Release Notes 0.23.7

DRAFT Release Notes 0.23.7

Overview

Release 0.23.7 is a maintenance release to 0.23.6. That is primarily a bug fix. It is a recommended upgrade for anyone performing distribution to remote nodes requiring credentials.

Features

• Enhancements to Distribute Registration Form aka /register:

  • Added BrowserID registration to capture valid emails for contact purposes.
  • Added ability to specify distribution endpoint username/password when registering a distribution endpoint.

• Bug Fix:

  • When distributing to an endpoint that required credentials, an error was thrown due to a malformed function call when creating the CouchDB replication document with access credentials.

Upgrading from 0.23.6

Ubuntu

0. Install swig

   sudo apt-get install swig

1. Activate your Learning Registry Virtualenv

   . /path/to/virtualenv/lr27/bin/activate

2. Stop running instances of Learning Registry

   sudo service learningregistry stop; sudo killall -9 uwsgi

3. Update your Learning Registry code base

   cd /path/to/checked/out/LearningRegistry; git fetch origin master; git checkout 0.23.7

4. Update LR module to install new dependencies

   pip uninstall LR; pip install -e ./LR/

   Note some versions of Ubuntu (>=11.10) my fail installing M2Crypto due to an undefined symbol: SSLv2_method error. If you encounter this issue install M2Crypto separately then follow by install LR again:

    pip install -e bzr+http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/m2crypto/precise/#egg=M2Crypto
    pip install -e ./LR/
   

5. Start Learning Registry

   sudo service learningregistry start

Windows

0. Open cmd.exe from Start Menu

1. Activate your virtualenv

   c:\path\to\virtualenv\Scripts\activate.bat

2. Install m2crypto

   easy_install m2crypto

3. Stop Learning Registry process

4. Update source code, launch Git Shell from Start Menu then:

     cd c:\path\to\src\LearningRegistry
     git fetch origin master
     git checkout 0.23.7
   

5. Install LR

   pip install -e .\LR\

6. Start Learning Registry process

   cd LR then paster serve development.ini

Changelog

• d33fe42 Fix distribution credentials
• 209e4fc Fix distribution credentials
• 0ec7307 Adding BrowserID gateway to Register for Distribute
• 206680d Adding BrowserID gateway to Register for Distribute
• 6976b1e updated to allow username/password for distribute