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Invenio NEWS
============
Here is a short summary of the most notable changes in Invenio
releases. For more information about the current release, please
consult RELEASE-NOTES. For more information about changes, please
consult ChangeLog.
Invenio v1.0.9 -- released 2015-05-21
-------------------------------------
Security fixes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ WebStyle:
- Adds back the `HttpOnly` cookie attribute in order to better
protect against potential XSS vulnerabilities. (#3064)
Improved features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ installation:
- Apache virtual environments are now created with appropriate
`WSGIDaemonProcess` user value, taken from the configuration
variable `CFG_BIBSCHED_PROCESS_USER`, provided it is set. This
change makes it easier to run Invenio under non-Apache user
identity.
- Apache virtual environments are now created with appropriate
`WSGIPythonHome` directive so that it would be easier to run
Invenio from within Python virtual environments.
Bug fixes
~~~~~~~~~
+ global:
- Replaces `invenio-demo.cern.ch` by `demo.invenio-software.org`
which is the new canonical URL of the demo site. (#2867)
+ testutils:
- Switches off SSL verification when running the test suite. Useful
for Python-2.7.9 where self-signed SSL certificates (that are
usually used on development installations) would cause apparent
test failures. (#2868)
Invenio v1.0.8 -- released 2015-03-02
-------------------------------------
- docker: initial release (#2736)
- docs: initial release of CONTRIBUTING guide (#2163)
- installation: MathJax distribution location update (#2732);
disable SSLv2/SSLv3 in Apache config (#2515)
Invenio v1.0.7 -- released 2014-08-31
-------------------------------------
- BibDocFile: FFT comment/description documentation (#635);
duplicate docname fix (#1930)
- BibRank: (Overflow|ZeroDivision)Error usability (#105 #2146)
- WebSession: CSRF tokens in account settings forms (#1855)
- installation: GnuPG key server location update; location of
jquery.treeview
- I18N: fix gender problem in a French translation (#2089)
Invenio v1.0.6 -- released 2014-01-31
-------------------------------------
- BatchUploader: avoid tempfile.tempdir redefinition (#1594)
- BibRank: temporary file storage in CFG_TMPDIR (#1594)
- BibUpload: FFT replace warning in guide
- dbquery: closes redundant connection
- global: language value always in link URLs
- installation: fix autotools rsync instructions; pip requirements;
pip requirement version updates
- intbitset: no crash when intbitset is on rhs (#1287)
- WebSearch: asciification of `oe` grapheme (#1582); correct record
sums from hosted colls (#1651); nonexisting record API test case
fix (#1692); space between records in MARC HTML
- WebSession: fix mail cookie expiration (#1596)
- WebSubmit: fix for typo in Shared_Functions
CDS Invenio v0.99.9 -- released 2014-01-31
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- temporary file storage in CFG_TMPDIR (BibRank)
Invenio v1.0.5 -- released 2013-08-19
-------------------------------------
- BibClassify: escape keywords in tag cloud and MARCXML
- BibDocFile: support new magic library
- BibFormat: additional fulltext file display in HB; fix CLI call to
old PHP-based formatter; format_element initialisation fix
- BibIndex: better wording for stemming in admin UI
- BibKnowledge: /kb/export 500 error fix
- BibUpload: FMT regression test case fix; indicators in strong tags
- errorlib: hiding bibcatalog info in exception body
- global: test suite nosification
- installation: fix collectiondetailedrecordpagetabs; support for
Apache-2.4
- WebAccess: IP-based rules and offline user fix; replacement of CDS
Invenio by InveniO
- WebComment: escape review "title"
- WebSearch: respect default `rg` in Advanced Search
- WebSession: fix for list of admin activities; login_method changes
- WebSubmit: new websubmitadmin CLI
CDS Invenio v0.99.8 -- released 2013-08-19
------------------------------------------
- escape keywords in tag cloud and MARCXML (BibClassify)
- fix CLI call to old PHP-based formatter; fix format_element
initialisation (BibFormat)
- better wording for stemming in admin UI (BibIndex)
- IP-based rules and offline user fix (WebAccess)
- escape review "title" (WebComment)
- fix collectiondetailedrecordpagetabs (installation)
Invenio v1.0.4 -- released 2012-12-21
-------------------------------------
- installation: inclusion of JS quicktags in tarball
- bibdocfile: better error report for unknown format
- WebAccess: admin interface usability improvement
Invenio v1.0.3 -- released 2012-12-19
-------------------------------------
- BatchUploader: error reporting improvements
- BibConvert: fix bug with SPLITW function; target/source CLI flag
description fix
- BibEdit: 'bibedit' CSS class addition to page body
- BibFormat: fix for js_quicktags location
- jQuery: tablesorter location standardisation
- WebComment: cleaner handling of non-reply comments
- WebJournal: explicit RSS icon dimensions; fix for
CFG_TMPSHAREDDIR; fix for retrieval of deleted articles
- WebSearch: external search pattern_list escape fix; respect output
format content-type; washing of 'as' argument
- WebStyle: dumb page loading fix; Google Analytics documentation
update; memory leak fix in session handling; new /ping handler;
removal of excess language box call; req.is_https() fix
- WebSubmit: fix for Send_APP_Mail function
- WebUser: fix for referer URL protocol
CDS Invenio v0.99.7 -- released 2012-12-18
------------------------------------------
- Google Analytics documentation update (WebStyle)
- target/source CLI flag description fix (BibConvert)
Invenio v1.0.2 -- released 2012-10-19
-------------------------------------
- BibConvert: fix for static files in admin guide
- BibEdit: regression test case fix
- BibFormat: fix call to bfe_primary_report_number; revert fix for
format validation report
- BibHarvest: OAI harvesting via HTTP proxy
- BibRank: begin_date initialisation in del_recids(); INSERT DELAYED
INTO rnkPAGEVIEWS; user-friendlier message for similar docs
- BibUpload: clarify correct/replace mode help
- WebJournal: catch ValueError when reading cache; use
CFG_TMPSHAREDDIR in admin UI
- WebSearch: allow webcoll to query hidden tags; external collection
search fix; external search XSS vulnerability fix; fix for
