GeoNetwork - Geographic Metadata Catalog

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: geonetwork_desktop-2.0.2-win.zip

Notes:
The 2.0.2 release is a maintenance release fixing a range of issues discovered in the previous versions. One mayor change is the support for Java 1.5. Another fix is better support for MySQL and Oracle DBMS's during installation.

The Desktop installation provides less options to configure during installation than the Server version. Otherwise, both applications are identical.

The Desktop version provides a convenience Setup.exe application to start the installer on Windows. It also creates a Start menu on Windows computers. However, the installer can be started and used on other operating systems by typing "java -jar geonetwork-intermap-2.0.2-install-stdln.jar" from the command line.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to an upgrade of the installer package, Java 1.5 is required to run the installer. GeoNetwork opensource 2.0.2 runs on both Java 1.5 and Java 1.4.2.

Enjoy!

Changes:
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=== GeoNetwork 2.0.2 : List of changes
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- Removed bug in showing metadata with multiline fields (fields containing CR-LF)

- Possibly fixed nasty bug in validation on Windows PCs

- Added bounding box and interval fields in search form to session

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- List of user: now administrators cannot remove themselves. This prevent some
  inconsistencies like the user being logged in and not existing into the database.

- Asked confirmation when deleting users

- Now it is not possible to edit metadata which source is different from the site id

- Now thumbnails button in editing is shown only for iso19115 metadata

- FGDC metadata abstract is now a textarea in editing

- User administration : now the group list is always visible

- Allowed several administrators

- Added GeoRSS button to the recent additions

- Included MySQL and Oracle JDBC drivers for easy installation on these databases.
  The warning to put JDBC drivers in place during the installation has been removed.

- Thumbnails are now shown for harvested data (there is a link to the remote site)

- Added jdbc drivers for mysql and oracle

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- A user can duplicate metadata only if he has the proper privilege 
  ('metadata.duplicate.form')

- maxClauses parameters in Lucene BooleanQuery constructor is now 16384 instead of 
  the default of 1024

- Fixed bug with the mckoi's activator. Now installing a DBMS other than McKoi
  works fine.

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=== GeoNetwork 2.0.1 : List of changes
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- to be added...

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=== GeoNetwork 2.0.0 final : List of changes
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- Added french and spanish translations

- Added option to save installation settings for re-installing from the command line

- Added an About page to the site

- Added the SiteID on the about and links page. Useful for administrators that
  want to set up harvesting

- Added email and description editing to the group list editor

- Added possibility to have multiple inheritance to user profiles

- Added email notification to a group administrator when a user downloads a resource

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- Now information about possible operations on each metadata take into account
  the user's profile and not only the metadata privileges

- Modified search button

- Updated feedback link on homepage

- Updated links on links page

- Some clean ups to the setup table's record

- debug mode is set to be off by default

- updated the user-input.xml and user-input-integrated.xml
  to accept: jetty port, public host, puplic port

- changed installer/xsl/config.xsl: added entries for public host & port

- changed installer/xsl/jetty.xsl and installer/xsl/jetty-integrated.xsl
  to reflect the port choosen in the installer

- upgraded migration procedure to fix the links for the resources

- upgraded the setup procedure: now all metadata are read and saved
  in order to update the resources' links.

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- Fixed bug in the editor: the template property was not saved

- Fixed bug that caused the editor to open a  different window pressing "Save" and
  the other buttons, if "Check" was pressed before

- Fixed Interactive button on search results page to correctly open a WMS in
  InterMap opensource

- Download link on metadata page checked for dynamic privilege instead of download
  privilege

- Now the feedback email is correctly sent

- Fixed a bug in the installer: the stylesheet for the config.xml file changed
  the config for all resources instead of the enabled one.

- Fixed problems with profiles combobox into the user admin form

- Fixed bug on startup: metadata were always reindexed

- Fixed bug in the editor: online resources fields were not shown up

- Fixed bug with the distTranOp field: the onLineSrc fields were not shown

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=== GeoNetwork RC2 : List of changes
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- Added an alpha release of the CSW specification (not usable, work in progress).

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- Upgraded Jetty to 5.1.5 RC2

- Transformed "save & check" in "check". Now opens a different window with diagnostic

- Removed thumbnails handling in simple editor

- Put "Template" checkbox together with the edit buttons at the top

- Bug [1308077] : Moved the xml insert privileges from the 'UserAdmin' to the
  'Editor' profile

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- Fixed bug with config.xml. The oracle resource was enabled instead of the McKoi
  one. This fixes bugs [1349939] and [1349849].

- Fixed bug [1314928] : oracle returns "1.0" instead of "1". This caused some problems.

