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

Closed bugs since last release

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

• Fixed #152 in Merge #155 - 404 page returned as plaintext
• Fixed #108 in Merge #109 - Proposed fix for issue #37 causes OAI-PMH to fail
• Fixed #140 in Merge #141 - OAI-PMH test suite failing
• Fixed #37 - OAI-PMH cannot disseminate format when declaration is present in payload.

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 replaces Test01 and is now running 0.23.4
• Alpha replaces Test02 and is from now on running the latest stable master.

Pending bugs

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

High

• Open #81 - TypeError for 'use_cookies' when accessing /harvest
• Open #152 - 404 page returned as plaintext
• Open #151 - Fixed OPTIONS method bug
• Open #118 - Slice returns wrong resultCount (What is the explanation? Jim's explanation about flow control doesn't seem to fit.)

Low

• Open #143 - Incorrect service_endpoint for SWORD Publish, Resource Distribution Network Policy (sword is fixed on alpha, but not policy)
• Open #142 - "service_authz" is null for SWORD Publish, Resource Distribution Network Policy
• Open #119 - "keycount" needs to be removed (JB says it has been fixed, but doesn't appear so on alpha)
• Open #94 - Status does not support last_in_sync and sync_in_node (is this a bug or a feature request?)