parentheses inside quotes; get_collection_reclist() fix; more uses
of `rg` configurable default; 'verbose' mode available to admins
only; XSS and verbose improvements
- WebSession: fix possibly undefined variables; prevent nickname
modification
- WebStyle: workaround IE bug with cache and HTTPS
- WebSubmit: configurable Document File Manager; fix JS check for
mandatory fields; unoconv calling fix
- bibdocfile: guess_format_from_url() improvement;
guess_format_from_url() improvements; INSERT DELAYED INTO
rnkDOWNLOADS
- global: removal of psyco
- I18N: Spanish and Catalan updates to Search Tips; updates to
German translation
- installation: fix for jQuery UI custom; fix md5sum example
arguments; new index on session.session_expiry
- intbitset: fix memory leak
- inveniogc: tmp directory removal improvements
- urlutils: MS Office redirection workaround
CDS Invenio v0.99.6 -- released 2012-10-18
------------------------------------------
- improved XSS safety in external collection searching (WebSearch)
- verbose level in the search results pages is now available only to
admins, preventing potential restricted record ID disclosure even
though record content would remain restricted (WebSearch)
Invenio v1.0.1 -- released 2012-06-28
-------------------------------------
- BibFormat: fix format validation report; fix opensearch prefix
exclusion in RSS; fix retrieval of collection identifier
- BibIndex: new unit tests for the Greek stemmer
- BibSched: improve low level submission arg parsing; set ERROR
status when wrong params; task can stop immediately when sleeping
- BibSword: remove dangling documentation
- BibUpload: fix setting restriction in -a/-ir modes
- WebAlert: simplify HTML markup
- WebComment: only logged users to use report abuse
- WebJournal: hide deleted records
- WebSearch: adapt test cases for citation summary; fix collection
order on the search page; look at access control when webcolling;
sorting in citesummary breakdown links
- WebSession: simplify HTML markup
- WebSubmit: capitalise doctypes in Doc File Manager; check
authorizations in endaction; check for problems when archiving;
ensure unique tmp file name for upload; fix email formatting; fix
Move_to_Done function; remove 8564_ field from demo templates;
skip file upload if necessary; update CERN-specific config
- bibdocfile: BibRecDocs recID argument type check
- data cacher: deletes cache before refilling it
- dbquery: fix dbexec CLI WRT max allowed packet
- I18N: updates to Greek translation
- installation: fix circular install-jquery-plugins; fix demo user
initialisation; fix jQuery tablesorter download URL; fix jQuery
uploadify download URL; more info about max_allowed_packet; remove
unneeded rxp binary package
Invenio v1.0.0 -- released 2012-02-29
-------------------------------------
- BatchUploader: fix retrieval of recs from extoaiid
- BibCirculation: fix regexp for dictionary checking; security check
before eval
- BibConvert: fix UP and DOWN for UTF-8 strings
- bibdocfile: add missing normalize_format() calls;
check_bibdoc_authorization caseless; fix append WRT
description/restriction; fix cli_set_batch function; fix
documentation WRT --with-version; fix handling of embargo firerole
rule; fix parsing of complex subformats
- BibEdit: fix crash in Ajax request; fix undefined dictionary key
- BibFormat: better escape BFE in admin test UI; do not exit if no
XSLT processor found; fix regression test; fix URL to ejournal
resolver; fix XSLT formatting of MARCXML snippets; removes 'No
fulltext' message; special handling of INSPIRE-PUBLIC type; use
default namespace in XSL
- BibHarvest: check for empty resumptionToken; fix MARCXML creation
in OAI updater; optional JSON dependency
- BibIndex: fix author:Campbell-Wilson word query; fix
double-stemming upon indexing; fix Porter stemmer in multithread;
Greek stemmer improvements
- BibKnowledge: make XML/XSLT libs optional
- BibRank: CERN hack to inactivate similarity lists; fix citation
indexer time stamp updating; fix citation indexing of deleted
records; fix citedby/refersto for infinite sets; fix empty
citation data cacher; fix incremental citation indexer leaks; make
numpy optional; minimum x-axis in citation history graphs; run
citation indexer after word indexer
- BibRecord: fix for record_get_field_instances()
- BibSched: fix guess_apache_process_user_from_ps; use larger
timouts for launching tasks
- BibUpload: FFT regression tests not to use CDS
- htmlutils: fix FCKeditor upload URLs
- installation: add note about optional hashlib; change table TYPE
to ENGINE in SQL; fix 'install-mathjax-plugin'; fix issue with
FCKeditor; fix 'make install-jquery-plugins'; fix output message
cosmetics; new 'make install-ckeditor-plugin'; re-enable WSGI
pre-loading
- intbitset: fix never ending loop in __repr__; fix several memory
leaks
- inveniocfg: fix resetting ranking method names
- inveniogc: new CLI options check/optimise tables
- kwalitee: grep-like output and exit status changes; use
`--check-some` as default CLI option
- mailutils: remove unnecessary 'multipart/related'
- plotextractor: fix INSPIRE unit test
- textmarc2xmlmarc: fix handling of BOM
- urlutils: new Indico request generator helper
- WebAccess: fix Access policy page; fix FireRole handling integer
uid; fix retrieving emails from firerole
- WebAlert: fix the display of records in alerts
- WebBasket: fix missing return statement; fix number of items in
public baskets
- WebComment: CERN-specific hack for ATLAS comments; fix discussion
display in bfe_comments; fix washing of email to admin; improve
sanity checks
- WebHelp: HOWTO MARC document update
- WebJournal: fix seminar widget encoding issue; fix seminar widget
for new Indico APIs; update weather widget for new APIs
- WebSearch: add refersto:/a b c/ example to guide; CERN-specific
hack for journal sorting; CERN-specific hack for latest additions;
fix case-insensitive collection search; fix CDSIndico external
search; fix collection translation in admin UI; fix
get_fieldvalues() when recid is str; fix
get_index_id_from_field(); fix structured regexp query parsing;
fix symbol name typo in loop checking; parenthesised collection
definitions; remove accent-search warning in guide; remove Report
for INSPIRE author pages; replace CDS Indico by Indico; updates
some output phrases
- WebSession: fix crash when no admin user exists
- WebStyle: better service failure message; fix implementation of
