[ckan-discuss] CKAN 1.4 release

Thu May 19 16:25:34 BST 2011

Today we've released a new version of CKAN at PyPI[1]. Version 1.4
covers updates to the core code during the last five weeks of
development. As seen at http://ckan.net/ users have improvements for
viewing alternative metadata formats and changing authorization
settings, whilst administrators benefit from improved tools to manage
unwanted revisions. The full changelog is copied below.

Alongside with these changes to the core CKAN, arguably the more
exciting features in CKAN are now being added as 'extensions'.
Examples of recent extensions include: previewing of data, storage for
data, automatic link checking, data click-through counts and
harvesting of metadata from other catalogues. Further information
here: http://wiki.ckan.net/Extensions

CKAN 1.4 release

Major:
  * Authorization forms now in grid format (#1074)
  * Links to RDF, N3 and Turtle metadata formats provided by
semantic.ckan.net (#1088)
  * Refactor internal logic to all use packages in one format - a
dictionary (#1046)
  * A new button for administrators to change revisions to/from a
deleted state (#1076)

Minor:
  * Etags caching can now be disabled in config (#840)
  * Command-line tool to check search index covers all packages (#1073)
  * Command-line tool to load/dump postgres database (#1067)

Bug fixes:
  * Visitor can't create packages on new CKAN install - since v1.3.3 (#1090)
  * OpenID user pages couldn't be accessed - since v1.3.2 (#1056)
  * Default site_url configured to ckan.net, so pages obtains CSS from
ckan.net- since v1.3 (#1085)

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckan