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diff --git a/doc/CHANGES.md b/doc/CHANGES.md index e897c8452..b73694669 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES.md +++ b/doc/CHANGES.md @@ -2,8 +2,58 @@ ## Highlighted Features +* Improved documentation at http://alaveteli.org/docs (Louise Crow, Gareth Rees, + Dave Whiteland) +* Added mySociety Launchpad PPA to supply updated version of pdftk (Louise Crow) +* Made default maintenance page generic (Gareth Rees) +* Support additional Vagrant operating system images (Gareth Rees) +* Add SysVinit for Phusion Passenger (Gareth Rees) +* Eager loading to speed up `body_request_events` API action (Louise Crow) +* Ability to update the status of external requests made via the API (Liz + Conlan) +* Removed more mySociety internal dependencies from install script and example configuration and template files (Gareth Rees) +* Improved example configuration files (Gareth Rees) +* Support Portugese locale (Louise Crow) +* Default to using UTF-8 encoded database for new installs and CI (Gareth Rees) +* Better config file generators in `lib/tasks/config_files.rake` (Gareth Rees) +* Improved search term highlighting (Gareth Rees) +* Added responsive styling (Louise Crow) +* Documentation tidying and redirection (Louise Crow) +* Allow a message with more than one event to be destroyed (Louise Crow) +* Makes public body stats available if configured (Gareth Rees) +* Cache-busting on request response notification emails (Gareth Rees) +* Better error handling on new requests (Louise Crow) +* Rake task for cleaning up holding pen events (`rake cleanup:holding_pen`) + (Louise Crow) +* Added searching of bodies by short_name (Gareth Rees) +* Additional stats on `/version.json` (Gareth Rees) +* Minor tweaks to the homepage (Gareth Rees) +* Translation housekeeping (Louise Crow) +* Minor style updates to admin request edit page (Gareth Rees) + ## Upgrade Notes +* Ubuntu Precise users can get an updated version of pdftk from mySociety's PPA + +Install the repo and update the sources: + + apt-get install python-software-properties + add-apt-repository ppa:mysociety/alaveteli + apt-get update + +The mySociety pdftk package (`1.44-7~precise1ms1`) should now be the install +candidate: + + apt-cache policy pdftk + +* Install `lockfile-progs` so that the `run-with-lockfile` shell script can be + used instead of the C program +* Use responsive stylesheets in `config/general.yml`: + `RESPONSIVE_STYLING: true` +* Allow access to public body stats page if desired in `config/general/yml`: + `PUBLIC_BODY_STATISTICS_PAGE: true` +* Run migrations to define track_things constraint correctly (Robin Houston) and + add additional index for `event_type` on `info_request_events` (Steven Day) * The `SHARED_DIRECTORIES` setting now includes `tmp/pids`. The notes below for updating the log directory should cover the update steps for `tmp/pids`. * Capistrano now creates `SHARED_PATH/tmp/pids` and links `APP_ROOT/tmp/pids` |