Release Notes 0.23.4

The plan below is for the upcoming new year 2012 release scheduled for Wednesday, 1/11/2012. The previous release was LR v0.23.3 on October 27, 2011.

New Features

1. Support for CouchDB 1.1
2. Support for uwsgi

Bug Fixes

See https://github.com/LearningRegistry/LearningRegistry/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=closed&page=1

• Distribute call not working: distribute_threshold_handler.py lost reference to json (#154)
• "service_type" is missing on startup (#146)
• Service description does not reflect service_https value (#125)
• Service documents "service_endpoint" does not match spec definition (#34)
• Node admin email address is not correct (#123)
• Ensure same encoding is used for all resource locators (#136)
• OAI-PMH cannot disseminate format when declaration is present in paylod (#37)
• Missing service_type for access services (#132)
• Harvest returns 500 error when no results are found (#128)
• Slice indexing issue with caps in paradata schema (#127)
• Increased slice accuracy and new slice indexing (#126)
• COUCH_DOWN_URL variable in setup script for x86 systems (#121)
• Publish service allowing create_timestamp and update_timestamp values (#120)
• "keycount" field should be removed from slice result object (#119)
• Missing publish service data in setup_node.py (#116)

Documentation

See https://github.com/LearningRegistry/LearningRegistry/wiki

• Windows install guide updated
• Linux install guide updated
• Mac OSX install guide updated
• Examples for paradata, assertions, and queries

Servers Updated

See https://github.com/LearningRegistry/LearningRegistry/wiki/nodes

• Sandbox (http://sandbox.learningregistry.org) replaces Test01 and is now running 0.23.4
• Alpha (http://alpha.learningregistry.org) replaces Test02 and is from now on running the latest stable master.

Updated development process and improved testing

Updated development process is documented here:

https://github.com/LearningRegistry/LearningRegistry/wiki/Contributing-to-the-Learning-Registry

New tests added for sword publish, distribute, OAI-PMH, service descriptions, and service policies.