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.ckan.org/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)