v1.3.0

This is a minor release.

Breaking changes

• Maps now require a CARTO API key (#524)
• Environment variable ADMIN_USER_PASSWORD is now required when seeding a
  new database

New features

• Migrations required: exact duplicate scientific records are now detected
  and automatically merged. Rejects creation of duplicates (#310), warns when
  an update will cause a merge (#311), and can merge across unnamed but
  identical samples (#516). (#309, #515)
• Migrations required: scientific records can now be superseded:
  soft-deleted and replaced by another record, retaining their permalink (#496).
• Migrations required: added name attribute to samples (#371)
• Migrations required: added OpenContext, Pleiades, Vici.org, and
  iDAI.gazetteer as linked record sources for sites and c14s (#487). Renamed
  LODLinks to LinkedResources (#372). Public views/controllers decoupled from
  Wikidata specifically. Added site description section populated via Wikidata;
  linked-data panel no longer fetches supplementary data on every page load (#479).
• Migrations required: added admin CLI for importing tabular datasets from
  CSV and BibTeX, replacing the removed GUI import_tables feature (#341)
• Migrations required: added generic representation of controlled
  vocabularies with variant thesauri (#444), including controlled term attribute
  part_of_organism on samples (#253)
• Migrations required: peripheral associated records are now snapshotted on
  Site versions via ActiveSnapshot (#502), including new snapshots and
  snapshot_items tables. Site version history now shows a unified diff of both
  Site changes and peripheral record changes. SiteNames and LinkedResources now
  generate contextual revision comments when added, changed, or removed.
• Migrations required: added affiliations to user profiles
• Editing taxons now uses the GBIF search API for suggestions (#250), with
  asynchronous requests that don't block page rendering (#417).
• Added MIaaRD-shaped JSON export for radiocarbon determinations, including
  single-record downloads for C14 records and filter-aware collection export
  from the public data browser. Uses the current MIaaRD RadiocarbonDate
  field structure.
• Added second column to article show views with extended author metadata on
  news articles, table of contents on about pages, and suggested citations (#117).
• Added Atom and RSS feeds of news articles (#395).

Bug fixes

• Fixed synchronisation of taxons with GBIF by replacing the deprecated V1
  species match API (#417).

Other changes

• Migration required: removed the unused MeasurementStates.
• Optimised JavaScript asset pipeline (#217)
• Made software version visible in page footer and added Zenodo archive link (#436)
• Removed standalone Typo show view. Typological dates are now only shown
  embedded in Site views (#398)
• Improved test coverage

v1.2.2

This is a security hotfix release based on v1.2.1.

Changes:

• Tightened controller authorization for selected mutating actions.
• Added focused regression coverage for the adjusted access rules.

v1.2.1

This is a bug fix release.

• Fixed pagination in context issue show view
• Fixed bug in context issue show view

v1.2.0

This is a minor release focused mainly on improving performance to mitigate against the large volume of traffic we are receiving from bots and crawlers (#411).

It also includes a new "functional classifications" entity and related APIs. This is a new approach to categorising the type of occupation(s) at a site.

New features & API changes:

• Added unique and "one blank per site" constraints on context names (#432)
• Added functional classifications of contexts (#407)
  • Added curation workflow for functional classifications of contexts
  • Added issue view for contexts missing functional classifications
  • Added functional classification suggestions based on site type labels
  • Added JSON builder for functional classification data
• New admin dashboard for monitoring asynchronous jobs (/admin/jobs)
• Improved workflows for record deletion
  • Unused references, taxons, and materials are now automatically deleted
    • Added rake tasks to cleanup unused
  • Ensured dependent records are properly cleaned up after site deletion
    • Added rake task for safe cascading destruction
  • Prevented duplicate citations from being created
    • Migration may fail if there are existing duplicates in the database. If so:
      DRY_RUN=1 bin/rails xronos:citations:deduplicate
      checks for existing duplicates that would block this migration. And:
      bin/rails xronos:citations:deduplicate
      deletes them.
• Added bundled acknowledgements page rendered from version-controlled Markdown (#359).
• Added article-specific page titles and meta descriptions for news, about, and documentation articles.

Bug fixes:

• Sign-in cookie is now deleted on sign out (#379)
• Fixed Leaflet marker initialisation on site pages with quotation marks or apostrophes in site names.
• Fixed data browser map display for records with missing coordinates.
• Added countish pagination for large public listings to reduce expensive repeated count queries.
• Fixed potential code injection vulnerability in issues (#407)

Maintenance & documentation:

• Standardised the test suite on Minitest and migrated existing RSpec coverage (#422).
• Documented expectations for responsible API and automated data access (#405).
• Updated footer logos to reflect current affiliations, funding, and previous support (#404).
• Upgraded Rails from 7.2.3 to 8.0.5 and enabled Rails 8.0 framework defaults.
• Upgraded Pagy from 6.5.0 to 43.5.5 and migrated pagination helpers to the Pagy 43 API.
• XRONOS rake tasks are now prepended with xronos and can be listed with
  bin/rails -T xronos

v1.1.2

This is a patch release aimed at addressing recent performance issues caused by excessive bot crawling.

• Removed pagination and sorting from public CSV exports
• Hardened CSV exports against costly crawler/bot requests
• Added request throttling with rack-attack
• Added Cloudflare-aware client IP handling for rate limiting
• Improved handling of pagination overflow by returning 404
• Improved performance of recursive site reference loading
• Refactored XRONOS data response helpers

v1.1.1

JSON & performance hotfixes for XRONOS data, sites, and C14 records.

