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@txau txau released this 30 Mar 13:33
v1.6
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New features

  • CSV import. Adding data in bulk to your collection now is easier than ever. Uwazi will intake a CSV or a .zip file also containing your PDF documents along with all the metadata values.
  • Two factor authentication. 2FA gives you an extra security layer protecting your data from stolen passwords and other hacks. You can use either Authy or Google Authenticator.
  • Activity log. Now administrators can track who and when information was created, updated or deleted. You'll find a complete log in settings > activity log.
  • Public forms. If you need to collect data or feedback from your users, now you can quickly create a public from based on the metadata definition of an Uwazi template. The submitted information will appear in your uploads section for revision.
  • Bar charts with arbitrary data. If you need to show a bar chart in your pages and the data is not coming directly from Uwazi, you can now feed a json to a chart.
  • Privacy cookie pop-up. Informing users that your site uses cookies is now required by EU's privacy legislation. You can activate this option in settings > collection > "Show cookie policy"
  • Custom sorting in thesauri. Now administrators can define an arbitrary sorting in their thesauri instead of Uwazi's default alphabetical sorting.
  • Inherit properties. There are times when it is useful to display a property on more than one entity. Instead of duplicating the property and collecting the same data twice, Uwazi supports the ability to inherit a property from one entity type to another, via a relationship.
  • Better management of document languages. Uwazi now supports documents in languages not configured as UI languages. Also, users can read these documents without switching UI language.

Interoperability with other tools

  • Integration with Digital Evidence Vault. DEV is a browser plugin that allows you to capture information on different internet sources (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, or any website) along with a vast quantity of metadata oriented towards preservation (keep a copy in case the media disappears) and usage as evidence in a legal process (capture metadata that helps support the piece of media as valid evidence). This new feature allows you to keep a copy of any media (including videos) in your Uwazi instance with just one click. For more information, read our case study on how this integration is being used to document air strikes in Yemen.

Technical improvements that will impact system administration

  • Metadata object/API. Our internal architecture for storing metadata has changed in order to be used as the based for a series of performance refactors that are under production. This has impacted the API introducing some extra validation and specs, meaning there may be breaking changes.
  • We upgraded Elasticsearch to version 7.4 and MongoDB to version 4.0.3. Please check the dependencies and upgrade section in case you are self-hosting and need to upgrade your infrastructure.
  • Custom JavaScript in pages. Uwazi pages now supports adding JavaScript code to be executed on the client side. Since this code can access the API of the instance, this allows developers and administrators to create rich pages with complex functionalities such as custom graphs and data visualization or interactive functionality.

Many bug fixes!

Make sure your Uwazi dependencies are up to date and follow the upgrade instructions to get the latest code up and running.

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