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Changelog

v2.2

API changes and deprecations:

  • The edit() and after_update() methods of IPackageController plugins are now called when updating a resource using the web frontend or the resource_update API action [#1052]

v2.1 2013-08-13

Note: This version requires a requirements upgrade on source installations

Note: This version requires a database upgrade

Note: This version does not require a Solr schema upgrade

Note

The json_preview plugin has been renamed to text_preview (see #266). If you are upgrading CKAN from a previous version you need to change the plugin name on your CKAN config file after upgrading to avoid a PluginNotFound exception.

Major:
  • Bulk updates of datasets within organizations (delete, make public/private) (#278)
  • Organizations and Groups search (#303)
  • Generic text preview extension for JSON, XML and plain text files (#226)
  • Improve consistency of the Action API (#473)
  • IAuthenticator interface for plugging into authorization platforms (Work in progress) (#1007)
  • New clearer dashboard with more information easier to access (#626)
  • New rebuild_fast command to speed up reindex using multiple cores (#700)
  • Complete restructure of the documentation, with updated sections on installation, upgrading, release process, etc and guidelines on how to write new documentation (#769 and multiple others)
Minor:
  • Add group members page to templates (#844)
  • Show search facets on organization page (#776)
  • Changed default sort ordering (#869)
  • More consistent display of buttons across pages (#890)
  • History page ported to new templates (#368)
  • More blocks to templates to allow furhter customization (#688)
  • Improve imports from lib.helpers (#262)
  • Add support for callback parameter on Action API (#414)
  • Create site_user at startup (#952)
  • Add warning before deleting an organization (#803)
  • Remove flags from language selector (#822)
  • Hide the Data API button when datastore is disabled (#752)
  • Pin all requirements and separate minimal requirements in a separate file (#491, #1149)
  • Better preview plugin selection (#1002)
  • Add new functions to the plugins toolkit (#1015)
  • Improve ExampleIDatasetFormPlugin (#2750)
  • Extend h.sorted_extras() to do substitutions and auto clean keys (#440)
  • Separate default database for development and testing (#517)
  • More descriptive Solr exceptions when indexing (#674)
  • Validate datastore input through schemas (#905)
Bug fixes:
  • Fix 500 on password reset (#264)
  • Fix exception when indexing a wrong date on a _date field (#267)
  • Fix datastore permissions issues (#652)
  • Placeholder images are not linked with h.url_for_static (#948)
  • Explore dropdown menu is hidden behind other resources in IE (#915)
  • Buttons interrupt file uploading (#902)
  • Fix resource proxy encoding errors (#896)
  • Enable streaming in resource proxy (#989)
  • Fix cache_dir and beaker paths on deployment.ini_tmpl (#888)
  • Fix multiple issues on create dataset form on IE (#881)
  • Fix internal server error when adding member (#869)
  • Fix license faceting (#853)
  • Fix exception in dashboard (#830)
  • Fix Google Analytics integration (#827)
  • Fix ValueError when resource size is not an integer (#1009)
  • Catch NotFound on new resource when package does not exist (#1010)
  • Fix Celery configuration to allow overriding from config (#1027)
  • came_from after login is validated to not redidirect to another site (#1039)
  • And many, many more!
Deprecated and removed:
  • The json_preview plugin has been replaced by a new text_preview one. Please update your config files if using it. (#226)
Known issues:
  • Under certain authorization setups the frontend for the groups functionality may not work as expected (See #1176 #1175).

v2.0.2 2013-08-13

Bug fixes:
  • Fix markdown in group descriptions (#303)
  • Fix resource proxy encoding errors (#896)
  • Fix datastore exception on first run (#907)
  • Enable streaming in resource proxy (#989)
  • Fix in user search (#1024)
  • Fix Celery configuration to allow overriding from config (#1027)
  • Undefined function on organizations controller (#1036)
  • Fix license not translated in orgs/groups (#1040)
  • Fix link to documentation from the footer (#1062)
  • Fix missing close breadcrumb tag in org templates (#1071)
  • Fix recently_changed_packages_activity_stream function (#1159)
  • Fix Recline map sidebar not showing in IE 7-8 (#1133)

v2.0.1 2013-06-11

Bug fixes:
  • Use IDatasetForm schema for resource_update (#897)
  • Fixes for CKAN being run on a non-root URL (#948, #913)
  • Fix resource edit errors losing info (#580)
  • Fix Czech translation (#900)
  • Allow JSON filters for datastore_search on GET requests (#917)
  • Install vdm from the Python Package Index (#764)
  • Allow extra parameters on Solr queries (#739)
  • Create site user at startup if it does not exist (#952)
  • Fix modal popups positioning (#828)
  • Fix wrong redirect on dataset form on IE (#963)

v2.0 2013-05-10

Note

Starting on v2.0, issue numbers with four digits refer to the old ticketing system at http://trac.ckan.org and the ones with three digits refer to GitHub issues. For example:

Some GitHub issues URLs will redirect to GitHub pull request pages.

