New Features in EPrints 3.2.4

Release Notes

3.4 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.4.3 | 3.4.4 | 3.4.5 | 3.4.6

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3.3 | 3.3.5 | 3.3.6 | 3.3.7 | 3.3.8 | 3.3.9 | 3.3.10 | 3.3.11 | 3.3.13 | 3.3.14 | 3.3.15 | 3.3.16

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3.2.0 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.3 | 3.2.4 | 3.2.5 | 3.2.6 | 3.2.7 | 3.2.8 | 3.2.9

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3.1.0

Upgrade Notes

• Please read Upgrading 3.1 to 3.2 before attempting to upgrade your repository from 3.1 to 3.2.
• You will need to run epadmin upgrade to update your database structure.

Bug fixes

• 3847 "Register (""Create Account"") option missing"
• 3849 bin/issues_audit makes changes to (some?) eprints on every run
• 3851 Browse by author - list pages very slow in 3.2
• 3852 Missing NameVirtualHost in apache config
• 3496 viewintro_<viewid> phrases not working properly
• 3842 Entering non-integer value in pages field loses all changes (Postgres)
• 3855 field_validate.pl tries to validate undef values
• 3870 Alternative browse view pages break on long values
• 3875 OAI validation failure - oai2?junk
• 3651 Upgrade to 3.2 loses revision history
• 2976 Sort by depositing user doesn't sort alphabetically - because it is sorting by userid
• 3253 security.pl should check for does_user_own_eprint hook and call it
• 3389 Generate abstracts times out.
• 3437 Ignored search term returns all records in repository
• 3483 Empty name parts stored differently in 3.0 and 3.1
• 3486 Browse views don't fail gracefully when given a bad url
• 3510 cfg.d/field_validate.pl - check for undef when validating multiple values
• 3529 Typo in Screen::Review
• 3546 import_rand_data doesn't assign subjects correctly
• 3829 Ordering/adding spaces does not work for document field
• 3844 import_rand_data broken
• 3864 Can't access full-texts with '-' in
• 2017 no indexing for some tables
• 3032 Preview thumbnail cached from deleted document
• 3351 Items page forgets about inbox/buffer/etc. pref. when you modify a column
• 3832 Changes to documents doesn't trigger an eprint revision
• 3833 Calling $repo->current_url() causes a die in URI::_query
• 3834 /cgi/counter is very slow
• 3838 OAI <metadata> is missing xmlns:xsi attribute
• 3839 uri_escape_utf8() not available
• 3850 No files are accessible from virtualhost root when using sub-directory
• 3854 Usernames are case-sensitive
• 3867 Plugins in one repo affect the plugins in another
• 3868 Old-style URLs with a trailing slash to a document are broken
• 3869 Can't view History for deleted EPrints
• 3886 generate_static uses global config before repository config
• 3887 Subject sorting sorts new entries first
• 3320 epc:pin toolbar doesn't do anything?
• 3502 Missing apostrophe in phrase
• 3845 summary_page.xml breaks request a copy
• 3173 Odd behaviour with NO_CHECK_USER
• 978 Cache table counter - possible issue
• 3539 Problem including some phrases in template
• 3837 Subject URI links in sitemap.xml lead to 404
• 3410 Document filenames not being shell-escaped for full text extraction
• 3524 advertise param ignored in Export plugins
• 2332 crash in constructor of a plugin is hard to trace.

CHANGELOG

Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

• Merge of r5820
• removed debug line
• Merge of r5437 r5775 r5776 r5777 r5778 r5779
• Added option to override the template for the cgi/users/home area. Closing #3859.
• Fixed bug where two elements had the same id in Box. Closes #3865
• Improved error message for missing citations. Closes #3863
• Check to remove a couple of not-defined warnings. Closes #3861.
• Allow "merge" to be passed from search config. Closes #3866
• Formalises the fact that text fields default to "IN" for web based searches, but "EQ" otherwise.
• Now passes on merge value via cgi if it's not the default for the field type.
• Fixed undef warning in MetaField::Date render (closes #5437)
• Merged r5669
• removed strange 15pt (big) style on one bit of history rendering.
• merge of r5664 & r5665
• Fix of trivial typo in a RDF title
• Moved CC namespace config to more logical file.
• Fixed errors in RDF License code which only show up if you configure a license
• Merge of r5613
• Correction to URIs inserted when the admin configures a data license.

