0.30.0.0

0.30.0.0

Highlighted Features

• Fix bug that prevented private requests from being published across the whole
  site once the embargo period had expired (Liz Conlan)
• Update format of robots.txt for Baidu compatibility (Gareth Rees)
• Added some extra margin space to the #logged_in_bar when javascript is
  disabled to avoid the user's name from overlapping the 'Sign out' link -
  otherwise if there is enough space to do so, the secondary menu will try to
  float alongside the nav bar content (Liz Conlan)
• Make it clearer to users that they must complete an action when receiving the
  email to remind them to update the status of a request (Gareth Rees)
• Removed non-responsive assets (Gareth Rees)
• Upgrade to Rails 4.2 (Liz Conlan, Gareth Rees)
• Fixed problem where the routing filter doesn't recognise default locales with
  underscores properly (Liz Conlan)
• Added wrapper methods to AlaveteliLocalization to be used in preference to
  the underlying I18n and FastGettext methods, avoiding confusion about
  which should be used and reducing the likelihood of getting hyphenated and
  underscore locale formats mixed up (Liz Conlan)
• Prevent null bytes getting saved to IncomingMessage attachment cache
  columns (Gareth Rees)
• Add :inverse_of option to ActiveRecord associations to improve performance
  (Gareth Rees)
• Make Vagrant settings configurable through .vagrant.yml (Gareth Rees)
• Make sure geoip-database-contrib is installed when installing Alaveteli
  (Gareth Rees)
• Make sure memcached is installed when installing Alaveteli (Gareth Rees)
• Remove front-end caching from delivery status calculation (Gareth Rees)
• Remove unconventional PublicBody database constraints (Gareth Rees,
  Liz Conlan)
• Improve public body data validations (Gareth Rees)
• Increase truncation length of comments on admin page so that its easier to
  spot spam without expanding each comment (Gareth Rees)
• Handle unicode in spam request subject lines (Gareth Rees)
• Improve public body data validation test coverage (Gareth Rees)
• Move some more flash messages to be rendered from partials (Gareth Rees)
• Admin timeline can now show events filtered by type (Louise Crow)
• As promised the notifications_testers role as been removed. Access to
  the experimental notification features is now controlled by a feature flag.
• Request numbers in search and list views are now more clearly displayed as
  estimates (Liz Conlan)
• Functionality of 'was clarification' admin button restored (Louise Crow)
• A new method for receiving incoming mail has been introduced. Setting the experimental
  config variable PRODUCTION_MAILER_RETRIEVER_METHOD to pop and generating
  a daemon from the poll-for-incoming-debian.example template will
  cause Alaveteli to poll a mailbox for incoming mail via POP, in addition to
  passively accepting mail piped into the application via script/mailin (Louise Crow)
• Only publicly visible requests are now counted in the text for a user search
  result (Louise Crow)
• Similar request IDs are now cached, rather than template partials displaying
  similar requests, in order to make better usage of the cache space (Louise Crow)
• You can now filter users by their role on the admin user list page (Louise Crow)
• Remove the obsolete admin_level user attribute (Louise Crow)
• Allow embargoed requests to be displayed separately in the admin interface
  to admins with pro_admin permissions (Louise Crow)
• Add a cookie_passthrough param to ensure that image files in responses can be
  accessed by authorised users on embargoed requests (Louise Crow)
• Add oink memory debugging setup. Use ALAVETELI_USE_OINK=1 to produce
  object allocation debugging output (Louise Crow)

Upgrade Notes

• This release removes the admin_level user attribute. You will need to migrate
  to this release via 0.29.0.0 and follow the instructions in the release notes for
  that release to migrate admin and pro statuses to the role-based system first, in
  order to retain admin status for your admin users.
• Ensure memcached is installed (sudo apt-get install memcached) and running
  (sudo service memcached start).
• app/views/track/_track_set.erb has been renamed to
  app/views/track/_track_set.html.erb, so if you've overriden it you will need
  to update the override.
• app/views/general/_opengraph_tags.erb has been renamed to
  app/views/general/_opengraph_tags.html.erb, so if you've overriden it you
  will need to update the override.
• Run bundle exec rake temp:populate_last_event_time after deployment to populate
  the cached last_event_time attribute on info_requests, used in the admin interface.
• Run bundle exec rake temp:remove_notifications_tester_role to remove the
  notification tester role from the database.
• Use of the PRODUCTION_MAILER_RETRIEVER_METHOD config setting is currently
  not recommended.
• Upgrading to Rails 4.2 requires that themes have a new section in their
  alavetelitheme.rb file as in:
  mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme@f99f7fd
  For more details, see the preparatory changes
  and the upgrade itself
• To start the Rails server from a Vagrant box, you will now need to tell it
  what address to bind to as it now defaults to localhost.
  e.g. bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0 to bind to all addresses (as before)
  or bundle exec rails s -b 10.10.10.30 to just use the Vagrantfile address.
• File-type icons have been moved from images to images/content_type. Please
  ensure any direct use of these uses the new path.
• This release deprecates the use of purge requests to Varnish. Please make sure
  your site works with VARNISH_HOST empty - it will be removed as a param in
  the next release.
• Run bundle exec rake temp:set_daily_summary_times to set some default
  times for users to receive daily summaries of notifications. This won't have
  any effect on emails for most users until the new notifications system is
  rolled out.
• There are some database structure updates so remember to rake db:migrate