Note

v2.0 is a huge release so the changes listed here are just the highlights. Bug fixes are not listed.

Note: This version requires a requirements upgrade on source installations

Note: This version requires a database upgrade

Note: This version requires a Solr schema upgrade

Organizations based authorization (see :doc:`authorization`):

CKAN's new "organizations" feature replaces the old authorization system with a new one based on publisher organizations. It replaces the "Publisher Profile and Workflow" feature from CKAN 1.X, any instances relying on it will need to be updated.

  • New organization-based authorization and organization of datasets
  • Supports private datasets
  • Publisher workflow
  • New authorization ini file options
New frontend (see :doc:`theming`):

CKAN's frontend has been completely redesigned, inside and out. There is a new default theme and the template engine has moved from Genshi to Jinja2. Any custom templates using Genshi will need to be updated, although there is a :ref:`ckan.legacy_templates` setting to aid in the migration.

  • Block-based template inheritance
  • Custom jinja tags: {% ckan_extends %}, {% snippet %} and {% url_for %} (#2502, #2503)
  • CSS "primer" page for theme developers
  • We're now using LESS for CSS
  • Scalable font icons (#2563)
  • Social sharing buttons (google plus, facebook, twitter) (this replaces the ckanext-social extension)
  • Three-stage dataset creation form (#2501)
  • New paster front-end-build command does everything needed to build the frontend for a production CKAN site (runs paster less to compile the css files, paster minify to minify the css and js files, etc.)
Plugins & Extensions:
  • New plugins toolkit provides a stable set of utility and helper functions for CKAN plugins to depend on.
  • The IDatasetForm plugin interface has been redesigned (note: this breaks backwards-compatibility with existing IDatasetForm plugins) (#649)
  • Many IDatasetForm bugs were fixed
  • New example extensions in core, and better documentation for the relevant plugin interfaces: example_itemplatehelpers (#447), example_idatasetform (#2750), hopefully more to come in 2.1!
  • New IFacets interface that allows to modify the facets shown on various pages. (#400)
  • The get_action() function now automatically adds 'model' and 'session' to the context dict (this saves on boiler-plate code, and means plugins don't have to import ckan.model in order to call get_action()) (#172)
Activity Streams, Following & User Dashboard:
  • New visual design for activity streams (#2941)
  • Group activity streams now include activities for changes to any of the group's datasets (#1664)
  • Group activity streams now appear on group pages (previously they could only be retrieved via the api)
  • Dataset activity streams now appear on dataset pages (previously they could only be retrieved via the api) (#3024)
  • Users can now follow groups (previously you could only follow users or datasets) (#3005)
  • Activity streams and following are also supported for organizations (#505)
  • When you're logged into CKAN, you now get a notifications count in the top-right corner of the site, telling you how many new notifications you have on your dashboard. Clicking on the count takes you to your dashboard page to view your notifications. (#3009)
  • Optionally, you can also receive notifications by email when you have new activities on your dashboard (#1635)
  • Infinite scrolling of activity streams (if you scroll to the bottom of a an activity stream, CKAN will automatically load more activities) (#3018)
  • Redesigned user dashboard (#3028):
    • New dropdown-menu enables you to filter you dashboard activity stream to show only activities from a particular user, dataset, group or organization that you're following
    • New sidebar shows previews and unfollow buttons (when the activity stream is filtered)
  • New :ref:`ckan.activity_streams_enabled` config file setting allows you to disable the generation of activity streams (#654)
Data Preview:
  • PDF files preview (#2203)
  • JSON files preview
  • HTML pages preview (in an iframe) (#2888)
  • New plugin extension point that allows plugins to add custom data previews for different data types (#2961)
  • Improved Recline Data Explorer previews (CSV files, Excel files..)
  • Plain text files preview
API:
  • The Action API is now CKAN's default API, and the API documentation has been rewritten (#357)
Other highlights:
  • CKAN now has continuous integration testing at https://travis-ci.org/okfn/ckan/
  • Dataset pages now have <link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" links in the HTML headers, allows linked-data tools to find CKAN's RDF rendering of a dataset's metadata (#413)
  • CKAN's DataStore and Data API have been rewritten, and now use PostgreSQL instead of elasticsearch, so there's no need to install elasticsearch anymore (this feature was also back-ported to CKAN 1.8) (#2733)
  • New Config page for sysadmins (/ckan-admin/config) enables sysadmins to set the site title, tag line, logo, the intro text shown on the front page, the about text shown on the /about page, select a theme, and add custom CSS (#2302, #2781)
  • New paster color command for creating color schemes
  • Fanstatic integration (#2371):
    • CKAN now uses Fanstatic to specify required static resource files (js, css..) for web pages
    • Enables each page to only include the static files that it needs, reducing page loads
    • Enables CKAN to use bundled and minified static files, further reducing page loads
    • CKAN's new paster minify command is used to create minified js and css files (#2950) (also see paster front-end-build)
  • CKAN will now recognise common file format strings such as "application/json", "JSON", ".json" and "json" as a single file type "json" (#2416)
  • CKAN now supports internalization of strings in javascript files, the new paster trans command is used to pull translatable strings out of javascript files (#2774, #2750)
  • convert_to/from_extras have been fixed to not add quotes around strings (#2930)
  • Updated CKAN coding standards (#3020) and CONTRIBUTING.rst file
  • Built-in page view counting and 'popular' badges on datasets and resources There's also a paster command to export the tracking data to a csv file (#195)
  • Updated CKAN Coding Standards and new CONTRIBUTING.rst file
  • You can now change the sort ordering of datasets on the dataset search page
Deprecated and removed:
  • The IGenshiStreamFilter plugin interface is deprecated (#271), use the ITemplateHelpers plugin interface instead
  • The Model, Search and Util APIs are deprecated, use the Action API instead
  • Removed restrict_template_vars config setting (#2257)
  • Removed deprecated facet_title() template helper function, use get_facet_title() instead (#2257)
  • Removed deprecated am_authorized() template helper function, use check_access() instead (#2257)
  • Removed deprecated datetime_to_datestr() template helper function (#2257)