req.get_hostname; fluid width of the menu; pre-load citation
dictionaries for web
- WebSubmit: avoid printing empty doctype section;
check_user_can_view_record in publiline; fix filename bug in
document manager; fix handling of uploaded files; fix
record_search_pattern in DEMOJRN
- xmlmarclint: 'no valid record detected' error
- I18N: updates to Catalan, Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian,
Slovak, and Spanish translations
- Note: for a complete list of new features in Invenio v1.0 release
series over Invenio v0.99 release series, please see:
<http://invenio-software.org/blog/invenio-1.0.0-rc0>
CDS Invenio v0.99.5 -- released 2012-02-21
------------------------------------------
- improved sanity checks when reporting, voting, or replying to a
comment, or when accessing comment attachments, preventing URL
mangling attempts (WebComment)
CDS Invenio v0.99.4 -- released 2011-12-19
------------------------------------------
- fixed double stemming during indexing (BibIndex)
- fixed collection translation in admin UI (WebSearch)
- fixed UP and DOWN functions for UTF-8 strings (BibConvert)
Invenio v1.0.0-rc0 -- released 2010-12-21
-----------------------------------------
- CDS Invenio becomes Invenio as of this release
- new facility of hosted collections; support for external records
in search collections, user alerts and baskets (WebSearch,
WebAlert, WebBasket)
- support for nested parentheses in search query syntax (WebSearch)
- new refersto/citedby search operators for second-order searches in
citation map (BibRank, WebSearch)
- numerous improvements to SPIRES query syntax parser (WebSearch)
- enhancement to search results summaries, e.g. co-author lists on
author pages, e.g. h-index (WebSearch)
- new support for unAPI, Zotero, OpenSearch, AWS (WebSearch)
- new phrase and word-pair indexes (BibIndex)
- new fuzzy author name matching mode (BibIndex)
- new time-dependent citation ranking family of methods (BibRank)
- full-text search now shows context snippets (BibFormat)
- improvements to the basket UI, basket export facility (WebBasket)
- new support for FCKeditor in submissions and user comments,
possibility to attach files (WebComment, WebSubmit)
- commenting facility enhanced with rounds and threads (WebComment)
- new facility to moderate user comments (WebComment)
- enhanced CLI tool for document file management bringing new
options such as hidden file flag (WebSubmit)
- numerous improvements to the submission system, e.g. asynchronous
JavaScript upload support, derived document formats, icon
creation, support for automatic conversion of OpenOffice
documents, PDF/A, OCR (WebSubmit)
- new full-text file metadata reader/writer tool (WebSubmit)
- new experimental SWORD protocol client application (BibSword)
- complete rewrite of the record editor using Ajax technology for
faster user operation, with new features such as field templates,
cloning, copy/paste, undo/redo, auto-completion, etc (BibEdit)
- new multi-record editor to alter many records in one go (BibEdit)
- new Ajax-based record differ and merger (BibMerge)
- new fuzzy record matching mode, with possibility to match records
against remote Invenio installations (BibMatch)
- new circulation and holdings module (BibCirculation)
- new facility for matching provenance information when uploading
records (BibUpload)
- new possibility of uploading incoming changes into holding pen
(BibUpload)
- new batch uploader facility to support uploading of metadata files
and of full-text files either in CLI or over web (BibUpload)
- new record exporting module supporting e.g. Sitemap and Google
Scholar export methods (BibExport)
- improvements to the keyword classifier, e.g. author and core
keywords (BibClassify)
- new facility for external robot-like login method (WebAccess)
- numerous improvements to the journal creation facility, new
journal `Atlantis Times' demo journal (WebJournal)
- refactored and improved OAI exporter and harvester (BibHarvest)
- new taxonomy-based and dynamic-query knowledge base types
(BibKnowledge)
- possibility to switch on/off user features such as alerts and
baskets based on RBAC rules (WebAccess and other modules)
- various improvements to task scheduler, for example better
communication with tasks, possibility to run certain bibsched
tasks within given time limit, etc (BibSched)
- new database dumper for backup purposes (MiscUtil)
- new plotextractor library for extracting plots from compuscripts,
new figure caption index and the Plots tab (MiscUtil, BibIndex,
Webearch)
- enhanced reference extrator, e.g. support for DOI, for author name
recognition (MiscUtil)
- new register emergency feature e.g. to alert admins by SMS in case
the task queue stops (MiscUtil)
- infrastructure move from mod_python to mod_wsgi, support for
mod_xsendfile (WebStyle and many modules)
- infrastructure move from jsMath to MathJax (MiscUtil)
- some notable backward-incompatible changes: removed authentication
methods related to Apache user and group files, changed BibFormat
element's API (BibFormat, many modules)
- new translations (Afrikaans, Galician, Georgian, Romanian,
Kinyarwanda) plus many translation updates
- other numerous improvements and bug fixes done in about 1600
commits over Invenio v0.99 series
CDS Invenio v0.99.3 -- released 2010-12-13
------------------------------------------
- fixed issues in the harvesting daemon when harvesting from more
than one OAI repository (BibHarvest)
- fixed failure in formatting engine when dealing with
not-yet-existing records (BibFormat)
- fixed traversal of final URL parts in the URL dispatcher
(WebStyle)
- improved bibdocfile URL recognition upon upload of MARC files
(BibUpload)
- fixed bug in admin interface for adding authorizations (WebAccess)
- keyword extractor is now compatible with rdflib releases older
than 2.3.2 (BibClassify)
- output of `bibsched status' now shows the queue mode status as
AUTOMATIC or MANUAL to help queue monitoring (BibSched)
CDS Invenio v0.99.2 -- released 2010-10-20
------------------------------------------
- stricter checking of access to restricted records: in order to
view a restricted record, users are now required to have
authorizations to access all restricted collections the given
record may belong to (WebSearch)
- strict checking of user query history when setting up email
notification alert, preventing URL mangling attempts (WebAlert)
