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Avalon 8.1 includes support for Rails 8 and other major dependencies, in addition to numerous updates and bugfixes.

Dependency Updates

  • Rails 8
  • Blacklight 8 (Bootstrap 5)
  • Ruby 3.4
  • Ramp 4

Features and Changes

  • Increased automated test coverage
  • Filter text fields available on Blacklight modals with many values
  • New setting added to create dynamic links to accessibility request forms
  • Increased WCAG 2.1 Compliance across the application
  • Improved response speed for edit pages
  • Supplemental file links can now open inline and defer to browser configuration for file handling
  • Metadata field and import changes
    • "Alternative Title" added as a descriptive metadata field
    • "Instruments" added to Note Type vocabulary
    • MARC 382 fields import as an "Instruments" Note
    • MARC 490/8xx and 730 fields now import to the Series field
    • Alternative titles appear in Blacklight search results

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where MP3 files with embedded images were processed as video
  • WebVTT files with header metadata are now parsed successfully in Ramp
  • Fixed an issue with Blacklight's locale file overriding site name in application settings
  • Resolved an error when submitting new users to roles on the collection admin page
  • Fixed an issue in the search builder causing errors for searches with certain punctuation characters
  • .keep files added for minio buckets to avoid accidental folder deletion

Upgrade instructions: https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AVALON/pages/3366322177/Upgrading+Avalon+8.0.1+to+Avalon+8.1

Full Changelog: v8.0.1...v8.1

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