v1.8.2 2013-08-13

Bug fixes:
  • Fix for using harvesters with organization setup
  • Refactor for user update logic
  • Tweak resources visibility query

v1.8.1 2013-05-10

Bug fixes:
  • Fixed possible XSS vulnerability on html input (#703)
  • Fix unicode template 500 error (#808)
  • Fix error on related controller

v1.8 2012-10-19

Note: This version requires a requirements upgrade on source installations

Note: This version requires a database upgrade

Note: This version does not require a Solr schema upgrade

Major
  • New 'follow' feature that allows logged in users to follow other users or datasets (#2304)
  • New user dashboard that shows an activity stream of all the datasets and users you are following. Thanks to Sven R. Kunze for his work on this (#2305)
  • New version of the Datastore. It has been completely rewritten to use PostgreSQL as backend, it is more stable and fast and supports SQL queries (#2733)
  • Clean up and simplifyng of CKAN's dependencies and source install instructions. Ubuntu 12.04 is now supported for source installs (#2428,#2592)
  • Big speed improvements when indexing datasets (#2788)
  • New action API reference docs, which individually document each function and its arguments and return values (#2345)
  • Updated translations, added Japanese and Korean translations
Minor
  • Add source install upgrade docs (#2757)
  • Mark more strings for translation (#2770)
  • Allow sort ordering of dataset listings on group pages (#2842)
  • Reenable simple search option (#2844)
  • Editing organization removes all datasets (#2845)
  • Accessibility enhancements on templates
Bug fixes
  • Fix for relative url being used when doing file upload to local storage
  • Various fixes on IGroupFrom (#2750)
  • Fix group dataset sort (#2722)
  • Fix adding existing datasets to organizations (#2843)
  • Fix 500 error in related controller (#2856)
  • Fix for non-open licenses appearing open
  • Editing organization removes all datasets (#2845)
API changes and deprecation:
  • Template helper functions are now restricted by default. By default only those helper functions listed in lib.helpers.__allowed_functions__ are available to templates. The full functions can still be made available by setting ckan.restrict_template_vars = false in your ini file. Only restricted functions will be allowed in future versions of CKAN.
  • Deprecated functions related to the old faceting data structure have been removed: helpers.py:facet_items(), facets.html:facet_sidebar(), facets.html:facet_list_items(). Internal use of the old facets datastructure (attached to the context, c.facets) has been superseded by use of the improved facet data structure, c.search_facets. The old data structure is still available on c.facets, but is deprecated, and will be removed in future versions. (#2313)

v1.7.4 2013-08-13

Bug fixes:
  • Refactor for user update logic
  • Tweak resources visibility query

v1.7.3 2013-05-10

Bug fixes:
  • Fixed possible XSS vulnerability on html input (#703)

