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Version 4.8.0

Breaking changes:

The backupzip endpoint of APIv1 has been removed. It will come back as a console script.

Bugfixes:

  • Fix incorrect selectable state detection on Scheduler (would allow selecting a slot when no items are selected, which was confusing)
  • Bring back borders on all tables (fix #4436)
  • Fix deadline notifications on steps not working
  • Fix lists and links display in pdf (fix #4463)
  • Fix issue with invalid date format on chromium based browsers (fix #4412)
  • Fix issue with error message shown to user deleting a unique tag (fix #4420)
  • Fix glitch when deleting entries in show mode
  • Fix incorrect check for is_sysadmin during team edition (fix #4405)
  • Fix lock icon on templates not getting updated correctly (fix #4388)
  • Fix issue issue where extra fields were not displayed if there was groups with no elements inside. fix #4387
  • Fix changelog view for templates (fix #4393)

New features:

  • Allow archiving entries and uploads: archive action will force lock and hide from listing
  • Allow displaying archived entries by toggling a box
  • Allow toggling the Main text section like the other sections of an entry
  • Add JSON export in Export menu
  • Add api/v2/info endpoint with information about the instance. See https://doc.elabftw.net/api/v2/#/Info/get-info
  • Improve booking system and options. See #4474 and https://doc.elabftw.net/user-guide.html#booking-resources. Fix #4023
  • Improve required extra fields handling. Fix #4060. Add red star, red border if invalid (empty), and a switch on the builder
  • Add new extra fields types: time, datetime and email (fix #4411)
  • Add "Now" button for date, time and datetime extra fields (see #4411)
  • Work in progress: Add a Dashboard (PR #4419)
  • Allow transfering ownership of a template to another user
  • Add suggested tags in edit mode
  • Add SQL to list of highlighted langs
  • Improve revisions system (#4460). Make them accessible from APIv2. Add possibility to display a diff between revisions (fix #1667)
  • Add legal notice configuration (Impressum). fix #4053). Also allow changing the titles.
  • Add differentiation for English UK(GB) and US
  • Add import/export in console (see PR #4439)
  • Accessibility: add user option to disable shortcuts (#4427)
  • Accessibility: add status role for notifications (see wcag 2.1 4.1.3)
  • Add scissors and centrifuge symbols (fix #4413)
  • Sysadmin features (PR #4404): allow filtering only admins, allow targeting population of users for sending mass email, allow setting custom error message when local account creation is required
  • Archive experiments during user archival (fix #3632)
  • Add archival possibilities (PR #4403 fix #521)
  • Add "Load fields" button to load extra fields from a template or items types
  • Allow user deletion by sysadmin. Allow unvalidated user deletion by admin (fix #4380)

Enhancements:

  • Trim firstname/lastname from spaces during user creation (fix #4480)
  • Make the editable text bigger by removing a leftover custom CSS rule forcing it to 10pt
  • Add a margin at the bottom of the editor and resize it automatically
  • Correctly reload timestamp info/files after timestamp action
  • Add a note to instruct user to select an item on scheduler if none are selected
  • Modifying an uploaded file, adding a step or link will change the last modification date of the entry they belong to
  • Remove page generation time from footer, add link to deltablot and version blog post
  • Add Reply-To header to emails sent with email feature so recipients can directly reply to the correct person. Also add a note about it in the email.
  • Make the change password action through api require the current password like the web ui does
  • Add focus to multi factor input on page load
  • Allow an Admin to promote someone else Admin (fix #4434)
  • Improve UX when clicking "unset" on orgid column in user list
  • Rework how future bookings are shown on the item view page
  • Make extra fields search case insensitive
  • Make favorite tags stand out with gold background
  • Fix incorrect wording for "Show related experiments/items"
  • Allow style HTML attribute in video tag (PR #4426 by Sammy Jenkins)
  • Rename "Database" to "Resources"
  • Improve and correctly use font resources (fix #4410)
  • Rename "Only me" to "Only owner"
  • Add a name attribute to image inserted in text so its name can be found when downloaded (fix #3797)
  • Hide switch editor menu entry in view mode of template
  • Make the pinned templates icon clickable in listing mode (fix #4392)

Dev stuff:

  • Translation files for javascript (with i18next) are now generated automatically from bin/console dev:i18n4js. So the files do not need anymore to be edited manually.
  • Get rid of the old generateSecretKey file and the install/ folder, also remove the index.php at root
  • Add tests for the Commands namespace

Docker image changes:

  • Update to alpine 3.18
  • Fix issue with AWS key containing a slash (fix #4471)
  • Fix set_real_ip not working with CIDR notation
  • Configure nginx to serve only from a defined list of files for PHP
  • Add more security related compilation flags to nginx
  • Pin the two custom nginx module to known versions
  • Add CI/mon to enforce outgoing connections during build
  • Only install prod js dependencies during build
  • Changes in the example docker-compose file for cap_drop and cap_add: drop all and add only required capabilities

SYSADMINS: The last change means you might want to adapt your elabftw.yml file (docker-compose.yml) to reflect that change:
https://github.com/elabftw/elabimg/blob/eca0023a457880fff9ffcbe01ee2582fda6a4c77/src/docker-compose.yml-EXAMPLE#L39-L49

Changes since beta

5bb5a08 update indonesian
b314ab1 update chinese
74508bd remove unused script merge-po.sh
fe98d18 test fix
fdb28b4 fix bug where checked extra field would appear unchecked in pdf
b63f358 OVE is now under @TeselaGen namespace (#4489)
e80df9e improve UX for unvalidated accounts
1fa3c13 add missing translations
3bd8211 small fix for field builder options shown depending on type

Changes since alpha

21cd556 update portuguese, brazilian flavor
cf35ec5 update portuguese
c29ab51 update indonesian
41b5037 update chinese translations
4b85093 update german lang
a9444bd fix for recent eln changes
e59de7d only show bookings from the future in dashboard
69baf1c next version is beta version
132db5d fix issue with anonymous user could not use api calls
11997f7 some .eln related changes:
158b027 Merge branch 'hypernext' of github.com:elabftw/elabftw into hypernext
6364f11 Run cypress on circleci (#4484)
e3a5139 fix anonymous login
0f8793a remove unused code
0103057 improve sync between json editor and extra fields
aa2f382 fix issue with extra fields not shown if ungrouped field deleted
1054f1c improve sync between extra fields and json editor. fix #4343
301c245 add missing "saved" key for i18next
7341bb6 add units to extra fields for numbers inputs
ecf8745 add button to delete extra field

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