Re: [Exist-open] [ANN] Release of eXist 5.3.0

[Craig B. <cra...@ma...>]

> On Jun 26, 2021, at 1:04 PM, Juri Leino <ju...@ex...> wrote:
> 
> We are very happy to announce that eXist-db 5.3.0 has been released.
> 
> It's been quite a while since the last release. A lot has been happening behind the scenes, and we are happy to share the outcome with you. 5.3.0 is a minor release, and should be 100% API compatible with 5.0.0  as such. 
> 

Thanks for all the hard work.  I have run into some issues getting this working and I'm reporting here rather than GitHub as it's unclear to me whether the problems are in eXist, one of the new or revised packages, or pilot error of some sort.

I installed the DMG image on macOS 11.4, keeping an existing data directory that's been running fine with 5.2.0.  I did have to ignore a warning about not being able to verify the identity of the publisher, which I assume has something to do with not paying Apple to countersign the code signing cert or something.  That was readily ignorable, if initially alarming.  I bumped up some memory settings during the first start-up but otherwise accepted the defaults.

When I open the Dashboard from the menu bar and logged in, I didn't get any application icons.  I clicked on Package Manager in the left side menu and got a "loading of available packages failed" message.  At this point the browser console shows a 404 error at this URL:

http://localhost:8080/exist/apps/dashboard/bower_components/web-animations-js/web-animations-next-lite.min.js.map

and a 400 error at this URL:

http://localhost:8080/exist/apps/packageservice/packages/apps

the details of which look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<exception>
    <path>/db/apps/packageservice/modules/local-apps.xql</path>
    <message>err:FODC0002 Resource icon.png does not exist. [at line 148, column 18, source: /db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
    In function:
    	(item()*, item()*, item()*) [148:18:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
    	packages:scan-repo(function(*)) [147:5:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
    	packages:installed-apps(xs:string) [118:19:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
    	packages:get-local(xs:string) [38:5:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]
    	packages:get-local-applications() [16:6:/db/apps/packageservice/modules/packages.xqm]</message>
</exception>

There is an icon.png at /db/apps/packageservice/icon.png, so I'm not sure what it's confused about.  In /db/apps/packageservice/expath-pkg.xml, it says the version I have is 1.3.9 -- is that the right one?

eXide seems to be working fine.  I tried running the following in eXide, which had no effect:

  import module namespace repair="http://exist-db.org/xquery/repo/repair"
  at "resource:org/exist/xquery/modules/expathrepo/repair.xql";

  repair:clean-all(),
  repair:repair()

Any other ideas?



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