Version 3.3.4

Released: December 09, 2019

Changes

Celery

Switched from librabbitmq to py-amqp. This library is used to connect to RabbitMQ and be used as the message broker for the background tasks. Although the official documentation still lists librabbitmq, maintainers are recommending users to move to py-amqp.

Converter

Fixed the label display of the transformations. The way the BaseTransformationType metaclass is passed was updated to work on Python 3.

Development

Updated devpi-server version to 5.3.1.

Added targets to run staging containers using RabbitMQ as broker.

Fix docker-runtest-all makefile target.

Frontend

Changed the gunicorn worker class to synchronous. This change was made in the Docker image and is now the worker class for the direct deployment too. Update the supervisord config file to activate this change. This solves spurious HTTP timeout errors caused by Celery’s new Redis interface not working with threaded serverlets.

File metadata

Add locking to the file metadata document processing task.

Settings

The setting override columns was changed from text to a check mark widget. This makes it clear when a setting is being overridden by an environment variable.

Added icons to the smart settings links.

Fixed the evaluation priority of the bootstrap settings. This issue was causing environment variables to be ignored in favor of config file values on Docker images.

User interface

Darken content area when opening the mobile menu.

Other

Don’t set SourceColumn to the attribute name when no help text is defined.

Removals

  • None

Upgrading process

  1. Stop supervisord:

    sudo systemctl stop supervisor

Upgrading from Mayan EDMS 3.2.x

  1. Install the Python 3 development OS package:

    sudo apt-get install python3-dev

  2. Update the virtualenv to use Python 3:

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

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

    mkdir /home/mayan

  4. Grant ownership to the Mayan EDMS system user:

    chown mayan:mayan /home/mayan

  5. 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

  6. 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==3.3.4

    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

The upgrade procedure is now complete.

Backward incompatible changes

  • None

Bugs fixed or issues closed