- fixed possible Unix signal conflicts for tasks performing I/O
operations or running external processes, relevant notably to
full-text indexing of remote files (BibSched)
- fixed full-text indexing and improved handling of files of
`unexpected' extensions (BibIndex, WebSubmit)
- streaming of files of `unknown' MIME type now defaults to
application/octet-stream (WebSubmit)
- fixed addition of new MARC fields in the record editor (BibEdit)
- fixed issues in full-text file attachment via MARC (BibUpload)
- fixed authaction CLI client (WebAccess)
- ... plus other minor fixes and improvements
CDS Invenio v0.99.1 -- released 2008-07-10
------------------------------------------
- search engine syntax now supports parentheses (WebSearch)
- search engine syntax now supports SPIRES query language
(WebSearch)
- strict respect for per-collection sort options on the search
results pages (WebSearch)
- improved parsing of search query with respect to non-existing
field terms (WebSearch)
- fixed "any collection" switch on the search results page
(WebSearch)
- added possibility for progressive display of detailed record page
tabs (WebSearch)
- added support for multi-page RSS output (WebSearch)
- new search engine summarizer module with the cite summary output
format (WebSearch, BibRank)
- "cited by" links are now generated only when needed (WebSearch)
- new experimental comprehensive author page (WebSearch)
- stemming for many indexes is now enabled by default (BibIndex)
- new intelligent journal index (BibIndex)
- new logging of missing citations (BibRank)
- citation indexer and searcher improvements and caching (BibRank)
- new low-level task submission facility (BibSched)
- new options in bibsched task monitor: view task options, log and
error files; prune task to a history table; extended status
reporting; failed tasks now need acknowledgement in order to
restart the queue (BibSched)
- safer handling of task sleeping and waking up (BibSched)
- new experimental support for task priorities and concurrent task
execution (BibSched)
- improved user-configured browser language matching (MiscUtil)
- new default behaviour not differentiating between guest users;
this removes a need to keep sessions/uids for guests and robots
(WebSession)
- optimized sessions and collecting external user information (WebSession)
- improved logging conflicts for external vs internal users
(WebAccess)
- improved Single Sign-On session preservation (WebAccess)
- new 'become user' debugging facility for admins (WebAccess)
- new bibdocfile CLI tool to manipulate full-text files archive
(WebSubmit)
- optimized redirection of old URLs (WebSubmit)
- new icon creation tool in the submission input chain (WebSubmit)
- improved full-text file migration tool (WebSubmit)
- improved stamping of full-text files (WebSubmit)
- new approval-related end-submission functions (WebSubmit)
- comments and descriptions of full-text files are now kept also in
bibdoc tables, not only in MARC; they are synchronized during
bibupload (WebSubmit, BibUpload)
- fixed navigation in public baskets (WebBasket)
- added detailed record page link to basket records (WebBasket)
- new removal of HTML markup in alert notification emails (WebAlert)
- improved OAI harvester logging and handling (BibHarvest)
- improved error checking (BibConvert)
- improvements to the record editing tool: subfield order change,
repetitive subfields; improved record locking features;
configurable per-collection curators (BibEdit)
- fully refactored WebJournal module (WebJournal)
- new RefWorks output format, thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos
(BibFormat)
- fixed keyword detection tool's output; deactivated taxonomy
compilation (BibClassify)
- new /stats URL for administrators (WebStat)
- better filtering of unused translations (WebStyle)
- updated French, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish translations;
updated Japanese translation (thanks to Makiko Matsumoto and Takao
Ishigaki); updated Greek translation (thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos); new Hungarian translation (thanks to Eva Papp)
- ... plus many other minor bug fixes and improvements
CDS Invenio v0.99.0 -- released 2008-03-27
------------------------------------------
- new Invenio configuration language, new inveniocfg configuration
tool permitting more runtime changes and enabling separate local
customizations (MiscUtil)
- phased out WML dependency everywhere (all modules)
- new common RSS cache implementation (WebSearch)
- improved access control to the detailed record pages (WebSearch)
- when searching non-existing collections, do not revert to
searching in public Home anymore (WebSearch)
- strict calculation of number of hits per multiple collections
(WebSearch)
- propagate properly language environment in browse pages, thanks to
Ferran Jorba (WebSearch)
- search results sorting made accentless, thanks to Ferran Jorba
(WebSearch)
- new OpenURL interface (WebSearch)
- added new search engine API argument to limit searches to record
creation/modification dates and times instead of hitherto creation
dates only (WebSearch)
- do not allow HTTP POST method for searches to prevent hidden
mining (WebSearch)
- added alert and RSS teaser for search engine queries (WebSearch)
- new optimized index structure for fast integer bit vector
operations, leading to significant indexing time improvements
(MiscUtil, BibIndex, WebSearch)
- new tab-based organisation of detailed record pages, with new URL
schema (/record/1/usage) and related CSS changes (BibFormat,
MiscUtil, WebComment, WebSearch, WebStyle, WebSubmit)
- phased out old PHP based code; migration to Python-based output
formats recommended (BibFormat, WebSubmit)
- new configurability to show/hide specific output formats for
specific collections (BibFormat, WebSearch)
- new configurability to have specific stemming settings for
specific indexes (BibIndex, WebSearch)
- optional removal of LaTeX markup for indexer (BibIndex, WebSearch)
- performance optimization for webcoll and optional arguments to
refresh only parts of collection cache (WebSearch)
- optional verbosity argument propagation to the output formatter
(BibFormat, WebSearch)
- new convenient reindex option to the indexer (BibIndex)
- fixed problem with indexing of some lengthy UTF-8 accented names,
thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos for reporting the problem
