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@benwbrum benwbrum released this 24 Sep 20:16
· 3080 commits to main since this release

Major release including performance and serviceability enhancements, improvements to user experience for collaborators on private projects, and several bug fixes.

User Enhancements

  • Show collaborators private collections and document sets on their dashboard (if they have access to them).
  • Higher-resolution page/work thumbnails for modern displays.
  • Subject tab performance improvements for collections with large numbers of subjects.
  • Removed "owned by" wording from collections.
  • Use English-language messages as a fall-back if no Spanish or Portuguese messages are found.
  • Searching for works now searches metadata imported from IIIF.
  • Improved performance of still_editing action.
  • Include OCR correction actions in user statistics.

Integration Improvements

  • Notify users if IIIF manifests have already been imported into the system.
  • Additional logging message for imported IIIF collections
  • Prohibited crawlers from executing full-text searches.
  • Fixed CONTENTdm transcript sync regression.

Bug fixes

  • Document sets created by staff owners are now owned by the organization account.
  • Autolink now supports subjects with unbalanced parentheses in their verbatim text.
  • Activity emails use absolute URLs again.
  • Page images uploaded individually were broken following Rails 6 upgrade.
  • Performance improvements when displaying pages linking to a subject.
  • IIIF endpoints now use absolute URLs again.
  • Latitude/Longitude and URI fields are persisted to the database again.

Serviceability Improvements

  • STDERR now logged for all background tasks.
  • Dead code supporting an OAI-PMH client and Omeka Classic integration was removed.