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CKAN v1.3 Released

  • Rufus Pollock
  • 18 Feb 2011
We've just released CKAN 1.3 which has been shown off on ckan.net during the past week. Below is a summary changelog of the major changes since we released v1.2 three months ago.

v1.3 2011-02-18

<http://trac./milestone/ckan-v1.3> Highlights of changes:
  • Package edit form improved:
  • field instructions (#679)
  • name autofilled from title (#778)
  • Group-based access control - Authorization Groups (#647)
  • Metadata harvest job management (#739, #884, #771)
  • CSW harvesting now uses owslib (#885)
  • Package creation authorization is configurable (#648)
  • Read-only maintenance mode (#777)
  • Stats page (#832) and importer (#950) moved out into CKAN extensions
More minor:
  • site_title and site_description config variables (#974)
  • Package creation/edit timestamps (#806)
  • Caching configuration centralised (#828)
  • Command-line tools - sysadmin management (#782)
  • Group now versioned (#231)