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DEPRECATION NOTE: The description field in the categories admin forms has been removed (this applies to any participatory space using categories). For now it's still available in the database, so you can extract it with the following command in the Rails console:

Decidim::Category.pluck(:id, :name, :description)

In the next version (v0.28.0) it will be fully removed from the database.

Added

Dynamic attachment uploads

PR [#8681] #8681 Changes the way file uploads work in Decidim. Files are now dynamically uploaded inside the modal so we can give the user immediate feedback on validation. There are now two different types of file fields: titled and untitled. Titled file fields related to Decidim::Attachment internally.

To update your module you probably have to update forms and commands related to upload field (also views should be updated in case of titled attachments). After successful a upload and submitting a form, request params should contain signed_id of ActiveStorage::Blob which you need to find the blob at the backend.

To update view with titled file field see example: edit_form_fields.html.erb

To update untitled form example: import_form.rb

To update untitled command example: update_account.rb

Learn more about direct uploads

Moderated content can now be removed from search index

PR #8811 is addressing an issue when the moderated resources are not removed from the general search index.

This will automatically work for new moderated resources. For already existing ones, we have introduced a new task that will remove the moderated content from being displayed in search:

bin/rails decidim:upgrade:moderation:remove_from_search

Default Decidim app fully configurable via ENV vars

PR #8725 Modifies the default generator to create a new Decidim app (command decidim my-decidim). Once generated, the default initializers allows to setup most of the optional configuration values (such as geolocation, languages, etc) for Decidim entirely via ENV variables.

Documentation is also updated so be sure to check the options in the Environment Variables doc.

Note that this change does not affect existing installations as only the config/initializers/decidim.rb and config/secrets.yml files are involved. However you can migrate to the new structure easily by creating a new Decidim app and copying or adapting those files to your own project.

Reminders for pending orders in budgets

decidim-core, decidim-budgets: Reminders for pending orders in budgets #8621. To generate reminders:

bundle exec rake decidim:reminders:all

Or add cronjob:

4 0 * * * cd /home/user/decidim_application && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake decidim:reminders:all

New Comments statistics structure

PR #8012 Participatory space to comments, to fix the statistics. Use rake decidim_comments:update_participatory_process_in_comments to migrate existing comments to the new structure.

New Api Documentation engine

PR #8631 Replaces graphql-docs npm package with gem. In this PR we have also added 3 configurable parameters:

# defines the schema max_per_page to configure GraphQL pagination
Decidim::Api.schema_max_per_page = 50

# defines the schema max_complexity to configure GraphQL query complexity
Decidim::Api.schema_max_complexity = 5000

# defines the schema max_depth to configure GraphQL query max_depth
Decidim::Api.schema_max_depth = 15

The static documentation will be rendered into : app/views/static/api/docs which is being refreshed automatically when you will run rake decidim:upgrade. You can manually regenerate the docs by running: rake decidim_api:generate_docs

Global search user by nickname

PR #8658 Added the ability to search for a user by nickname, to update the existing search, Run in a rails console or create a migration with:

  Decidim::User.find_each(&:try_update_index_for_search_resource)

Please be aware that it could take a while if your database has a lot of Users.

Decidim::Forms no longer use Rectify::Form and Virtus should be no longer used

As per #8669, your Decidim::Forms will no longer use Rectify::Form or Virtus.model attributes because Virtus is discontinued and Decidim is loosening the dependency on the virtus gem. Instead, the attributes implementation is now based on ActiveModel::Attributes with an integration layer within Decidim that aims to provide as much backwards compatibility as possible with the Virtus.model attributes that were previously used.

For most cases, no changes in the code should be needed but there are specific differences with the implementation which may require changes in the 3rd party code as well. Both Rectify::Form and Virtus will be still available in the core (through the rectify gem) but you should migrate away from them as soon as possible as they may be removed in future versions of Decidim.

