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Roberto Rosario
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Mayan EDMS v0.12.3 release notes
Mayan EDMS v0.13 release notes
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*December 2012*
This is the third maintenance release of the 0.12 series.
Welcome to Mayan EDMS v0.13!
Overview
========
Initially this version was meant as a the third maintenance release of
the 0.12 series, but with the amount of changes and updates that were included
it was obvious this was not just a bug fix version anymore hence the version
jump to 0.13 instead of 0.12.3
Once again the focus for this release in the 0.12 series is including
bug fixes and minor feature.
What's new in Mayan EDMS v0.12.3
What's new in Mayan EDMS v0.13
================================
Django 1.3.3
Django 1.3.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~
This release updates the required version of Django to 1.3.3 to take advantage
This release updates the required version of Django to 1.3.5 to take advantage
of the security fixes added to that version of the framework.
Bulk document tagging and untagging
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Setting up **Mayan EDMS** after installation has been indetified by users as the
main difficulty when knowledge about **Mayan EDMS** is relatively low. To
address this situation a new feature that provides preconfigured setups has been
added. Aside from including preconfigured setups, the new bootstrap apps
has the ability of dumping an users current setup into a serialized text file
added. These preconfigured setups are published in the **Mayan EDMS** website and
upon synchonization are available to users, this gives users access and integrators
access to new setups without having to wait for new versions of **Mayan EDMS**.
Aside from including preconfigured setups, the new bootstrap app
has the ability of dumping an user's current setup into a serialized text file
which can be tweaked by hand and sent via email to other users. The possibilities
enabled by this range from company wide defaults setups to consultants providing
their clients with customized setups without having to access their clients'
**Mayan EDMS** instances. ``JSON``, ``YAML`` and a custom ``YAML`` format
(http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2461/) are supported by this new app.
#TODO: Add repository sync
Add documents to folders in bulk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As requested, the ability to add more than one document at a time to a selected
folder has been added.
Translation updates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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single organizational unit. An error that caused a duplicate menu link in the
document type filename view was also fixed.
#TODO: Add removal of UNOCONV
Support for UNOCONV dropped
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Support for converting office documents by calling LibreOffice via UNOCONV
has been disabled for a while ever since LibreOffice start including
document conversion support from the command line. This version completly
removes any traces of code and configuration options related to UNOCONV.
Optimizations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Inspired by the idea of getting **Mayan EDMS** running effectively on low power hardware such as
the Raspberry Pi several rounds or profiling and optimization were done.
the Raspberry Pi, several rounds or profiling and optimization were done.
Some caching optimization were introduced to the permission model, resulting in
a speed increase of 33% in rendering time on views with heavy permission checking
@@ -98,9 +111,7 @@ If you installed **Mayan EDMS** by cloning the Git repository issue the commands
$ git pull
otherwise download the compressed archived and uncompress it overriding the existing installation.
#TODO: add wget and curl get instructions
Next add the new requirements::
$ pip install -r requirements/production.txt
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* `issue #28`_ "Document indexing based on filesystem problem"
* `issue #31`_ "Bulk add tags Feature request"
* `issue #32`_ "Error run $python manage.py syncdb"
* `issue #37`_ "When 19 >= &document_type_id >= 10 in url, error page not found"
* `issue #39`_ Feature request "Bulk move folders"
.. _issue #28: https://github.com/rosarior/mayan/issues/28
.. _issue #31: https://github.com/rosarior/mayan/issues/31
.. _issue #32: https://github.com/rosarior/mayan/issues/32
.. _issue #37: https://github.com/rosarior/mayan/issues/37
.. _issue #33: https://github.com/rosarior/mayan/issues/39