EPrints 3.4.5

This page contains information about the provisional EPrints v3.4.5 tag and release on GitHub. A date for this release is planned for the end of April 2023.

Provisional Release Notes

• Zero codename: To be determined
• Publications flavour codename: To be determined

New Dependencies

To be determined

Changes Since 3.4.4

New Functionality

• Adds console-based REPL tool
• Adds staged status for indexer tasks so they can be run outside the EPrints indexer. E.g. using a cron job.

Security and Privacy Improvements

• Adds PIN based security for documents.
• Makes Xapian index obey text_index attribute for fields.
• Allows restricted documents to not have their full texts indexed.
• Uses HTTPS for CrossRef lookup of DOIs.
• Removes (HTTP only) eprints_session if HTTPS is enabled.
• Improves target URL validation so only local URLs are allowed and not just paths.
• Explicitly disables password field autocomplete.
• Improves "request copy" security.

General Improvements

• Updates and makes consistent list of software contributors.
• Adds get_search_conditions_not_ex for float fields.
• Updates DOCTYPE to be more standards compliant.
• Updates pub_lib homepage links for browse views.
• Allows MetaField::Subject to have user-defined render_value.
• Improves OAI-PMH representation of records that once were live.
• Allows userid to be logged in Access data objects when user is logged in.
• Adds ability to manipulate element attributes.
• Updates latest_tool to use filters.
• Adds id and classes for individual styling of "Manage records" page.
• Adds class attributes for "View details" table.
• Adds classnames to navigation items and links.
• Splits off senderemail from adminemail if this need to be different for DMARC reasons.
• Adds the optional attributes of resumptionToken in OAI-PMH.
• Table class for screens; Status, DatabaseSchema and MetaFieldListing.
• Adds --prune option to generate_views.
• Various improvements to check_xapian script
• Adds verbose debug to send_alerts to advise when email is not sent as saved search notifications are only required when results are found.
• Set canonical URLs for abstract pages for better Google indexing.
• Ensures sitemaps always uses HTTPS URLs if securehost is defined.
• Breaks up show/hide help phrases to make them more compatible with Bootstrap.
• Makes task timeout for EPrints' indexer configurable. Along with making other indexer settings configurable.
• Replaces elinks with html2text as application to extract text from HTML/XML files for indexing.
• Allows staff search to find results where metadata_visibility is not set to show.
• Allows XSL files to be viewed using Config::View::XML plugin.
• Allows MetaField::Subject's top attribute to be set to a configurable function.
• Provides overarching setting for maximum file upload size.
• Significant phrase changes to facilitate better internationalisation.
• Allows screen plugins to use a bespoke page template.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes typo for _epname in RPM spec file.
• Adds properly referenced ARIA labels for sets and fields with bespoke search_input_style.
• Gets EPrints install script to create EPRINTS_PATH/tmp directory with appropriate permissions.
• Stops including ARIA describedby if help text is empty.
• Fixes "Data too long for column 'word'" indexing errors.
• Now returns "410 Gone" HTTP code when item has been retired.
• Adds missing <help> and <title> elements used in phrases for 2nd+ document fields in eprint workflows.
• Fixes text indexing saved_search.spec causing problems with Xapian.
• Fixes HTTPS URLs not be parseable by XML::LibXML->parse_file.
• Fixes missing URL encoding of # in filename download links.
• Checks render_dynamic attribute is set for MetaField before testing value
• Fixes LDAP-based login failures when accounts need to be created on-the-fly.
• Ensures $c->{userhome} and $c->{urlpath} are auto set correctly.
• Fixes missing parameter field when making phrase limit_names_shown_label.
• Adds poppler-utils DEB dependency for pdftotext to index PDFs.
• Allows PHDTHESIS from BibTeX to be imported without error by correcting mappings for thesis_type and thesis_name fields.
• Uses original rather than proxied IP address in access record if proxied address is in (configurable) private IP address range.
• Fixes BibTeX import parsing by ignoring entries with empty of malformed citekeys.
• Fixes issues with both server-side and client-side caching of JavaScript and CSS auto files.
• Fixes search offset being forgotten when results reordered.
• Fixes search ordering reverting to "by relevance" when different default ordering is set.
• Makes redirects from short URLs to long URLs a 301 rather than 302 or 303. Good for SEO.
• Ensures BibTeX export of note is not prevented is already used by ispublished field.
• Fixes incorrect location described in lib/syscfg.d/README.
• Tidies up replyto_name used in emails when referenced user has not set their name.
• Fixes disabling Config::Edit plugins breaking "View Configuration".
• Gracefully handles template pin not being defined or mapped.
• Fixes incorrect counts for items for ancestor (e.g. parent) subjects in subject field based browse views.
• Various typos

Further Planned Features and Improvements

See 3.4.5 milestone on GitHub for more details.