3.1.0

MDCS 3.1.0

• Updated all python dependencies in preparation for Python 3.8 / Django 4 upgrades,
• Added support for Google Analytics integration (see GA_TRACKING_ID),
• Added MongoDB queries sanitization,
• Added feature to set a display order for templates,
• Added admin page to view and manage PID settings,
• Removed OAI-PMH from default configuration,
• Fixed unicity checks for PIDs,
• Fixed pagination for drafts,
• Minor fixes and improvements.

3.0.0

MDCS 3.0.0

• Reworked database layer and file storage system using Django ORM,
• Added custom full text search indexes for PostgreSQL (faster on large datasets),
• Added option to enable/disable MongoDB data indexing,
• Added option to enable/disable GridFS file storage,
• Added option to choose file storage by type of file,
• Added option to enable/disable blobs endpoints for registries,
• Added Django admin dashboard for all core objects,
• Added custom admin dashboard for CDCS data:
  • full text search,
  • filter by user, workspace, template,
  • group actions (change user, change workspace, delete).
• Added optional checksum for file objects,
• Added documentation of all available core settings.

2.21.0

MDCS 2.21.0

• Added loading spinners for long operations,
• Added option to format document before download,
• Added option to directly curate data without editing,
• Added download buttons for data and templates,
• Fixed PID app to allow records with and without pid on the same system,
• Minor fixes and improvements.

2.20.0

MDCS 2.20.0

• Updated settings to read PID provider configuration from environment,
• Added settings for handle lookup and registration URLs,
• Added options to control XML to JSON conversion,
• Minor fixes and improvements.

2.19.0

MDCS 2.19.0

• Upgraded Celery to 5.2.3 to fix vulnerability (more details in Celery 5.2.2 release notes: https://github.com/celery/celery/releases/tag/v5.2.2),
• Added django-celery-beat package to allow creation of scheduled tasks from Django reusable apps (@periodic_task deprecated in celery 5.x),
• Fixed api for record modification on Handle Server,
• Upgraded elasticsearch from 7.16.1 to 7.16.2.

2.18.0

MDCS 2.18.0

• Upgraded Django to version 3.2 (Django 2.2 end of support on 04/01/2022),
• Upgraded lxml to 4.6.5 (vulnerability fix),
• Fixed auto escape of XML entities in enumeration,
• Miscellaneous blobs improvements and fixes (PID, access control, pagination),
• Minor fixes and improvements.

2.17.0

MDCS 2.17.0

• Added data migration via XSLT:
  • Upload XSLT to transform data from one version of a template to another,
  • Upload a new version of a template,
  • Transform, Validate and migrate data to the new template version,
• Added REST endpoint to export data by id/pid and download results file directly in transformed format,
• Added PID support for multiple schemas with different structures on the same system,
• Added support for more XSD elements to render custom labels and tooltips,
• Added email notifications for contact messages,
• Updated SAML settings to allow more configurations via environment variables,
• Upgraded MongoDB to version 4.4 and PostgreSQL to version 13,
• Fixed search application to support keywords containing hyphens or spaces,
• Minor fixes and improvements.

2.16.1

MDCS 2.16.1

• Fixed bug causing research and data details pages to raise errors when uploaded documents contain PID-like urls (only happens for some configurations)
• Fixed SAML configuration (read more settings from environment variables)

2.16.0

MDCS 2.16.0

• Added PID support for Blobs,
• Added built-in support for SAML2 authentication,
• Added configurable permission system for data structures generated by the parser application,
• Added storage of PID settings in database and configuration via REST (in progress),
• Added support for queries with xpath selection (e.g. {"query": {}, "xpath": "/ns:root/@element", "namespaces": {"ns": "<namespace_url>"}}),
• Added JSON highlight and formatting to render shared queries in the dashboard,
• Fixed pagination for shared queries in the dashboard,
• Fixed explore by example application to allow float values in queries,
• Upgraded Django version to fix vulnerability,
• Minor fixes and improvements.

2.15.0

MDCS 2.15.0

• Upgraded core packages for Python 3.7 support (Python 3.6 end of life expected in 2021-12: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/#lifespan)
• Upgraded all python dependencies for Python 3.7 support. A few notes about some packages below:
  • Upgraded Django to 2.2.20, lxml to 4.6.3 and djangorestframework to 3.12.2 to fix vulnerabilities,
  • Celery 5.x upgrade has been postponned due to a bug. The fix is scheduled for Celery 5.3 (see related issue: celery/celery#3589),
  • xlrd has been upgraded to latest version which drops support for xlsx documents (used by core_module_excel_uploader_app).
• Fixed XML validation to avoid using global lxml parser,
• Fixed OAI-PMH harvesting duplicates in some cases,
• Fixed storage of local pids in lower case,
• Minor fixes