7.4.0.md

Arches 7.4.0 release notes

Major enhancements

• Allows users to search on strings containing special characters, #9574
• Allows admins to apply permissions to map layers, #9451
• Allows admin to configure search export access, #9479
• Adds many accessibility improvements, #9603
• Adds bulk data editor, #9156
• Allow graph designers to describe instance relationships with concept labels, #9213
• Adds in-app help for plugins & etl modules, #9589
• Allows project developer to enforce arches version compatibility in a project, #9420
• Prevents node alias conflicts when appending a branch, #9209
• Implement well defined map layer sort order, fully config map layer in JSON file, #9291
• Fixes Admin page error, #9583

Additional highlights

• Fixes bug causing empty text nodes to display when Hide Null Values selected, #9143
• Fixes i18n bug in __arches_get_tile_cardinality_violations, #9148
• Allows configuration of datatypes to specify PG datatype in Resou…, #9069
• JSONLD parser fixes, #9233
• Ensures descriptors are updated in indexed resource instance, re #9232, #9245
• Cards now load from cards or card components directories in package, #9263
• Allows for preloaded suffix on uploaded files, #8713
• Updates grouping card for 7.x #9267, #9276
• Improves error reporting in bulk importer modules, #9165, #9172
• Adds language updates for Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu, re #9317, #9323
• Fixes search url UI sync, re #9299, #9300
• Fixes tile file download issue that can cause arches crash per #9319, #9320
• Fixes system settings import error, re #9374, #9375
• Fixes KML import bug, #9394
• Update webpack for Windows support, #9286
• Fixes clone graph interaction #9264, #9275
• EDTF and table alias fix for spatial views, #9478
• Updates view triggers to add support for null geometries, #9439
• Adds the branch publication id to the node, #9055, #9059
• Moves cardinality to nodegroups, #9483
• Fixes Login page redirect, #9526
• Fixes asterisk not showing up for required string nodes, #9547
• Fixes not null advanced search query, #9556
• Adds temporary files table , #9565
• Updates Graph.append_branch to handle branch with multiple nodes that share a name with a node in the graph, #9473
• Prevents node deletion in published graph, re #9575, #9576
• Adds inverseOf to concept relation types, re #9573, #9577
• Sort cards, widgets and nodes on serialize, #9539
• Creates get_published_graph method and replaces all calls, #9600
• Adds Home Link to side navigation menu, #9596

Performance Improvements

• Prevent unnecessary card constraint queries, #9231
• Use descriptor from resource instance when available, #9234
• Use serialized graphs in building resource json, #9447
• Removes unnecessary celery check during index, #9542
• Fixes inefficient database trigger, #9605

Dependency changes

Python:
    Upgraded:
        Django 3.2.15 -> 3.2.19
        requests[security] 2.18.1 -> 2.31.0
        python-slugify 4.0.0 -> 7.0.0

    Added:
        psycopg2==2.9.6 (replaces psycopg2-binary)
        semantic-version==2.10.0

    Removed:
        psycopg2-binary==2.8.4
        python-docx==0.8.10

JavaScript:
    Upgraded:
        jquery: ~3.6.2 -> ^3.6.2

    Added:
        cross-env: ^7.0.3

Breaking changes

None

Upgrading Arches

1. Upgrade to version 7.3.0 before proceeding. If upgrading from an earlier version, refer to the upgrade process in the Version 7.3.0 release notes

2. Be sure to backup your database before proceeding.

3. Upgrade to Arches 7.4.0

   pip uninstall psycopg2-binary
   pip install --upgrade arches==7.4.0
   

4. Within your project, with your Python 3 virtual environment activated:

   python manage.py migrate
   

5. Reindex your database:

   python manage.py es reindex_database
   

6. Update the JavaScript dependencies and devDependencies: In the project's package.json file change arches from stable/7.3.0 to stable/7.4.0:

       "dependencies": {
           "arches": "archesproject/arches#stable/7.4.0",
       },
       "devDependencies": {
           "arches-dev-dependencies": "archesproject/arches-dev-dependencies#stable/7.4.0"
       }
   

7. Start your application server in a separate terminal if it's not already running. Your webpack build will not complete without your application server running.

8. In the same terminal window where you ran yarn ( on the same level as package.json ), run yarn start or yarn build_development. This will generate your media/build directory.

   • If running your project in development:
     • yarn start will build the frontend of the application and then start a webpack development server
     • yarn build_development will build a development bundle for the frontend assests of the application -- this should complete in less than 2 minutes
   • If running your project in production:
     • yarn build_production This builds a production bundle. takes up to 2hrs depending on resources
     • Alternatively you can cd .. up a directory and run python manage.py build_production. This will create a production bundle of frontend assessts and also call collectstatic.

9. If you are running Arches on Apache, be sure to run:

   collectstatic
   

   and restart your server.

   sudo service apache2 reload