(BibIndex)
- fixed full-text indexing of HTML pages (BibIndex)
- new Stemmer module dependency, fixes issues on 64-bit systems
(BibIndex)
- fixed download history graph display (BibRank)
- improved citation ranking and history graphs, introduced
self-citation distinction, added new demo records (BibRank)
- fixed range redefinition and output message printing problems in
the ranking indexer, thanks to Mike Marino (BibRank)
- new XSLT output formatter support; phased out old BFX formats
(BibFormat)
- I18N output messages are now translated in the output formatter
templates (BibFormat)
- formats fixed to allow multiple author affiliations (BibFormat)
- improved speed of the record output reformatter in case of large
sets (BibFormat)
- support for displaying LaTeX formulas via JavaScript (BibFormat)
- new and improved output formatter elements (BibFormat)
- new escaping modes for format elements (BibFormat)
- output format template editor cache and element dependency
checker improvements (BibFormat)
- output formatter speed improvements in PHP-compatible mode
(BibFormat)
- new demo submission configuration and approval workflow examples
(WebSubmit)
- new submission full-text file stamper utility (WebSubmit)
- new submission icon-creation utility (WebSubmit)
- separated submission engine and database layer (WebSubmit)
- submission functions can now access user information (WebSubmit)
- implemented support for restricted icons (WebSubmit, WebAccess)
- new full-text file URL and cleaner storage facility; requires file
names to be unique within a given record (WebSearch, WebSubmit)
- experimental release of the complex approval and refereeing
workflow (WebSubmit)
- new end-submission functions to move files to storage space
(WebSubmit)
- added support for MD5 checking of full-text files (WebSubmit)
- improved behaviour of the submission system with respect to the
browser "back" button (WebSubmit)
- removed support for submission "cookies" (WebSubmit)
- flexible report number generation during submission (WebSubmit)
- added support for optional filtering step in the OAI harvesting
chain (BibHarvest)
- new text-oriented converter functions IFDEFP, JOINMULTILINES
(BibConvert)
- selective harvesting improvements, sets, non-standard responses,
safer resumption token handling (BibHarvest)
- OAI archive configuration improvements: collections retrieval,
multiple set definitions, new clean mode, timezones, and more
(BibHarvest)
- OAI gateway improvements: XSLT used to produce configurable output
(BibHarvest)
- added support for "strong tags" that can resist metadata replace
mode (BibUpload)
- added external OAI ID tag support to the uploader (BibUpload)
- added support for full-text file transfer during uploading
(BibUpload)
- preserving full history of all MARCXML versions of a record
(BibEdit, BibUpload)
- XMLMARC to TextMarc improvements: empty indicators and more
(BibEdit)
- numerous reference extraction tool improvements: year handling,
LaTeX handling, URLs, journal titles, output methods, and more
(BibEdit)
- new classification daemon (BibClassify)
- classification taxonomy caching resulting in speed optimization
(BibClassify)
- new possibility to define more than one keyword taxonomy per
collection (BibClassify)
- fixed non-standalone keyword detection, thanks to Annette Holtkamp
(BibClassify)
- new embedded page generation profiler (WebStyle)
- new /help pages layout and webdoc formatting tool (WebStyle)
- new custom style template verification tool (WebStyle)
- added support for the XML page() output format, suitable for AJAX
interfaces (WebStyle)
- introduction of navigation menus (WebStyle)
- general move from HTML to XHTML markup (all modules)
- fixed alert deletion tool vulnerability (WebAlert)
- do not advertise baskets/alerts much for guest users; show only
the login link (WebSession)
- password reset interface improvements (WebSession)
- new permanent "remember login" mechanism (WebSession, WebAccess)
- local user passwords are now encrypted (WebSession, WebAccess)
- new LDAP external authentication plugin (WebAccess)
- new password reset mechanism using new secure mail cookies and
temporary role membership facilities (WebAccess, WebSession)
- added support for Single Sign-On Shibboleth based authentication
method (WebAccess)
- new firewall-like based role definition language, new demo
examples (WebAccess)
- external authentication and groups improvements: nicknames,
account switching, and more (WebSession, WebAccess)
- task log viewer integrated in the task monitor (BibSched)
- new journal creation module (WebJournal)
- new generic statistic gathering and display facility (WebStat)
- deployed new common email sending facility (MiscUtil, WebAlert,
WebComment, WebSession, WebSubmit)
- dropped support for MySQL-4.0, permitting to use clean and strict
UTF-8 storage methods; upgrade of MySQLdb to at least 1.2.1_p2
required (MiscUtil)
- uncatched exceptions are now being sent by email to the
administrator (MiscUtil, WebStyle)
- new general garbage collector with a possibility to run via the
task scheduler and a possibility to clean unreferenced
bibliographic values (MiscUtil)
- new generic SQL and data cacher (MiscUtil)
- new HTML page validator plugin (MiscUtil)
- new web test suite running in a real browser (MiscUtil)
- improved code kwalitee checker (MiscUtil)
- translation updates: Spanish and Catalan (thanks to Ferran Jorba),
Japanese (Toru Tsuboyama), German (Benedikt Koeppel), Polish
(Zbigniew Szklarz and Zbigniew Leonowicz), Greek (Theodoros
Theodoropoulos), Russian (Yana Osborne), Swedish, Italian, French
- new translations: Chinese traditional and Chinese simplified
(thanks to Kam-ming Ku)
- ... plus many other minor bug fixes and improvements
CDS Invenio v0.92.1 -- released 2007-02-20
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- new support for external authentication systems (WebSession,
WebAccess)
- new support for external user groups (WebSession)
- new experimental version of the reference extraction program
(BibEdit)
- new optional Greek stopwords list, thanks to Theodoropoulos
Theodoros (BibIndex)
- new Get_Recid submission function (WebSubmit)
- new config variable governing the display of the download history
graph (BibRank)
- started deployment of user preferences (WebSession, WebSearch)
- split presentation style for "Narrow search", "Focus on" and
