Version 3.3.17

Released: April 9, 2020

Changes

Appearance

The design of the 404, 403 and 500 error pages was improved to be more informative and provide some alternatives.

Common

The production debug log settings were improve. The Max bytes settings was incread from 1024 to 65535 and the backup count from 3 to 5.

All exceptions are now sent to the log system and it is up to the log system to perform the filtering. This improves the information provided by the error logger when searching for the root of an issue.

Development

The Docker build target now detects if devpi-server is installed.

A new set of development settings and make file targets were added to allow easier execution of the test suit against different databases.

Document signatures

A possible race condition was removed when returning the signature document version signed using an embedded signature.

Docker

The Docker image was updated to have gunicorn use the /dev/shm device for the heartbeat file if it is available. References: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/gunicorn-in-docker/, https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/settings.html#worker-tmp-dir and https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-i-avoid-gunicorn-excessively-blocking-in-os-fchmod

The package git-core was added to the Docker image to allow installing Python libraries from development locations.

Some minor improvements to the default Docker Compose file were copied from the 3.4 series.

Other

Update contributed LDAP setting file.

Removals

  • None

Upgrading process

  1. Stop supervisord:

    sudo systemctl stop supervisor

Upgrading from Mayan EDMS 3.2.x

  1. Update the Redis configuration:

    Configure Redis to discard data when it runs out of memory, not save its database, and only keep 2 database:

    echo "maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru" | sudo tee -a /etc/redis/redis.conf
echo "save \"\"" | sudo tee -a /etc/redis/redis.conf
echo "databases 2" | sudo tee -a /etc/redis/redis.conf
sudo systemctl restart redis

  2. Install the Python 3 development OS package:

    sudo apt-get install python3-dev

  3. Update the virtualenv to use Python 3:

    sudo -u mayan virtualenv --clear /opt/mayan-edms -p /usr/bin/python3

  4. Create a home directory for the Mayan EDMS system user:

    mkdir /home/mayan

  5. Grant ownership to the Mayan EDMS system user:

    chown mayan:mayan /home/mayan

  6. Reinstall the Python client for PostgreSQL and Redis:

    sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install --no-use-pep517 psycopg2==3.2.3 redis==5.2.0

    Note

    Platforms with the ARM CPU might also need additional requirements:

    sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install --no-use-pep517 psutil==5.8.0

  7. Reinstall the Python client for RabbitMQ if you are using RabbitMQ as a broker:

    sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install --no-use-pep517 amqp==5.3.1

Upgrade steps from any previous version of Mayan EDMS

  1. Remove deprecated requirements:

    sudo -u mayan curl https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/raw/master/removals.txt -o /tmp/removals.txt \
&& sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip uninstall -y -r /tmp/removals.txt

  2. Update the Mayan EDMS Python package:

    sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install mayan-edms==3.3.17

    the requirements will also be updated automatically.

  3. Make a backup of your supervisord file:

    sudo cp /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf.bck

  4. Update the supervisord configuration file. Replace the environment variables values show here with your respective settings. This step will refresh the supervisord configuration file with the new queues and the latest recommended layout:

    sudo -u mayan MAYAN_DATABASE_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql MAYAN_DATABASE_NAME=mayan \
MAYAN_DATABASE_PASSWORD=mayanuserpass MAYAN_DATABASE_USER=mayan \
MAYAN_DATABASE_HOST=127.0.0.1 MAYAN_MEDIA_ROOT=/opt/mayan-edms/media/ \
/opt/mayan-edms/bin/mayan-edms.py platformtemplate supervisord | sudo sh -c "cat > /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf"

    or:

    sudo -u mayan MAYAN_DATABASES=\"{'default':{'ENGINE':'django.db.backends.postgresql','NAME':'mayan','PASSWORD':'mayanuserpass','USER':'mayan','HOST':'127.0.0.1'}}\" \
MAYAN_MEDIA_ROOT=/opt/mayan-edms/media/ \
/opt/mayan-edms/bin/mayan-edms.py platformtemplate supervisord | sudo sh -c "cat > /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf"

  5. Edit the supervisord configuration file and update any setting specific to your installation:

    sudo vi /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf

  6. Migrate existing database schema with:

    sudo -u mayan MAYAN_DATABASE_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql MAYAN_DATABASE_NAME=mayan \
MAYAN_DATABASE_PASSWORD=mayanuserpass MAYAN_DATABASE_USER=mayan \
MAYAN_DATABASE_HOST=127.0.0.1 MAYAN_MEDIA_ROOT=/opt/mayan-edms/media/ \
/opt/mayan-edms/bin/mayan-edms.py performupgrade

    or:

     sudo -u mayan MAYAN_DATABASES="{'default':{'ENGINE':'django.db.backends.postgresql','NAME':'mayan','PASSWORD':'mayanuserpass','USER':'mayan','HOST':'127.0.0.1'}}" \
 MAYAN_MEDIA_ROOT=/opt/mayan-edms/media/ \
/opt/mayan-edms/bin/mayan-edms.py performupgrade

  7. Add new static media:

    sudo -u mayan MAYAN_MEDIA_ROOT=/opt/mayan-edms/media/ \
/opt/mayan-edms/bin/mayan-edms.py preparestatic --noinput

  8. Start supervisord:

    sudo systemctl start supervisor

  9. Clear the browser cache to avoid loading old web assets.

The upgrade procedure is now complete.

Backward incompatible changes

  • None

Issues closed

  • None