3.0.0

Note: Your Metacat version MUST be either 2.19.0 or 2.19.1 before you can upgrade it to 3.0.0.

This major release introduces breaking changes; please see details.

2.19.1

New features, and bugs fixed in this release:

• Handle additional OSTI DOIs
• Upgrade Libraries

2.19.0

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

• GetPackage implementation doesn't handle duplicate data object filenames
• PackageDownloaderV2 doesn't increment filenames for duplicate science metadata objects
• Deleting objects failed to remove solr docs
• Sampling citation not showing up in view service
• Mis-Formatting of Data Package Contents
• Unhelpful error message when trying to create as a denied submitter
• Data objects missing after a package was published
• Multiple updates on a single DOI happen when users use the metacat admin page to update DOIs
• Metacat updated the DOI metadata (datacite) when the system metadata of an obsoleted object was updated if the obsolescent chain has a DOI Sid
• GetPackage fails to include system metadata
• OSTI DOI Plugin Notifications need more information

2.18.0

This release focuses on improving indexing performance.
New features and bugs fixed in this release:

• Use a multiple-tread process to index objects
• Eliminate unnecessary index tasks
• Fix bugs in Bagit implementation

2.17.0

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

• Support the OSTI DOI service
• Support hierarchical packages in getPackage API
• Use the file protocol rather than the https/http protocols to access schema files during the xml validation process
• Metacat threw the error of the user not authorized during the publish process even though the EZID setting is correct
• Metacat did not check if the checksum algorithm was changed in the MN.updateSystemmetadata method
• EML to HTML .xslt skips methods section in attributes
• Upgrade xerces to 2.12.2
• Remove the GeoServer war file
• Remove the oa4mp-client-oauth1-3.3.war file

2.16.2

Bugs fixed in this release:

• Upgrade some library jar files to fix severe security vulnerabilities

2.16.1

Bugs fixed in this release:

• Upgrade some library jar files to fix severe security vulnerabilities
• Metacat cannot create objects without DOI setting enabled

2.16.0

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

• Upgrade some library jar files to fix critical security threats
• Refactor the DOI service to use the plug-in architecture
• CN subjects cannot query private objects
• Users with the write permission cannot update system metadata
• Metacat should return a not-found error rather than the internal error when there is a typo in the old Metacat API url

2.15.1

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

• Metacat hangs with excessive thread counts
• Support multiple DOI shoulders
• Update EML Semantic Annotation indexing to include and expand property URIs
• MNodeService.getPackage() takes too long for large packages
• Geohashes, text fields not being indexed for schema.org documents
• Expand elements covered by EML's attribute index fields beyond just dataTable
• EML to HTML/PDF is broken in the getPackage() method
• Have MNCore.getCapabilities() report on auth.allowSubmitters parameter setting
• GetPackage API doesn't work from R on Windows

2.15.0

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

• Support non-XML metadata objects in Metacat
• Upgrade Solr to 8.8.2
• Enforce the node replication policy in the MN.replicate method
• Fix the bug of incorrect geohash
• Fix the bug of incorrect collectionQuery
• Change the default order to dateModified for the listObject method
• Remove extra logged event in the MN.update method
• Upgrade some library jar files to fix security threats