CKAN v1.5 Release Notes
Release Date: 2011-11-07 // over 12 years ago-
🔒 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)
- New visual theme (#1108)