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What's changed

This release updates the Helmholtz RSD to v2.17.0.

This update requires database migrations:

HIFIS specific changes

Features

  • automatically display latest Spotlight on landing page (36dd37fb)

Bug fixes

  • allow custom className for HgfButton (9b45ef6c)

Incoming changes from upstream v2.17.0

This is version 2.17.0 of the Research Software Directory as a service. This release contains further implementation of categories (curated keywords), the communities feature and several small improvements:

  • added an editor for RSD-wide categories for the RSD admin
  • added categories to Communities
  • added a "My communities" to the user page
  • added support for mathml in titles of mentions
  • improved text wrap of markdown in descriptions
  • improved global search

This requires an update to the database. A migration script can be found here: https://github.com/research-software-directory/RSD-production/blob/main/database-migration/migration-scripts/2.16.0-to-2.17.0.sql

Bug Fixes

  • add support for mathml in mentions (ef6ed88)
  • agressive word-wrap of markdown content (1d1cda3)
  • increase z-index of global search list (bf74cdf)

Features

  • add (my)communities to users page (0a81bb9)
  • add user settings context and use it on software, projects, organisations, news, communities and admin pages (0b52106)
  • allow for categories to be part of a single community (4c018bf)
  • category editor for admins and community maintainers (2803090)
  • create organisation list item (decee67)
  • show community membership on the software page when community module is enabled (a751d18)

Incoming changes from upstream v2.16.0

This is version 2.16.0 of the Research Software Directory as a service. This release contains initial support for Communities:

  • added Community pages (similar to organization pages)
  • added a Community overview page
  • allow the RSD admin to create new Communities
  • added "request to become part of Community" to software maintainer pages
  • enable a Community maintainer to change the settings of a Community
  • allow a Community maintainer to accept or reject software that wants to be part of the Community.
  • provide setting in RSD configuration that selects which of software, projects, organizations, communities is visible

This requires an update to the database. A migration script can be found here: https://github.com/research-software-directory/RSD-production/blob/main/database-migration/migration-scripts/2.15.1-to-2.16.0.sql

Bug Fixes

  • only rsd-admin can remove rejected community request from software (3a39755)

Features

  • add communities to edit software (#1220) (2bce2de)
  • add communities to rsd admin section (5c78d5c)
  • create support for modules in settings.json (096881a)
  • implement community settings page (#1195) (cd6d973), closes #1199
  • implement community software page and refactor organisation software page (#1213) (f8516f7)

Incoming changes from upstream v2.15.1

This is version 2.15.1 of the Research Software Directory as a service. This release contains the following features and small bug fixes:

  • improve the handling of software categories (mandatory keywords)
  • increase character limit for mention titles
  • check if author fields in mention are properly defined before adding it to the database

This requires an update to the database. A migration script can be found here: https://github.com/research-software-directory/RSD-production/blob/main/database-migration/migration-scripts/2.15.0-to-2.15.1.sql

Bug Fixes

  • check if fields present in author before adding mention (d4edece)
  • increase character limit for mention title (7c56679)
Edited by Christian Meeßen