Hajk 3.8 Release Candidate 2

[Hallbergs]

Why so many new commits since RC1?

We decided to merge develop to master and create a new release candidate based on that. The reasoning behind this was that we had a lot of important bug-fixes as well as several nice-to-have features merged into develop since RC1 was released. You will have the opportunity to test this release during the coming weeks, and hopefully we can release 3.8 some time during January!

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303 commits and changes in 201 files since the 3.7 release – here's Hajk 3.8! This release was brought to you by @Hallbergs and @jacobwod . Please see the list of commits for all contributors.

Changelog

Since Release Candidate 1

• Print enhancements (Print plugin - print all map scales in highest dpi #908)
• FIR plugin added (Varberg-specific implementation, Port Hajk2 FIR plugin to Hajk 3 #855)
• New generic KML model (various commits starting with 68bdb12), including new KML Writer from OpenLayers (Create a model in core to handle KML functionality #928)
• New generic Draw model (various commits starting with 1cd2fac) (Create a model in core to handle common Draw functionality #931)
• .NET-based proxy intended for rewriting requests to GeoServer ported from Hajk 2 (GeoServer Proxy from Hajk2 migrated to Visual Studio 2019. #930)
• Open Sans added to default build (Göteborg-specific implementation, Host open-sans and material-icons locally #934)
• Correct alpha-numeric sorting of results in Search, (Fix sorting of combined text-numeric values in Search #947)
• Possibility to turn off min/max zoom level warnings on a per-layer basis (Feature/944 min max zoom disable warning snackbars #948)
• Search: show labels on features in map directly when searching (Search: add a way to show labels in map directly upon searching #949)
• GeoSuite plugin added (Feature/geosuite data plugin #950)
• Search: option to limit search to only visible layers (including necessary changes in Admin UI to specify search fields, more - Feature/search in visible layers  #914)
• Docker documentation and improvements (HAJK Docker documentation and minor improvements #960)
• Additional functionality added to FME Server plugin (Fix/954 fme server additions #955)

Bug fixes: #909, #916, #919, #920, #921, #923, 7561c27, efc0aef, #932, #936, #938, 4568254, #940, 0668b4b, e83b73a, #958,

Major new features

Added FME Server plugin. #750

This opens up new possibilities for integration with Safe's FME Server application.

Search plugin respects different response types. #882

Search plugin now respects different info formats (GML 2/3/3.2 and GeoJSON). Makes Hajk work with QGIS Server's WFS implementation.

Improvements in Edit. #884

More data types are allowed in the plugin.

Improve Hajk's accessibility. #877

It's now possible to navigate the map using keyboard.

Make Client UI user-aware. #899

The added UI Control is just a proof-of-concept, with virtually no functionality other than displaying the user's name in the UI. However, this opens up a lot of possibilities for plugins to optionally read provided information from Active Directory.

New features

• Major improvements for QGIS Server users, including better support for GetLegendGraphics (Highlight of geometry when using infoclick not working for QGIS Server #879) and FeatureInfo (GetLegendGraphic not working for QGIS Server #880) requests.
• TLS Support in Backend makes it possible to authenticate via LDAPS. TLS support for LDAP (Active Directory) in Backend #893
• Allow Admin to enable Home button Allow Admin to enable Home button #876
• Optional info is now shown also for background layers. Feature/764 background layer info #808
• Make it possible to disable View rotation, among other default OpenLayers interactions Make it possible to disable View rotation  #875
• Location plugin: make it more like other map apps Location plugin: make it more like other map apps #863
• Better EDP integration support EDP - Added functionality missing in Hajk3 from Hajk2 #861
• Added endpoint /fmeproxy as a new controller Added endpoint /fmeproxy as a new controller #900

Bug fixes and minor features

• Edit crashes if a draw operation is cancelled #869, Control buttons might get rendered twice #864, Bad contrast on abort and close buttons in Dialog component #854, Render <blockquote> nicely in FeatureInfo #860, Maplinks in the preset-control ignores background layers. #859, Fix log4js setup in Backend #894, Make sure that all references to layer are removed when layer is deleted #898, Make sure that all versions of Hajk has similar configuration #897, Layers configured with < a /> tags without proper url-values in infoBox causes errors. #901, Don't zoom in when drawing a search polygon #902.

Checklist for admins

• Verify that search works with different kinds of sources. Previous to this release, search always used GeoJSON, but as of this release the setting from Admin UI is respected. Since the default setting in Admin UI has always been GML2, that's what will be used by default from this release. If you want to stay with GeoJSON: make sure to change the response type for your search sources.
• Verify that FeatureInfo ("info click") works, for multiple layer types.
• Ensure that the Edit plugin works with your current configuration. The plugin has seen substantial update in this release.
• If you use the Active Directory authentication in NodeJS backend, you now have the possibility to supply certificates and use LDAPS. Check out details in .env.
• If you're planning to use the new FME Server plugin, make sure that the url_base key is set in Admin UI's config.json. (This has been added to config.json in this release.)
• If you'd like to use the more compact version of the Location plugin, ensure to set the target properly to control in Admin UI for that plugin.

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Downloads

There are multiple ways to get the latest Hajk up and running, including Docker container.

Pre-compiled releases

As usual, we have prepared three different versions of the pre-compiled solution (scroll down for download links):

1. Hajk 3.8.0-rc.2 NodeJS edition
2. Hajk 3.8.0-rc.2 Simple edition
3. Hajk 3.8.0-rc.2 .NET edition

Docker container

The container is available on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/hallbergs/hajk

Installation

Refer to our recently updated installation guide.

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This discussion was created from the release Hajk 3.8 Release Candidate 2.

[WCarlsson]

We found one small bug in draw-plugin.
If you draw a point and show measurments (coordinates) and then move the point the coordinates still show the coordinates for the old location.This might be a non-issue since the sketch-plugin is coming.

Besides that we see big improvements when using it in our environment: NodeJS-backend and QGIS-server.
Awesome job!

[jacobwod]

Happy to hear that!

Regarding the Draw bug: @Hallbergs is working on a complete rewrite, called Sketch. I'm sure that this bug will be nonexistent in the upcoming plugin, so stay tuned. 😃