EPrints 3.4.7

This page contains information about the provisional EPrints v3.4.7 tag and release on GitHub. A full release of EPrints 3.4.7 will be made on 29th August 2025.

Release Notes (Provisional)

First release candidate of EPrints 3.4.7 is now available on GitHub.

• Zero codename: Granita Gregale
• Publications flavour codename: Tiramisu Tramontane

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)
• Implements missing triggers EP_TRIGGER_BEGIN and EP_TRIGGER_END
• Allows browse view variation ordering by number
• Adds citation cache management script
• Allows static pages to be put behind login (with exceptions)
• Allows custom sort to be applied at a browse menu level
• Adds Highwire Press and PRISM meta tags to head of abstract pages as favoured by Google Scholar

Security and Privacy Improvements

• Fixes vulnerability in PrototypeJS
• Use different identifier for recalling search result caches so it cannot be guessed

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
• 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
• Partially addresses spurious use of X-Forwarded-For header to pollute stats
• Prevents 'Manage Deposits' taking a long time to load with a lot of items
• Removes references to secure.xml template and secure_auto.js
• Adds place as a related_url type
• Tides up use of get_citaiton_id in search screens
• Allows any item that has ever been in the live archive to be retired
• Allows EPrints::Document search_related to be ordered and limited to reduce number of cache tables generated
• Allows placeholder to be optionally displayed for un-named subjects in browse views
• Supports disabling of auto re-searching of cache ID for search has expired
• Supports plugins exporting as attachment rather that in-browser

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
• Fixes login_required_for_X functionality not be able to redirect user to a specific page after login
• Fixes aspect ratio for video thumbnails if rotation matrix used
• Only crypt passwords that only contain printable ASCII
• Prevents other sub-field default occasionally be using for another compound field sub-field
• Fixes lightbox popup preview of a video
• Fixes Subobject to_sax causes 500 error if there are multiple and subobject is null
• Sets more sensible maxlength default for MetaFields that are SQL_CLOB to avoid truncation
• Ensures depositable should be TRUE not 1 on initial subject creation through Edit::Subject
• Fixes HTML citation export fails if export citation style for eprint exists
• Ensures output from get_custom_view_header user-defined function can appear before or after the browse view navigation bar
• Removes no longer support use encoding... from random data generator
• Makes 'Move' positions unique
• Retains attribute order in build_attributes
• Fixes Horizontal scrollbar when zoomed to 400%
• Fixes default values for search get re-enabled if field left empty
• Fixes broken aria reference if help phrase exists, but help isn't shown
• Adds cgi/register to accessibility check
• Fixes logic support complex page ranges (e.g. A-2-B-4)
• Removes rev_number from eprints in test import data to prevent missing revisions when imported.