v1.7.2 2012-10-19

Minor:
  • Documentation enhancements regarding file uploads
Bug fixes:
  • Fixes for lincences i18n
  • Remove sensitive data from user dict (#2784)
  • Fix bug in feeds controller (#2869)
  • Show dataset author and maintainer names even if they have no emails
  • Fix URLs for some Amazon buckets
  • Other minor fixes

v1.7.1 2012-06-20

Minor:
  • Documentation enhancements regarding install and extensions (#2505)
  • Home page and search results speed improvements (#2402,#2403)
  • I18n: Added Greek translation and updated other ones (#2506)
Bug fixes:
  • UI fixes (#2507)
  • Fixes for i18n login and logout issues (#2497)
  • Date on add/edit resource breaks if offset is specified (#2383)
  • Fix in organizations read page (#2509)
  • Add synchronous_search plugin to deployment.ini template (#2521)
  • Inconsistent language on license dropdown (#2575)
  • Fix bug in translating lists in multilingual plugin
  • Group autocomplete doesn't work with multiple words (#2373)
  • Other minor fixes

v1.7 2012-05-09

Major:
  • Updated SOLR schema (#2327). Note: This will require and update of the SOLR schema file and a reindex.
  • Support for Organization based workflow, with membership determinig access permissions to datasets (#1669,#2255)
  • Related items such as visualizations, applications or ideas can now be added to datasets (#2204)
  • Restricted vocabularies for tags, allowing grouping related tags together (#1698)
  • Internal analytics that track number of views and downloads for datasets and resources (#2251)
  • Consolidated multilingual features in an included extension (#1821,#1820)
  • Atom feeds for publishers, tags and search results (#1593,#2277)
  • RDF dump paster command (#2303)
  • Better integration with the DataStore, based on ElasticSearch, with nice helper docs (#1797)
  • Updated the Recline data viewer with new features such as better graphs and a map view (#2236,#2283)
  • Improved and redesigned documentation (#2226,#2245,#2248)
Minor:
  • Groups can have an image associated (#2275)
  • Basic resource validation (#1711)
  • Ability to search without accents for accented words (#906)
  • Weight queries so that title is more important than rest of body (#1826)
  • Enhancements in the dataset and resource forms (#1506)
  • OpenID can now be disabled (#1830)
  • API and forms use same validation (#1792)
  • More robust bulk search indexing, with options to ignore exceptions and just refresh (#1616i,#2232)
  • Modify where the language code is placed in URLs (#2261)
  • Simplified licenses list (#1359)
  • Add extension point for dataset view (#1741)
Bug fixes:
  • Catch exceptions on the QA archiver (#1809)
  • Error when changing language when CKAN is mounted in URL (#1804)
  • Naming of a new package/group can clash with a route (#1742)
  • Can't delete all of a package's resources over REST API (#2266)
  • Group edit form didn't allow adding multiple datasets at once (#2292)
  • Fix layout bugs in IE 7 (#1788)
  • Bug with Portugese translation and Javascript (#2318)
  • Fix broken parse_rfc_2822 helper function (#2314)

v1.6 2012-02-24

Major:
  • Resources now have their own pages, as well as showing in the Dataset (#1445, #1449)
  • Group pages enhanced, including in-group search (#1521)
  • User pages enhanced with lists of datasets (#1396) and recent activity (#1515)
  • Dataset view page decluttered (#1450)
  • Tags not restricted to just letters and dashes (#1453)
  • Stats Extension and Storage Extension moved into core CKAN (#1576, #1608)
  • Ability to mounting CKAN at a sub-URL (#1401, #1659)
  • 5 Stars of Openness ratings show by resources, if ckanext-qa is installed (#1583)
  • Recline Data Explorer (for previewing and plotting data) improved and v2 moved into core CKAN (#1602, #1630)
Minor:
  • 'About' page rewritten and easily customisable in the config (#1626)
  • Gravatar picture displayed next to My Account link (#1528)
  • 'Delete' button for datasets (#1425)
  • Relationships API more RESTful, validated and documented (#1695)
  • User name displayed when logged in (#1529)
  • Database dumps now exclude deleted packages (#1623)
  • Dataset/Tag name length now limited to 100 characters in API (#1473)
  • 'Status' API call now includes installed extensions (#1488)
  • Command-line interface for list/read/deleting datasets (#1499)
  • Slug API calls tidied up and documented (#1500)
  • Users nagged to add email address if missing from their account (#1413)
  • Model and API for Users to become Members of a Group in a certain Capacity (#1531, #1477)
  • Extension interface to adjust search queries, indexing and results (#1547, #1738)
  • API for changing permissions (#1688)
Bug fixes:
  • Group deletion didn't work (#1536)
  • metadata_created used to return an entirely wrong date (#1546)
  • Unicode characters in field-specific API search queries caused exception (since CKAN 1.5) (#1798)
  • Sometimes task_status errors weren't being recorded (#1483)
  • Registering or Logging in failed silently when already logged in (#1799)
  • Deleted packages were browseable by administrators and appeared in dumps (#1283, #1623)
  • Facicon was a broken link unless corrected in config file (#1627)
  • Dataset search showed last result of each page out of order (#1683)
  • 'Simple search' mode showed 0 packages on home page (#1709)
  • Occasionally, 'My Account' shows when user is not logged in (#1513)
  • Could not change language when on a tag page that had accented characters or dataset creation page (#1783, #1791)
  • Editing package via API deleted its relationships (#1786)

