Upload More Zip Files Than Ever Before!

Fixes:

• Refines the logic for retrieving Zip URLs from district court websites and resolves the issue encountered by macOS users(#352).

First step to add support for ACMS pages

Heads up!

This version requires that you accept new permissions. On Firefox that means that you will see a tiny little yellow triangle on the menu button. When you click it, it will say that you need to allow access to about 50 domains. These are the PACER and ACMS domains. Please allow them to have access or else you will not get the most recent version of RECAP.

Features:

• Adds a warning sign to the toolbar icon when users are on a ACMS website(#346)

Changes:

• Adds permissions to access ACMS URLs. ACMS is the new CM/ECF replacement for the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, which goes live for all new cases on Oct. 1, 2023. We do not currently support ACMS, but because users have to acknowledge permissions changes, it's important to get that manual step out of the way as soon as possible as we work on the code.

Watch out for combined PDFs

Features:

• Adds a warning to let users know that combined PDFs won't be uploaded to the RECAP Archive(#337, #341)

Fixes:

• More robust logic to inject content scripts(#346)

More banners for appellate courts!

Features:

• Adds RECAP banners to the docket query pages on appellate courts(#335, #333)

Changes:

• Improve logic to identify attachment pages in district courts(#335)

Fixes:

• More robust logic to get the document_id from appellate courts after logging in to purchase a document(#340)
• Normalize document numbers from appellate courts that uses the pacer_doc_id instead of the regular docket entry numbering(#2877).

Get your headphones!

Features:

• PDFs containing audio recordings will now be uploaded to the RECAP Archive (#244, #326)

Fixes:

• The autofill button was filling the date inputs with undefined in the docket query form but now it's working again(#344).

Woah there, let's not DDOS CourtListener

This is a small bug fix release that fixes a nasty query that hammered the CourtListener API. It's a relief to have it fixed!

We also fix a couple other things:

• Better document link filtering on district and appellate court reports(#341).
• Better case ID capturing on district court docket reports.
• Change the naming style of the data attributes the extension attaches to documents links.

But ultimately, this was about making RECAP not take down CourtListener....

Fixes to the Mad Capper

Not much in this one, but we're pushing it anyway because it fixes a nasty bug.

Changes:

• Uncheck terminates parties field of docket query form in district courts(#329, #313)

Fixes:

• More robust uploading of case summary pages from appellate (#330)

RECAP 2.0: Appellate Support!

Highlights:

• This is a big release that finally launches appellate support in RECAP. We expect bugs and shortcomings, but the basics are finally here and we can't wait to get your uploads.
• We added a new button to district court docket pages that lets you buy just the stuff from PACER that we don't already have on RECAP. You'll see it. It's great!

Features:

• Add support to upload documents from appellate courts (#316, #296 ).
• Add banners to advertise RECAP Email in appellate courts (#313, #295).
• Add links to review RECAP in the extension Popup (#286, #303)
• Upload free documents from Appellate PACER (#322, #305)
• Add button to autofill docket query form in district courts (#311, #190)

Fixes:

• More robust uploading of case query pages(#321, #2419,)
• Add the caseId parameter to doc links in Appellate Pacer (#324)
• Remove checks that were disabling the extension (#325)

For developers:

• None, sorry!

Beta Appellate Support!

Features:

• Beta support for the appellate courts is finally here. It's missing a few parts, but will start uploading docket and attachment pages now. We'll collect those and work on merging them into the RECAP Archive, and the next version will add support for uploading documents and telling you when we have content in the archive. For now, we thank you for being so very patient over the many years, and we're excited to start collecting something! The real deal is coming, and feel free to report bugs if you find them.

• Add an actions button to PACER docket pages (#308, #282)

• Adds annual tab popup asking for support from all users (sorry).

Changes:

• Remove option to "Confirm before opening RECAP documents". This option really just slowed down our users, so we finally removed it. (#216)
• Now we upload iquery.pl docket summary page from district courts, so we can get even more information into RECAP. (#251)

Fixes:

• Tighten security by verifying the sender's identity in communication between Window objects. This prevents a theoretical attack vector that might, with a lot of care and effort, have been able to send bad data to the RECAP Archive. We have no evidence of this ever being abused. (#236)
• Fix logic to handle links from appellate PACER to district PACER (#222)
• Fix logic to avoid duplicating RECAP banners (#318)
• Better case ID capturing on district court docket pages (#319)

@recap.email is the new thing, plus fixes!

Features:

• Add banners to advertise @recap.email. If you're a filer, check it out! (#309)

Fixes:

• One of our oldest and most frustrating bugs, the scrambled docket bug, is fixed. Nobody could reproduce this for years, until finally we did. (#305, courtlistener #2211)
• More robust uploading of attachment pages (#304, #238, #291)
• Docket reports accessed through the reports menu are now properly uploaded (#249)
• Failing tests are fixed (#311).

For Developers:

• Migrates from Travis CI to Github Actions
• Adds Puppeteer as a dev dependency to use its Chromium binary to run the tests in headless mode.
• Updates the configuration file used by Karma to change the default browser used to run the tests.