EPrints 3.4.7

This page contains information about the provisional EPrints v3.4.7 tag and release on GitHub. An exact date for this release is yet to be scheduled.

Release Notes (Provisional)

EPrints 3.4.7 will be released in August 2025.

• 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)
• Adds Citation cache management script

Security and Privacy Improvements

• Fixes vulnerability in PrototypeJS

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
• Implements missing triggers EP_TRIGGER_BEGIN and EP_TRIGGER_END
• 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
• Allows browse view variation ordering by number

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

Planned Features and Improvements

See 3.4.7 milestone on GitHub for more details.