CHANGELOG.rst

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• Provide an ExtensiblePolymorphicModel to support the features of extensible models for polymorphic models and vice-versa.
• Implement optional Sentry integration for error and performance tracing.

Changed

• Replace dev.sh helper script with tox environments.
• OAuth Grant Flows are now configured system-wide instead of per app.

2.0 - 2021-10-29

Changed

• Refactor views/forms for creating/editing persons.

Fixed

• Fix order of submit buttons in login form and restructure login template to make 2FA work correctly.
• Fix page title bug on the impersonate page.
• Users were able to edit the linked user if self-editing was activated.
• Users weren't able to edit the allowed fields although they were configured correctly.
• Provide style.css and icon files without any authentication to avoid caching issues.

Removed

• Remove mass linking of persons to accounts, bevcause the view had performance issues, but was practically unused.

2.0rc7 - 2021-10-18

Fixed

• Configuration mechanisms for OpenID Connect were broken.
• Set a fixed version for django-sass-processor to avoid a bug with searching style.css in the wrong storage.
• Correct the z-index of the navbar to display the main title again on mobile devices.

Removed

• Leftovers from a functionality already dropped in the development process (custom authentication backends and alternative login views).

2.0rc6 - 2021-10-11

Added

• OpenID Connect scope and accompanying claim groups
• Support config files in JSON format
• Allow apps to dynamically generate OAuth scopes

Changed

• Do not log or e-mail ALLOWED_HOSTS violations
• Update translations.
• Use initial superuser settings as default contact and from addresses

Fixed

• Show link to imprint in footer
• Fix API for adding OAuth scopes in AppConfigs
• Deleting persons is possible again.
• Removed wrong changelog section

Removed

• Dropped data anonymization (django-hattori) support for now
• OAUTH2_SCOPES setting in apps is not supported anymore. Use get_all_scopes method on AppConfig class instead.

2.0rc5 - 2021-08-25

Fixed

• The view for getting the progress of celery tasks didn't respect that there can be anonymous users.
• Updated django to latest 3.2.x

2.0rc4 - 2021-08-01

Added

• Allow to configure port for prometheus metrics endpoint.

Fixed

• Correctly deliver server errors to user
• Use text HTTP response for serviceworker.js insteas of binary stream
• Use Django permission instead of rule to prevent performance issues.

2.0rc3 - 2021-07-26

Added

• Support PDF generation without available request object (started completely from background).
• Display a loading animation while fetching search results in the sidebar.

Fixed

• Make search suggestions selectable using the arrow keys.

Fixed

• Use correct HTML 5 elements for the search frontend and fix CSS accordingly.

2.0rc2 - 2021-06-24

Added

• Allow to install system and build dependencies in docker build

2.0rc1 - 2021-06-23

Added

• Add option to disable dashboard auto updating as a user and sitewide.

Changed

• Use semantically correct html elements for headings and alerts.

Fixed

• Add missing dependency python-gnupg
• Add missing AWS options to ignore invalid ssl certificates

2.0b2 - 2021-06-15

Added

• Add option to disable dashboard auto updating as a user and sitewide.

Changed

• Add verbose names for all preference sections.
• Add verbose names for all openid connect scopes and show them in grant view.
• Include public dashboard in navigation
• Update German translations.

Fixed

• Fix broken backup health check
• Make error recovery in about page work

Removed

• Drop all leftovers of DataTables.

2.0b1 - 2021-06-01

Changed

• Rename every occurance of "social account" by "third-party account".
• Use own templates and views for PWA meta and manifest.
• Use term "application" for all authorized OAuth2 applications/tokens.
• Use importlib instead of pkg_resources (no functional changes)

Fixed

• Fix installation documentation (nginx, uWSGI).
• Use a set for data checks registry to prevent double entries.
• Progress page tried to redirect even if the URL is empty.

Removed

• Drop django-pwa completely.

