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CKAN release 1.3.3

  • David Read
  • 20 Apr 2021
We released a new version of CKAN today - 1.3.3. It provides users with another three weeks of progress - a few useful additions and bugfixes. I've included the full changelog below, but the most interesting features are some security added to editing Groups and Package Relationships, and a useful new API for seeing who has edited a package. v1.3.3 2011-04-08 Major:
  • Authorization checks added to editing Groups and PackageRelationships (#1052)
  • API: Added package revision history (#1012, #1071)
Minor:
  • API can take auth credentials from cookie (#1001)
  • Theming: Ability to set custom favicon (#1051)
  • Importer code moved out into ckanext-importlib repo (#1042)
  • API: Group can be referred to by ID (in addition to name) (#1045)
  • Command line tool: rights listing can now be filtered (#1072)
Bug fixes:
  • SITE_READ role setting couldn't be overridden by sysadmins (#1044)
  • Default 'reader' role too permissive (#1066)
  • Resource ordering went wrong when editing and adding at same time (#1054)
  • GET followed by PUTting a package stored an incorrect license value (#662)
  • Sibling package relationships were shown for deleted packages (#664)
  • Tags were displayed when they only apply to deleted packages (#920)
  • API: 'Last modified' time was localised - now UTC (#1068)