v1.5.1 2012-01-04

Major:
  • Background tasks (#1363, #1371, #1408)
  • Fix for security issue affecting CKAN v1.5 (#1585)
Minor:
  • Language support now excellent for European languages: en de fr it es no sv pl ru pt cs sr ca
  • Web UI improvements:
    • Resource editing refreshed
    • Group editing refreshed
    • Indication that group creation requires logging-in (#1004)
    • Users' pictures displayed using Gravatar (#1409)
    • 'Welcome' banner shown to new users (#1378)
    • Group package list now ordered alphabetically (#1502)
  • Allow managing a dataset's groups also via package entity API (#1381)
  • Dataset listings in API standardised (#1490)
  • Search ordering by modification and creation date (#191)
  • Account creation disallowed with Open ID (create account in CKAN first) (#1386)
  • User name can be modified (#1386)
  • Email address required for registration (for password reset) (#1319)
  • Atom feeds hidden for now
  • New config options to ease CSS insertion into the template (#1380)
  • Removed ETag browser cache headers (#1422)
  • CKAN version number and admin contact in new 'status_show' API (#1087)
  • Upgrade SQLAlchemy to 0.7.3 (compatible with Postgres up to 9.1) (#1433)
  • SOLR schema is now versioned (#1498)
Bug fixes:
  • Group ordering on main page was alphabetical but should be by size (since 1.5) (#1487)
  • Package could get added multiple times to same Group, distorting Group size (#1484)
  • Search index corruption when multiple CKAN instances on a server all storing the same object (#1430)
  • Dataset property metadata_created had wrong value (since v1.3) (#1546)
  • Tag browsing showed tags for deleted datasets (#920)
  • User name change field validation error (#1470)
  • You couldn't edit a user with a unicode email address (#1479)
  • Package search API results missed the extra fields (#1455)
  • OpenID registration disablement explained better (#1532)
  • Data upload (with ckanext-storage) failed if spaces in the filename (#1518)
  • Resource download count fixed (integration with ckanext-googleanalytics) (#1451)
  • Multiple CKANs with same dataset IDs on the same SOLR core would conflict (#1462)

v1.5 2011-11-07

Deprecated due to security issue #1585

Major:
  • New visual theme (#1108)
    • Package & Resource edit overhaul (#1294/#1348/#1351/#1368/#1296)
    • JS and CSS reorganization (#1282, #1349, #1380)
  • Apache Solr used for search in core instead of Postgres (#1275, #1361, #1365)
  • Authorization system now embedded in the logic layer (#1253)
  • Captcha added for user registration (#1307, #1431)
  • UI language translations refreshed (#1292, #1350, #1418)
  • Action API improved with docs now (#1315, #1302, #1371)
Minor:
  • Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support (#1271)
  • Strings to translate into other languages tidied up (#1249)
  • Resource format autocomplete (#816)
  • Database disconnection gives better error message (#1290)
  • Log-in cookie is preserved between sessions (#78)
  • Extensions can access formalchemy forms (#1301)
  • 'Dataset' is the new name for 'Package' (#1293)
  • Resource standard fields added: type, format, size (#1324)
  • Listing users speeded up (#1268)
  • Basic data preview functionality moved to core from QA extension (#1357)
  • Admin Extension merged into core CKAN (#1264)
  • URLs in the Notes field are automatically linked (#1320)
  • Disallow OpenID for account creation (but can be linked to accounts) (#1386)
  • Tag name now validated for max length (#1418)
Bug fixes:
  • Purging of revisions didn't work (since 1.4.3) (#1258)
  • Search indexing wasn't working for SOLR (since 1.4.3) (#1256)
  • Configuration errors were being ignored (since always) (#1172)
  • Flash messages were temporarily held-back when using proxy cache (since 1.3.2) (#1321)
  • On login, user told 'welcome back' even if he's just registered (#1194)
  • Various minor exceptions cropped up (mostly since 1.4.3) (#1334, #1346)
  • Extra field couldn't be set to original value when key deleted (#1356)
  • JSONP callback parameter didn't work for the Action API (since 1.4.3) (#1437)
  • The same tag could be added to a package multiple times (#1331)

