Docspell 0.25.0

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Here is 25th release of Docspell. This tiime with a few bug fixes and some smaller additions. The main thing in this release is the upgrade of several core libraries that essentially affects every piece of the software. Then, finally, a "real" command line interface is introduced (in a separate repository).

• Introducing a new CLI tool (#345) that replaces all the shell scripts from the tools/ directory! https://github.com/docspell/dsc
• UI changes:
  • year separators are now more prominent (#950)
  • fixes a bug in the item counter in detail view when an item is deleted (#920)
  • German translation improvements (#901)
  • The number of selected files is shown in upload page (#896)
• The created date of an item can now be used in queries (#925, #958)
• Setting tags api has been improved (#955)
• Task for converting pdfs is now behind the admin secret (#949)
• Task for generating preview images is now behind the admin secret (#915)
• Respond with 404 when the source-id is not correct (#931)
• Update of core libraries (#890)
• Add Japanese to the list of document languages. Thanks @wallace11 for helping out (#948, #962)
• Fix setting the folder from metadata when processing a file and allow to specifiy it by name or id (#940)
• Fixes docspell config file in docker-compose setup (#909)
• Fixes selecting the next job in the job executor (#898)
• Fixes a bug that prevents uploading more than one file at once (#938)

Please see the Changelog for more details.

Docspell 0.24.0

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This time a translation of the Web-UI in German is included and the docker build was overhauled. The releases are now build and tested using Java 11.

• Rework Docker setup. Images are now provided for different architectures and have a new home now. The images are now built via a github-action from the official packages of each release. (#635, #643, #840, #687)
• Translation of the UI into German (thanks to @monnypython for proof reading and applying lots of corrections!) (#292, #683, #870)
• Improve migration of SOLR (#604)
  • The information whether solr has been setup, is now stored inside SOLR. This means when upgrading Docspell, all data will be re-indexed.
• Add --exclude and --include options to the consumedir.sh script (#885)
• Improved documenation of the http api (#874)
• Removed unused libraries in the final packages to reduce file size a bit (#841)
• Bug: Searching by tag category was broken when using upper case letters (#849)
• Bug: when adding a boolean custom field, it must be applied immediatly (#842)
• Bug: when entering a space in a dropdown the menu closes (#863)
• Bug: Some scripts didn't work with earlier versions of jq (#851)
• Bug: The source form was broken in that it didn't load the language correctly (#877)
• Bug: Tag category options were wrongly populated when narrowing tags via a search (#880)

Breaking Changes

The docker setup changed significantly. Please see the changelog for more information.

Docspell 0.23.0

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This release enables deleting multiple files at once of an item. It also changes how user settings are stored. Additionally several bugs in the ui and server have been fixed.

• Feature: Central user settings (#565): user settings have been stored in the browser but are now stored at the server. This means that all settings are now shared across all devices.
  The ui provides a migration button: goto user profile -> UI settings. If you have stored settings in the browser but not on the server, a button appears that pushes the settings to the server.
  Note: the button is only there if there are no settings at the server. So if you want to migrate, don't set the theme or click on other things that are persistet in the settings before doing the migration!
• Feature: Delete multiple attachemnts at once, thanks to @stefan-scheidewig (#626): multiple attachments on an item can be deleted with a single click
• Feature: Make consumedir-cleaner run on windows, thanks to @JaCoB1123 (#809)
• Bug: More work externalizing strings (#784, #760): many more strings have been externalized for being translated; also dates are now externalized, too
• Bug: Better anonymous upload page (#758): the upload page for anonymous users shouldn't show a form to provide any metadata
• Bug: Tag category color (#835): the input field to specify colors for tag categories didn't show the category name
• Bug: Search in names (#822): a bug in the webui sent a broken query to the server, making the "search in names" field unusable
• Bug: Fulltext only search broken (#823): the fulltext only search didn't only consult the solr index, but also the database, making it a lot slower and presenting the results not in the order returned by solr.
• Bug: Ui switches to logged in state on auth failure (#814)
• Bug: Broken search summary when tag has no category (#759)

Please see the cangelog for some more details. The milestone page lists all issues for this release.

Docspell 0.22.0

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This release fixes some annoying bugs and prepares the web-ui to be translated into other languages. For actual translating them, I ask for your help. If you are interested, there is a detailed post about how to start with it in the docs.

• Refactor webui to prepare for localisation (#726)
• Add names to user defined tasks for better documentation (#712)
• Fixes some ui bugs:
  • scrollbar position (#722)
  • other minor ui related fixes (#746)
• Removed deprecated api endpoints, fixing #482
• Fixes bug where items are already shown in the ui, although still in processing (#719)
• Switch to github actions for ci (#748)
• Fixes a bug in the new query language (#754)
• Fix counters for categories in the search menu (#755)

Thanks to everyone showing interest in docspell and dedicating time by opening issues, testing and providing ideas!