- Fixed some bugs with the MySql database schema (converted some varchars to text)

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=== GeoNetwork RC1 : List of changes
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- Added migration procedure

- Added periodic metadata harvesting on file system

- Added "last results" button

- Added empty templated for DC and FGDC

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- Search for templates is hidden to simple registerd users (only allow from editors up)

- Moved login info to the righ

- Metadata: put show and edit buttons also at the top

- Now it is possible to turn a metadata into a template and viceversa

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- If no feature maps are available, nothing is displayed in the home page

- Fixed bug with "&" in names and metadata in xml form

- FGDC metadata standard Field 'accconst' was not displayed right

- Fixed metadata preview from a remote server

- Fixed some empty tabs in the editor (the (+) button was not shown)

- "search for templates" flag was not saved in the session

- Add button generated wrong link in Dublin Core editing

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=== GeoNetwork beta 4 : List of changes
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- Removed the 'Administrator' profile from the user edit form. This allows only
  one administrator for each geonetwork installation
  
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- Fixed a nasty bug with groups privileges. The administrator was not able to
  see metadata created by himself
  
- Fixed bug in the user edit form. Now groups are hidden only when editing the
  administrator
  
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=== GeoNetwork beta 3 : List of changes
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- Added text at the end of the installer explaining how to start the system

- Added a 'Geonetwork' menu  in the OS 'application' menu

- Added possibility to have a user administrator
   - Added UserAdmin profile
	- Filtered profile combobox : removed "Guest" profile and listed only profiles
	  that are equal to or lower than the creating user
	
- Added a form to easily add and remove thumbnails

- Added the possibility to specify a metadata template during search.
  Removed templates from normal search results and on the main page
  (latest updates)

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- Removed unused namespaces from the DC sample data

- Used UUID in harvesting procedure and changed parameters format

- Upgraded Jetty to version 5.1.5rc1

- Removed last line in "links" page (contact and feedback)

- Now feedback is not saved into the db

- The 'delete' privilege has been merged to the 'edit' one. Added the 'notify'
  privilege.

- Harvesting procedure : if the username/password fields are missing (or empty)
  no login is performed on the remote site

- Editing a user : now the group list is not shown if the user is an administrator

- Grouped metadata dirs to handle large set of metadata

- Removed "AdvancedEditor" profile. Allowed services moved "UserAdmin"

- Installer : added some defaults. The user's password now must be at least 6 chars

- Changes to the database
	- Renamed field "sourceId" to "sourceUri" in table "Metadata"
	- Removed table "Feedback"
   - Added unique to the name of users, groups, categories
		
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- Fixed feedback link in main page

- Fixed bug : was not possible to remove privileges from group 2 ("Editors")

- Fixed slash on Windows start/stop scripts. Added STOP_PORT variable

- Fixed stylesheets update-fixed-info.xsl for ISO and DC

- Fixed buttons' style on forms

- Fixed nasty bug on Z39.50

- Fixed '+' bug on ISO codelists

- Fixed bug with idCitation/resRefDate

- PostionName is now displayed in editing mode

- Fixed namespaces in xml editing

- Fixed some issues with the dublin core

- Bug fixed : metadata with empty thumbails generated exceptions on search results
 
- Fixed index.html : now the small "GeoNetwork" text is not displayed

- Fixed validation bug when saving a metadata using the xml text view

- Fixed servlet name in res.xsl stylesheet

- Fixed bug : emails were not sent to the mail account specified during the installation.

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=== GeoNetwork beta 2 : List of changes
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- Added a form to remove old, empty metadata
  An empty metadata has been defined as follow:
    - it is not a template
	 - it is local (its source == to the geonetwork site id)
	 - the difference between the last change date and the creation date (in
	   minutes) is less than a given difference
	 - it has no operations associated to the internet group

- Added a button to create a metadata from a template
  Added a form (in administration) to create a metadata from a template
  
- Added an UUID to metadata when creating it from a template, from the xml import
  or from the batch import forms.

- Improved ISO editor stylesheet

- Added upload features to the ISO editor

- Added a popup to place a keyword in ISO19115 editor

- Added a popup to place a bounding box in ISO19115 editor

- Added the possibility to change the password and some other information

- Improved handling of help XML information

- Added the possibility to change the number of hits per page in the search form

- Added a XML editing page with validation

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- Metadata batch import form:
  Now the user can see only the groups he belongs to.

- Changes to the database (installer data files adjusted as needed):
   - Table Metadata: added "uuid"
	- Table Groups  : added "description", "email", "referrer"

- Fixed some initial data in the installer

- Added 2 FAO's metadata with thumbnails. This gives the featured map on the
  main page and metadata with thumbnails on the search results.

- The harvesting procedure now stores the uuid got from the remote site

- Creation of a new metadata ('create' button, xml insert/import):
   - privileges belonging to the 'internet' group are removed. This is related
	  to the 'search for empty/unused metadata' functionality.
	- privileges belonging to the 'intranet' group are removed.
	- the group that is adding the metadata has all privileges on it
	- privileges associated to other groups are copied from the DefaultOper table

- Changed behavior of back button in the editor to go back to editing mode, and
  improved diagnostic message

- Make sure that adding or removing items moves to the same page point in the
  browser

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- Search results : fixed metadata logos and added the possibility to have a
  personal logo

- The "UserGroups" data file was missing. The provided one binds the administrator
  to groups 0,1,2

- Fixed bug with the '+' button on element 'OnLineRes'

- Fixed a nasty bug in the editor: now after an error it is possible to save
  the metadata
  
- Minor bugs have been fixed.

- now trying Z39.50 search without search criteria or with no server selected shows an alert

-  thumbnails of harvested metadata are read from the source site

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=== Known bugs
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- The stylesheets to store the UUID need to be fixed for the dublin core and fgdc
  metadata schema
  
- Some metadata elements don't get displayed (like those inside the OnLineRes)
 
- The editor does not preserve namespaces during xml editing

- The search shows the templates too.

- The feedback link is broken and some items on the links page are not shown correctly