Releases: huridocs/uwazi
Releases · huridocs/uwazi
1.9.0
1.8.0
1.7.1
1.7.0
v1.6
New features
- CSV import. Adding data in bulk to your collection now is easier than ever. Uwazi will intake a CSV or a .zip file also containing your PDF documents along with all the metadata values.
- Two factor authentication. 2FA gives you an extra security layer protecting your data from stolen passwords and other hacks. You can use either Authy or Google Authenticator.
- Activity log. Now administrators can track who and when information was created, updated or deleted. You'll find a complete log in settings > activity log.
- Public forms. If you need to collect data or feedback from your users, now you can quickly create a public from based on the metadata definition of an Uwazi template. The submitted information will appear in your uploads section for revision.
- Bar charts with arbitrary data. If you need to show a bar chart in your pages and the data is not coming directly from Uwazi, you can now feed a json to a chart.
- Privacy cookie pop-up. Informing users that your site uses cookies is now required by EU's privacy legislation. You can activate this option in settings > collection > "Show cookie policy"
- Custom sorting in thesauri. Now administrators can define an arbitrary sorting in their thesauri instead of Uwazi's default alphabetical sorting.
- Inherit properties. There are times when it is useful to display a property on more than one entity. Instead of duplicating the property and collecting the same data twice, Uwazi supports the ability to inherit a property from one entity type to another, via a relationship.
- Better management of document languages. Uwazi now supports documents in languages not configured as UI languages. Also, users can read these documents without switching UI language.
Interoperability with other tools
- Integration with Digital Evidence Vault. DEV is a browser plugin that allows you to capture information on different internet sources (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, or any website) along with a vast quantity of metadata oriented towards preservation (keep a copy in case the media disappears) and usage as evidence in a legal process (capture metadata that helps support the piece of media as valid evidence). This new feature allows you to keep a copy of any media (including videos) in your Uwazi instance with just one click. For more information, read our case study on how this integration is being used to document air strikes in Yemen.
Technical improvements that will impact system administration
- Metadata object/API. Our internal architecture for storing metadata has changed in order to be used as the based for a series of performance refactors that are under production. This has impacted the API introducing some extra validation and specs, meaning there may be breaking changes.
- We upgraded Elasticsearch to version 7.4 and MongoDB to version 4.0.3. Please check the dependencies and upgrade section in case you are self-hosting and need to upgrade your infrastructure.
- Custom JavaScript in pages. Uwazi pages now supports adding JavaScript code to be executed on the client side. Since this code can access the API of the instance, this allows developers and administrators to create rich pages with complex functionalities such as custom graphs and data visualization or interactive functionality.
Many bug fixes!
Make sure your Uwazi dependencies are up to date and follow the upgrade instructions to get the latest code up and running.
v1.5
New features
- Support for right-to-left languages, administrators can manage languages via Uwazi UI.
- Data synchronization between Uwazi instances.
- Even more security: Uwazi has been audited by a third party and patched, along with several security improvements such as end-point validation, optional MongoDB password, better password encryption and account locking after multiple failed login attempts. We will be sharing the final security audit report on https://www.uwazi.io once it is available.
Improvements
- "Link" field type. Meant for external links mainly, it will display a label instead of the URL as a text string. The label will be clickable and will open a new browser window.
- Contact form for pages as a component.
- Private documents show a badge indicating they can only be accessed by users with privileges.
- Changing a entity template will now keep the values of the fields that have a matching field name and type in the other template.
- Simplified "documents" and "entities" into one template. Now, the only difference between a document and an entity in Uwazi is whether they have a main document.
- Added an extra pagination link for more results.
- Improved performance of text references.
Several bug fixes!
Make sure your Uwazi dependencies are up to date and follow the upgrade instructions to get the latest code up and running.
v1.4
New features
- Now Uwazi supports managing languages via UI.
- Added support for Matomo for web analytics.
Improvements
- Improved load speed and database usage of relationships.
- Now your collection can be sorted by numeric and select fields.
- Now the metadata side panel will also be opened when clicking on map markers for maps embedded in pages.
