EPrints 3.4.6

This page contains information about the provisional EPrints v3.4.6 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 2024.

• Zero codename: Creme Brulee Cryoseism
• Publications flavour codename: Affogato Snowmelt

New Dependencies

Check earlier dependencies for EPrints 3.4.5 and before.

Changes Since 3.4.5

New Functionality

• Adds unlink_lib option to tools/epm.
• Provide support for converting HEIC and WEBP thumbnails
• Adds support for setting default reply-to when separate $c->{adminemail} and $c->{sendermail}
• Allows certain URL paths to be blocked for certain IPs
• Initial Signposting integration

Security and Privacy Improvements

• Implement stronger password hashing
• Creates and enables export_privacy setting to prevent export formats that include email addresses to be publicly accessible by default.
• Ensure ga.js is always served on HTTPS
• Makes sure cache parameter value provided by search form is a number to prevent URL injection.

General Improvements

• Implement Recaptcha field to work with Google ReCAPTCHA v3
• [https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/issues/339 Sets ignore_login_ip = 1 by default if HTTPS is enabled.
• Improvements Accessibility based on issues raised by axe DevTools
• Improves message when file retrieval fails
• Adds .gitignore for ingredients other than those included, so those deploying EPrints using Git do not see new ingredients as uncommitted.
• Updates and tidies SystemSettings.pm and SystemSettings.pm.in
• Adds function to get local path on disk for file object
• Overwrites media video stream if incoming stream is higher res
• Uses export version of citation if exists (rather than default) for HTML export of data objects
• Adds title attribute for preview images to display on hover
• Adds function to test if citation style file exists
• Allows truncated URL linls to set a target attribute
• Provide large icons to be printed by EPC icon function
• Added EPC text function to print out phrases into HTML attributes values
• Allows certain HTML formatting tags in imports, (e.g. from PubMed)
• Adds title for action button image
• Allows fields of various types to be more customisable in search forms
• Reports useful error message if user tries to remove subject that has children
• Allows way to pass timeout to indexer daemon
• Aligns headings when Itemref occurs within Compound Metafield
• Log failure if email attempts send with to_email or to_list set
• Allows EPrints::Repository::render_option_list to render select box as disabled
• Ensures more consistent use of space for results listings where div rather than table rows are now used for better Accessibility
• Better margin for search results toolbar (e.g. Batch Edit)
• Organise fields under stage in EPrint::View screen by workflow rather than data object
• Rewrite CitationCache code to use EPrints API rather than SQL query
• Allow "make open access" on request copy reponses a disableable field
• Allow signed in user to be logged in Apache access logs
• Adds lastmod attributes to entries in sitemap
• Add threads option to ffmpeg invocations
• Stop unnecessarily generating list of user's eprints twice for Manage Deposits page load
• Uses Text::Unidecode primarily to tokenize input for indexing (rather than manually defining mappings)
• Rework cpan_modules.pl to install all required Perl modules

Bug Fixes

• Fixes Downloading document from preview image does not work for some filenames
• Fixes Do not add requester_userid by default as access table can take a long time to add new fields. However, ensure if field exists it is set to current user ID, if set.
• Fixes serialization of EPM for build option of tools/epm.
• Fixes issues with disable and unpack options for tools/epm.
• Duplicated "_label" span id
• Fixes Tab children deemed decorative
• Fixes bug preventing user password updates from command line.
• Fixes intermittent issue with xmlns:xsi attribute being defined twice on some /cgi/oai2/... pages.
• Check that uri of relation is set before comparing its value for EPrints::DataObj::remove_dataobj_relations
• Check that uri of relation is set before comparing its value for EPrints::MetaField::Relation::to_sax_basic
• Check URL is set before testing its length in EPrints::Extras::render_url_truncate_end
• Fixes EPrints::XML::SAX::Writer::escape to make sure $str is set before applying regular expression
• Export bar form should use rel_cgipath not http_cgiroot
• Actually use size when calling EPrints::DataObj::Document::render_icon_link
• Ensure lookup of keyname is set before using it in EPrints::Database::get_dataobjs
• Testing an import should set the filename parameter like it would in a real import
• Checks $c->{oai}->{comments} is set before iterating over it.
• Prevents bin script from complaining about email-less users.
• Fixed EPC contains function to return a boolean value rather than a TRUE/FALSE string.
• Allows documents to redo_thumbnails even if they have no parent eprint
• Fixes wrong optione name for loading external DTDs in XML
• [https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/issues/366 Fixes overloading of etaField render_quiet attribute by introducing render_column_quiet attribute
• Fixes unsecure request when uploading file
• Fix encoding issues for bespoke Export plugins
• Using page_id pin in page templates breaks editing static pages in web interface
• Checks value is set before performing a regular expression replace in EPrints::MetaField::Search::form_value_basi
• Return more appropriate 500 rather than 404 HTTP code if document present but database query fails
• [https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/issues/377 Fixes drag 'n' drop issues leading to zero byte files
• Fixes "More input rows" button affecting layout of Compound field tables in workflow
• Ensures clicking tabs on abstract pages does not reload page
• Ensures fields sent in autocompleter requests are encoded
• Allows phrase editor to add phrases for alternative languages
• Fixes bug with edit subjects if ID field value is too long
• Fixes warnings produced when readonly or show_help MetaField attributes are not defined when expected
• Fixes further issue with toform attribute for itemref MetaField
• Fixes warnings when using <codeEPrints::UTils::compare_version function
• Fixes ancestor numbers (of items) in subject-based browse views
• Fixes slow page loads when user has lots of items under Manage Deposits
• Reverts changes to implement subject MetaField's top attribute as a function (Best done through conditional in the workflow)
• Fixes XSLT import/export plugins so they no longer prevent EPrints being run using Apache MPM Event (i.e. threaded)
• Ensure search pages respect template specified in their configuration
• Fixes various typos

Further Planned Features and Improvements

See 3.4.6 milestone on GitHub for more details.