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@garethrees garethrees released this 15 Jun 14:26
· 7170 commits to develop since this release
0.29.0.0
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Highlighted Features

  • Upgrade to Rails 4.1 (Liz Conlan, Gareth Rees)
  • Add sample public body headings and categories (Gareth Rees)
  • Allow translation of delivery statuses (Gareth Rees)
  • Fix stripping Syslog prefix from mail logs (Gareth Rees)
  • Fix parsing of Syslog-format mail logs (Gareth Rees)
  • Log spam domain signups instead of sending exception notifications
    (Gareth Rees)
  • Finer control of anti-spam features (Gareth Rees)
  • Fixed bug which redirected people trying to request a change to the email of
    a public body back to the missing body form post sign in (Liz Conlan)
  • Tweak wording of bounce reply to make it easier for admins to locate the
    related request (Gareth Rees)
  • Fix the layout of the request preview page so that the request body text is
    in line with the heading (Keerti Gautam)
  • Add an unknown delivery status for better user experience when we haven't yet
    parsed MTA logs for a recent message (Gareth Rees)
  • Switch MTA-specific delivery status to MTA-agnostic delivery status
    (Gareth Rees)
  • Prevent deletion of initial outgoing messages through the admin interface
    (Gareth Rees)
  • Make it easier to find the "Resend" message button in the admin interface
    (Gareth Rees)
  • Install supported version of bundler through Rubygems on Debian Wheezy (Gareth
    Rees)
  • Update Czechia country name in WorldFOIWebsites (Gareth Rees)
  • Prevent null bytes getting saved to IncomingMessage cache columns (Gareth
    Rees)
  • Add missing erb tags (Sam Smith)
  • Introduction of role-based permissions system (Louise Crow)
  • Link to the #internal_review section of the help/unhappy page instead of
    the UK-specific external link to FOIWiki (Liz Conlan)
  • Allow comments to be reported for admin attention (Liz Conlan, Gareth Rees)
  • Fix a bug in typeahead search where a search ending in a one or two letter
    word would automatically return zero results (Louise Crow)
  • Update the spam scorer to hold lists of suspicious domains (email domains with
    a higher than average chance of being spam) and spam domains (email domains
    we're fairly confident are spam), and prevent spam domains from creating new
    accounts (Liz Conlan)
  • Prevent the /request/search_ahead page from raising an error if there are
    no query parameters (Liz Conlan)
  • Change "Send message" and "Send request" buttons to read "Send and publish" to
    make it clearer that your message is going to be shared via the website (Liz
    Conlan)
  • Prevent new request titles from containing line breaks (Liz Conlan)
  • Make the users:stats_by_domain task report percentages to 2 decimal places
    to avoid the situation where 374 out of 375 appears as 100% (Liz Conlan)
  • Make users:ban_by_domain send a simpler message to say they've been banned
    rather than helping them work around our spam measures (Liz Conlan)
  • A new role notifications_testers has been added, this is a temporary role
    to help us test new email configuration options for Alaveteli Professional,
    please don't give this role to any of your users - it may change and/or
    disappear without warning!
  • Prevent Vagrant assigning more CPU cores than VirtualBox recognises (Liz
    Conlan)
  • Improvements to the load-sample-data script to make it possible to run
    without the superuser db permissions and for Rails 4.1 compatibility
    (Liz Conlan)
  • Prevent autoresponder emails from authorities resetting the withdrawn status
    on requests (Liz Conlan)
  • Fix bug that prevented the categorisation game page from displaying when there
    are no requests (Liz Conlan)
  • Switch to Trusty as the preferred OS for Travis CI and use Debian Wheezy as
    the new Vagrant default (Liz Conlan)
  • Fix a bug that could cause misdelivered message links in the admin interface
    to appear without any text in the link if the message body contained unicode
    spaces (Liz Conlan)
  • Use partial templates to render flash messages containing HTML rather than
    assigning the content directly to flash (Liz Conlan, Steven Day)
  • Ensure info_requests are expired when censor rules are added, changed or
    removed (Liz Conlan)
  • Fix the select authorities form when Javascript is disabled (Louise Crow)

Upgrade Notes

  • Spring is now used as the application preloader in development mode. No action
    required, but worth being familiar with if you're running Alaveteli in
    development: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v4.1.16/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html#spring
  • The COOKIE_STORE_SESSION_SECRET config item has been removed and replaced
    with SECRET_KEY_BASE. You should migrate the original value to the new
    config key.
  • Anti-spam feaures can now be enabled independently
    (BLOCK_RATE_LIMITED_IPS, BLOCK_RESTRICTED_COUNTRY_IPS,
    BLOCK_SPAM_ABOUT_ME_TEXT, BLOCK_SPAM_COMMENTS, BLOCK_SPAM_EMAIL_DOMAINS,
    BLOCK_SPAM_REQUESTS) or all at once (ENABLE_ANTI_SPAM). Check that your
    configuration is enabling the anti-spam measures that you're expecting.
  • MailServerLog::EximDeliveryStatus and MailServerLog::PostfixDeliveryStatus
    have been deprecated in favour of an MTA-agnostic
    MailServerLog::DeliveryStatus. You should run
    bundle exec rake temp:cache_delivery_status to convert any cached delivery
    statuses to the new format.
  • To migrate admin and pro statuses to the role-based system, you must run
    bundle exec rake db:seed and then
    bundle exec rake temp:migrate_admins_and_pros_to_roles after deployment.
  • There are some database structure updates so remember to rake db:migrate
  • Run bundle exec rake temp:remove_line_breaks_from_request_titles after
    deployment to remove stray line breaks (could effect Atom feeds)
  • Run bundle exec rake temp:generate_request_summaries after deployment to
    create the new facade models that the Alaveteli Pro dashboard uses to
    display all forms of requests in a unified list.
  • Run bundle exec rake temp:set_use_notifications after deployment to
    opt all existing requests out of the new notifications feature. This is VERY
    IMPORTANT to run, as without it, existing requests won't trigger any alert
    emails at all.
  • The way that flash messages are rendered has changed so if you have overridden
    a template which renders flash (e.g. <%= flash[:notice] %>), you will need
    to use the new <%= render_flash(flash[:notice]) %> style instead.
  • This release deprecates non-responsive stylesheets. Please make sure your site
    works with RESPONSIVE_STYLING set to true.
  • This is likely to be the last release that supports Ruby 1.9.x. We have some
    notes on migrating away from 1.8.7; migrating to
    Ruby 2+ should be a similar process. Debian Jessie and Ubuntu 14.04+ include
    packaged versions of Ruby 2+.
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