v1.4.3.1 2011-09-30

Minor:
  • Added files to allow debian packaging of CKAN
  • Added Catalan translation
Bug fixes:
  • Incorrect Group creation form parameter caused exception (#1347)
  • Incorrect AuthGroup creation form parameter caused exception (#1346)

v1.4.3 2011-09-13

Major:
  • Action API (API v3) (beta version) provides powerful RPC-style API to CKAN data (#1335)
  • Documentation overhaul (#1142, #1192)
Minor:
  • Viewing of a package at a given date (as well as revision) with improved UI (#1236)
  • Extensions can now add functions to the logic layer (#1211)
  • Refactor all remaining database code out of the controllers and into the logic layer (#1229)
  • Any OpenID log-in errors that occur are now displayed (#1228)
  • 'url' field added to search index (e9214)
  • Speed up tag reading (98d72)
  • Cope with new WebOb version 1 (#1267)
  • Avoid exceptions caused by bots hitting error page directly (#1176)
  • Too minor to mention: #1234,
Bug fixes:
  • Re-adding tags to a package failed (since 1.4.1 in Web UI, 1.4 in API) (#1239)
  • Modified revisions retrieved over API caused exception (since 1.4.2) (#1310)
  • Whichever language you changed to, it announced "Language set to: English" (since 1.3.1) (#1082)
  • Incompatibilities with Python 2.5 (since 1.3.4.1 and maybe earlier) (#1325)
  • You could create an authorization group without a name, causing exceptions displaying it (#1323)
  • Revision list wasn't showing deleted packages (b21f4)
  • User editing error conditions handled badly (#1265)

v1.4.2 2011-08-05

Major:
  • Packages revisions can be marked as 'moderated' (#1141, #1147)
  • Password reset facility (#1186/#1198)
Minor:
  • Viewing of a package at any revision (#1236)
  • API POSTs can be of Content-Type "application/json" as alternative to existing "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" (#1206)
  • Caching of static files (#1223)
Bug fixes:
  • When you removed last row of resource table, you could't add it again - since 1.0 (#1215)
  • Adding a tag to package that had it previously didn't work - since 1.4.1 in UI and 1.4.0 in API (#1239)
  • Search index was not updated if you added a package to a group - since 1.1 (#1140)
  • Exception if you had any Groups and migrated between CKAN v1.0.2 to v1.2 (migration 29) - since v1.0.2 (#1205)
  • API Package edit requests returned the Package in a different format to usual - since 1.4 (#1214)
  • API error responses were not all JSON format and didn't have correct Content-Type (#1214)
  • API package delete doesn't require a Content-Length header (#1214)

v1.4.1 2011-06-27

Major:
  • Refactor Web interface to use logic layer rather than model objects directly. Forms now defined in navl schema and designed in HTML template. Forms use of Formalchemy is deprecated. (#1078)
Minor:
  • Links in user-supplied text made less attractive to spammers (nofollow) #1181
  • Package change notifications - remove duplicates (#1149)
  • Metadata dump linked to (#1169)
  • Refactor authorization code to be common across Package, Group and Authorization Group (#1074)
Bug fixes
  • Duplicate authorization roles were difficult to delete (#1083)

v1.4 2011-05-19

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)

v1.3.3 2011-04-08

Major:
  • Authorization checks added to editing Groups and PackageRelationships (#1052)
  • API: Added package revision history (#1012, #1071)
Minor:
  • API can take auth credentials from cookie (#1001)
  • Theming: Ability to set custom favicon (#1051)
  • Importer code moved out into ckanext-importlib repo (#1042)
  • API: Group can be referred to by ID (in addition to name) (#1045)
  • Command line tool: rights listing can now be filtered (#1072)
Bug fixes:
  • SITE_READ role setting couldn't be overridden by sysadmins (#1044)
  • Default 'reader' role too permissive (#1066)
  • Resource ordering went wrong when editing and adding at same time (#1054)
  • GET followed by PUTting a package stored an incorrect license value (#662)
  • Sibling package relationships were shown for deleted packages (#664)
  • Tags were displayed when they only apply to deleted packages (#920)
  • API: 'Last modified' time was localised - now UTC (#1068)

