Release 2024.9.0

v2024.9.0

A medium sized release, with both internal and user-visible changes.

New user features

The simple viewer (see view-vs-browse in the user manual) now has the
ability to play videos inline, rather than simply opening the raw video in
a new browser tab. This is new functionality, bugs are expected, and
please report them.

On the home page, a new card is present that allows browsing all pictures,
start at a random picture, "on this day" functionality, and on this
day-of-the-week. This will likely be expanded in the future, I assume
there are more interesting features to expose that are so to say
"cross-section" in the repository, rather than "city X, location Y, person
Z".

Server admin changes

Two new config settings were introduced and one was deprecated:

• request-logging can now configure the HTTP logs as one of none,
  apache, and detailed; this replaces the old detailed_logging,
  which only toggled between apache and detailed;
• log-level can no configure the level of application logging; this
  overlaps with should-log-all (which, when set to true, is equivalent
  to log-level: debug, and when unset, it was previously equivalent to
  info); there are not many application logs, but a switch between the
  default of info and warning might be appropriate unless one wants to
  debug the server behaviour;
• it's likely that should-log-all will be removed in the future.

For installation, there's now an additional option to use pre-built amd64
binaries generated automatically by the GitHub Actions (at each commit).
Of course, building from source is still best, as it will use the exact
environment (rather than just Ubuntu latest).

Internal changes

I've switched my editor environment from Emacs to VSCode, and as a result,
a lot of associated tooling has changed as well. This did result in quite
a bit of code churn due to formatting changes, and this might continue a
bit more as I investigate newer tooling.

Biggest miss: there's no meaningful unit test coverage improvement 🙁. I
still need to come up with a strategy here, and especially one that can
cover/integrates both Haskell and Typescript testing. On the slightly
positive side, the new logging changes (were written for and) allow very
clean test output, as all the logging noise is now hidden. This should
allow a more positive attitude to tests 😁.

Very minor notice: the code now builds with GHC 9.6.

Two files are attached to this release, generated from the github action, both pre-compiled binaries for x86-64:

• release.zip, for a normal installation with authentication
• demo-release.zip, for an installation without authentication, like demo.corydalis.io; don't run this with private pictures!

Full Changelog: v2023.44.0...v2024.9.0