ODK Central v2023.2.0

Infrastructure

• Upgrade to PostgreSQL v14 (#343)
• Enable easier customization of install variables (#389, #401)
• Upgrade to Docker v23.x, Docker Compose v2.16.x (#402)

Entities

• Add new page that shows the Entities of a Dataset (#381)
• Help ODK Collect determine which Datasets have been updated (getodk/central-backend#770)
• Don't show the Datasets page until a Form Draft that creates a Dataset is published (getodk/central-backend#745)
• Dataset should be created regardless of the publishing order of draft forms that define a Dataset (getodk/central-backend#777)
• Sort Entities in entities.csv by when they were created (getodk/central-backend#767)
• Show the Properties of a Dataset in a consistent order (getodk/central-backend#675)
• Link to the Project Overview from a Dataset page (getodk/central-frontend#748)

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Return the instance name and other information about the Submission Version from the API (getodk/central-backend#629)
• Return a better error message if the version string in the Submission XML does not match any Form version (getodk/central-backend#629)
• Add a password strength meter to the user interface (getodk/central-frontend#528)
• Remove the --password option from Command Line Tools (getodk/central-backend#772)
• Update the text of the "Using OData" pop-up to include pyodk (getodk/central-frontend#740)
• Increase number of workers that Node uses (#399)
• Prevent an error when uploading a Form definition with a very large number of fields (getodk/central-backend#707)
• Don't allow a group or repeat group to be changed to a string field (getodk/central-backend#381)
• Generate Web Form links more quickly in two cases (getodk/central-backend#782)

Maintenance

• Update Enketo v6.0.x (#384)
  • Breaking Change: IE11 is no longer supported
  • XForm to HTML transformation is dramatically faster
  • Fix: include drawings, signatures and annotated images in PDFs
  • Fix: support single-column CSV
  • Fix: load external data when served with application/geo+json Content-Type header
  • Fix: rank widget on touch devices
  • Fix: undesired autocompletion of manually entered incomplete month-year
• Update Node (#390, getodk/central-backend#786, getodk/central-frontend#746)
• Update NGINX (#397, getodk/central-frontend#745)
• Update other infrastructure dependencies (#392, #393, #386)
• Update frontend dependencies (getodk/central-frontend#731)
• Migrate to the new Transifex CLI (getodk/central-frontend#577)
• Update translations (getodk/central-frontend#732)

Forum announcement: https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-2023-2/40618

ODK Central v2023.1.0

Datasets

• See more context on Datasets list
• See Dataset properties and sources
• See Dataset source information on Form Overview

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Remove Google Drive backups (#323)
• Prevent an error when attempting to recreate an Entity from an edited Submission (getodk/central-backend#729)
• When there is an error creating an Entity from a Submission, details about the error will now be shown more consistently in the Submission activity feed. (getodk/central-frontend#701)
• The timestamp precision of the Central database will now match the precision returned over the API, truncating sub-millisecond precision. (getodk/central-backend#459)
• Show a warning if a new Form version removes an existing Form field (getodk/central-backend#439)
• Show a warning if a new Form uses the same ID as a Form in the trash (getodk/central-backend#616)
• Check that new Forms include a meta group (getodk/central-backend#759)
• Link to XLSForm documentation when an XLSForm warning includes a URL (getodk/central-frontend#687)
• When a Form definition is uploaded, the file picker will filter for Excel and XML files. (getodk/central-frontend#682)
• Show tooltips immediately (getodk/central-frontend#648)
• Show "Latest Submission" in the tooltip when hovering over a date in a table of Forms (getodk/central-frontend#698)
• Fix the OData feed for repeat groups whose names contain invalid OData characters (getodk/central-backend#496, getodk/central-backend#607)
• Fix performance issues when there are many Form versions with the exact same Form fields (getodk/central-backend#662)
• Log the correct Form action in the Server Audit Log when Managed Encryption is enabled for a Project (getodk/central-backend#750)
• Use the OData $select query parameter in the frontend to reduce data transfer (getodk/central-frontend#638)
• Make accessibility improvements to the navigation bar (getodk/central-frontend#690)
• When a navigation tab is disabled, prevent keyboard navigation into it (getodk/central-frontend#686)
• Delete a Web User's sessions after their password is changed or invalidated
• Log in the Server Audit Log when a password is invalidated (getodk/central-backend#736)
• Prevent a Sitewide Administrator from invalidating their own password in the frontend (getodk/central-frontend#708)
• Reduce noise from npm when Central is built (#359, #362)
• Add indexes to the entities and entity_defs tables (getodk/central-backend#660)

Maintenance

• Add the ability to adjust the frequencies of certain tasks during regression testing (getodk/central-backend#713)
• Add request duration in Sentry logs (getodk/central-backend#723)
• Update Enketo to 5.0.2
  • Improve error messages for revoked Forms and Public Access Links
  • Improve localization for numeric input
• Update pyxform to v1.12.0 to add big-image support
• Update backend dependencies (getodk/central-backend#684)
• Update frontend dependencies (getodk/central-frontend#646)
• Update translations (getodk/central-frontend#647)
• Update usage information metrics (#350)

Release criteria: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sufFP5TwCBjy7ZuY7kVo_n8iJSkdpTagHaXum10wvZc/edit?usp=sharing
Forum announcement: https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2023-1/40267

ODK Central v2022.3.1

Bugs Fixed

• Values in groups showed as blank in Excel and Power BI when using the OData feed.

