Hello Roberto -- Glad to see you back around. I'm interested in testing out too. Could you create a Docker upgrade for this, as that is how I'm deployed with Django Storages for offloading files.
Thanks, David On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 9:21:03 PM UTC-4, Roberto Rosario wrote: > > This version is meant for users experienced with Mayan EDMS. Please do not > in production. The purpose of this release is get feedback on all the > changes and testing and bugs reporting. If want to test against real data, > please make a separate copy of your documents and database first and use > this copy for testing. > > Almost all the changes of Mayan EDMS NG 2.8 and Mayan EDMS NG 3.0 have > been merged. > > The release notes summary is as follows: > > > - Turning Mayan EDMS into a single page app. Views are rendered using > partial templates. On the first render a root template containing the > menus, JavaScript and stying is sent to the browser. On subsequent usage > only the area below the menu is refreshed. This results is a big speed > boost and much less bandwidth consumption. > - Project moved to Django 1.11. > - Event notification. It is possible to subscribe to an event type for > the entire system or to the event type of a specific document. If any of > these subscribed events occur an entry will be added to the notification > menu entry. The default for this menu entry is to display a bell icon and > a > badge with the number of unread notifications. > - All the Python dependencies have been upgraded to their latest > version. > - The logic for searching documents is now different. Before, all the > documents that matched at least one of the search terms were returned. Now > only the documents that match all the terms are returned. This is in > essence an "AND" style logic. To allow the previous behavior, the "OR" > search syntax was added. The syntax must be added in uppercase and between > the optional terms. > - Normally the resolution for the display modes of documents was > specified as a string containing the width and height concatenated with > the > character 'x'. The display resolution settings have been separated into > distinctive width and height settings. Instead of > DOCUMENTS_THUMBNAIL_SIZE, > the settings are now DOCUMENTS_THUMBNAIL_WIDTH and > DOCUMENTS_THUMBNAIL_HEIGHT. The same applies to the preview, display and > print resolutions. > - The upload wizard now features dynamic steps. The steps are defined > by a new class called WizardStep. This allows integrators to customize the > upload wizard to add their own steps without having to modify the core > code. This change also add the capability of disabling existing wizard > steps form third party apps without having to make core code modifications. > - A new default step was added to the upload wizard to specify the > cabinets of new documents. > - The code that detect the automatic orientation of PDF has been > disabled by default. It can be enabled via the > DOCUMENTS_FIX_ORIENTATION=True setting. > - A new proposal system has been added via the Mayan EDMS Request for > Comment (or MERC for short) documents. The first two MERCs have been > approved. MERC-1 which documents the process itself and MERC-2 which > documents how API tests are to be written. Other MERCs are in review > process. > - If the duplicates of a document were deleted the original document > would still show up in the duplicated document list with a duplicate count > of 0. This has been fixed. > - Support was added to pass arguments to the storage drivers. This > removes the need to subclass a storage driver to change its behavior. This > also means that passing global variables via the local.py file to use S3 > style object storages is no longer required. These storage drivers can be > configure by passing their arguments in the new > DOCUMENTS_STORAGE_BACKEND_ARGUMENTS as a YAML string. > - If is possible to list only the system events executed by one user. > This can be accomplished via the user list view in the setup menu. Or by > clicking on the user name of the event list view. > - The checkbox behavior in all the views that display a list items has > been improved. A "check all" checkbox was added that will auto select all > items. The submit button from dropdown list of actions was removed. > Instead > the action of selecting an item from the action dropdown will trigger the > action. The checkbox also allow block selection. Clicking on the checkbox > of the first item, later on the checkbox of the fifth item while holding > down the shift key will cause the checkboxes of items 1 to 5 to be > selected. The same applies to deselection. > - A JavaScript library manager was added. This means that third party > JavaScript libraries are now not included with the distribution of Mayan > EDMS. These are downloaded when the new management command > installjavascript is executed. The installation of JavaScript libraries is > also performed during upgrades and initial installations. > - Removing a workflow type from a document type will now also remove > all running copies of the remove workflow type from the documents of said > document type. > - To protect the project and those who contribute to it, a Contributor > Assignment Agreements has been adopted. Two versions were added, for > individuals and entities. Signing this document is required to include > your > contributions into the main code base. > - SQLite should only be used for development and testing. Running > Mayan EDMS in production with SQLite will cause a warning to be displayed > in the console and the user interface. In future versions this warning > could be escalated to an exception. Recommended database engines for Mayan > EDMS are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. These last two if using a > transaction aware table backend like InnoDB. > - Email processing done by the sources app to import email and > attachments as documents is now handled by MailGun's flanker library. This > change was added to avoid having to code for all the documented and > undocumented quirks in the RFCs relating to email. There are many broken > implementations and trying to write code to work for all of the is a > project in its own. MailGun's flanker library was found to be the library > with the most compatibility all around. As a consequence of this emails > that Mayan had trouble processing should work now. Support for importing > inline files (like images) in emails was added. > - The permission filtering for document page search was fixed. > - Cabinet pagination was fixed. > - The aspect ratio of the document preview cards was adjusted to avoid > showing documents squished on some resolution. > - Total test count increased to 782. Test coverage increased to 85%. > - The current password policies are now displayed on the password > change form. > - > - Add support for roles, users, and groups ACLs. This means that > administrators can delegate management task for these objects via ACLs and > without having to convert them into superusers. > - Statistics line chart template improvements. On some devices the > chart would be cut off. > - Many small usability improvements, like columns reorganization, > sorting permission lists, etc > - Locking added for the interval sources (email, watch folder). This > lowers the probability of duplicated documents when the import stage last > longer than 10 minutes. > - It is now possible to turn off the text parsing for a specific > document type. This text parsing is independent of the OCR. > - > - Add the option to enable or disable parsing when uploading a > document for each document type. > - Add support for HTML bodies when sending a document via email for > the user interface. > - Many other things. > > > Some last minute additions might be added but is not the main goal. > Testing and bug reports are needed to get a release candidate out and a > final version soon after. > > Thank you. > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mayan EDMS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mayan-edms+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
