Highlights of this release

• Several high-priority community issues addressed: AR-1387, AR-1405, AR-1424, AR-1425, AR-1459, AR-1464, AR-1472, AR-1545, AR-1559, AR-1568, AR-1582.
• Improved record import performance (all record types)
• Improved EAD export performance
• Several fixes to EAD export mappings
• Many minor user interface improvements
• Improved test suite reliability

Staff UI

• Update Spanish translations circa v1.5.1 (2e23f1a)
  • Thanks to Luis Martinez-Uribe
• AR-1424 add missing so RDE javascript can calculate the correct table width for archival object rows. This ensure the actions 'add row' and 'remove row' are visible. (87778e4)
  • Fixes RDE column width calculations so the remove button is visible and ensure these widths are honored in Safari and Firefox browsers.
• Disable drop of tree nodes onto root as a sibling - only child nodes of the root node are allowed (97d085b)
  • Fixes a bug whereby an archival object could be dragged and dropped to become a sibling of the resource, causing an exception and anomalies in the UI tree.
• AR-1464 Redirect back to the right Archival Object record when adding an event (24eec48)
• AR-1387 fix advanced search rows not providing correct 'op' options (22184e1)
• AR-1582 update date and boolean advanced queries to support NOT / 'negated' (16a43d6)
• AR-1559 Show the manage top containers links to users with the manage_container_record perm (88c1272)
• A range of user interface layout/style fixes:
  • Upgrade datepicker widget to latest version (827c70e)
  • Don't wrap inline help text (c0ca242)
  • Make the find/replace warning message go away when selecting other job types (ee5cd78)
  • Fix alignment of file-uri label (a9965b7)
  • Knock out empty "Classifications" box too (0e9dcd2)
  • Fix alignment for digital object instance label too (811abcc)
  • And a small case fix :) (823198a)
  • Fix the cropped "Loading" message box on trees (c760d05)
  • fix annoying missing i18n message (68dc121)
  • Don't show an empty classifications box for resources either (7c6797d)
  • Add missing icons for top containers and container profiles (925af11)
  • Fix layout of top container read-only view (902bfee)
  • Don't show an empty 'external documents' section in read-only event view (5012879)
• add a prelinker to the top container linker so it works when many instance records are not rendered (e71de96)
  • Fixes AR-1568

Indexing/Search

• fixing fullrecord indexer (133aee6)
  • Fixes AR-1545
• Don't queue nested records for real-time indexing (d8e49bb)
  • Improves indexer performance

Import/Export

• added authfilenumber to EAD controlaccess export (0f51d9d)
  • #427
  • Thanks to Alex Duryee
• replace smart quotes in EAD export (422f23a)
  • #535
  • Thanks to Alex Duryee
• AR-1472 switch Print to PDF to exclude all unpublished from the export (61ec4b0, bea1ddf, d0b9645)
  • Allows unpublished resources to be previewed and exported as PDF, along with a new export option to allow or exclude unpublished records.
• check @include_daos when serializing DOs on children (98229d0)
  • Fixes AR-1425
• Fixes #534 - adds a number of missing @Audience checks. (355a4ac, 18952e4)
  • Fixes #534
  • Thanks to Dave Mayo
• Replace daogrp handling with arc-aware version (21c10bf)
  • Fixes #530
  • Thanks to Dave Mayo
• AR-1595 Break cyclic dependencies at the outset (f9876d9)
• AR-1597 Import performance improvements (4f5f2eb)
• AR-1599 Improve comma skipping performance (baa04ec)
• AR-1598 Add parameter to avoid sending the list of Record URIs back (33e24b0)
• AR-1604 Add simple prefetch to AO retrieval to speed up EAD exports (305e4fa)
• AR-1459 Add a creators_and_sources method to the @ao class (ae8b145)

ArchivesSpace backend/API

• Resolve note pids faster (d2a45c7)
  • Improves performance of displaying and indexing records with
    large numbers of notes
  • #532
• Fix auto-deleting suppressed enumerations (06c480a)
  • #528
  • Thanks to Chris Fitzpatrick
• AR-1405 Preserve digital object linkages when transferring records between repositories (d883238)
• Improve endpoint parameter error reporting (ded33fe)
  • If the API is expecting an array of values and you give it a
    single value, you'll get an error message that explains what's
    going on.
• AR-1596 Notification throttling (730c3a5)
• AR-1600 Don't treat agent validation errors as 'agent already exists' (fdee5c9)
• AR-1601 Calculate the implied publication status for batches where possible (817dd0a)
• AR-1602 Add eager loading to relationships (e85daf4)
• AR-1603 Have the nested record resolver pull back as many associations as possible (25e4c7d)
• Run the ASpaceGems setup procedure to make sure newrelic can find its gem (b414152)
  • #183
• AR-1594 Redact the DB password when it's the last parameter on the line (0584927)
• Remove the need for a hard-coded migration number (34c2930)

Public interface

• Fixed incorrect APP_URL in public interface template (4d8cba1)
  • #533
  • Thanks to Byron Roosa
• Adds a line to sanitize filter_term param in the old old public ui (bfbe453)
  • Fixes #536
  • Thanks to Chris Fitzpatrick, and @nstr10

Test improvements

• Robustness improvements for Selenium tests
  • Send screenshots to HM for review when Travis fails (aa9b624)
  • Be more aggressive about taking screenshots on Selenium failures (60f79fb)
  • Beef up the check for a tree node movements (bee86b4)
  • Improve Selenium exception reporting (b4de1a3)
  • Remove stray plus from curl command. Whoops. (95dd015)
  • Move matches into begin block (2c4e1c5)
  • Don't use rand for position tests (cbfd8a5)
  • Wait for spinner in two steps (cc2a060)
  • When saving a screenshot, save the backend log too (7f6cdb0)
  • Have Travis fail more quickly if any task fails (7f1067a)
  • Harden Merging and transferring resources selenium tests by removing retries (as tests will generally fail on retry given the records will no longer exist after a merge or transfer) and remove reliance on the session message (1 in 10000 times the session is missing the flash message) - instead focus on the results of the merge (merged child nodes etc) (0ba21a3)
  • Harden Jobs selenium tests by ensuring CSV download check asserts multiple times if CSV hasn't been downloaded yet. Also fix error when 'rm' tries to remove a file that doesn't exist. (5c8f1e6)
  • Continue refactoring waits for spinner (8578578)
  • Iterating on Travis options... (5833722)
  • Add a missing wait_for_spinner (a0a939d)
  • Make find_element_with_text more robust (d307627)
  • Once more with feeling! :) (a3b9627)
  • Attempt to replace the tree panel drag/drop with something more reliable (431e90d)
  • Reintroduce the wait_for_spinner (17da20a)
  • Log our firefox version (7a17319)
  • Pull in a more recent Firefox version (cef0188)
  • Switch to non-SDK firefox (c43c9b3)
  • If we miss the spinner, keep on trucking (7333fca)
  • Address test failures for digital object trees and top containers (d50c02b)
  • Drop useless warning messages (02c115e)
  • Retry run_periodic_index if it times out (7730aa8)
  • Knock out the Derby tests to get the total run time down (0553cfc)
  • Robustness fix for Selenium test adding containers to accessions (5e2292c)
  • Add a little extra logging to Selenium indexing (e673139)