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Mayan 0.12.1 released

Mostly a bug fix release, but three very important improvements made into this version. The document text parsing subsystem has been re-factored to allow several parsers per file type, a new PDF parser based on poppler-utils's pdftotext utility submited by Brian E. was also added. This is now the default method Mayan EDMS will execute to try to extract text from a PDF file and failing that will fallback to the previous method. Be sure to install the poppler-utils OS package to take advantage of this new parser. Also added is an improved office document conversion method that doesn't rely on unoconv to work, aside from this mayor improvements other changes made it into this release: complete Italian translation, an automated install method using a Fabric file (fabfile) that supports single, multiple and heterogeneous deployments, the installation documentation was also updated. The OCR queue is now active by default when first created during the syncdb phase and the OCR_AUTOMATIC_OCR option now defaults to True. These two changes are made to reduce the steps required for new users to start enjoying the benefits of automatic text extraction from uploaded documents without having to read the documentation and have a more functional default install. Full release notes here: http://mayan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releases/0.12.1.html

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March 13, 2012

Mayan EDMS Google Plus Hangout.

I will be doing a Google plus hangout to answer questions about Mayan EDMS and document management for those using it or planning to use it. So if you have a Google Plus account drop by Wednesday March 14, 2012 at about 7:00pm AST for the first ever Mayan EDMS Hangout!

Version 0.13 development cycle started.

Two very much requested features have landed in the development version of Mayan EDMS: The ability to send documents or document links via email and to be able to receive document as attachments via email and process them automatically.

So head over to Github and clone the latest development branch to start using and testing these new features.

Mayan EDMS version 0.12 released!

Almost 3 months in the making and 1 year after it was initially started, version 0.12 of Mayan EDMS is now available. Thanks to everybody that contributed in one way or another to make this possible! Highlights for this new version include:

• ACL support, per document, folder or tag access control
• Anonymous user support, allow non authenticated user access to the web interface
• Updated Russian translation as well as new Italian and partial Polish translations
• Widgets usability improvements
• Ability to download multiple documents as a single zip file
• Customizable GPG home directory, for distributions that do not provide a sensible default
• Command line utilities for the bulk upload of documents and user accounts
• Refactored document indexing, multiple automatic indexes can now created
• Improved code quality and documentation

For a more complete list of the new features, changes and removed items read the Version 0.12 release notes.

January 12, 2012

New Google group

To increase communication between users of Mayan EDMS, a Google group has been created, it is low volume and everything related to Mayan EDMS will be discussed there.

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December 19, 2011

Document level access support

Still many things left to do, but after much work the ACL subsystem is in a usable state. Document level access is already supported with folder and tag level access following suit.

December 13, 2011

The Italian translation for Mayan EDMS has been completed, merged in the development branch and will be included in the upcoming version 0.12. Many thanks to SeeOpen.IT for this contribution.

December 7, 2011

Bugfix version v0.11.1

This is the first bugfix release of the .11 series, and includes the following:

• A documents deletion regression fix
• Improves error detection when importing keys from a keyserver
• Fixes a wrong method call when verifying signatures for the first time upon document uploading
• django-compress is now disabled by default to avoid problems when deploying with DjangoZoom

December 6, 2011

Mayan v0.11 released!

Highlights

Two of the most asked features have been included:

• Document signature verification support (both: embedded and detached)
• Document versioning support

The full changelog can be found here: http://readthedocs.org/docs/mayan

December 4, 2011

Document versioning

Multiple document versions is almost ready and will be included in the next version (v0.11), the REST API has also been updated to expose this new functionality.

December 3, 2011

Digital signature verification

Digital signature verification has seen many updates but it is still uncertain if it will be complete enough to be included in the next version.