v1.3.2 2011-03-15

Major:
  • User list in the Web interface (#1010)
  • CKAN packaged as .deb for install on Ubuntu
  • Resources can have extra fields (although not in web interface yet) (#826)
  • CSW Harvesting - numerous of fixes & improvements. Ready for deployment. (#738 etc)
  • Language switcher (82002)
Minor:
  • Wordpress integration refactored as a Middleware plugin (#1013)
  • Unauthorized actions lead to a flash message (#366)
  • Resources Groups to group Resources in Packages (#956)
  • Plugin interface for authorization (#1011)
  • Database migrations tested better and corrected (#805, #998)
  • Government form moved out into ckanext-dgu repo (#1018)
  • Command-line user authorization tools extended (#1038, #1026)
  • Default user roles read from config file (#1039)
Bug fixes:
  • Mounting of filesystem (affected versions since 1.0.1) (#1040)
  • Resubmitting a package via the API (affected versions since 0.6?) (#662)
  • Open redirect (affected v1.3) (#1026)

v1.3 2011-02-18

http://ckan.org/milestone/ckan-v1.3

Highlights of changes:
  • Package edit form improved:
    • field instructions (#679)
    • name autofilled from title (#778)
  • Group-based access control - Authorization Groups (#647)
  • Metadata harvest job management (#739, #884, #771)
  • CSW harvesting now uses owslib (#885)
  • Package creation authorization is configurable (#648)
  • Read-only maintenance mode (#777)
  • Stats page (#832) and importer (#950) moved out into CKAN extensions
Minor:
  • site_title and site_description config variables (#974)
  • Package creation/edit timestamps (#806)
  • Caching configuration centralised (#828)
  • Command-line tools - sysadmin management (#782)
  • Group now versioned (#231)

v1.2 2010-11-25

http://ckan.org/milestone/ckan-v1.2

Highlights of changes:
  • Package edit form: attach package to groups (#652) & revealable help
  • Form API - Package/Harvester Create/New (#545)
  • Authorization extended: user groups (#647) and creation of packages (#648)
  • Plug-in interface classes (#741)
  • WordPress twentyten compatible theming (#797)
  • Caching support (ETag) (#693)
  • Harvesting GEMINI2 metadata records from OGC CSW servers (#566)
Minor:
  • New API key header (#466)
  • Group metadata now revisioned (#231)

v1.1 2010-08-10

http://ckan.org/milestone/v1.1

Highlights of changes:
  • Changes to the database cause notifications via AMQP for clients (#325)
  • Pluggable search engines (#317), including SOLR (#353)
  • API is versioned and packages & groups can be referred to by invariant ID (#313)
  • Resource search in API (#336)
  • Visual theming of CKAN now easy (#340, #320)
  • Greater integration with external Web UIs (#335, #347, #348)
  • Plug-ins can be configured to handle web requests from specified URIs and insert HTML into pages.
Minor:
  • Search engine optimisations e.g. alphabetical browsing (#350)
  • CSV and JSON dumps improved (#315)

v1.0.2 2010-08-27

  • Bugfix: API returns error when creating package (#432)

v1.0.1 2010-06-23

Functionality:

  • API: Revision search 'since id' and revision model in API
  • API: Basic API versioning - packages specified by ID (#313)
  • Pluggable search - initial hooks
  • Customisable templates (#340) and external UI hooks (#335)

Bugfixes:

  • Revision primary key lost in migrating data (#311)
  • Local authority license correction in migration (#319)
  • I18n formatting issues
  • Web i/f searches foreign characters (#319)
  • Data importer timezone issue (#330)

v1.0 2010-05-11

CKAN comes of age, having been used successfully in several deployments around the world. 56 tickets covered in this release. See: http://ckan.org/milestone/v1.0

Highlights of changes:

  • Package edit form: new pluggable architecture for custom forms (#281, #286)
  • Package revisions: diffs now include tag, license and resource changes (#303)
  • Web interface: visual overhaul (#182, #206, #214-#227, #260) including a tag cloud (#89)
  • i18n: completion in Web UI - now covers package edit form (#248)
  • API extended: revisions (#251, #265), feeds per package (#266)
  • Developer documentation expanded (#289, #290)
  • Performance improved and CKAN stress-tested (#201)
  • Package relationships (Read-Write in API, Read-Only in Web UI) (#253-257)
  • Statistics page (#184)
  • Group edit: add multiple packages at once (#295)
  • Package view: RDF and JSON formatted metadata linked to from package page (#247)

Bugfixes:

  • Resources were losing their history (#292)
  • Extra fields now work with spaces in the name (#278, #280) and international characters (#288)
  • Updating resources in the REST API (#293)

Infrastructural:

  • Licenses: now uses external License Service ('licenses' Python module)
  • Changesets introduced to support distributed revisioning of CKAN data - see doc/distributed.rst for more information.

v0.11 2010-01-25

Our biggest release so far (55 tickets) with lots of new features and improvements. This release also saw a major new production deployment with the CKAN software powering http://data.gov.uk/ which had its public launch on Jan 21st!

