Version 2.0.2 of Providence has been released. Version 2.0 is a major release that brings compatibility with PHP version 8.2 or better. The version 2.0.2 minor release includes bug fixes and minor functional improvements:

Providence

• Resolve fatal error when creating object-collection relationships in certain configurations (Reported by @samaaskari)
• Fix user interface display issue when viewing object representation list with editable multiline text elements (Reported by Diane Lee)
• Allow Unicode characters in download file names (Reported by @carlosticofarre)

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Version 2.0.1 of Providence has been released. Version 2.0 is a major release that brings compatibility with PHP version 8.2 or better. The version 2.0.1 minor release includes bug fixes and updates to external software dependencies:

Providence

• Fix broken autocompletes for LCSH, InformationServices and GeoNames metadata elements. (Reported by @ samaaskari)
• Update PHPSpreadsheet, Symphony/Process and Axios dependencies to obtain security updates
• Remove references to old documentation site.

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Version 2.0 of Providence has been released. Version 2.0 is a major release that brings compatibility with PHP version 8.2 or better.

Providence

• New, more flexible system for tracking changes, such as location history or provenance, over time.
• Improvements to search indexing and built-in search engine to better support hierarchical indexing, text searches including punctuation and non-roman characters, searches on complex accession numbers and more.
• Improved background processing system. Media processing and search indexing background tasks are now more launched more reliably as needed rather than relying on externally configured cron tasks.
• Reporting enhancements, including support for interactive user-provided reporting parameters and background processing of large exports.
• External export system to facilitate integration with digital preservation systems via configurable export of BagIT packages.
• New metadata element data types for file size values and references to media from YouTube, Vimeo, GoogleDocs, Internet Archive and other external services.
• Support for automated translation of profile text (field names, user interface, etc.) using machine translation services such as Google Translate and DeepL.
• Support for automated transcription of audio/video materials using OpenAI Whisper.
• New data import formats, including DublinCoreXML, EHive, METS, MODS, Musearch, SqlLite and iDigBio.
• New GraphQL-based API providing search, browse, introspection and editing functionality.
• Expanded data replication system for synchronization of two or more CollectiveAccess systems.
• Improved support for extraction of media metadata using MediaInfo and EXIFTool.
• ... and many many bug fixes and improvements ...

Note that this version is no longer compatible with PHP version 7.4. Get it now on our download page.

Versions 1.7.16 of Providence and Pawtucket have been released. Version 1.7.16 is a maintenance release with these bug fixes and minor improvements:

Providence

• Fix for issue preventing correct display of relationship types for non-self-relationships (Eg. object-entity relationships)
• Update vendor libraries to incorporate security fixes
• Fix issue where detection of PDFs using Zend_PDF library option would throw a fatal error
• Revert default path for GraphicsMagick to typical Linux path
• Resolve issue where adding list items to the place_hierarchies list would cause a fatal error

Pawtucket

• Fix for issue preventing correct display of relationship types for non-self-relationships (Eg. object-entity relationships)
• Update vendor libraries to incorporate security fixes
• Fix issue where detection of PDFs using Zend_PDF library option would throw a fatal error

Note that this version is not yet compatible with PHP version 8. Please use versions 7.3 or 7.4. Get it now on our download page.

Versions 1.7.15 of Providence and Pawtucket have been released. Version 1.7.15 is a maintenance release with these bug fixes and minor improvements:

Providence

• Fix for issue preventing correct display of relationship types for self-relationships (Eg. entity-entity relationships)
• Fix broken page navigation in list item editor (GitHub issue #1346)
• Allow apostrophes in email addresses for new users (GitHub issue #347)
• Resolve issues with formatting of nested relationship types (GitHub #1193)
• Minor fixes to DACS and Darwin Core profiles
• Prevent potential XSS issue in error handler
• Resolve Tilepic processing issues with images having EXIF orientation set that would result in illegible zoomable images.
• Update vendor libraries to incorporate security fixes
• Updated PDF output components for compatibility with new vendor libraries
• Update logo graphics

Pawtucket

• Fix for issue preventing correct display of relationship types for self-relationships (Eg. entity-entity relationships)
• Allow apostrophes in email addresses for new users (GitHub issue #347)
• Update vendor libraries to incorporate security fixes
• Updated PDF output components for compatibility with new vendor libraries
• Filter HTML tags from user profile and user comment form input to preclude potential XSS issue
• Update logo graphics

Note that this version is not yet compatible with PHP version 8. Please use versions 7.3 or 7.4. Get it now on our download page.

