2.14.0

MDCS 2.14.0

• Updated project settings:
  • settings in repositories are deployment ready, and get all server configuration and secrets from environment variables,
  • possibility to add deployment configurations to base settings (dev, CI, production,...),
  • store settings for CDCS applications in a separate settings file,
  • see updated installation instructions to learn more about these changes and to update the development environment accordingly.
• Added UIs for persistent queries:
  • Name persistent queries from the results page,
  • Manage persistent queries (list, view, edit, rename, delete) from the user and admin dashboards.
• Updated password policies to follow NIST guidelines,
• Added possibility to customize Explore by Keyword page from other applications (see documentation),
• Added setting to override domain to use in reset password emails (PASSWORD_RESET_DOMAIN_OVERRIDE),
• Added setting to store both numeric and string values to mongodb (XML_POST_PROCESSOR)
• Upgraded lxml to 4.6.2 to fix security issue,
• Minor fixes.

2.13.0

MDCS 2.13.0

• Implemented backend and REST APIs for nameable shared queries:
  • Create a persistent query from an exploration app and name it,
  • Share the query by id or by name
  • NOTE: query url has been updated:
    • CDCS <= 1.12:
      • /explore/keyword/results-redirect/{query_id}
    • CDCS >= 1.13:
      • /explore/keyword/results-redirect?id={query_id}
      • /explore/keyword/results-redirect?name={query_name}
• Migrated popup modules to bootstrap,
• Improved and refactored access control for templates (and associated collections) and data structure elements.
• Added captcha to account request and contact forms,
• Fixed CSS in the composer,
• Minor fixes (cosmetic, labels).

2.12.0

MDCS 2.12.0

• Added support for gregorian date types in query by example,
• Added configurable emails to deny account requests:
  • deny a request with or without an email,
  • use a default email body or write your own.
• Added CRUD operations for forms via REST,
• Updated data collection to persist the time of creation, time of last change and time of last content modification,
• Fixed PID app (Handle Server api, pid error management, pid with federation of queries),
• Improved access control on exploration apps and exporters,
• Minor fixes (cosmetic, labels).

2.11.0

MDCS 2.11.0

• Added support for multiple rendering of the data details page:
  • Upload and link one or more XSLT to a template,
  • Dynamically change the rendering of the data while looking at it,
  • Note: some parameters of the REST API were updated to now accept a list of XSLT files: https://github.com/usnistgov/core_main_app/blob/master/core_main_app/rest/template_xsl_rendering/views.py#L57
• Added option to disable warning messages about special characters escaping,
• Added the ability to share PIDs of all records returned by a query,
• Added periodic task to clean exported files from database,
• Fixed filter by template in /rest/data/query/keyword
• Minor fixes (cosmetic, labels).