Please see the cangelog for some more details. The milestone page lists all issues for this release.

Docspell 0.21.0

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The main feature of this release gives a very flexible way of searching for documents, using a query.

• Add a query language to provide a flexible way for searching
  • the search form now is translated into a search query
  • allows to search for items not in a folder or not in a specific folder (#628, #379)
  • Allows for range searches in custom fields (#540)
  • And more! See the documentation
• Add a use attribute to all metadata, to be able to exclude them from suggestions (#659)
• Allow to submit items for reprocessing via the UI (#365)
• Add Latvian language (#679)
• Scrollbars are back! (#681, #677)
• The ds.sh script was changed to inform the processing jobs to also check for duplicates (#653)
• Docker setup now uses again a fixed hostname (#608)
• Moving the unit tests to MUnit (#672)
• Remove the old UI code (#636)
• Fix date extraction for English (#665)
• Fix bug when reading contacts from extracted text (#709)
• Fix bugs when reading mails (#691, #678)
• Fix a bug that wouldn't show an error message when entering bad characters in the register form (#663)
• Fixes a typo in the user settings menu (#654, thanks @ChristianKlass)

Thanks to everyone showing interest in docspell and dedicating time by opening issues, testing and providing ideas!

Please see the cangelog for some more details. The milestone page lists all issues for this release.

Docspell 0.20.0

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This release comes with a completely new UI, including (finally!) a dark theme 🚀 🎊 . In addition many smaller features and bug fixes are included.

• New WebUI including a litght and dark theme.
  • The old ui can still be used, as a fallback. It is required to install a Browser Addon for this to add a request header. Check this for firefox or this for chromium. Then add the request header Docspell-Ui with value 1.
  • Experience on mobile devices is greatly improved
• The following UI issues are only included in the new UI:
  • foldable sections in search and multi-edit menu (#613, #527)
  • show current item in detail view (#369)
  • fixed some ui issues regarding processing logs (#363)
  • scrollbar fix (#600)
• Allow a person to be correspondent, concerning or both (#605)
• Add a short-name field to the organization (#560)
• Add a description field to the equipment (#633)
• Allow to specify a language for a source url (#651). This can be used to define upload urls per document language.
• Trim whitespace for certain fields (#539)
• A different docker entrypoint for the consumedir script was added that supports polling (thanks @JaCoB1123, #603, #624)
• Fix duplicate suggestions (#627)
• Fix reading mails with empty headers (#606)
• Fix suggesting person that doesn't belong to the suggested organization (#625)
• Cleanup registered nodes periodically (#618)

Please see the cangelog for some more details. The milestone page lists all issues for this release.

Docspell 0.19.0

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This release comes with major improvements to the text analysis module. It is now much more configurable, has improved results and can learn tags from all categories. Additionally, more languages for document processing have been added and it's now easier to add more. Please open an issue if want more languages to be included.

• text analysis improvements (#263, #570)
  • docspell can now learn from all your tag categories
  • the detection for correspondents/concerned entities has been improved by using the classifier for this, too - all text analysis steps are now configurable that makes it possible to adapt it better to your data and machine.
  • The docs have been updated with some details here and here.
• more languages (#488)
  • Adds: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Romanian
• scan mailbox change (#576)
  • The change from last version (#551) has been moved behind a flag in the "scan mailbox settings". Please review your scan mailbox tasks in your user settings.
  • The scan mailbox settings form view has been organized into tabs, as it grew too large for a single form.
• nix tools package fixed (#584)
  • If you are using docspell tools package for nix, it has now been fixed in that all scripts are available. They are now all prefixed by ds- (except the ds script)
• fix deleting organization (#578)
  • Due to the new relationship of a person to an organization, deleting an organization with references a person was not possible. This is now fixed.
• base url fix (#579)
  • The baseurl setting is optional, but when specified it was required to omit a trailing slash. This is now fixed in that it is always rendered without the trailing slash to the client, no matter what is in the config
• tag category case sensitive search fix (#568)
  • This was a bug introduced by the last release. When tag categories can now be spelled upper- or lower-case. In 0.18.0 you had to spell them lowercase, otherwise the search doesn't work.
• adds a workaround for mails that don't specify their used charset (#591)

Breaking Changes

• The joex configuration changed around text analysis. If you had some custom settings there, please review these wrt the new default config.
• When using the nix package manager: the tools package renamed the scripts to be better distinguishable, since they all end up in $PATH. They are now prefixed by ds-.
• The path of the consumedir script changed in the consumedir docker image
• The settings of the scan-mailbox task has been extended by another flag. If you were relying that all mails (even those excluded by a subject filter) where moved away, you need to check your scan-mailbox task settings.

