September 2020 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.