"Search also" search interface boxes (WebSearch, WebStyle)
- updated CERN Indico and KEK external collection searching facility
(WebSearch)
- fixed search interface portalbox and collection definition
escaping behaviour (WebSearch Admin)
- fixed problems with external system number and OAI ID matching
(BibUpload)
- fixed problem with case matching behaviour (BibUpload)
- fixed problems with basket record display and basket topic change
(WebBasket)
- fixed output format template attribution behaviour (BibFormat)
- improved language context propagation in output formats
(BibFormat)
- improved output format treatment of HTML-aware fields (BibFormat)
- improved BibFormat migration kit (BibFormat)
- improved speed and eliminated set duplication of the OAI
repository gateway (BibHarvest)
- fixed resumption token handling (BibHarvest)
- improved record editing interface (BibEdit)
- fixed problem with empty fields treatment (BibConvert)
- updated Report_Number_Generation submission function to be able to
easily generate report numbers from any submission information
(WebSubmit)
- fixed problem with submission field value escaping (WebSubmit)
- fixed problem with submission collection ordering (WebSubmit)
- fixed BibSched task signal handling inconsistency (BibSched)
- fixed TEXT versus BLOB database problems for some tables/columns
- minor updates to the HOWTO Migrate guide and several admin guides
(WebHelp, BibIndex, BibFormat)
- minor bugfixes to several modules; see ChangeLog for details and
credits
CDS Invenio v0.92.0 -- released 2006-12-22
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- previously experimental output formatter in Python improved and
made default (BibFormat)
- previously experimental new submission admin interface in Python
improved and made default (WebSubmit)
- new XML-oriented output formatting mode (BibFormat)
- new export-oriented output formats: EndNote, NLM (BibFormat)
- RSS 2.0 latest additions feed service (WebSearch, BibFormat)
- new XML-oriented metadata converter mode (BibConvert)
- new metadata uploader in Python (BibUpload)
- new integrated parallel external collection searching (WebSearch)
- improved document classifier: composite keywords, wildcards, cloud
output (BibClassify)
- improved UTF-8 fulltext indexing (BibIndex)
- improved external login authentication subsystem (WebAccess)
- added possibility to order submission categories (WebSubmit)
- improved handling of cached search interface page formats,
preferential sort pattern functionality, international collection
names (WebSearch)
- improved behaviour of OAI harvester: sets, deleted records,
harvested metadata transformation (BibHarvest)
- improved MARCXML schema compatibility concerning indicators;
updates to the HTML MARC output format (BibEdit, BibUpload,
BibFormat, and other modules)
- multiple minor bugs fixed thanks to the wider deployment of the
regression test suite (all modules)
- new translation (Croatian) and several translation updates
(Catalan, Bulgarian, French, Greek, Spanish); thanks to Ferran
Jorba, Beatriu Piera, Alen Vodopijevec, Jasna Marković, Theodoros
Theodoropoulos, and Nikolay Dyankov (see also THANKS file)
- removed dependency on PHP; not needed anymore
- full compatibility with MySQL 4.1 and 5.0; upgrade from MySQL 4.0
now recommended
- full compatibility with FreeBSD and Mac OS X
CDS Invenio v0.90.1 -- released 2006-07-23
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- output messages improved and enhanced to become more easily
translatable in various languages (all modules)
- new translation (Bulgarian) and several updated translations
(Greek, French, Russian, Slovak)
- respect langugage choice in various web application links
(WebAlert, WebBasket, WebComment, WebSession, WebSubmit)
- fixed problem with commenting rights in a group-shared basket that
is also a public basket with lesser rights (WebBasket)
- guest users are now forbidden to share baskets (WebBasket)
- fixed guest user garbage collection, adapted to the new baskets
schema (WebSession)
- added possibility to reject group membership requests; sending
informational messages when users are approved/refused by group
administrators (WebSession)
- experimental release of the new BibFormat in Python (BibFormat)
- started massive deployment of the regression test suite, checking
availability of all web interface pages (BibEdit, BibFormat,
BibHarvest, BibIndex, BibRank, MiscUtil, WebAccess, WebBasket,
WebComment, WebMessage, WebSearch, WebSession, WebSubmit)
- updated developer documentation (I18N output messages policy, test
suite policy, coding style)
CDS Invenio v0.90.0 -- released 2006-06-30
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- formerly known as CDSware; the application name change clarifies
the relationship with respect to the CDS Sofware Consortium
producing two flagship applications (CDS Indico and Invenio)
- version number increased to v0.90 in the anticipation of the
forthcoming v1.0 release after all the major codebase changes are
now over
- new possibility to define user groups (WebGroup)
- new personal basket organization in topics (WebBasket)
- new basket sharing among user groups (WebBasket)
- new open peer reviewing and commenting on documents (WebComment)
- new user and group web messaging system (WebMessage)
- new ontology-based document classification system (BibClassify)
- new WebSubmit Admin (WebSubmit)
- new record editing web interface (BibEdit)
- new record matching tool (BibMatch)
- new OAI repository administration tool (BibHarvest)
- new OAI periodical harvesting tool (BibHarvest)
- new web layout templating system (WebStyle)
- new clean URL schema (e.g. /collection/Theses, /record/1234)
(WebStyle)
- new BibTeX output format support (BibFormat)
- new possibility of secure HTTPS authentication while keeping the
rest of the site non-HTTPS (WebSession)
- new centralized error library (MiscUtil)
- new gettext-based international translations, with two new beta
translations (Japanese, Polish)
- new regression testing suite framework (MiscUtil)
- new all prerequisites are now apt-gettable for Debian "Sarge"
GNU/Linux
- new full support for Mac OS X
- ... plus many fixes and changes worth one year of development
CDSware v0.7.1 -- released 2005-05-04
-------------------------------------
- important bugfix for bibconvert's ``source data in a directory''
mode, as invoked by the web submission system (BibConvert)
