EPrints 3.4.8

This page contains information about the provisional EPrints v3.4.8 tag and release on GitHub. A date for this release is yet to be scheduled.

Release Notes (Provisional)

EPrints 3.4.8 is planned to be released in the Summer of 2026.

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

New Dependencies

Check earlier dependencies for EPrints 3.4.7 and before.

If you wish to set a timezone of the dates and times displayed on your repository, you will need to make sure the DateTime Perl module is installed. For RHEL-based Linux this can be installed with the perl-DateTime RPM. For Debian-based Linux this requires libdatetime-perl.

Changes Since 3.4.7

New Functionality

• Adds export_file_as_attachment option to force exports to be downloaded
• Adds an export plugin for document URLs
• Adds clear buttons to multiple Compound fields
• Adds support for rendering time with a given timezone
• Provides EPC script for getting icon_url for a document
• Provides EPC script for getting the raw value of a property for a data object
• Adds delete option to epadmin
• Add "Clear abortive tasks" and "Retry abortive tasks" buttons for indexer
• Adds ignore_edit_lock field to event_queue data objects so certain tasks need not be delayed by the edit lock on a record

Security and Privacy Improvements

• Prevents 'javascript:' URLs from being saved in URL fields
• Modifies fix for SetLang referrer misuse
• Adds XSLT::Identity export to those restricted to staff by default

General Improvements

• Updates metatags functionality to equivalent to v1.4 plus further improvements to ensure its export plugins are compliant with unit tests
• Removes the progress bar even if the upload fails
• Remove no longer required progressid from file uploads
• Adds support for number format months to BibTex import
• Makes the default encoding of imports 'UTF-8'
• Adds labels connecting to radio buttons for Boolean and Set
• Improves Longtext_counter MetaField
• Removes MPM event warning message
• Improves CRUD API fault tolerance
• Better specifies MetaField property defaults
• Removes rename_subject_id that will not work in EPrints 3.4+
• Reviews and Removes legacy scripts that are no longer useful in EPrints 3.4+
• Removes cgi/cal (as it should be in an ingredient and not in core) and moves cgi/history_search to not be publicly accessible
• Improves cache_table method to be compatible with UUIDs
• Use public link in "Request Copy" email when using pin security
• More reliable caching of auto.{js,css}
• Programmatically allows search export for restricted formats
• Support for indexing RTF files
• Improves determination of appropriate application for conversion of document to plaintext (for indexing?)
• Removes hard-coded defaults in bin/indexer
• Updates cgi/opensearchdescription to use cgi/opensearch rather than cgi/search/simple
• Allows opensearchdescription to list staff restricted export formats if Authorization header used
• Provides support for startIndex and size params in opensearch
• Allow export formats available to opensearch to be customised

Bug Fixes

• Fixes sample EP_TRIGGER_BEGIN and EP_TRIGGER_END subroutines
• Checks that $id->{id_type} is set before comparing it
• Fixes issues with Convert::PlainText handling large DOCX
• Makes unsupported packaging format a bad request (400) not server error (500)
• Don't add export link elements to deleted item page head
• Specifies more appropriate empty_values for Int and Float MetaFields
• Fixes eval blocks calling user-defined toform or fromform functions to work as effective try/catch blocks
• Fixes show_children not working if subject tree based browse has multiple menu levels
• Fixes issues with broken field validation warning links
• Test that a cachemap is defined before trying to retrieve its uuid
• Check modified time of citation style file when using cached citations
• Fixes OAI 2.0 will sometimes misreporting the 'Earliest Datestamp'
• Moves timezone adjustment inside an eval to avoid it dying if datetime is invalid
• Checks if config option get_custom_view_header_location is set before comparing
• Adds missing phrases for AjaxSubject field
• Fixes not be able to use Workflow::Edit to upload a file to an eprint
• Fixes lots of calls to EPrints::Index::Daemon->is_running when user is not logged in
• Fixes check for whether a user is "staff" (for export plugins) to is_staff function rather than something hard-coded
• Fixes CRUD requests creating empty records if values are invalid for the corresponding fields in the database (e.g. text for an integer field)
• Fixes error when running render_value directly on a Compound field
• Stops EPrints::DataObj->new_from_data tries to delete multiple compound sub-field values that don't exist
• Makes output of redo_thumbnails more helpful
• Fixes mistyping of event_queue (not eventqueue in the configuration for data objects excluded from citation caching
• Fixes subject fields showing undepositable options when used as a subfield
• Fixes EPrints::Script::Compiled->run_contains not returning proper boolean results

Planned Features and Improvements

See 3.4.8 milestone on GitHub for more details.