Release notes for v2.5.1

This minor release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure improvements. There is a focus on continuing to improve the accessibility of the staff and public interfaces in this release.

This release includes no new database migrations.

Community Contributions

• Improvements to PUI tree indexer - thanks to James Bullen, work funded by Yale University.

• Additional report, RTF export format, and other improvements to reports - thanks to Sarah Morrissey.

• Updates to PUI and EAD3 tests and nokogiri version updates across all Gemfiles - thanks to Chris Fitzpatrick.

• PUI display updates, MARCXML export improvements, accessibility improvements, and fix to staff interface typeahead relevancy - thanks to Lora Woodford.

• Improvements to EAD exports and addition of container type column to top container results - thanks to Manny Rodriguez.

• Contrast modifications for PUI PDF - thanks to Chris Tanguay.

• Improvements to handling of ampersands and character entities in EAD3 - thanks to Trevor Thornton.

• MySQL documentation updates - thanks to Blake Carver.

• Thanks to the Development Prioritization sub-team for highlighting the accessibility issues and prioritizing the JIRA tickets included in this release.

• Thanks to the Core Committers Group members for reviewing and merging pull requests for this release.

JIRA Tickets and Pull Requests Completed

• ANW-716 and Pull Request #1278 EAD exporter: Escape '&' chars properly
• ANW-731 and Pull Request #1316 Make sure the PUI indexer deletes tree nodes that have no published children in case they had them previously
• ANW-315 and Pull Request #1319 Don't display unpublished subnotes
• Pull Request #1325 Report enums get translated if necessary
• ANW-634 and Pull Request #1326 Added resources list report
• ANW-541 and Pull Request #1328 Add container type column to top container results table
• Pull Request #1330 Bump nokogiri to 1.8.4 & add test
• Pull Request #1333 Add rspec-retry to PUI tests
• ANW-128 and Pull Request #1339 Added RTF format for reports
• Pull Request #1340 PUI PDF contrast tweaks
• Pull Request #1345 Update loofah, rails-html-sanitizer and sprockets due to vulnerabilities in the dependencies
• ANW-368 and Pull Request #1347 Fix h1 tag for header on PUI pages
• Pull Request #1348 Fix and improve handling of ampersands and character entities in EAD3
• ANW-235 and Pull Request #1349 Remove hard-coded increase in scroll amount for infinite scrolling
• Pull Request #1350 Add note for MySQL 8
• Pull Request #1352 Create CONTRIBUTING file
• Pull Request #1353 Update issue templates
• Pull Request #1354 Create Pull request template
• Pull Request #1355 Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• ANW-367 and Pull Request #1356 Start of not skipping heading levels.
• ANW-686 and Pull Request #1357 Removed pagination and hrefs from print view to clean up printing results
• Pull Request #1358 Update dependencies
• Pull Request #1359 Add alt text to staff side file version image
• Pull Request #1362 Move contributing file to new directory to accommodate GitHub CONTRIBUTING guidelines file
• Pull Request #1363 Change op to q.op
• Pull Request #1364 Remove relator "subject" in 6XX fields
• Pull Request #1365 Add aria labels to empty buttons and empty link in the collection organization section
• Pull Request #1366 Add field to detect, deflect, or counteract attempts at any unauthorized use of the request mechanism
• Pull Request #1367 Sanitize hidden values to prevent scripts as inputs
• ANW-779 and Pull Request #1368 MARCXML export updates
• Pull Request #1372 Add label to plus/minus buttons for accessibility
• ANW-766 and Pull Requests #1375, #1377, #1379 Modify CSV report for assessments
• Pull Request #1376 Allow multiple subfield b's and correctly punctuate
• Pull Request #1378 Address potential for nil ancestors in found in column