Avalon 7.1 Release

[joncameron]

Description

Releasing Avalon 7.1.

Changelog:

3935 - Increase Intercom timeout

3942 - Show all collections on admin collections index page

3946 - Fix email sending in AWS environments

3950 - Remove unnecessary article on homepage

3955 - Turn on timeliner in development environment

3954 - Standardize styling for tables

3956, #3968, #3993 - Updated SME build with new peaks.js and bug fixes

3972 - Ingest api stores hls_url

3975 - Performance improvement loading item view page when it has comments

3969 - Number of UI improvements brought in from MCO

3979, #4003, #4004, #4005 - Styling changes

3967, #3990, #4050 - Ingest API improvements - MediaObject - add masterfile ids, derivative ids are actual ids instead of track ids now, structure can be inlined with query param; collection items are proper JSON instead of JSON string; Allow manager, editor, and depositors to get full media object json

3986 - Fix playlist table sorting

3989, #4001 - Fix player in IE11

3987 - Intercom push button fixes

3992, #4035, #4038 - Increase size and quality of thumbnail and poster images

3809 - Cypress testing

4000, #4017, #4023 - Dependency security upgrades

4006 - Use patched hls.js to workaround edge case

4005, #4008 - Don't show sign in selection buttons if only email/password configured

4014 - [Regression] Managers can delete collections

4009 - Link to collection landing and unit collection listing on item view page

4018 - Fix testing infrastructure

4013, #4019, #4020 - Improve collection poster upload processing and notifications

4021, #4046 - Intercom push option to remove identifiers when pushing

4022 - Fix player display on Edge 16

4025 - ActionMailer respects SMTP configuration

4029 - Intercom push improvements

4026 - Don't force derivatives to have 30 frames/sec

4033 - Clean up old sessions automatically

4027 - Strip chapter data from derivatives

Done Looks Like

Pre-release check

• [x] Go through the current changelog since 7.0 and double-check changes to the code to make sure we're getting only things that should be in the release (should be the case)

Application Testing

• [x] Smoke-testing (what are the central smoke testing tasks? Enumerate as part of testing)

Code Changes

• [x] Update version in code
• [x] Update license headers in files if needed
• [x] Tag dependency repos
• [x] Update gemfile to point to those tags
• [x] Merge staging into master
• [X] Publish release button in Github
• [X] Create tag for v7.1 (should already happen with hitting release button)
• [ ] Recreate staging and develop branches by force pushing master to them

Documentation

• [x] Update API changes on Wiki
• [x] Upgrade Instructions on Wiki @phuongdh
  • https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/VarVideo/Upgrading+Avalon+7.0+to+Avalon+7.1
• [x] Update Known Issues
• [x] Update version numbers on Wiki to refer to 7.1

Marketing and Outreach

• [x] Write a draft of release notes on Github (some items currently in a draft)
• [x] Publish release on Github https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases
• [x] Update wiki with release notes
• [x] Publish blog post announcing the release
• [x] Update homepage with blog post for release announcement
• [x] Update homepage with the updated version and documentation links
• [x] Update website with demo box changes
• [ ] Put announcement on Twitter
• [x] Put announcement on Facebook
• [x] Send out email to Samvera community mailing list
• [x] Publicize in appropriate Slack channels

[joncameron]

Going to move this done even without Twitter. There seems to be some auth stuff with Hootsuite that needs to get resolved before I can post again.