General notes:
* Note: To use PostgreSQL 12 on CKAN 2.8 you need to upgrade SQLAlchemy to 1.2.17 and vdm to 0.15 (more details in #5796 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/5796>_)
Fixes:
- Persist attributes in chained functions (
#5751 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5751>_)
- Fix install documentation (
#5618 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5618>_)
- Fix exception when passing limit to organization (
#5789 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5789>_)
- Fix for adding directories from plugins if partially string matches existing values (
#5836 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5836>_)
- Fix upload log activity sorting (
#5827 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5827>_)
- Textview: escape text formats (
#5814 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5814>_)
- Add allow_partial_update to fix losing users (
#5734 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5734>_)
- Set default group_type to group in group_create (
#5693 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5693>_)
- Use user performing the action on activity context on user_update (
#5743 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5743>_)
- New block in nav links in user dashboard (
#5804 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5804>_)
- Update references to DataPusher documentation
- Fix JavaScript error on Edge (
#5782 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5782>_)
- Fix error when deleting resource with missing datastore table (
#5757 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5757>_)
- ensure HTTP_HOST is bytes under python2 (
#5714 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5714>_)
- Don’t set old_filename when updating groups (
#5707 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5707>_)
- Filter activities from user at the database level (
#5698 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5698>_)
- Fix user_list ordering (
#5667 <https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/5667>_)
- Allowlist for functions in datastore_search_sql (see :ref:
ckan.datastore.sqlsearch.allowed_functions_file)