February 2020 Point Release 2

This fixes bugs in Real Name support and further eliminates dependencies on Intercom.

February 2020 Point Release

Fixes a bug for installations not using intercom.

February 2020 Release

This release contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:

User Enhancements

• The text layer of uploaded PDF files can be ingested for OCR correction. (Sponsored by the University of Innsbruck)
• Users can add a "Real Name" to use when crediting their work. This is exposed in exports if it is filled out, otherwise pseudonymous usernames are exposed. (Sponsored by the University of Texas-Austin)
• Zoomer.js has been replaced with OpenSeadragon as an image viewer, making uploaded works consistent with imported works.

Integration Enhancements

• Transcripts can be exported to CONTENTdm full-text search fields
• Translation status/needs review is exposed in IIIF API

Bug Fixes

• Uploading large TIFF files no longer triggers out-of-memory errors
• Busy spinner no longer launches at transcribers working on slow connections

October 2019 Release

This release contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:

User Enhancements

• Users can rotate images while transcribing works imported from CONTENTdm or other IIIF servers.
• When collaborators transcribe the last page of a work, the next page button directs them to an appropriate untranscribed page within the collection.
• Users can opt out of all nightly activity report emails.
• When collaborators mark a page blank from the transcribe tab, they are no longer redirected to the overview tab.
• Long organization names now fit within the collection settings page.

Integration Enhancements

• Documents and collections can now be imported from CONTENTdm custom URLs.
• HTML exports no longer include span tags around line breaks.

Bug Fixes

• The export screen links to the correct IIIF API endpoint.
• Navigation link alignment within the site footer reduces footer size.
• Escaped HTML no longer appears on activity stream.

September 2019 Patch 1

This release contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Enhancements and Bug Fixes

• Software version is displayed on administrator home page, in exports, and as an export/version API.
• Page notes longer than 252 characters are now allowed.
• Users are warned if they attempt to post a note while logged out.
• Performance improvements to "Next untranscribed page" functionality
• Project owners can toggle OCR correction mode on or off for an entire collection.
• Project owner contributors tab made more fault-tolerant.

September 2019 Release

This release contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:

User Enhancements

• Warning when someone else is transcribing a page you are transcribing.
• Performance improvements to the "Find a Project" page.
• Private Document sets you can collaborate on are visible.
• Accounts created from a collection page automatically join a collection.

Integration Enhancements

• Better messages for ContentDM integration.
• You can now import ContentDM collections.

Serviceability Improvements

• Better performance analysis.
• Coveralls test coverage reporting.
• Reduced performance impact of uploading documents.

Bug Fixes

• HTML exports no longer have extraneous elements.
• Fixed document set view and edit permissions.
• Upgraded libraries for improved security.
• Improved "save" button positioning and footer height.

August 2019 Release

This release contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:

User Enhancements

• Users signing in and new users signing up are consistently taken back to the page they were viewing/working on.
• Text written in right-to-left scripts are now right-justified in multi-page views (search results, work home page).
• Project owners can toggle individual works between Transcription and OCR Correction modes.
• Expunge user administrator functionality (for spam remediation) now removes works uploaded by users being expunged.
• User-created notes for a page can now be multi-line.

Integration Enhancements

• The IIIF endpoint for a collection is now displayed in the collection export screen.
• The IIIF manifest for each work is now linked from the collection export screen.
• IIIF API now lists contributors (with ORCIDs, if applicable) for each canvas.

Serviceability Improvements

• "All Collections" list page performance improved, dropping page load times to 10% of previous time.
• Extra server load generated by crawlers and scripts has been remediated.
• Duplicate Ahoy ID errors are no longer appearing in logs.
• Improved performance when checking for untranscribed pages within a project.

Bug Fixes

• IIIF API no longer returns the wrong manifest for certain IDs
• For works uploaded to the FromThePage server, IIIF annotations including transcripts, translations, and notes are displayed as they are for works originating elsewhere.

July 2019 Release (patch 1)

Adds functionality to flag potentially abusive content for review.

July 2019 Release

This release primarily contains code for expunging abusive user content. In addition to that feature, it contains the following features and bug fixes:

Enhancements:

• New plain text export visible on the collection export screen
• Accessibility enhancements to achieve WCAG 2.0 compliance
• Projects with subjects disabled can now use [[square braces]] for editorial notes

Bug fixes:

• Collection statistics recalculated whenever work statistics change
• Smaller files uploaded to the server now have appropriate file permissions
• Blanking out a transcript resets the status of the page to the initial, untranscribed state.

June 2019 Release

This release includes several enhancements and bug fixes.

Enhancements:

• Users can translate directly from image facsimiles, or toggle between transcription and image while translating.
• reCAPTCHA now works for users in the People's Republic of China
• Document Sets can have set-specific images, which will be displayed on the project owner's homepage carousel.
• Guest transcription can be disabled on an installation-wide basis
• New users and owners must opt in to receive notification emails.
• New contributor activity export allows spreadsheet analysis of user contributions by type.
• Collections can be marked inactive, removing their page counts from owner statistics.

Bug fixes:

• Works on the Internet Archive that contained long subject headings no longer break imports.
• Duplicate record entries in the logs have been suppressed