- minor bugfix in the search engine, thanks to Frederic Gobry
(WebSearch)
- minor bugfix in the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch)
- automatic linking to Google Print in the ``Haven't found what you
were looking for...'' page box (WebSearch)
- BibFormat Admin Guide cleaned, thanks to Ferran Jorba
- new Catalan translation, thanks to Ferran Jorba
- updated Greek and Portuguese translations, thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos and Flávio C. Coelho
- updated Spanish translation
CDSware v0.7.0 -- released 2005-04-06
-------------------------------------
- experimental release of the refextract program for automatic
reference extraction from PDF fulltext files (BibEdit)
- experimental release of the citation and download ranking tools
(BibRank)
- new module for gathering usage statistics out of Apache log files
(WebStat)
- new similar-records-navigation tool exploring end-user viewing
habits: "people who viewed this page also viewed" (WebSearch,
BibRank)
- OAI gateway validated against OAI Repository Explorer (BibHarvest)
- fixed "records modified since" option for the indexer (BibIndex)
- collection cache update is done only when the cache is not up to
date (WebSearch) [closing #WebSearch-016]
- cleanup of user login mechanism (WebSession, WebAccess)
- fixed uploading of already-existing records in the insertion mode
(BibUpload)
- fixed submission in UTF-8 languages (WebSubmit)
- updated HOWTO Run Your Existing CDSware Installation (WebHelp)
- test suite improvements (WebSearch, BibHarvest, BibRank,
BibConvert)
- German translation updated and new German stopwords list added,
thanks to Guido Pelzer
- new Greek and Ukrainian translations, thanks to Theodoros
Theodoropoulos and Vasyl Ostrovskyi
- all language codes now comply to RFC 1766 and ISO 639
- numerous other small fixes and improvements, with many
contributions by the EPFL team headed by Frederic Gobry
(BibConvert, BibUpload, WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebSession)
CDSware v0.5.0 -- released 2004-12-17
-------------------------------------
- new rank engine, featuring word similarity rank method and the
journal impact factor rank demo (BibRank)
- search engine includes ranking option (WebSearch)
- record similarity search based on word frequency (WebSearch,
BibRank)
- stopwords possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
- stemming possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
- search engine boolean query processing stages improved (WebSearch)
- search engine accent matching in phrase searches (WebSearch)
- regular expression searching mode introduced into the Simple
Search interface too (WebSearch)
- Search Tips split into a brief Search Tips page and detailed
Search Guide page (WebSearch)
- improvements to the ``Try your search on'' hints (WebSearch)
- author search hints introduced (WebSearch)
- search interface respects title prologue/epilogue portalboxes
(WebSearch)
- improvements to admin interfaces (WebSearch, BibIndex, BibRank,
WebAccess)
- basket item ordering problem fixed (WebBasket)
- access error messages introduced (WebAccess and its clients)
- new account management to enable/disable guest users and
automatic vs to-be-approved account registration (WebAccess)
- possibility for temporary read-only access to, and closure of, the
site; useful for backups (WebAccess and its clients)
- possibility for external authentication login methods (WebAccess)
- new XML MARC handling library (BibEdit)
- when uploading, bad XML records are marked as errors (BibUpload)
- improvements to the submission engine and its admin interface,
thanks to Tiberiu Dondera (WebSubmit)
- preparations for electronic mail submission feature, not yet
functional (ElmSubmit)
- added example on MARC usage at CERN (WebHelp)
- legacy compatibility with MySQL 3.23.x assured (BibUpload)
- legacy compatibility with Python 2.2 assured (WebSubmit)
- test suite additions and corrections (BibRank, BibIndex,
WebSearch, BibEdit)
- French translation fixes, thanks to Eric Grand
- minor Czech and Slovak translation cleanup
CDSware v0.3.3 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-07-16
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- new international phrases, collection and field names; thanks to
Guido, Flavio, Tullio
- collection international names are now respected by the search
engine and interfaces (WebSearch)
- field international names are now respected by the search
engine and interfaces (WebSearch)
- when no hits found in a given collection, do not display all
public hits straight away but only link to them (WebSearch)
- records marked as DELETED aren't shown anymore in XML MARC and
other formats (WebSearch)
- detailed record page now features record creation and modification
times (WebSearch)
- improved XML MARC parsing and cumulative record count in case of
uploading of several files in one go (BibUpload)
- personal `your admin activities' page introduced (WebSession)
- added option to fulltext-index local files only (BibIndex)
- initial release of the BibIndex Admin interface (BibIndex)
- checking of mandatory selection box definitions (WebSubmit)
- WebSearch Admin interface cleanup (WebSearch)
- introducing common test suite infrastructure (WebSearch, BibIndex,
MiscUtil, WebHelp)
- fixed accent and link problems for photo demo records (MiscUtil)
- conference title exported via OAI XML DC (BibHarvest)
- enabled building out of source directory; thanks to Frederic
CDSware v0.3.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-05-12
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- admin area improved: all the modules have now Admin Guides; some
guides were updated, some are still to be updated (WebHelp,
BibConvert, BibFormat, BibIndex, BibSched, WebAlert, WebSession,
WebSubmit, BibEdit, BibHarvest, BibRank, BibUpload, WebAccess,
WebBasket, WebSearch, WebStyle)
- initial release of the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch)
- initial release of the BibRank Admin interface (BibRank)
- search cache expiry after insertion of new records (WebSearch)
- search engine now does on-the-fly formatting via BibFormat CLI
call to handle restricted site situations (WebSearch)
- webcoll default verbosity decreased for efficiency (WebSearch)
- added BibConvert configuration example for converting XML Dublin