Please see the cangelog for some more details. The milestone page lists all issues for this release.

Docspell 0.18.0

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This release comes with many UI improvements and features as well as bug fixes. The screencasts on the website have been updated.

• Feature: Results summary and updated tag count (#496, #333)
  • A search summary can be displayed that shows the overall result count and to each custom field with a numeric type (number or money) small statistics like sum, average and max/min values. This is useful when you track your expenses on invoices or receipts.
  • This additional ui element can be enabled/disabled in your ui settings.
  • The result summary is now also used to update the tag counts in the search menu according to the current results.
• Feature: password reset (#376, docs)
  • Adds a new route for admins to reset the password of a user
  • Admin users are those with access to the config file, the endpoint requires to supply a secret from the config file.
  • A bash script is provided for more convenient access.
  • Note this also moves the re-create index endpoint behind the same secret! See below.
• Feature: custom fields clickable (#514)
  • The item detail view allows to click on tags to quickly find all tagged items. This now works for custom fields, too.
• Feature: scroll independently (#541)
  • The search menu can scroll now independent from the main area containing the item cards.
• Improvement: improve attachment selection (#396)
  • When selecting an attachment, it shows its preview to the name instead of the name only
• Improvement: wildcard search for custom date fields (#550)
  • Searching for custom field values allows to use a wildcard * at beginning or end. This is also enabled for date-fields.
• Improvement: joex memory (#509)
  • Joex currently requires a lot of memory to hold the NLP models. After idling for some time, which can be configured and defaults to 15 min, the NLP model cache is cleared. This reduces memory load and makes it possible for the JVM to give it back to the OS.
  • This is supposed to relieve memory consumption when idling only. However, whether it is reclaimed by the OS depends on the JVM and its settings. To observe it early, use the G1GC garbage collector. This is enabled by default for JDK11. So it is recommended to use JDK11 (which is used in the docker images).
• Improvement: allow scaling joex with docker-compose, thanks @bjeanes (#552)
  • This allows to easily start multiple joex containers via docker-compose
• Improvement: allow to connect with gmail via app specific passwords (#520)
  • Imap settings have been extended to be able to specify if a OAuth2 should be used or not.
  • Before, OAuth2 was the default when the server has advertised it. This has been changed now, which means you need to adapt your IMAP settings if you currently use OAuth2
• Fix: provide multiple possible date suggestions for English documents (#561)
• Fix: add missing language files to joex docker image (#525)
• Fix: fix a bug that occurs when processing is restarted (i.e. after a crash) (#530)
• Fix: fix a bug in the ui where the mail connection field was not correctly updated (#524)
• Fix: fix bug when importing mails with an applied filter (#551)

Breaking Changes

• Rest Server config:
  • If you specify the fulltext-search.recreate-key, you need to change your config. Delete it and use the secret now for the new setting admin-endpoint.secret.
• routes
  • The route to drop and recreate the fulltext search index has been moved. It is now at /admin/fts/reIndexAll. The secret must now provided as http header and not in the url.
• collective settings:
  • The imap settings have a new flag which indicates whether OAuth2 auth mechanism should be prefered. This is false by default. If you have used it with OAuth2 (like with gmail) you need either set this flag to true manually or use an application specific password.

Please see the cangelog for some more details. The milestone page lists all issues for this release.

Docspell 0.17.1

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I shouldn't have said that 0.17.0 would be the last release of this year… An unfortunate bug has made it into the previous release that makes the webapp near unusable. Therefore this release, containing only the fix for #508 (compared to 0.17.0).

I'm sorry for the inconvenience!

Please see the 0.17.0 release page for more info.

Docspell 0.17.0

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This release comes with some smaller features:

• Feature: Remember-Me – another cookie is used to provide a remember-me functionality. The cookie is checked against some value in the database, so an admin can always make all remember-me cookies invalid. (#435)
• Feature: Link persons to organizations. In the address book, a person can now be associated to an organzition. The dropdowns show a little hint for which organization a person belongs to. Also suggestions for persons are restricted to those of the organization if that has been associated before. (#375)
• Feature: Allow to filter on source names. The search form can now search by a source name. The new field can be hidden via ui settings (it must be activated for exising users). (#390)
• Feature: Customize the title and subtitle of the item card in the overview. You can now define patterns for the title and subtitle of a card. (#429)
• Feature: Export your data. A bash script has been added that goes through your items and downloads them all to disk including their metadata!). This can be used to periodically backup the data in docspell.
• Improvement: The webui has been improved in that the search bar and search form are unified regarding the text search. The two fields in the form, allowing to search in names and fulltext, have been combined into a single field just as the search bar. (#497)

This is the last release for 2020. I had hoped to put more into this, but this time of the year is always a busy one ;-). I want to thank you for your support and interest in this project and I wish you all a joyful Christmas time!