EPrints 3.4.6
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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.
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Release Notes (Provisional)
EPrints 3.4.6 will be released later in 2024.
- Zero codename: TO BE DETERMINED
- Publications flavour codename: TO BE DETERMINED
New Dependencies
Check earlier dependencies for EPrints 3.4.5 and before.
Changes Since 3.4.5
New Functionality
- Adds
unlink_lib
option totools/epm
. - Provide support for converting HEIC and WEBP thumbnails
- Adds support for setting default reply-to when separate
$c->{adminemail}
and$c->{sendermail}
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
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
andSystemSettings.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 thandefault
) 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
orto_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
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 oftools/epm
. - Fixes issues with
disable
andunpack
options fortools/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 forEPrints::DataObj::remove_dataobj_relations
- Check that
uri
of relation is set before comparing its value forEPrints::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
nothttp_cgiroot
- Actually use
size
when callingEPrints::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
- Fixes various typos
- [https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/issues/366 Fixes overloading of etaField
render_quiet
attribute by introducingrender_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
Further Planned Features and Improvements
See 3.4.6 milestone on GitHub for more details.