Version 1.7.14 of Pawtucket has been released. Version 1.7.14 is a maintenance release with these bug fixes and minor improvements:

Pawtucket

• Fix issue with CSRF checks

Note that this version is not yet compatible with PHP version 8. Please use versions 7.3 or 7.4. Get it now on our download page.

Version 1.7.14 of Providence has been released. Version 1.7.14 is a maintenance release with these bug fixes and minor improvements:

Providence

• Add checks to prevent potential XSS and CSRF security vulnerabilities
• Handle non-standard ports when generating URL for background search indexing
• Update selected 3rd party libraries for bug fixes
• Improve script path parsing to addresses issues for systems running PHP-FPM proxies where quick search expressions containing spaces (or other URL escaped characters) will throw an invalid controller error when "full results" is selected. This is due to a bug in PHP processing of content for $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] in several PHP 7.x versions when running as PHP-FPM. See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74129.
• Fix issue where CSRF token was not passed when creating sets from search and browse results
• Improved cs_CZ translation
• Add support for localized numeric metadata values

Note that this version is not yet compatible with PHP version 8. Please use versions 7.3 or 7.4. Get it now on our download page.

Version 1.7.13 of Providence and Pawtucket2 have been released. Version 1.7.13 is a maintenance release with these bug fixes and minor improvements:

Providence

• Resolve issue where when importing multiple media onto a single record via the data importer, the last imported media is tagged as primary rather than the first.
• Resolve issue where logging into accounts with numeric login names would fail
• Correct various errors in database schema that would cause errors with recent versions of MariaDB
• Bump version on selected vendor libraries due to advisories
• Improve formatting of summary displays

Pawtucket

• Resolve issue where logging into accounts with numeric login names would fail
• Bump version on selected vendor libraries due to advisories
Note that this version is not yet compatible with PHP version 8. Please use versions 7.3 or 7.4. Get it now on our download page.

Version 1.7.12 of Providence and Pawtucket2 have been released. Version 1.7.12 is a maintenance release with these bug fixes and minor improvements:

Providence

• Resolve ImageMagick-related color management issues
• Updated template parser resolving issues related to improper handling of <case> tags, and incorrect display of relationship types
• Add value checks to avoid warnings
• Update selected vendor libraries
• Add checks for writability of media upload directory
• Improve path handling of TilePic (zooming image) server for certain system configurations
• Improvements to Czech locale
• Change handling of settings values to avoid memory management issues on some systems
• Fix issue where settings on list items in editors would present incorrect values

Pawtucket

• Updated template parser resolving issues related to improper handling of <case> tags, and incorrect display of relationship types
• Add value checks to avoid warnings
• Improve path handling of TilePic (zooming image) server for certain system configurations
• Update configuration, replacing no-longer-available Wikimedia map tile server with OpenStreetMap server
• Fix for issue preventing display of authority element values in some cases
• Fix confusing navigation when creating a new lightbox while viewing details of an existing one
• Update zooming image viewer for improved compatibility with latest versions of Firefox and Chrome
• Update selected vendor libraries

Note that this version is not yet compatible with PHP version 8. Please use versions 7.3 or 7.4. Get it now on our download page.

Version 1.7.11 of Providence and Pawtucket2 have been released. Version 1.7.11 is a maintenance release with these bug fixes and minor improvements:

• Fix for potential indexing issue which would result in incorrectly tokenized search terms and poor or broken search functionality.
• Fix for incorrect HTML in entity label bundles.
• Fix for issue where image media processed in the background by the task queue would not honor custom center points when cropped.
• Removed extraneous fonts and trackers.
• Updated base profile with minor fixes and improvements.

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Version 1.7.10 of Providence and Pawtucket2 have been released. Version 1.7.10 is a maintenance release with bug fixes and support improved support for MySQL 8.0.

Version 1.7.9 of Providence and Pawtucket2 have been released. Version 1.7.9 is a maintenance release with bug fixes and support for MySQL 8.0 and PHP 7.3 and 7.4.

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