There are specific things that you need to change regarding your Form or Virtus.model classes when migrating to Decidim::AttributeObject:

  • Change all instances of YourForm < Rectify::Form to YourForm < Decidim::Form. It should be very rare to find any classes in your code that inherit directly from Rectify::Form but in case you have used that, replace those references with Decidim::Form.
  • Change all instances of include Virtus.model to include Decidim::AttributeObject::Model.
  • For all file objects that may be of type String or ActionDispatch::Http::UploadedFile, remove the String type casting from these attributes as otherwise the uploaded file objects would be converted to strings. In other words, change all attribute :uploaded_image, String definitions within the forms to attribute :uploaded_image which allows them to be of any type.
  • Change all attribute :attr_name, Hash to attribute :attr_name, Hash[Symbol => ExpectedType] where ExpectedType is the type you are expecting the hash values to be. The new layer will default the hash key types to Symbol and hash value types to Object (= any type). The Virtus Hash attribute did not force any default types for these. It should be preferred to use the actual expected type for the values instead of Object (= any type) to make your code more robust and less buggy.
  • Change all attribute :attr_name, Array to attribute :attr_name, Array[ExpectedType] where ExpectedType is the type you are expecting the array values to be. It should be preferred to use the actual expected type for the values instead of Object (= any type) to make your code more robust and less buggy.
  • The original form attribute values are no longer available through the @attr_name instance variables within the Form or Virtus.model classes. Instead, change all these references to @attributes["attr_name"].value in case you want to fetch the original value of the attribute without using its accessor method. Another way is to provide an alias for the original attribute method before overriding it. If you have not overridden the original attribute accessor, simply remove the @ character in front of the attribute name to fetch the attribute value using the original accessor method.
  • When calling the attributes method of the model/form classes, use strings to refer to the attribute names, not symbols as you might have done with Virtus or Rectify::Form. Change all model.attributes[:attr_name] method calls to model.attributes["attr_name"].
  • When calling model.attributes.slice(...), you also need to use strings to refer to the attribute keys. Change all instances of model.attributes.slice(:attr1, :attr2) to model.attributes.slice("attr1", "attr2")
  • If you had overridden any of the Rectify::Form methods within your form classes, remove those overrides. For example, you might have overridden the form_attributes_valid? method which no longer does anything. Instead, define a custom validation in order to add extra validations to your forms.
  • Very rarely, when defining a an attribute of type Rails::Engine, you need to change attribute :attr_name, Rails::Engine to attribute :attr_name, Rails::Engine, {}. This is because we want to preserve the method signature against ActiveModel::Attributes for the attribute class method intead of the legacy Virtus.model. There is a limitation in the Ruby language that if the method has default values for the previous arguments and defines keyword arguments, the last argument will always receive a respond_to?(:to_hash) call to it which doesn't work for Rails::Engine (you can try it out in the Rails console by calling Rails::Engine.respond_to?(:to_hash)).
  • Test all your form and command classes thoroughly to notice any differences between the two implementations. The new layer is a bit more "robust" with some of the type castings, so some things may break during the migration in case you have relied on some of the oversights within Virtus.

Custom icons new uploader

PR #8645 we now only allow PNG images at Favicon so we can provide higher quality versions to mobile devices.

Changed

  • decidim-core: The Decidim::ActivitySearch class has been rewritten as Decidim::PublicActivities which is now a Rectify::Query class instead of Searchlight::Search class due to the removal of Searchlight at #8748.
  • decidim-core: The Decidim::ResourceSearch class now inherits from Ransack::Search instead of Searchlight::Search as of #8748. The new ResourceSearch class provides extra search functionality for contextual searches that require context information in addition to the search parameters, such as current user or current component. It has barely anything to do with the ResourceSearch class in the previous versions which contained much more logic. Please review all your search classes that were inheriting from this class. You should migrate your search filtering to Ransack.
  • decidim-debates, decidim-initiatives, decidim-meetings: The resource search classes Decidim::Debates::DebateSearch, Decidim::Intitatives::InitiativeSearch and Decidim::Meetings::MeetingSearch are rewritten for the Ransack searches due to Searchlight removal at #8748. The role of these classes is now to pass contextual information to the searches, such as the current user. All other search filtering should happen directly through Ransack.
  • decidim-meetings: The visible_meetings_for scope for the Meeting model has been renamed to visible_for in #8748 for consistency.
  • decidim-core: The official_origin, participants_origin, user_group_origin and meeting_origin scopes for the Decidim::Authorable and Decidim::Coauthorable concerns have been changed to with_official_origin, with_participants_origin, with_user_group_origin and with_meeting_origin respectively in #8748 for consistency. See the Searchlight removal change notes for reasoning.

Deprecation of Rectify::Presenter

PR #8758 is deprecating the implementation of Rectify::Presenter in favour of SimpleDelegator

Searchlight removal causes changes in the participant searches

The searchlight gem has been removed in favor of Ransack as of #8748 in order to standardize all searches within Decidim around a single way of performing searches. Ransack was selected as the preferred search backend because it is better maintained and has a larger community of developers around it compared to Searchlight.

