EPrints 3.4.7

This page contains information about the provisional EPrints v3.4.7 tag and release on GitHub. A date for this release is yet to be scheduled.

Release Notes (Provisional)

EPrints 3.4.6 will be released later in 2025.

• Zero codename: TO BE DETERMINED
• Publications flavour codename: TO BE DETERMINED

New Dependencies

Check earlier dependencies for EPrints 3.4.6 and before.

Changes Since 3.4.6

New Functionality

• Adds check_config optioion to tools/epm allowing configuration files (under cfg/) to be compared between the EPM and the archive and potentially copied to the latter if the file is not already present.
• Allows bin/epadmin to logout all users (possibly with 1 or more exclusions)
• Adds Citation cache management script

Security and Privacy Improvements

• Fixes vulnerability in PrototypeJS

General Improvements

• Tidies up comments under lib/cfg.d/security.pl to only refer to EPrints::Repository->ip function for getting the IP address of the request
• Update Recaptcha3 to work with non-request workflows e.g. registration
• Improves EPrints::Repository->remote_ip to disregard invalid IP addresses in X-Forwarded-For
• Implements missing triggers EP_TRIGGER_BEGIN and EP_TRIGGER_END
• Makes document thumbnails use long URL format
• Removes no longer supported cgi/paracite script
• Improve restrict_paths by only allowing some IP rather than just disallowing others
• Various improvements to citation caching
• Allows browse view variation ordering by number

Bug Fixes

• Fixes generate_apacheconf has issues if archive missing cfg/static/javascript/auto/
• Fixes Boolean field has inconsistent phrase names
• Fixes tools/epm's link_lib and unlink_lib command so they only remove files referenced in the EPM directory's .epm / .epmi file
• Fixes UX/Accessibility issue with Import plugin actions
• Fixes History records not retaining formatting of email reasons
• Fixes disabling an EPM removes database tables and fields (and counters) it added to an archive
• Better handles EPrint::MetaField->ordervalue_single returning undefined
• Fixes long values in initial dataobj creation leading to empty rows in their database tables
• Updates URLs for GPL/GPL licences to point at GNU rather than Creative Commons website
• Fixes typos is template Accessibility report
• Fixes EPrint::MetaField::Multipart->ordervalues_basic does not forward all parameters
• Fixes Applying subtitle to book_title for book chapter items
• Aligns basic-auth in Sword and Auth modules so passwords can contain non-word characters
• Fixes Increment of data-row-cell-index for compound field header rows
• Fixes citation caching: non-linked cached citations
• Fixes before commit trigger changes not appearing in revision files
• Fixes EPrints::Plugin::Search::Xapian->_get_records cannot handle 0 results
• Fixes issues with ReCAPTCHAv3 form being able to submit

Planned Features and Improvements

See 3.4.7 milestone on GitHub for more details.