playlists (feature for institutions importing playlists to avalon).

Version 5.0.1

• Inconsistencies in Avalon’s media player on some mobile device browsers
• Captions intermittently failed to appear on the media player when enabled
• Users would occasionally encounter error screens when searching

Version 5.0

• Features for Variations to Avalon Migration
• Playlists
  • Adding clips of media items to playlists
  • Edit, re-order and move playlist items to other playlists
  • Create public or private playlists
• Content ingest API
• Access control enhancements:
  • IP based access control
  • Leases for access control (Start/end dates for user and group access on items)
• Accessibility phase 2
• Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
• Section labels able to be searched
• Fedora 4 timeline (when and how)

Version 4.0.1

Merge pull request #618 from avalonmediasystem/v4.0.x

v4.0.1