EPrints 3.4.1-rc2

Release Notes

N.B. Due to the changes below the Perl JSON library is now required. This can be installed as the perl-JSON RPM package, libjson-perl DEB package or by running "cpan JSON". Similarly, the TeX::Encode module needs to be installed as it has been removed from the core codebase. This can be installed as the libtex_encode_perl DEB package on by running "cpan TeX::Encode". (No RPM is available in the standard YUM repositories.)

Changes from 3.4.0

• Minor bug and typo fixes and addition of missing phrases.
• Ensure multi_param method is used if available.
• Improved default rendering of history tab
• Each part of the subjects hierarchy now a separate link
• Fixed rendering off logged in user link as part of the login menu.
• Added template field for DataObjs, so they can have a non-default display template.
• Better HTML class/ID labelling to faciltate CSS styling.
• Update CAPTCHA MetaFields to use ReCAPTCHAv2 by default.
• Better management of dependencies between ingredients.
• Allow searches to have their own titles defined directly rather than just constructed from the title phrase (e.g. Title matches "test" AND Authors is "Smith")
• Added JavaScript variable definitions for user ID, name and type so these can be used client side.
• Enabled text indexing on set fields by default.
• Allow leaf nodes (i.e. pages rather than menus) of browse views to use a different template to other nodes.
• Added user role to give no (rather than all) editorial rights to an editor unless specified.
• Allow latest items feeds to only be displayed if specified rather than dependent on values set for the export plugin itself.
• Made configuration for side-wide HTTPS simpler.
• Prevent default export of issues field even for admin export, as this field can get exponentially quite large and is rarely useful as part of a general export.
• Fixed request processing so GET and HEAD requests get routed the same way.
• Added basic history search functionality.
• Colour space fix when generating thumbnails
• Fix to ensure EPMC screen plugins have the super class plugin pre-loaded
• Added registry line to /cgi/counter to list included paths for flavours, ingredients and otehr library directories.
• TeX::Encode module has been removed from the codebase so more up to date version can be installed through CPAN or Linux package.

Changes ported from 3.3

• Various typo fixes and additional documenting comments
• Fixed "on behalf of" functionality for SWORD deposits.
• Deal better with empty strings set for related_url_type.
• Improved name searching with apostrophes, accented characters and similar.
• Added ITF-8 compatibility for the DOI library
• Checkout URL for logout on logged_in_as phrase
• Added id attribute for ep_sr_compoment and ep_sr_none div elements to fix Prototype issue.
• Fixed bug with RDF triples generation for bibo.
• Simplified fallback logic for generated updated browse views.
• Added default phrase for empty links in view menus.
• Fixed base URLs so https is used by default if $c->{securehost} is set not if $c->{host} is not.
• Remove leading and trailing white space from uploaded files, so they are consistent with the database.
• Added DOI library.
• Added mysql_enable_utf8 to MySQL DSN.
• Changed method for determining database index names to reduce the chances of them being too long for MySQL.
• Allow hyperlinks to be added to document icons.
• Add params to MetaField::render_search_value, so extended MetaField clases could make use of these.https://serviceswiki.eprints-hosting.org/index.php?title=3.4.1_Release&action=edit
• Created a citation for a logged in user (e.g. in menu bar) so this is more easily customisable.
• Allow for email black lists on request-a-copy.
• Added render_value_function to EPScript API
• Switched to using Perl JSON library to parse JSON / JavaScript strings.
• Fixed generic invalid XML revision file generation when metadata includes unrecognised (to XML) characters.
• Fixed issue with whitespace and buffer length when truncating the contents of a file for DataObj::File's characters method.
• Aesthetic improvements to the history tab layout.
• Hide full paths when running generate_static in quiet mode.
• Added required type to return value for run_doc_size.
• Ensured make_name_string can deal with single name people.
• Give 'email' field same type as 'requester_email' for Request DataObjs
• Added permanent redirect method to Apache::Rewrite
• Pre-emptively strip extra slashes from redirect
• Fixed bad regex in /cgi/search
• Fixed Apache rewrite match for sitemap.
• Captured error message in Event descriptions, so it can be displayed immediately and also set as the description value.
• Fixed output error element when a badVerb is request for OAI.
• Changed to using <tt> rather than <code> element on all default static pages.