Released: September 21, 2018

Changes

• Database access in data migrations defaults to the 'default' database. Force it to the user selected database instead.
• Don't use a hardcoded database alias for the destination of the database conversion.
• Improve natural key support in the UserOptions model.
• Update from Django 1.11.11 to 1.11.15.
• Add support to the convertdb command to operate on specified apps too.
• Add test mixin to test the db conversion (dumping and loading) of a specific app.
• Add an user test mixin to group user testing.
• Add test the user management app for database conversion.
• Add support for natural keys to the DocumentPageImageCache model.
• Add database conversion test to the common app.
• Fix label display for resolved smart links when not using a dynamic label.
• Only show smart link resolution errors to the user with the smart link edit permission.
• Intercept document list view exception and display them as an error message.

Removals

• None

Upgrading from a previous version

If installed via Python's PIP

Remove deprecated requirements:

 $ curl https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/raw/master/removals.txt | pip uninstall -r /dev/stdin 

Type in the console:

 $ pip install mayan-edms==3.1.2 

the requirements will also be updated automatically.

Using Git

If you installed Mayan EDMS by cloning the Git repository issue the commands:

 $ git reset --hard HEAD $ git pull 

otherwise download the compressed archived and uncompress it overriding the existing installation.

Remove deprecated requirements:

 $ pip uninstall -y -r removals.txt 

Next upgrade/add the new requirements:

 $ pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt 

Common steps

Perform these steps after updating the code from either step above.

Migrate existing database schema with:

 $ mayan-edms.py performupgrade 

Add new static media:

 $ mayan-edms.py collectstatic --noinput 

The upgrade procedure is now complete.

Backward incompatible changes

• None

Bugs fixed or issues closed

• None