CKAN v1.6 Release Notes

Release Date: 2012-02-24 // about 12 years ago
  • 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)