CKAN 2.2

Note: This version does not require a requirements upgrade on source installations

Note: This version requires a database upgrade

Note: This version requires a Solr schema upgrade (The Solr schema file has been renamed, the schema file from the previous release is compatible with this version, but users are encouraged to point to the new one, see “API changes and deprecations”)

Major: * Brand new automatic importer of tabular data to the DataStore, the DataPusher. This is much more robust and simple to deploy and maintain than its predecesor (ckanext-datastorer). Whole new UI for re-importing data to the DataStore and view the import logs (#932, #938, #940, #981, #1196, #1200 …) * Completely revamped file uploads that allow closer integration with resources and the DataStore, as well as making easir to integrate file uploads in other features. For example users can now upload images for organizations and groups. See “API changes and deprecations” if you are using the current FileStore. (#1273, #1173 … ) * UI and API endpoints for resource reordering (#1277) * Backend support for organization hierarchy, allowing parent and children organizations. Frontend needs to be implemented in extensions (#1038) * User invitations: it is now possible to create new users with just their email address. An invite email is sent to them, allowing to change their user name and password (#1178) * Disable user registration with a configuration option (#1226) * Great effort in improving documentation, specially for customizing CKAN, with a complete tutorial for writing extensions and customizing the theme. User and sysadmin guides have also been moved to the main documentation (#943, #847, #1253)

Minor: * Homepage modules to allow predefined layouts (#1126) * Ability to delete users (#1163) * Dedicated dataset groups page for displaying and managing them (#1102) * Implement organization_purge and group_purge action functions (#707) * Improve package_show performance (#1078) * Support internationalization of rendered dates and times (#1041) * Improve plugin load handling (#549) * Authorization function auditing for action functions (#1060) * Improve datetime rendering (#518) * New SQL indexes to improve performance (#1164) * Changes in requirements management (#1149) * Add offset/limit to package_list action (#1179) * Document all available configuraton options (#848) * Make CKAN sqlalchemy 0.8.4 compatible (#1427) * UI labelling and cleanup (#1030) * Better UX for empty groups/orgs (#1094) * Improve performance of group_dictize when the group has a lot of packages (#1208) * Hide __extras from extras on package_show (#1218) * “Clear all” link within each facet block is unnecessary (#1263) * Term translations of organizations (#1274) * ‘–reset-db’ option for when running tests (#1304)

Bug fixes: * Fix plugins load/unload issues (#547) * Improve performance when new_activities not needed (#1013) * Resource preview breaks when CSV headers include percent sign (#1067) * Package index not rebuilt when resources deleted (#1081) * Don’t accept invalid URLs in resource proxy (#1106) * UI language reset after account creation (#1429) * Catch non-integer facet limits (#1118) * Error when deleting custom tags (#1114) * Organization images do not display on Organization user dashboard page (#1127) * Can not reactivate a deleted dataset from the UI (#607) * Non-existent user profile should give error (#1068) * Recaptcha not working in CKAN 2.0 (jinja templates) (#1070) * Groups and organizations can be visited with interchangeable URLs (#1180) * Dataset Source (url) and Version fields missing (#1187) * Fix problems with private / public datasets and organizations (#1188) * group_show should never return private data (#1191) * When editing a dataset, the organization field is not set (#1199) * Fix resource_delete action (#1216) * Fix trash purge action redirect broken for CKAN instances not at / (#1217) * Title edit for existing dataset changes the URL (#1232) * ‘facet.limit’ in package_search wrongly handled (#1237) * h.SI_number_span doesn’t close correctly (#1238) * CkanVersionException wrongly raised (#1241) * (group|organization)_member_create only accepts username (and not id) (#1243) * package_create uses the wrong parameter for organization (#1257) * ValueError for non-int limit and offset query params (#1258) * Visibility field value not kept if there are errors on the form (#1265) * package_list should not return private datasets (#1295) * Fix 404 on organization activity stream and about page (#1298) * Fix placeholder images broken on non-root locations (#1309) * “Add Dataset” button shown on org pages when not authorized (#1348) * Fix exception when visiting organization history page (#1359) * Fix search ordering on organization home page (#1368) * datastore_search_sql failing for some anonymous users (#1373) * related_list logic function throws a 503 without any parameters (#1384) * Disabling activity_streams borks editing groups and user (#1421) * Member Editing Fixes (#1454) * Bulk editing broken in IE7 (#1455) * Fix group deletion in IE7 (#1460) * And many, many more!

API changes and deprecations: * The Solr schema file is now always named schema.xml regardless of the CKAN version. Old schema files have been kept for backwards compatibility but users are encouraged to point to the new unified one (#1314) * The FileStore and file uploads have been completely refactored and simplified to only support local storage backend. The links from previous versions of the FileStore to hosted files will still work, but there is a command available to migrate the files to new Filestore. See this page for more details: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/filestore.html#filestore-21-to-22-migration * By default, the authorization for any action defined from an extension will require a logged in user, otherwise a :py:class:ckan.logic.NotAuthorized exception will be raised. If an action function allows anonymous access (eg search, show status, etc) the auth_allow_anonymous_access decorator (available on the plugins toolkit) must be used (#1210) * package_search now returns results with custom schemas applied like package_show, a use_default_schema parameter was added to request the old behaviour, this change may affect customized search result templates (#1255) * The ckan.api_url configuration option has been completely removed and it can no longer be used (#960) * The edit and after_update methods of IPackageController plugins are now called when updating a resource using the web frontend or the resource_update API action (#1052) * Dataset moderation has been deprecated, and the code will probably be removed in later CKAN versions (#1139) * Some front end libraries have been updated, this may affect existing custom themes: Bootstrap 2.0.3 > 2.3.2, Font Awesome 3.0.2 > 3.2.1, jQuery 1.7.2 > 1.10.2 (#1082) * SQLite is officially no longer supported as the tests backend

Troubleshooting: * Exception on startup after upgrading from a previous CKAN version::

 AttributeError: 'instancemethod' object has no attribute 'auth_audit_exempt'

Make sure that you are not loading a 2.1-only plugin (eg datapusher-ext) and update all the plugin in your configuration file to the latest stable version.

• Exception on startup after upgrading from a previous CKAN version::

  File “/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/lib/dictization/model_dictize.py”, line 330, in package_dictize result_dict[‘metadata_modified’] = pkg.metadata_modified.isoformat() AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘isoformat’

  One of the database changes on this version is the addition of a metadata_modified field in the package table, that was filled during the DB migration process. If you have previously migrated the database and revert to an older CKAN version the migration process may have failed at this step, leaving the fields empty. Also make sure to restart running processes like harvesters after the update to make sure they use the new code base.