Core to XML MARC (BibConvert)
- BibConvert knowledge base mode extended by various case-sensitive
matching possibilities (BibConvert)
- fixed various problems with fulltext file names and the submission
from MS Windows platform (WebSubmit)
- fixed problem with bibupload append mode not updating XML MARC
properly (BibUpload)
- fixed small problems with the submission interface such as
multiple fields selection (WebSubmit)
- session revoking and session expiry strengthened (WebSession)
- page design and style sheet updated to better fit large variety of
browsers (WebStyle)
- added output format argument for basket display (WebBasket)
- new Swedish translation and updated German, Russian, and Spanish
translations; thanks to Urban, Guido, Lyuba, and Magaly
- faster creation of I18N static HTML and PHP files during make
CDSware v0.3.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-12
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- security fix preventing exposure of local configuration variables
by malicious URL crafting (WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebAlert,
WebBasket, WebSession, BibHarvest, MiscUtil)
- initial release of the ranking engine (BibRank)
- new guide on HOWTO Run Your CDSware Installation (WebHelp)
- fixed submit configurations with respect to fulltext links and
metadata tags (WebSubmit, MiscUtil)
- Your Account personal corner now shows the list and the status
of submissions and approvals (WebSession)
- uniform help and version number option for CLI executables
(WebSearch, BibSched, BibIndex, BibRank, BibHarvest, BibConvert,
WebAccess, BibFormat, WebSession, WebAlert)
- uniform technique for on-the-fly formatting of search results via
`hb_' and `hd_' output format parameters (WebSearch)
- check for presence of pcntl and mysql PHP libraries (BibUpload)
CDSware v0.3.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-05
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- new development branch release (important SQL table changes)
- introducing a new submission engine and the end-user web
interface (WebSubmit)
- bibupload is now a BibSched task with new options (BibUpload)
- BibWords renamed into BibIndex in the view of future phrase
indexing changes (BibIndex)
- more secure DB server connectivity (BibSched)
- record matching functionality (BibConvert)
- character encoding conversion tables (BibConvert)
- Qualified Dublin Core conversion example (BibConvert)
- OAI deleted records policy can now be specified (BibHarvest)
- multi-language collection portalboxes (WebSearch)
- HTML pages now respect language selections (WebSearch, WebHelp)
- minor layout changes (WebStyle)
- updated Russian and other translations
- ChangeLog is now generated from CVS log messages
- plus the usual set of bugfixes (see ChangeLog)
CDSware v0.1.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-21
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- development branch release
- fix BibReformat task launching problem (BibFormat)
- fix BibTeX -> XML MARC conversion example (BibConvert)
- updated Spanish translation
CDSware v0.1.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-19
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- development branch release
- access control engine now used by BibWords, BibFormat (admin and
bibreformat), WebSearch (webcoll), and BibTaskEx
- access control engine admin guide started (WebAccess)
- search engine support for sorting by more than one field (WebSearch)
- more internationalization of the search engine messages (WebSearch)
- new language: Norwegian (bokmål)
- simple example for converting BibTeX into XML MARC (BibConvert)
- new optional --with-python configuration option
- Python module detection during configure
- bugfixes: os.tempnam() warning, login page referer, and others
CDSware v0.1.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-04
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- development branch release
- search engine redesign to yield five times more search performance
for larger sites (WebSearch, BibWords)
- fulltext indexation of PDF, PostScript, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and
MS Excel files (WebSearch)
- integrated combined metadata/fulltext/citation search (WebSearch)
- multi-stage search guidance in cases of no exact match (WebSearch)
- OAI-PMH harvestor (BibHarvest)
- bibliographic task scheduler (BibSched)
- automatic daemon mode of the indexer, the formatter and the
collection cache generator (BibWords, BibFormat, WebSearch)
- user management and session handling rewrite (WebSession)
- user personalization, document baskets and notification alert
system (WebBasket, WebAlert)
- role-based access control engine (WebAccess)
- internationalization of the interface started (currently with
Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian, and Slovak support)
- web page design update (WebStyle)
- introduction of programmer-oriented technical documentation corner
(WebHelp)
- source tree reorganization, mod_python technology adopted for most
of the modules
CDSware v0.0.9 (STABLE) -- released 2002-08-01
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- first "public" alpha release of CDSware
- recently standardized Library of Congress' MARC XML schema adopted
in all CDSware modules as the new default internal XML file format
(BibConvert, BibFormat, BibUpload, WebSubmit, WebSearch)
- support for OAI-PMH v2.0 in addition to OAI-PMH v1.1 (WebSearch)
- search interface now honors multiple output formats per collection
(BibFormat, WebSearch)
- search interface now honors search fields, search options, and
sort options from the database config tables (WebSearch,
WebSearch Admin)
- search interface now honors words indexes from the database config
tables (BibWords, WebSearch)
- easy reformatting of already uploaded bibliographic records via
web admin. tool (BibFormat Admin/Reformat Records)
- new submission form field type ("response") allowing
greater flexibility (WebSubmit) [thanks to Frank Sudholt]
- demo site "Atlantis Institute of Science" updated to demonstrate:
Pictures collection of photographs; specific per-collection
formats; references inside Articles and Preprints; "cited by"
search link; published version linking; subject category
searching; search within, search options, sort options in the web
collection pages.
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