@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.

Safari and More

What's Changed

• Now supports Safari on macOS, iPhone, and iPad!
• One-time fundraising popup
• Dependency updates

Appendix I

Small new version today to fix bug freelawproject/recap#290, which uploaded Appendix files from some PACER websites as zip files (they don't all support it). We were able to catch and fix this within a few hours of when it happened the first time!

Fix zips again

Messed up the versioning string somehow, so this is same code as 1.2.24, but with correct version.

Fix zips

Small version bump to fix zips as identified in freelawproject/recap#289.

Now you can make alerts from PACER

For a long time now, we've had alerts on CourtListener for federal district court cases. This release finally integrates those alerts into the RECAP Extension so that you can easily create alerts from PACER itself.

On docket report, docket, and docket history pages, you'll now start seeing things like:

And:

Fix bankruptcy uploads

This is a small bug fix release to fix an issue with how we parse the goDLS function in bankruptcy courts. This will help us get the pacer_case_id more consistently, and without crashing.

The "Big" Version

This is a release that's been cooking a long time and which brings an overhaul of numerous parts of the RECAP system. For Free Law Project, that means that RECAP is getting better under the covers. For users, that means:

1. "Big" PDFs: We now support PDFs with no known size limits. In the past, we've hit limitations in Chrome and Firefox that prevented us from handling really big PDFs. No more. We went through the RECAP Archive, found the biggest PDFs we've ever seen in PACER and made sure they work. Now they do.

2. "Big" dockets: Some dockets are so big that they warn you before they load and say something like, "Are you sure you don't just want the most recent week of entries?" In the past, this messed up our system and we were unable to upload anything we saw after that warning screen. Now we can.

3. Zips!: First requested in 2013, one of the top feature requests we hear is that people want us to support zip files when they press the "Download Documents" button from the attachments screen. We couldn't do this without supporting really big PDFs because zips are big too, but once that was fixed, we could finally fix this. RECAP will now upload zips!

Upload claims registry pages from bankruptcy cases

This is a small version bump to add one small feature. Starting with this version, when you view claims registry information in PACER, it will be uploaded to our servers.

We are not yet displaying in PACER or CourtListener whether we have claims registry data, so for now this is collection only. We expect to eventually start sharing this information in all our usual ways.

Color fix

Fixes an error we had that made our CSS file apply to PACER too.