CKAN 2.8.0

General notes: * This version requires a requirements upgrade on source installations * This version requires a database upgrade * This version requires a Solr schema upgrade * This version requires re-running the datastore set-permissions command (assuming you are using the DataStore). See: :ref:datastore-set-permissions

Otherwise new and updated datasets will not be searchable in DataStore and the logs will contain this error::

  ProgrammingError: (psycopg2.ProgrammingError) function populate_full_text_trigger() does not exist

CKAN developers should also re-run set-permissions on the test database: :ref:datastore-test-set-permissions

• There are several old features being officially deprecated starting from this version. Check the Deprecations section to be prepared.

Major changes: * New revamped frontend templates based on Bootstrap 3, see “Changes and deprecations” (#3547) * Allow datastore_search_sql on private datasets (#2562) * New Flask blueprints migrated from old Pylons controllers: user, dashboard, feeds, admin and home (#3927, #3870, #3775, #3762) * Improved support for custom groups and organization types (#4032) * Hide user details to anonymous users (#3915)

Minor changes: * Allow chaining of authentication functions (#3679) * Show custom dataset types in search pages (#3807) * Overriding datastore authorization system (#3679) * Standardize on url_for (#3831) * Deprecate notify_after_commit (#3633) * _mail_recipient header override (#3781) * Restrict access to member forms (#3684) * Clean up template rendering code (#3923) * Permission labels are indexed by type text in SOLR (#3863) * CLI commands require a Flask test request context (#3760) * Allow IValidator to override existing validators (#3865) * Shrink datastore_create response size (#3810) * Stable version URLs CKAN for documentation (#4209) * API Documentation update (#4136) * Documentation of Data Dictionary (#3989) * Remove datastore legacy mode (#4041) * Map old Pylons routes to Flask ones (#4066)

Bug fixes: * File uploads don’t work on new Flask based API (#3869) * {% ckan_extends %} not working on templates served by Flask (#4044) * Problems in background workers with non-core database relations (#3606) * Render_datetime can’t handle dates before year 1900 (#2228) * DatapusherPlugin implementation of notify() can call ‘datapusher_submit’ multiple times (#2334) * Dataset creation page generates incorrect URLs with Chrome autocomplete (#2501) * Search buttons need accessible labels (#2550) * Column name length limit for datastore upload (#2804) * #2373: Do not validate packages or resources from database to views (#3016) * Creation of dataset - different behaviour between Web API & CKAN Interface functionality (#3528) * Redirecting to same page in non-root hosted ckan adds extra root_path to url (#3499) * Beaker 1.8.0 exception when the code is served from OSX via Vagrant (#3512) * Add “Add Dataset” button to user’s and group’s page (#2794) * Some links in CKAN is not reachable (#2898) * Exception when specifying a directory in the ckan.i18n_directory option (#3539) * Resource view filter user filters JS error (#3590) * Recaptcha v1 will stop working 2018-3-31 (#4061) * “Testing coding standards” page in docs is missing code snippets (#3635) * Followers count not updated immediately on UI (#3639) * Increase jQuery version (#3665) * Search icon on many pages is not properly vertically aligned (#3654) * Datatables view can’t be used as a default view (#3669) * Resource URL is not validated on create/update (#3660) * Upload to Datastore tab shows incorrect time at Upload Log (#3588) * Filter results button is not working (#3593) * Broken link in “Upgrading CKAN’s dependencies” doc page (#3637) * Default logo image not properly saved (#3656) * Activity test relies on datetime.now() (#3644) * Info block text for Format field not properly aligned in resource form page (#3663) * Issue upon creating new organization/group through UI form (#3661) * In API docs “package_create” lists “owner_org” as optional (#3647) * Embed modal window not working (#3731) * Frontent build command does not work on master (#3688) * Loading image duplicated (#3716) * Datastore set-up error - logging getting in the way (#3694) * Registering a new account redirects to an unprefixed url (#3834) * Exception in search page when not authorized (#4081) * Datastore full-text-search column is populated by postgres trigger rather than python (#3785) * Datastore dump results are not the same as data in database (#4150) * Adding filter at resoruce preview doesn’t work while site is setup with ckan.root_path param (#4140) * No such file or directory: ‘/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/requirement-setuptools.txt’ during installation from source (#3641) * Register user form missing required field indicators (#3658) * Datastore full-text-search column is populated by postgres trigger rather than python (#3786) * Add missing major changes to change log (#3799) * Paster/CLI config-tool requires _get_test_app which in turn requires a dev-only dependency (#3806) * Change log doesn’t mention necessary Solr scheme upgrade (#3851) * TypeError: expected byte string object, value of type unicode found (#3921) * CKAN’s state table clashes with PostGIS generated TIGER state table (#3929) * [Docker] entrypoint initdb.d sql files copied to root (#3939) * DataStore status page throws TypeError - Bleach upgrade regression (#3968) * Source install error with who.ini (#4020) * making a JSONP call to the CKAN API returns the wrong mime type (#4022) * Deleting a resource sets datastore_active=False to all resources and overrides their extras (#4042) * Deleting first Group and Organization custom field is not possible (#4094)

Changes and deprecations: * The default templates included in CKAN core have been updated to use Bootstrap 3. Extensions implementing custom themes are encouraged to update their templates, but they can still make CKAN load the old Bootstrap 2 templates during the transition using the following configuration options::

    ckan.base_public_folder = public-bs2
    ckan.base_templates_folder = templates-bs2

• The API versions 1 and 2 (also known as the REST API), ie /api/rest/* have been completely removed in favour of the version 3 (action API, /api/action/*).
• The old Celery based background jobs have been removed in CKAN 2.8 in favour of the new RQ based jobs (https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/background-tasks.html). Extensions can still of course use Celery but they will need to handle the management themselves.
• After introducing dataset blueprint, h.get_facet_items_dict takes search_facets as second argument. This change is aimed to reduce usage of global variables in context. For a while, it has default value of None, in which case, c.search_facets will be used. But all template designers are strongly advised to specify this argument explicitly, as in future it’ll become required.
• The ckan.recaptcha.version config option is now removed, since v2 is the only valid version now (#4061)