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CKAN v1.5.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2012-01-04 // over 12 years ago

  • 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)