jsreport/jsreport 3.9.0

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highlights of updates

general updates

• all extensions dependencies were updated to ensure that we don't use vulnerable packages, so npm audit now reports 0 vulnerabilities in most cases
• we now provide docker images for ARM architectures, so jsreport docker images now will work fine in machines with Apple M1 based hardware. see this docs for details
• start to differentiate between template not found errors and permissions errors for better understanding
• reports cleanup logic was improved with limits to avoid memory issues
• office recipes (docx, xlsx, pptx) now default to accept buffer strings as base64 and throw better error when failed to parse office template input
• user level logs (done in script of web pages like chrome) are now logged with level debug
• xlsx: xlsxAddImage now support alt text and xlsxChart can be used along with dynamic table
• docx: docxStyle, docxImage, docxChart, docxHtml now can be used safely in document header/footer
• docx: add initial implementation of docxChild helper to allow merging text of another docx
• pptx: improvements to pptxImage (new options: (usePlaceholderSize, width, height)
• pptx: improvements to pptxTable (new support of vertical tables)
• pdf-utils: added support for specifying custom properties for PDF metadata

core

• add more store methods collection.findAdmin, collection.findOneAdmin, reporter.adminRequest to easily allow execution of store queries without taking into account permissions
• improve logging for child requests and user level logs
• differentiate between template not found errors and permissions related errors (it is now more clean what is the cause of specific error)
• normalize to error when non-errors are throw (like throw "string")
• improve errors in helpers (it now includes the helper name)
• improve error message when template was not found in child request
• improve error handling in sandbox

studio

• improve ⇧ + ↑, ⇧ + ↓ entity tree multi selection in studio
• add studio range select with ⇧ + click to start and end

child-templates

• improve logging and errors

express

• wait for jsreport initialization globally in middleware (this means that http routes will wait until jsreport is initialized before going to the route logic)

assets

• errors from asset logic should be weak
• validate that passed asset path is string

scripts

• ignore scripts attached to template which contain scope that is not compatible to run at the template level

reports

• reports cleanup now use a limit of report to clean on each interval (default 10, can be configured with extensions.reports.cleanParallelLimit option)

html-to-xlsx

• no table elements should be a weak error

xlsx

• xlsxAddImage support for alt text
• fix xlsx chart generation when it points to dynamic table generated by loop

chrome

• use url.pathToFileURL to avoid problems with space in file paths for windows
• threat timeout errors as weak errors

cli

• improve error logging

pdf-utils

• added support for specifying custom properties for PDF metadata
• dont fail when recipe null not yet validated

static-pdf

• dont fail when req.template.staticPdf is null

docx

• make docxStyle work in document header/footer
• add docxChild helper to allow merging text of another docx
• accept buffer strings as base64 and throw better error when failed to parse office template input
• make docxImage and docxChart to work in document header/footer
• make docxHtml work in document header/footer

pptx

• fix support of pptxTable and add support for vertical tables
• pptxImage now support same options as docxImage (usePlaceholderSize, width, height options)
• accept buffer strings as base64 and throw better error when failed to parse office template input