pm705@zepler.net

• Fixes the problem of plugins from one local repo appearing in another. ticket #3867
• DOI now gives error message on mallford DOI. Merged from trunk r5731 ticket #3656
• DOI now does last page. Merged from trunk r5728 ticket #3827
• merged from r5724 ticket #3638

sf03r@ecs.soton.ac.uk

• regex typo
• oai should throw badVerb if no verb - also trying to keep the tickets number low for tim :)
• resolving #3874
• automatically logs in user after password activation, closing #3771
• Export::MODS now checks that the EPrint ds has the field 'creators_name', Reported by Balazs Kosaras
• fixing #3486 - views are now automatically generated
• fixing #3253
• added extra checks, closing #3855
• extra safety checks + fixing #3496
• fixed few typos
• closing #3502

Timothy David Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>

• 3.2.4 Victoria Sponge
• Merged [5836]
• Fixed legacy subjects being mis-ordered with new subjects, fixing #3887
• Fixed floating-point numbers not supporting decimals (wrong inheritance)
• Merged [5832]
• Fix generate_static using the wrong directory order, fixing #3886
• Minimal merge of 5826 to fix /id/document/XX not exporting the document file
• Merged [5813]
• Applied patch to query database tables without using DBI::get_tables() which triggers an obscure server crash, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth <leo@strike.wu.ac.at>
• Merged [5808]
• Fixed broken ALTVIEW links on browse view pages, fixing #3870
• Merged [5805]
• Reverting [5606] (it was correct in the first place?)
• Made $data the first option to register_plugin() in PluginFactory
• s/provenance/providence/ in 3.2
• Merged [5695]
• Avoid a failure if a local file copy can't be obtained when rendering a history object
• Merged [5798]
• Fixed retrieval of history revisions when the EPrint has been deleted, fixing #3869
• Merged [5796]
• Fixed s/,/;/ typo, fixing #3529
• Merged [5794]
• Enable system fields to be overridden by configured fields by using a "replace_core" property, fixing #2976 (sort-of)
• Added POD for "provenance" and "replace_core" properties
• Merged [5792]
• Modified Int and Float to validate form values are numbers, fixing #3842
• Pagerange now inherits from Text
• Merged [5790]
• Fixed old-style URLs being redirected incorrectly, fixing #3868
• Merged [5773]
• Merged [5742], [5743]
• Usernames are now case-insensitive
• Repository::valid_login() and Database::valid_login() now return undef or the real username of the user
• Modified user_with_username and user_with_email to be case-insensitive
• Don't use() Plugin::Convert from DocPDF, fixing odd error encountered on ROAR's indexer
• Merged [5733], [5735]
• Ensure get_all_documents() always returns a stable sort order by sorting by id after placement
• DataObj::History-details will now contain a '|' separated list of fields that were changed on DataObj::EPrint::commit() (useful for debugging)
• Merged [5726]
• Re-made NameVirtualHost/Listen a warning but made it sterner
• Merged [5720]
• Merged [5718]
• Fixed DB reconnects on timeout error, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth <leo@strike.wu.ac.at>
• Merged [5716]
• Re-added support for $c->{aliases} to Apache configuration, Balazs Kosaras <bkosaras@aed.org>
• Merged [5714]
• generate_apacheconf now backs-up files when writing new config files
• Added System::write_config_file() method for writing configuration files
• Apache start-up will now die if NameVirtualHost or Listen are missing, fixing #3852
• Merged [5687]
• MySQL has a bug causing long queries when getting distinct names with empty values with UTF-8 encoded columns (e.g. lineage and honourific parts)
• Merged [5684]
• Must return DECLINED when a Rewrite handler doesn't do anything, fixing #3850
• Merged [5680]
• Fixed batch editor breaking on creator's names
• Merged [5671]
• Re-added "Create Account" link (/cgi/register), fixing #3847
• Merged [5667]
• Re-worded HTTPS epadmin create question
• Merged [5655]
• Added check for year in DOI
• Merged [5642]
• Don't rely on URI::Escape::uri_escape_utf8 being available, fixing #3839
• Merged [5640]
• Fixed xmlns:xsi not appearing on <metadata> in OAI responses
• Merged [5634], [5637]
• Fixed multiple-value field buttons in Inputform::Documents, fixing #3829
• Fixed fragment links to documents, fields in workflow
• Added method EPrints::MetaField::has_internal_action()
• Added method InputForm::Component::get_state_fragment()
• Merged [5631], [5632]
• Count dataset sizes by doing a direct table COUNT(*)
• Count eprint status counts by doing a group-by
• Merged [5627]
• Force a revision of DataObj::EPrint whenever a child Document is added/changed/removed
• Added support for multiple-value parameters to current_url()
• Avoid passing file handles to URI from current_url()

-- tagged-by Timothy David Brody <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> 2010-09-03 16:54:59 +0100 (Fri, 03 Sep 2010)