Version 4.0.2

Released: May 25, 2021

Status: Stable

Changes

API

Some API endpoints that used parent-child resources were not working correctly on some use cases when using token authentication, returning error 404 for valid requests. The API views now ensure that authentication has completed before doing initial filtering on the parent resource.

The Django REST framework version was updated from version 3.11.0 to 3.11.2.

Cabinets

A solution for the longstanding issue of cabinet sorting was found. Cabinets are a nested model and cannot be sorted properly with Django’s queryset sorting methods. Native tree sorting was implemented. This requires a rebuild of the existing cabinet tree which is accomplished by an included migration.

The django-mptt library was updated from version 0.11.0 to 0.12.0.

Dependencies

PIP was updated from version 21.0.1 to 21.1.1.

Documentation

Several typos in the documentation were fixed. More context was added to some upgrade steps.

Messaging

Support for marking messages as unread was added.

Opening a message will now mark it as read automatically.

User interface

The action dropdown template partial was moved to the navigation app.

Some unused and deprecated markup was removed.

The appearance of disabled action links was fixed.

Other

• Minor source string fixes.

Removals

• None

Upgrade process

Docker Compose

Check the Docker upgrading chapter for the complete upgrade process.

Backward incompatible changes

• None

Issues closed

• GitLab issue #981 4.0, version export and messages app

• GitLab issue #984 Documentation: “Upgrade process 7.Create the user_settings folder inside the media folder”

• GitLab issue #986 Cabinets are listed in order of creation in drop-down, but in alphabetical order in cabinet view