v0.19.0 (April 14, 2016)

Enhancements

• Agreement Changes
  • Principal reviewers can now close agreements
  • Review process now quickly displays past datasets approved for data user
  • IRB approval attachment is now more prominently displayed for reviewers
• Blog Changes
  • Community members can now more easily edit blogs
  • Keywords can be added to blog posts to increase visibility on search engines
• Dataset Changes
  • Improved browsing file downloads on smaller devices
  • File download commands can now be easily copied to clipboard
  • Dataset file folders can now have individual descriptions
  • Dataset tracking of file information, like MD5 and file size, has been
    improved
  • Requesting a single file through the JSON API now works as well
    • This allows the nsrr gem to download single files
  • Dataset editors can now view and filter agreements for single datasets
  • The dataset files directory is now created on dataset creation
• Dashboard Changes
  • Improved display of admin pages linked from the dashboard
• Forum Changes
  • Changing subscription preference on forum topics no longer reloads the
    entire page
• Map Changes
  • Map location is now pulled using a local database lookup
• Mobile Changes
  • Added a link to the user dashboard in mobile navigation menu
• Email Changes
  • Removed margins in emails to display better across email clients
• Variable Changes
  • Variable labels are now added as meta page keywords to increase visibility
    on search engines
  • Variable forms now display a message if the file is available only viewable
    with a data access and use agreement
  • Variable forms now display a message if the linked file is not found on the
    server
  • Improved how variable domain options are stored
  • Fixed the ordering when transitioning between variables using arrow keys
• API Changes
  • Introduced a new API for dataset file downloads that supports both full
    folder and individual file downloads
    • GET /api/v1/datasets.json
      • List all viewable datasets
    • GET /api/v1/datasets/:dataset.json
      • Displays information on a dataset
    • GET /api/v1/datasets/:dataset/files.json
      • Displays a list of files available at the dataset files root directory
    • GET /api/v1/datasets/:dataset/files.json?path=folder
      • Displays a list of files available in the dataset folder directory
    • GET /api/v1/datasets/:dataset/files.json?path=folder/file.txt
      • Returns an array containing information about folder/file.txt
  • All of the above commands can also optionally include the auth_token
    parameter to authenticate a specific user to view information on private
    datasets and files
  • Added a new API for authenticating account
    • GET /api/v1/account/profile.json
      • Returns profile information for authenticated account
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to rails 4.2.6
  • Restricted mini_magick to 4.4.0
  • Added maxminddb gem

Bug Fix

• Fixed documentation links on dataset and tool sync page

Refactoring

• Started cleanup and refactoring, and additional testing of controllers