Version 4.2.16

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Released: May 31, 2023

Status: Maintenance

Changes

Announcements

Disabled the announcements app login template caching. This fixes
announcement texts not changing when edits are made.

CD/CI

CI improvements to the documentation jobs:

  • Install wheel to use modern Python package versions.
  • Don't install or build the Mayan EDMS Python package and instead
    use the development code to build the documentation.
  • Ensure APT proxy quotes are escaped.
  • Move Wheel dependency version to top level config file.

Dependencies

Django was updated from version 3.2.16 to 3.2.19.

Docker

The variable names for the Docker credential in the staging makefile
were fixed. This change only affects developers running a live staging
test.

The Docker Debian image was updated from version 11.4-slim to 11.7-slim.
The Redis Docker image was updated from version 6.2.11-alpine to
6.2.12-alpine.

Documents

The trashed document deletion task is now retries on database
OperationalError exceptions.

On large number of documents or document with many pages, the level of
deletions exceed the database capacity to fulfill them. This causes a
query deadlock where one database process waits for a ShareLock on a
transaction which itself is blocked by another ShareLock on the previous
transaction.

After a timeout period of this circular transaction dependency an
OperationalError exception will be raised and the trashed document
deletion can be retried.

Documentation

The documentation sitemap URL scheme format was updated to remove
versioning. This fixes search engine sitemap generation.

The Flake8 command line was added to the Flake8 check step in the
release chapter.

Search

The Whoosh backend search object deletion and addition stages are now
separate try and exception blocks. This is functionally the same but
allows for easier debugging and smaller exception blocks with only one
statement per block.

Testing

The class DocumentTestMixin was split into DocumentTypeTestMixin and
DocumentTestMixin.

A task testing module was added to the documents app.

Events assertion was added to the document model tests.

User interface

A separate CSS class was created to handle unwanted second scrollbar on
forms with an embedded carousel. So far this only happens on Firefox.
This change also fixes the left and right margin issue with modern
Chromium browsers.

Workflows

A workflow action test was fixed. The test result is the same but was
testing the conditions using the wrong assertion.

The widget definition of the document type change workflow action was
fixed. It nows uses the proper Select2 widget to filter the selection.

Other

  • Remove extra punctuation in help text. Text being concatenated
    already has punctuation. This fixes the double periods in some help
    texts.

Removals

  • None

Backward incompatible changes

  • None

Issues closed