Version 4.2.10

Released: August 20, 2022

Status: Maintenance

Changes

Cabinets

An issue was fixed where documents uploaded via the wizard with one or more cabinets selected, would not trigger the cabinet added event.

Storage

The DownloadFile filename was being ignored when performing the actual download action. The filename attribute is now used if available. If it is not available or set, the fallback value is the string representation of the download file object.

Tags

Similar to the document upload cabinet event issue, a tag app issue was fixed that allows now triggering the tag attached event for documents with a tag selected during upload.

Task manager

More verbose errors and exceptions are now displayed to console when Celery fails to initialize.

Testing

The make file targets for staging deployments were fixed and improved. A local psql client is not longer required to monitor the launching of the staging PostgreSQL container. Likewise a local Redis client is no longer needed to launch the Redis container.

Other

  • Improve cabinet, metadata, and tag app tests.

Removals

  • None

Upgrade process

Docker Compose

Check the Docker upgrading chapter for the complete upgrade process.

Direct deployment

Upgrading from Mayan EDMS 3.5.x

Important

Supervisord must be upgraded to version 4.2.2. See troubleshooting section: After upgrade to version 4.1

  1. Stop supervisord:

    sudo systemctl stop supervisor
    
  2. Make a backup of your supervisord file:

    sudo cp /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf.bck
    
  3. Make a backup of your database:

    Use the respective backup command for the database:

  4. Upgrade to the latest pip version:

    sudo --user=mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
    
  5. Remove deprecated requirements:

    sudo --user=mayan curl https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/raw/master/removals.txt --output /tmp/removals.txt \
    && sudo --user=mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip uninstall --requirement /tmp/removals.txt --yes
    
  6. Update the Mayan EDMS Python package:

    sudo --user=mayan /opt/mayan-edms/bin/pip install mayan-edms==4.4.7
    

    the requirements will also be updated automatically.

  7. Update the Redis configuration to serve at least 3 databases:

    Replace:

    databases ...
    

    with:

    databases 3
    
  8. Restart Redis for the changes to take effect:

    sudo systemctl restart redis
    
  9. Edit the config file at /opt/mayan-edms/media/config.yml:

    Replace:

    LOCK_MANAGER_BACKEND: ...
    LOCK_MANAGER_BACKEND_ARGUMENTS: ...
    

    with:

    LOCK_MANAGER_BACKEND: mayan.apps.lock_manager.backends.redis_lock.RedisLock
    LOCK_MANAGER_BACKEND_ARGUMENTS: {'redis_url':'redis://:mayanredispassword@<IP address of Redis server>:6379/2'}
    
  10. Update the supervisord configuration file. Replace the environment variables values shown here with your respective settings. This step will refresh the supervisord configuration file with the new queues and the latest recommended layout:

    sudo --user=mayan 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"
    
  11. Edit the supervisord configuration file and update any setting specific to your installation:

    sudo vi /etc/supervisor/conf.d/mayan-edms.conf
    
  12. Migrate existing database schema and static media files with:

    sudo --user=mayan MAYAN_MEDIA_ROOT=/opt/mayan-edms/media/ \
    /opt/mayan-edms/bin/mayan-edms.py performupgrade
    
  13. Start supervisord:

    sudo systemctl start supervisor
    
  14. Clear the browser cache to avoid loading old web assets.

The upgrade procedure is now complete.

Troubleshooting

Follow the solutions outlined in the troubleshooting section: After upgrade to version 4.1

Backward incompatible changes

  • None

Issues closed