[ckan-dev] CKAN 1.8 and 1.7.2 released

[David Read]

Great news! OKF should be applauded for all their hard work putting
out CKAN releases regularly.

Dave

On 22 October 2012 09:24, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The CKAN team is pleased to announce the release of its new major
> version, CKAN 1.8. Thanks to all the team and external contributors
> who have made it possible!
>
> This release includes new features like the ability to follow users
> and datasets, and visualize their activity on a dashboard, and a
> completely revamped version of the Datastore [1]. The new version of
> the Datastore is powered by PostgreSQL, which avoids having to install
> extra dependencies and allows us to support more powerful features,
> like a full SQL query interface. Users of the previous version of the
> Datastore based on ElasticSearch can contact the mailing list for
> details on how to migrate their data to the new version.
>
> Apart from new features, we are working hard on internal refactorings
> to make the CKAN code base more maintainable and provide a more solid
> integration for extensions, making it easier to build them and upgrade
> them between CKAN versions. Some of these changes have been included
> in this release, have a look at the "API changes and deprecation"
> section in the CHANGELOG to see if you need to update any existing
> extensions.
>
> We have also made available version 1.7.2, which contains important
> bug fixes for those users that want to stay on the CKAN 1.7 line.
>
> Please refer to the documentation for instructions on how to install
> or upgrade CKAN, either via packages [2] or the sources [3], and feel
> free to contact the mailing list or the IRC channel if you have any
> doubt.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adrià
>
>
> [1] http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.8/datastore.html
> [2] http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.8/install-from-package.html
> [3] http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.8/install-from-source.html
>
>
>
>
> v1.8 2012-10-19
> ===============
>
> Note: This version requires a requirements upgrade on source installations
> Note: This version requires a database upgrade
> Note: This version does not require a Solr schema upgrade
>
> Major
>  * New 'follow' feature that allows logged in users to follow other users or
>    datasets (#2304)
>  * New user dashboard that shows an activity stream of all the datasets and
>    users you are following. Thanks to Sven R. Kunze for his work on this (#2305)
>  * New version of the Datastore. It has been completely rewritten to use
>    PostgreSQL as backend, it is more stable and fast and supports SQL queries
>    (#2733)
>  * Clean up and simplifyng of CKAN's dependencies and source install
>    instructions. Ubuntu 12.04 is now supported for source installs (#2428,#2592)
>  * Big speed improvements when indexing datasets (#2788)
>  * New action API reference docs, which individually document each function and
>    its arguments and return values (#2345)
>  * Updated translations, added Japanese and Korean translations
>
> Minor
>  * Add source install upgrade docs (#2757)
>  * Mark more strings for translation (#2770)
>  * Allow sort ordering of dataset listings on group pages (#2842)
>  * Reenable simple search option (#2844)
>  * Editing organization removes all datasets (#2845)
>  * Accessibility enhancements on templates
>
> Bug fixes
>  * Fix for relative url being used when doing file upload to local storage
>  * Various fixes on IGroupFrom (#2750)
>  * Fix group dataset sort (#2722)
>  * Fix adding existing datasets to organizations (#2843)
>  * Fix 500 error in related controller (#2856)
>  * Fix for non-open licenses appearing open
>  * Editing organization removes all datasets (#2845)
>
> API changes and deprecation:
>  * Template helper functions are now restricted by default. By default only
>    those helper functions listed in lib.helpers.__allowed_functions__
>    are available to templates. The full functions can still be made
>    available by setting `ckan.restrict_template_vars = false` in your ini file.
>    Only restricted functions will be allowed in future versions of CKAN.
>  * Deprecated functions related to the old faceting data structure have
>    been removed:  `helpers.py:facet_items()`, `facets.html:facet_sidebar()`,
>    `facets.html:facet_list_items()`.
>    Internal use of the old facets datastructure (attached to the context,
>    `c.facets`) has been superseded by use of the improved facet data structure,
>    `c.search_facets`.  The old data structure is still available on `c.facets`,
>    but is deprecated, and will be removed in future versions. (#2313)
>
> v1.7.2 2012-10-19
> =================
>
> Minor:
>  * Documentation enhancements regarding file uploads
>
> Bug fixes:
>  * Fixes for lincences i18n
>  * Remove sensitive data from user dict (#2784)
>  * Fix bug in feeds controller (#2869)
>  * Show dataset author and maintainer names even if they have no emails
>  * Fix URLs for some Amazon buckets
>  * Other minor fixes
>
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