For a full listing of tickets see: <http://ckan.org/milestone/v0.11>. Main highlights:

  • Package Resource object (multiple download urls per package): each package can have multiple 'resources' (urls) with each resource having additional metadata such as format, description and hash (#88, #89, #229)
  • "Full-text" searching of packages (#187)
  • Semantic web integration: RDFization of all data plus integration with an online RDF store (e.g. for http://www.ckan.net/ at http://semantic.ckan.net/ or Talis store) (#90 #163)
  • Package ratings (#77 #194)
  • i18n: we now have translations into German and French with deployments at http://de.ckan.net/ and http://fr.ckan.net/ (#202)
  • Package diffs available in package history (#173)
  • Minor:
    • Package undelete (#21, #126)
    • Automated CKAN deployment via Fabric (#213)
    • Listings are sorted alphabetically (#195)
    • Add extras to rest api and to ckanclient (#158 #166)
  • Infrastructural:
    • Change to UUIDs for revisions and all domain objects
    • Improved search performance and better pagination
    • Significantly improved performance in API and WUI via judicious caching

v0.10 2009-09-30

  • Switch to repoze.who for authentication (#64)
  • Explicit User object and improved user account UI with recent edits etc (#111, #66, #67)
  • Generic Attributes for Packages (#43)
  • Use sqlalchemy-migrate to handle db/model upgrades (#94)
  • "Groups" of packages (#105, #110, #130, #121, #123, #131)
  • Package search in the REST API (#108)
  • Full role-based access control for Packages and Groups (#93, #116, #114, #115, #117, #122, #120)
  • New CKAN logo (#72)
  • Infrastructural:
    • Upgrade to Pylons 0.9.7 (#71)
    • Convert to use formalchemy for all forms (#76)
    • Use paginate in webhelpers (#118)
  • Minor:
    • Add author and maintainer attributes to package (#91)
    • Change package state in the WUI (delete and undelete) (#126)
    • Ensure non-active packages don't show up (#119)
    • Change tags to contain any character (other than space) (#62)
    • Add Is It Open links to package pages (#74)

v0.9 2009-07-31

  • (DM!) Add version attribute for package
  • Fix purge to use new version of vdm (0.4)
  • Link to changed packages when listing revision
  • Show most recently registered or updated packages on front page
  • Bookmarklet to enable easy package registration on CKAN
  • Usability improvements (package search and creation on front page)
  • Use external list of licenses from license repository
  • Convert from py.test to nosetests

v0.8 2009-04-10

  • View information about package history (ticket:53)
  • Basic datapkg integration (ticket:57)
  • Show information about package openness using icons (ticket:56)
  • One-stage package create/registration (r437)
  • Reinstate package attribute validation (r437)
  • Upgrade to vdm 0.4

v0.7 2008-10-31

  • Convert to use SQLAlchemy and vdm v0.3 (v. major)
  • Atom/RSS feed for Recent Changes
  • Package search via name and title
  • Tag lists show number of associated packages

v0.6 2008-07-08

  • Autocompletion (+ suggestion) of tags when adding tags to a package.
  • Paginated lists for packages, tags, and revisions.
  • RESTful machine API for package access, update, listing and creation.
  • API Keys for users who wish to modify information via the REST API.
  • Update to vdm v0.2 (SQLObject) which fixes ordering of lists.
  • Better immunity to SQL injection attacks.

v0.5 2008-01-22

  • Purging of a Revision and associated changes from cli and wui (ticket:37)
  • Make data available in machine-usable form via sql dump (ticket:38)
  • Upgrade to Pylons 0.9.6.* and deploy (ticket:41)
  • List and search tags (ticket:33)
  • (bugfix) Manage reserved html characters in urls (ticket:40)
  • New spam management utilities including (partial) blacklist support

v0.4 2007-07-04

  • Preview support when editing a package (ticket:36).
  • Correctly list IP address of of not logged in users (ticket:35).
  • Improve read action for revision to list details of changed items (r179).
  • Sort out deployment using modpython.

v0.3 2007-04-12

  • System now in a suitable state for production deployment as a beta
  • Domain model versioning via the vdm package (currently released separately)
  • Basic Recent Changes listing log messages
  • User authentication (login/logout) via open ID
  • License page
  • Myriad of small fixes and improvements

v0.2 2007-02

  • Complete rewrite of ckan to use pylons web framework
  • Support for full CRUD on packages and tags
  • No support for users (authentication)
  • No versioning of domain model objects

v0.1 2006-05

NB: not an official release

  • Almost functional system with support for persons, packages
  • Tag support only half-functional (tags are per package not global)
  • Limited release and file support