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Ourchive Release Notes, v0.5

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Ourchive Release Notes, v0.5
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Welcome back. We're wrapping up testing for 0.5 and expect to cut the tag sometime tomorrow (Feb 25). At that point, a release will be available on GitHub, and the below notes will be included.

Changelog

New

  • Work metadata copying to bookmarks - bookmarks now retain the work's title and tags; you can disable this behavior under your profile settings.
  • Private bookmarks
  • Work subscriptions
  • Basic exports for chive data
  • Chapter-level video hosting (in addition to work text video embedding)
  • Multi-creator works & collections

Updated

  • Fixed issues with chive backdating, improved functionality
  • Removed importer_requirements.txt from the project (h/t jdm@GitHub for opening an issue on this)
  • Link directly to comments on notification page
  • Improve admin configuration of image/video/upload permissions
  • Improved search, including dynamic range filtering
  • Documented Amazon SES email support
  • Collections rework
    • Collections have been updated to hold works, rather than bookmarks, and the UI has been updated. This change is intended to support bookmarks' expanded usage as a bookmark-first feature; v0.6 will include the ability to add external URLs as bookmarks, and the ability to add commentary to works you've added to a collection. 'Collections' are intended to allow users to create recommendation lists for works, so a parent-child relationship with bookmarks didn't really make sense. As part of this, the "bookmark detail" view has been removed. Bookmarks are a more private feature; collections are where content curators and reccers can display their analysis.
  • OAuth integration beginnings
    • Is OAuth fully functional? No! Functionality is stubbed out and will be live in v0.6.

Fixed

  • Preferred download failing on PDF & EPUB
  • Videos can't be embedded
  • Comments lose functionality on pagination
  • Comments don't load correctly when viewing full work on multi-chapter works
  • Attributes aren't linked or filterable
  • Search behaves unpredictably when filtering on attributes or tags
  • Tie token expiration to approval rather than account request date
  • Pagination on tag search results defaults to work tab
  • Non-rich-text posting broken
  • Broken links in documentation (h/t jdm @ GitHub for this fix)

How to upgrade

  1. Log onto your server, cd to the site directory, and run: git fetch && git checkout v0.5.0
  2. Activate your virtual environment and cd to the project directory (where requirements.txt lives)
  3. Update dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
  4. Double-check your .env file against env.sample
  5. Apply migrations: python manage.py migrate
  6. Collect static: python manage.py collectstatic
  7. Restart your server: systemctl gunicorn restart
  8. Restart your scheduler: systemctl apscheduler restart