ODK Central v2022.3.0

Datasets

• Get errors about names when uploading Draft for Dataset-managing Form
• Get hint about testing Datasets in alpha
• See Entities warning when enabling Managed Encryption
• See linked Datasets in Form Overview and Form Draft Status
• Publish a Dataset-registrating Form
• Manage Datasets
• Approve an Entity-registrating Submission
• See Entity creation on Submission feed
• Make Entity reference when managing Attachments
• List Dataset actions in Server Audit Log

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Rename “Media File” to “Form Attachment” or “Submission Attachment”
• Add ability to filter Submissions on multiple Review States (getodk/central-frontend#559)
• Add ability to filter Submissions on multiple submitters
• Allow user to select more than 100 columns, but show warning (getodk/central-frontend#396)
• Add support for $select OData query parameter (getodk/central-backend#493)
• Configure Enketo to match relevance behavior of ODK Collect
• Handle Form titles that contain characters &, <, or > (getodk/central-backend#478)
• Return correct API response after comment creation (getodk/central-backend#516)
• Return combined verbs over API if User is assigned multiple Roles on a Project (getodk/central-backend#486)
• Return Problem response if API user specifies a number that is too large (getodk/central-backend#514)
• Improve handling of unexpected errors (getodk/central-backend#592)
• Fix issue starting multiple instances of API server (#329)
• Add Content Security Policy reporting
• Prevent reboot loop if openssl fails
• Remove duplicate logging for service (#265)
• Do not run server if database migration was removed as part of Central downgrade (getodk/central-backend#509)

Maintenance

• Update usage information metrics
• Send version information to Sentry (getodk/central-backend#547)
• Resolve Sentry errors missing information (getodk/central-backend#483)
• Add soak testing (getodk/central-backend#204)
• Upgrade to Node 16
• Update Backend dependencies
• Update Frontend dependencies
• Update Enketo
• Update pyxform-http
• Update translations

GitHub issue: #298
Forum announcement: https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2022-3/39787

ODK Central v1.5.4

Bugs Fixed

• Select PostgreSQL apt repo based on OS codename

ODK Central v1.5.3

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Remove ability to create backups config
• Update Sentry ingestion URL (#311)
• Set Sentry username (getodk/central-backend#521)
• Set Sentry environment (getodk/central-backend#547)
• Prevent database connection leak after too many concurrent requests (getodk/central-backend#482)
• Prevent database connection leak after premature close (getodk/central-backend#485)
• Destroy inactive database streams (getodk/central-backend#565)
• Handle error creating database stream (getodk/central-backend#479)
• Set security headers at root path (#303)
• Don't include referrer information in cross-origin requests (#314)
• Update Enketo
• Update server url configuration for Enketo
• Update translations

ODK Central v1.5.2

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Fix frontend performance issue on homepage and project overview
• Upgrade to recent LTS OS

ODK Central v1.5.1

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Show IDs of Forms that have duplicate titles
• Update translations
• Update Enketo
• Update pyxform-http
• Update API docs about OData

ODK Central v1.5.0

Homepage

• (revisit) See more and better information on the Homepage

Projects

• (revisit) See more and better information on the Projects list
• Add ability to customize Project descriptions
• Do not automatically create a Default Project

Forms

• (revisit) See more and better information on the Forms list
• Remove the published Form checklist

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Include filter selections in URL for Submissions page
• Add ability to configure size of database connection pool (getodk/central-backend#480)
• Add ability to use port other than 443 for HTTPS (#259)
• Show informative error message when duplicate Form ID contains ) (getodk/central-backend#450)
• Do not send password reset email if account does not exist (getodk/central-backend#468)
• Return consistent API response for password reset when ?invalidate=true (getodk/central-backend#473)
• Resolve Sass warnings shown during frontend build

Maintenance

• Update usage information metrics
• Update to Vue 3
• Update backend dependencies
• Update frontend dependencies
• Update Enketo
  • Add support for geoJSON external secondary instances
• Update pyxform-http
  • More accurate identification of dynamic defaults
• Update translations

GitHub issue: #278
Forum announcement: https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v1-5/37882

ODK Central v1.4.2

Bugs Fixed + Small Wins

• Allow user to both filter Submissions and split "select multiple" fields
• Update pyxform-http
  • Reduce memory usage on certain XLSForm conversions