Version 3.4.3

Released: April 4, 2020

Changes

Appearance

The appearance of the 404, 403, and 500 error pages were improved in both visual and practical aspects. The 500 error page now includes a direct link to the issue tracker.

Common

The settings of the production debug logger where updated to increase the size of the log files from 1024 to 65,535 bytes and retain 5 backups instead of 3.

All exceptions are now captured by the middleware and sent to the log system. The log system is now the party responsible to perform the log filtering. This change increases the amount of technical information in the logs in the event of unexpected errors.

Cabinets

The cabinet widgets badges that are added to the document card are now clickable. Clicking on a cabinet badge will redirect to the cabinet detail view.

Converter

An error in the layer transformation selection view was fixed.

The permission checking of the layer transformation selection view was improved.

Documents

An error in the document page interactive transformation view was fixed.

The setting DOCUMENTS_LIST_THUMBNAIL_WIDTH is now also applied to document pages and document version thumbnails.

Tags

Like the cabinet widgets badges, the tag badges that are added to the document card are now also clickable. Clicking on a tag badge will redirect to the tag detail view.

Removals

None

Upgrading process

Stop supervisord:
```
sudo systemctl stop supervisor
```

Upgrading from Mayan EDMS 3.2.x or earlier

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
echo "requirepass mayanredispassword" | sudo tee -a /etc/redis/redis.conf
sudo systemctl restart redis

Install the Python 3 development OS package:
```
sudo apt-get install python3-dev
```

Update the virtualenv to use Python 3:

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

Create a home directory for the Mayan EDMS system user:
```
mkdir /home/mayan
```
Grant ownership to the Mayan EDMS system user:
```
chown mayan:mayan /home/mayan
```

Reinstall the Python client for PostgreSQL and Redis:

sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install 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 psutil==5.8.0

Reinstall the Python client for RabbitMQ if you are using RabbitMQ as a broker:
```
sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install amqp==5.3.1
```

Upgrading from Mayan EDMS 3.3.x

Update the Redis configuration to enable password protection:

echo "requirepass mayanredispassword" | sudo tee -a /etc/redis/redis.conf
sudo systemctl restart redis

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

Update the Mayan EDMS Python package:
```
sudo -u mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install mayan-edms==3.4.3
```
the requirements will also be updated automatically.

Make a backup of your supervisord file:

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

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=mayandbpass 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':'mayandbpass','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"

Edit the supervisord configuration file and update any setting specific to your installation:
```
sudo vi /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf
```

Migrate existing database schema and static media files with:

sudo -u mayan MAYAN_DATABASE_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql MAYAN_DATABASE_NAME=mayan \
MAYAN_DATABASE_PASSWORD=mayandbpass 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':'mayandbpass','USER':'mayan','HOST':'127.0.0.1'}}" \
 MAYAN_MEDIA_ROOT=/opt/mayan-edms/media/ \
/opt/mayan-edms/bin/mayan-edms.py performupgrade

Start supervisord:
```
sudo systemctl start supervisor
```
Clear the browser cache to avoid loading old web assets.

The upgrade procedure is now complete.

Backward incompatible changes

None

Issues closed

None