CKAN 1.8

Note: This version requires a requirements upgrade on source installations

Note: This version requires a database upgrade

Note: This version does not require a Solr schema upgrade

Major * New ‘follow’ feature that allows logged in users to follow other users or datasets (#2304) * New user dashboard that shows an activity stream of all the datasets and users you are following. Thanks to Sven R. Kunze for his work on this (#2305) * New version of the Datastore. It has been completely rewritten to use PostgreSQL as backend, it is more stable and fast and supports SQL queries (#2733) * Clean up and simplifyng of CKAN’s dependencies and source install instructions. Ubuntu 12.04 is now supported for source installs (#2428,#2592) * Big speed improvements when indexing datasets (#2788) * New action API reference docs, which individually document each function and its arguments and return values (#2345) * Updated translations, added Japanese and Korean translations

Minor * Add source install upgrade docs (#2757) * Mark more strings for translation (#2770) * Allow sort ordering of dataset listings on group pages (#2842) * Reenable simple search option (#2844) * Editing organization removes all datasets (#2845) * Accessibility enhancements on templates

Bug fixes * Fix for relative url being used when doing file upload to local storage * Various fixes on IGroupFrom (#2750) * Fix group dataset sort (#2722) * Fix adding existing datasets to organizations (#2843) * Fix 500 error in related controller (#2856) * Fix for non-open licenses appearing open * Editing organization removes all datasets (#2845)

API changes and deprecation: * Template helper functions are now restricted by default. By default only those helper functions listed in lib.helpers.allowed_functions are available to templates. The full functions can still be made available by setting ckan.restrict_template_vars = false in your ini file. Only restricted functions will be allowed in future versions of CKAN. * Deprecated functions related to the old faceting data structure have been removed: helpers.py:facet_items(), facets.html:facet_sidebar(), facets.html:facet_list_items(). Internal use of the old facets datastructure (attached to the context, c.facets) has been superseded by use of the improved facet data structure, c.search_facets. The old data structure is still available on c.facets, but is deprecated, and will be removed in future versions. (#2313)