2.0b0 - 2021-05-21

Added

• Allow defining several search configs for LDAP users and groups
• Use setuptools entrypoints to find apps
• Add django-cachalot as query cache
• Add syncable_fields property to ExtensibleModel to discover fields sync backends can write to
• Add aleksis-admin script to wrap django-admin with pre-configured settings
• Auto-create persons for users if matching attributes are found
• Add django-allauth to allow authentication using OAuth, user registration, password changes and password reset
• Add OAuth2 and OpenID Connect provider support
• Add django-uwsgi to use uWSGI and Celery in development
• Add loading page for displaying Celery task progress
• Implement generic PDF generation using Chromium
• Support Amazon S3 storage for /media files
• Enable Django REST framework for apps to use at own discretion
• Add method to inject permissions to ExtensibleModels dynamically
• Add helper function which filters queryset by permission and user
• Add generic support for Select 2 with materialize theme
• Add simple message that is shown whenever a page is served from the PWA cache
• Add possibility to upload files using ckeditor
• Show guardians and children on person full page
• Manage object-level permissions in frontend
• Add a generic deletion confirmation view
• Serve Prometheus metrics from app
• Provide system health check endpoint and checks for some components
• Add impersonate button to person view
• Implement a data check system for sanity checks and guided resolution of inconsistencies
• Make the dashboard configurable for users and as default dashboard by admins
• Support dynamic badges in menu items
• Auto-delete old /media files when related model instance is deleted
• Add SortableJS
• Add a widget for links/buttons to other websites

Changed

• Make Redis non-optional (see documentation)
• Use Redis as caching and session store to allow horizontal scaling
• Enable PostgreSQL connection pooling
• Use uWSGI to serve /static under development
• Use a token-secured storage as default /media storage
• Rewrite Docker image to serve as generic base image for AlekSIS distributions
• Make Docker image run completely read-only
• Ensure Docker image is compatible with K8s
• Remove legacy file upload functoin; all code is required to use the storage API
• Default search index backend is now Whoosh with Redis storage
• Re-style search result page
• Move notifications to separate page with indicator in menu
• Move to BigAutoField for all AlekSIS apps
• Require Django 3.2 and Python 3.9
• Person and group lists can now be filtered
• Allow displaying the default widget to anonymous users

Fixed

• Correct behavious of celery-beat in development
• Fix precaching of offline fallback page
• Use correct styling for language selector
• Rewrite notification e-mail template for AlekSIS
• Global search now obeys permissions correctly
• Improve performance of favicon generation
• Dashboard widgets now handle exceptions gracefully
• Roboto font was not available for serving locally

Removed

• Dropped support for other search backends than Whoosh
• Drop django-middleware-global-request completely

2.0a2 - 2020-05-04

Added

• Frontend-ased announcement management.
• Auto-create Person on User creation.
• Select primary group by pattern if unset.
• Shortcut to personal information page.
• Support for defining group types.
• Add description to Person.
• age_at method and age property to Person.
• Synchronise AlekSIS groups with Django groups.
• Add celery worker, celery-beat worker and celery broker to docker-compose setup.
• Global search.
• License information page.
• Roles and permissions.
• User preferences.
• Additional fields for people per group.
• Support global permission flags by LDAP group.
• Persistent announcements.
• Custom menu entries (e.g. in footer).
• New logo for AlekSIS.
• Two factor authentication with Yubikey, OTP or SMS.
• Devs: Add ExtensibleModel to allow apps to add fields, properties.
• Devs: Support multiple recipient object for one announcement.

Changes

• Make short_name for group optional.
• Generalised live loading of widgets for dashboard.
• Devs: Add some CSS helper classes for colours.
• Devs: Mandate use of AlekSIS base model.
• Devs: Drop import_ref field(s); apps shold now define their own reference fields.

Fixed

• DateTimeField Announcement.valid_from received a naive datetime.
• Enable SASS processor in production.
• Fix too short fields.
• Load select2 locally.

2.0a1 - 2020-02-01

Added

• Migrate to MaterializeCSS.
• Dashboard.
• Notifications via SMS (Twilio), Email or on the dashboard.
• Admin interface.
• Turn into installable, progressive web app.
• Devs: Background Tasks with Celery.

Changed

• Customisable save_button template.
• Redesign error pages.

Fixed

• setup_data no longer forces database connection.

1.0a4 - 2019-11-25

Added

• Two-factor authentication with TOTP (Google Authenticator), Yubikey, SMS and phone call.
• Devs: CRUDMixin provides a crud_event relation that returns all CRUD events for an object.

1.0a2 - 2019-11-11

Added

• Devs: Add ExtensibleModel to allow injection of methods and properties into models.

1.0a1 - 2019-09-17

Added

• Devs: Add API to get an audit trail for any school-related object.
• Devs: Provide template snippet to display an audit trail.
• Devs: Provide base template for views that allow browsing back/forth.
• Add management command and Cron job for full backups.
• Add system status overview page.
• Allow enabling and disabling maintenance mode from frontend.
• Allow editing the dates of the current school term.
• Add logo to school information.
• Allow editing school information.
• Ensure all actions are reverted if something fails (atomic requests).

Fixed

• Only show active persons in group and persons views.
• Silence KeyError in get_dict template tag.
• Use bootstrap buttons everywhere.