Version 3.1.10

Released: April 04, 2019

Changes

Test improvements

A number of test improvements were backported from the development branch. These include a mixin to assign random primary keys to the test objects. Normally primary keys are sequential and their predictability can hide edge cases that would normally only manifest in production. The tests case code was also split into smaller mixin units separating them by purpose. All code to perform HTTP requests now resides in the ClientMethodsTestCaseMixin. Changes in the ContentTypeCheckTestCaseMixin were added to enable this mixin for the API views in a future minor version. The test view code was moved into its own mixin called TestViewTestCaseMixin. This mixin allows creating dynamic views to test object and link resolution among other things. The API base test case class is now part of the same class hierarchy, this means that the API test code will now behave the same and will benefit from all improvements in the base test case classes. Some indexing tests were failing randomly. This was caused by the way the test were built and not because of faulty code. The tests were updated and now operate as expected. While there is no official support for installing Mayan EDMS as a sub URL updates to the TestViewTestCaseMixin will allow it to execute with custom ROOT_URLCONF configurations. Further work and feedback is needed to officially support this installation method.

Fixes

The advanced search API endpoint was fixed and is now usable. Tests for all the issues fixed were added to avoid future regressions. A fix was applied to the compressed class that caused compressed files uploads to fail from the web form.

Docker

Updates were added to the Docker image that allow it to build on armv7l platforms like the RasperryPi, Odroid XU4, and Odroid HC2. This doesn’t imply official support for these platforms. Further experimentation and optimization is needed and this changed will now allow users to build the image and provide feedback in an easier manner.

Installation

The installation process has been updated to work around the Python pip issue #6197 (https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6197).

User interface

Improvements in the AJAX menu rendering were conflicting with an old method of refreshing the unread notification counter badge. This conflict would cause the unread notification counter badge to blink and/or disappear. The older badge refresh method was removed and improvements to the menu rendering from the development branch were backported to support displaying link badges from the templates completing fixing the issue. An API entrypoint was also backported showing a list of all the server side AJAX templates. This change doesn’t affect the API layout and it remains compatible with the previous version. Newlines are now explicitly removed from the rendered AJAX templates avoiding rendering issues on some browsers.

Emails

An update was added to will now cause Mayan EDMS to reject all email attachments with a size 0 even if the attachment is valid. Documents of size 0 are not consideref valid in Mayan EDMS since they can’t be introspected for MIME type, don’t contain at least one version, and don’t contain a single page. All these are requirements for a valid document in Mayan EDMS.

Memory usage

The MIMETYPE_FILE_READ_SIZE setting was added to limit the number of bytes that will be read into memory to determine the MIME type of a new document. For compatibility with the current bevahor this setting defaults to 0 which means that it is disabled. Disabling the setting will cause the entire document’s file to be loaded into memory. If documents are not processing due to out of memory errors (large documents or devices with limited memory), set MIMETYPE_FILE_READ_SIZE to a value other than 0. Limited tests suggest 1024 to be a good alternative as most “magic numbers” used for MIME type detection are located at the start of the file and just reading the first 1024 bytes will result in a positive identification with little memory usage.

Other changes

  • Add missing document index API view create permission.

  • Fix index list API view. Add index create, delete, detail API tests.

  • Add support for skipping a default set of tests. Tests to be excluded by default should be tagged as ‘exclude’.

Removals

  • None

Upgrading from a previous version

If installed via Python’s PIP

Remove deprecated requirements:

$ curl https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/raw/master/removals.txt | pip uninstall -r /dev/stdin

Type in the console:

$ pip install mayan-edms==3.1.10

the requirements will also be updated automatically.

Using Git

If you installed Mayan EDMS by cloning the Git repository issue the commands:

$ git reset --hard HEAD
$ git pull

otherwise download the compressed archived and uncompress it overriding the existing installation.

Remove deprecated requirements:

$ pip uninstall -y -r removals.txt

Next upgrade/add the new requirements:

$ pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Common steps

Perform these steps after updating the code from either step above.

Migrate existing database schema with:

$ mayan-edms.py performupgrade

Add new static media:

$ mayan-edms.py collectstatic --noinput

The upgrade procedure is now complete.

Backward incompatible changes

  • None

Bugs fixed or issues closed