• Opened lean JSON endpoints for C14 labs and C14 dates, returning JSON directly from the controller and trimming unnecessary associations from samples.
• Optimised eager loading for sites, C14s and references pages, solving several N+1 query issues and preloading PaperTrail versions where needed.
• Added fragment caching to the site view and a 10-minute cache for XRONOS data responses, significantly reducing load times for heavy data pages.
• Cached item counts on the home page and re-used Pagy’s count values instead of recounting, further reducing database load.
• Improved map performance by streamlining the JavaScript and optimising how counts are calculated for the map view.
• Adjusted C14 calibration handling by removing noisy calibration logging and only joining cals when a calibration filter is actually applied.
• Added MessagePack support and updated Rails to the latest 7.2 release, keeping dependencies current and improving overall performance.

What's Changed

• refactored sites table, resolves #169 by @MartinHinz in #381
• Hotfixes json by @MartinHinz in #400

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

v1.1.0

• Introduced the ability to manage and display external linked data (e.g., Wikidata) within the application
• Added a new Linked Data section to the site view, providing clear and user- friendly access to external resources
• Added options for authorized users to add external resource links (e.g. Wikidata entries)
• Improved search interface; now shows more information and can be filtered by record type
• Added LONG_LABEL issue for references (#260)
• Updated to Ruby 3.3.6 and Rails 7.2

v1.0.0

First named release.

Logged pull requests to date:

• Explicit api by @MartinHinz in #4
• improved speed significantly by @MartinHinz in #20
• doh! recompleted gemfile by @MartinHinz in #21
• Dev speedup by @MartinHinz in #22
• updated ruby to 2.7.2 by @MartinHinz in #32
• Remove user id from models by @MartinHinz in #34
• Seeds by @MartinHinz in #33
• Rails6 by @MartinHinz in #35
• switched to Ruby 3.0.2 and updated gems. Closes xronos-ch/orga#16 by @MartinHinz in #36
• updated to rails 6.1.4.1. because of vulnerability of actionpack by @MartinHinz in #50
• Staging by @MartinHinz in #51
• updated yarn as far as possible by @MartinHinz in #52
• added projects to about page by @MartinHinz in #60
• Quickfix security alerts by @MartinHinz in #62
• updated yarn by @MartinHinz in #63
• Quickfix security alerts by @MartinHinz in #64
• updated gems by @MartinHinz in #73
• Added coop partner thomasz by @MartinHinz in #74
• solved most security alerts by @MartinHinz in #75
• Renovate about pages by @joeroe in #81
• Improve map style by @joeroe in #82
• Bootstrap forms by @joeroe in #85
• Update show.json.rabl by @joeroe in #106
• Curation by @joeroe in #122
• Curation by @joeroe in #125
• replace length by count by @MartinHinz in #130
• Faster map by @MartinHinz in #148
• Update from master by @joeroe in #152
• Merge old commits from staging by @joeroe in #153
• Merge pull request #153 from xronos-ch/staging by @joeroe in #154
• Basic Postgres search API by @joeroe in #164
• fixed record count, solves #151 by @MartinHinz in #166
• Fix maps javascript by @MartinHinz in #167
• Bug squashing by @joeroe in #170
• yarn upgrade by @MartinHinz in #171
• bundle update by @MartinHinz in #174
• Update staging by @joeroe in #175
• Add webpack as explicit dependency by @joeroe in #176
• Staging by @joeroe in #177
• Update staging from master by @joeroe in #178
• Fix node setup problems from staging by @joeroe in #179
• Reenable tests by @MartinHinz in #180
• Search & duplicate processing by @joeroe in #187
• Codecov by @MartinHinz in #190
• Test api by @MartinHinz in #191
• bump by @MartinHinz in #193
• Using calibrator by @MartinHinz in #192
• Healthcheck by @MartinHinz in #195
• Fixing api crash sitetypes by @MartinHinz in #198
• Testing calibrator by @MartinHinz in #194
• Improve performance and reliability by @joeroe in #212
• Tidy up Gemfile by @joeroe in #231
• make hamburger opaque when shown, fixes #207 by @MartinHinz in #234
• Removing rabl by @MartinHinz in #233
• bump to rails 6.1.7 by @MartinHinz in #235
• very basic http_auth for staging by @MartinHinz in #236
• replaced link_to with button_to for logout by @MartinHinz in #238
• Performance and accessibility by @joeroe in #239
• Data quality: taxons by @joeroe in #248
• Content management by @joeroe in #251
• Tabulated data by @joeroe in #254
• More issues by @joeroe in #282
• Fix vulnerability in issues interface by @joeroe in #283
• More issues by @joeroe in #285
• Restore functionality to data browser by @joeroe in #299
• Upgrade to Rails 7 by @joeroe in #305
• User managment by @MartinHinz in #275
• Editing improvements by @joeroe in #321
• Curating missing country for sites by @MartinHinz in #322
• Speeding up api by @MartinHinz in #332
• Mat view api by @MartinHinz in #335
• Geojson endpoint by @MartinHinz in #334
• Fixing ci by @MartinHinz in #337
• Flat File Export and Daily Update Task by @MartinHinz in #338
• Csv and JSON download by @MartinHinz in #336

New Contributors

• @MartinHinz made their first contribution in #4
• @joeroe made their first contribution in #81

Full Changelog: https://github.com/xronos-ch/xronos.rails/commits/v1.0.0