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)