- UI translation tool is now always available for administrators, even if you have a single-language instance.
- Several SEO related improvements.
Several bug fixes!
Make sure your Uwazi dependencies are up to date and follow the upgrade instructions to get the latest code up and running.
Uwazi v1.3
New features
- Now Uwazi supports document thumbnails creating beautiful and appealing user interfaces.
- Added two new field types for image and media support.
- A plain text version is now available for documents, greatly improving accessibility and search engine optimization.
- Now users can run enhanced searches with query strings.
Improvements
- This release is strongly focused in bug fixing. Dozens of malfunctions and glitches have been addressed.
- We have greatly improved the overall security of Uwazi by running our own internal security audit and implementing several strengthening strategies. An improvement you may not feel, as security is meant to be =)
- Now Uwazi supports bulk publishing and un-publishing of documents and entities.
- Entities will try to automatically fill all the user screen by arranging themselves horizontally when the space is available, making a better use of the screen's real state and improving the user experience.
- Now the metadata side panel can be opened in pages when cards are rendered in the page.
- Text and rich text fields are being included in the full text search. The visuals for the results snippets both in the side panel and in the cards have been improved.
- All metadata fields support hiding their label in their configuration. This comes handy when the label is obvious; and it unloads information in the cards improving the visuals.
Several bug fixes!
Uwazi v1.2
New features
- Our new Components feature lets you inject data visualisation such as graph bars, pie charts, total counters and other elements (search bars, embedded maps, card lists) into any page or rich text field.
- Customise your interface by adding your own CSS and media assets to adapt Uwazi to your brand.
- Expanded media support: now Uwazi supports several embedded and native media types including: YouTube, FaceBook, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vidme, Vimeo, Wistia, Twitch, DailyMotion, mp3, mp4, wave, and others.
- Live user interface translation allows admins to translate UI labels as they navigate Uwazi. When logged in, an icon on the top bar will toggle this option, highlighting translatable labels. Just click and edit to set the label for the current language.
- Geolocation: a new field type is available for data geolocation. This field is supported by a map view. When entities have this property, a map-view option is toggled in library so users can see all geolocated entities and interact with the information via library filters.
Improvements
- Nested thesauri: now thesauri support nesting items in groups. This comes in handy for large thesauri so items are organised into sub-categories. It also allows users to select all items in a group at once.
- Navigation menu supports external URLs.
- Admins now can change usernames, e-mails and passwords for other users. This eases user management particularly for locally installed Uwazis, when they have no internet access and can't send e-mails.
- Regroup relationships. A new editing tool has been added to relationships interface that lets users easily regroup relationships into hubs.
- A relationship's metadata is now displayed in the relationship view. This includes text references.
- Now filters will display a "No value" option (this label is translatable) so that users can quickly spot entities not belonging to any category. This lets admins find entities missing values and users detect how a particular category is distributed among the entities.
Several bug fixes!
Uwazi v1.1
New features
- Even better data relationships
Check out the new interface to create meaningful connections between your data. More user friendly than ever, now it supports information hubs enabling you to put several pieces of the puzzle together at the same time. - Make your collection private
If you are handling sensitive information or you just want your collection be accessible only via login, you can configure Uwazi to do so in Settings > Collection. By activating this option, your information won't be crawled by search engines and users will be prompted with a login screen when trying to access your documents and entities. - Configure default filters
These filters are presented to the user even when no document or entity type is selected. Default filters can be configured in documents and entities metadata in settings by checking the option "Default filter". Ideally, use this option for relevant filters affecting several documents and entity types.
Improvements
- Better search: now all fields are used for full text searching, including selects and multi-selects and text fields.
- Improved Vimeo embeddings: now users can add timelinks in Vimeo embeddings.
- Better use of real state: now Uwazi will expand to full width while in library, showing more cards per row. This way users with big screens can display more information at once.
- Card rendering has been improved: now fields containing long information such as rich text properties will be limited in its height so the cards are not too big. The "Open document" button has improved so users have a better understanding of how to access the document instad of the metadata side panel.
And of course, several bug fixes!