Ransack provides a search API that produces the search queries semi-automatically against the available database columns and ActiveRecord scopes made available for the Ransack searches while Searchlight used to require to write all the search logic manually in the search classes. Due to the inner workings of the Ransack gem and for consistency reasons, the following changes have been made for the search filtering:

  • For search scopes that are doing more than matching against a specific column in the database or require special programming logic during the searches, there is a new scope convention introduced with the with_* and with_any_* scope names. The with_* convention should be used when providing a search scope that searches against one key, such as with_category(1) and the with_any_* convention should be used when providing a search scope that searches against one or multiple keys, such as with_any_category(1, 2, 3).
    • An example of such scope is with_any_category provided by the HasCategory concern which searches against the provided category IDs or any sub-category of those category IDs. You can find all the introduced (or changed) scopes by searching for scope :with_ within the Decidim codebase.
    • With Searchlight, these search parameters were provided e.g. as category_id which was then used to perform the explained search query manually in the ResourceSearch class which is now used for a different purpose. As the search now happens through Ransack and the ActiveRecord scopes, these parameters have been renamed to better explain what they do. With Ransack, matching e.g. against the category_id_eq key would mean that the search is done against this specific column in the record's database table and only searching for the provided search input (and not e.g. the parent categories in the category case).
  • The origin scopes provided by Decidim::Authorable and Decidim::Coauthorable have been renamed with the with_ prefix as explained above.
  • All the filtering key changes have been reflected to the participant filtering views (_filters.html.erb in most modules) as well as the controller methods default_filter_params where applicable.
  • The default_filter_params method within the participant-facing controllers now defines all the parameters that are allowed in the search queries and only these parameters are passed to the Ransack search. This limitation is made in order to protect the participant views from providing more searching options through the URL parameters than they are supposed to provide. In the past, the Searchlight::Search classes took care of utilizing only the allowed parameters but Ransacker does not have any middle-layer that would do the same, which is why the limitation is done at the controller side.
  • The search_collection method now defines the base collection used for the searches within the filtering controllers. In previous versions, there used to be a method that defined a search_klass method that defined the Searchlight::Search class to be used as the basis for the search. Now, the search_collection defines the base collection instead against which the Ransack search is run.

3rd party developers that have developed their own modules or customizations for the core controllers or filtering views, should revisit their customizations and make sure they reflect these changes made for the controllers or filtering views. It is suggested to remove the customizations related to the filtering views/controllers and re-do from scratch what needs to be customized in order to ensure full compatibility with the changed filtering APIs. In case you had created your own Searchlight::Search (or ResourceSearch) classes, you should scrap those and start over using Ransack.

More information on using Ransack can be found from the Ransack documentation. You can find examples for filtering in the core filtering views and controllers.

Fixed

Removed

  • decidim-core: The searchlight gem has been removed in favor of Ransach as of #8748. Please review the Changed notes regarding the required changes. Please review all your search classes that were inheriting from Searchlight::Search. You should migrate your search filtering to Ransack.
  • decidim-core: The search_params and default_search_params methods within the participant-facing controllers are now removed in favor of using filter_params and default_filter_params as of #8748. The duplicate methods were redundant after the Ransack migration which is why they were removed. In case you had overridden these methods in your controllers, they no longer do anything. In case you were calling these methods before, you will now receive a NoMethodError because they are removed. Please use filter_params and default_filter_params instead.
  • decidim-accountability, decidim-assemblies, decidim-budgets, decidim-consultations, decidim-core, decidim-elections, decidim-initiatives, decidim-participatory_processes, decidim-proposals, decidim-sortitions: The search service classes inheriting from Searchlight::Search that are no longer necessary due to the Ransack migration have been removed in all modules as of #8748. This includes Decidim::Accountability::ResultSearch, Decidim::Assemblies::AssemblySearch, Decidim::Budgets::ProjectSearch, Decidim::Consultations::ConsultationSearch, Decidim::HomeActivitySearch, Decidim::ParticipatorySpaceSearch, Decidim::Elections::ElectionsSearch, Decidim::Votings::VotingSearch, Decidim::Meetings::Directory::MeetingSearch, Decidim::ParticipatoryProcesses::ParticipatoryProcessesSearch, Decidim::Proposals::CollaborativeDraftSearch, Decidim::Proposals::ProposalSearch and Decidim::Sortitions::SortitionSearch.

Previous versions

Please check release/0.26-stable for previous changes.