ODK Central v2022.3.0

Datasets

• Get errors about names when uploading Draft for Dataset-managing Form
• Get hint about testing Datasets in alpha
• See Entities warning when enabling Managed Encryption
• See linked Datasets in Form Overview and Form Draft Status
• Publish a Dataset-registrating Form
• Manage Datasets
• Approve an Entity-registrating Submission
• See Entity creation on Submission feed
• Make Entity reference when managing Attachments
• List Dataset actions in Server Audit Log

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Rename “Media File” to “Form Attachment” or “Submission Attachment”
• Add ability to filter Submissions on multiple Review States (getodk/central-frontend#559)
• Add ability to filter Submissions on multiple submitters
• Allow user to select more than 100 columns, but show warning (getodk/central-frontend#396)
• Add support for $select OData query parameter (getodk/central-backend#493)
• Configure Enketo to match relevance behavior of ODK Collect
• Handle Form titles that contain characters &, <, or > (getodk/central-backend#478)
• Return correct API response after comment creation (getodk/central-backend#516)
• Return combined verbs over API if User is assigned multiple Roles on a Project (getodk/central-backend#486)
• Return Problem response if API user specifies a number that is too large (getodk/central-backend#514)
• Improve handling of unexpected errors (getodk/central-backend#592)
• Fix issue starting multiple instances of API server (#329)
• Add Content Security Policy reporting
• Prevent reboot loop if openssl fails
• Remove duplicate logging for service (#265)
• Do not run server if database migration was removed as part of Central downgrade (getodk/central-backend#509)

Maintenance

• Update usage information metrics
• Send version information to Sentry (getodk/central-backend#547)
• Resolve Sentry errors missing information (getodk/central-backend#483)
• Add soak testing (getodk/central-backend#204)
• Upgrade to Node 16
• Update Backend dependencies
• Update Frontend dependencies
• Update Enketo
• Update pyxform-http
• Update translations

GitHub issue: #298
Forum announcement: https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2022-3/39787

ODK Central v1.5.4

Bugs Fixed

• Select PostgreSQL apt repo based on OS codename

ODK Central v1.5.3

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Remove ability to create backups config
• Update Sentry ingestion URL (#311)
• Set Sentry username (getodk/central-backend#521)
• Set Sentry environment (getodk/central-backend#547)
• Prevent database connection leak after too many concurrent requests (getodk/central-backend#482)
• Prevent database connection leak after premature close (getodk/central-backend#485)
• Destroy inactive database streams (getodk/central-backend#565)
• Handle error creating database stream (getodk/central-backend#479)
• Set security headers at root path (#303)
• Don't include referrer information in cross-origin requests (#314)
• Update Enketo
• Update server url configuration for Enketo
• Update translations

ODK Central v1.5.2

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Fix frontend performance issue on homepage and project overview
• Upgrade to recent LTS OS

ODK Central v1.5.1

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Show IDs of Forms that have duplicate titles
• Update translations
• Update Enketo
• Update pyxform-http
• Update API docs about OData

ODK Central v1.5.0

Homepage

• (revisit) See more and better information on the Homepage

Projects

• (revisit) See more and better information on the Projects list
• Add ability to customize Project descriptions
• Do not automatically create a Default Project

Forms

• (revisit) See more and better information on the Forms list
• Remove the published Form checklist

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Include filter selections in URL for Submissions page
• Add ability to configure size of database connection pool (getodk/central-backend#480)
• Add ability to use port other than 443 for HTTPS (#259)
• Show informative error message when duplicate Form ID contains ) (getodk/central-backend#450)
• Do not send password reset email if account does not exist (getodk/central-backend#468)
• Return consistent API response for password reset when ?invalidate=true (getodk/central-backend#473)
• Resolve Sass warnings shown during frontend build

Maintenance

• Update usage information metrics
• Update to Vue 3
• Update backend dependencies
• Update frontend dependencies
• Update Enketo
  • Add support for geoJSON external secondary instances
• Update pyxform-http
  • More accurate identification of dynamic defaults
• Update translations

GitHub issue: #278
Forum announcement: https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v1-5/37882

ODK Central v1.4.2

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Allow user to both filter Submissions and split "select multiple" fields
• Update pyxform-http
  • Reduce memory usage on certain XLSForm conversions

ODK Central v1.4.1

Bugs Fixed

• Don't run server if database migration fails (#258)

ODK Central v1.4.0

Form Deletion

• 4.14 Purge deleted Forms
• Handle deleted resources in Server Audit Log (#127)

Submissions

• 5.10a Export Submissions with “select multiple” choices as columns
• (n/a) or remove group names
• (n/a) or include deleted Form fields
• Display name of Form version associated with Submission (getodk/central-backend#398)
• Save additional metadata about Submission version (#254)

Other

• Require passwords/passphrases to be at least 10 characters long
• Add Swahili

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Purge unneeded Draft Form immediately
• Update API to support parentheses in OData filter
• Improve resiliency of backend workers (getodk/central-backend#436)
• Increase limit on payload size in case there are many Forms (getodk/central-backend#446)
• Do not log password hash in Server Audit Log
• Improve appearance of select elements in Safari (getodk/central-frontend#515)
• Show message if Submission download is not yet available (getodk/central-frontend#236)
• Do not rebuild Enketo (#263)

Maintenance

• Add usage information metrics
• Fix select usage information metrics (getodk/central-backend#437)
• Update Backend dependencies
• Update Frontend dependencies
• Update Enketo
  • Ensure that form_logo.png is loaded when present
  • All signature images are now uploaded in offline-capable Forms
• Update pyxform-http
  • Add accuracy parameters for geopoint
  • Warn when languages are missing translations

GitHub issue: #252
Forum announcement: https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v1-4/36886

ODK Central v1.3.3

Bugs Fixed

• Fix LetsEncrypt renewal failures (#253)
• Remove warning message from odk-cmd command line tool (getodk/central-backend#419)
• Update Enketo
  • Public access links with media and forms with non-ASCII form IDs now load as expected