v4.0.0

Major technical infrastructure upgrades and user interface improvements characterize this release. The following sections detail the major changes brought about by v4.0.0.

Major Infrastructure Updates

• Upgraded to newer versions of:
  • Bootstrap
  • jQuery
  • Rails
  • JRuby
  • Jetty (replaced with Puma)
  • Nokogiri
  • Sequel
• Staff application CSS migrated from Less to Sass
• Java 8 no longer supported - requires Java 11 or 17
• Solr v9 now required
• Docker now supported as recommended deployment method

Public Interface Improvements

• Collection organization sidebar can now be configured for left/right positioning
• Option to load all children for a resource at once (vs infinite scroll)
• Search terms now highlighted in results
• Fixed bug causing extra lines in notes display
• Fixed PDF icon label
• Improved hyperlink display in classification descriptions

Staff Interface Enhancements

• Bulk updater plugin now part of core application
• New ability to duplicate full resource or archival object records
• Enhanced spreadsheet importers
• New option to download partially completed digital object spreadsheet template
• Fixed agent merge preview page
• Improved staff plugins dropdown in repository settings
• Fixes to the Rapid Data Entry modal
• Fixed tooltip bugs
• Improved Jobs status layouts

Documentation & Testing

• Launched new technical documentation site at docs.archivesspace.org
• Ported all Selenium tests to Capybara
• Added functionality for test failure screenshots

API & Integration Updates

• OAI identifiers now use colon separator instead of slash
• Breaking change: OAI URIs format updated to conform with OAI-PMH guidelines

Security & Administration

• New option to allow system administrators to access system information page
• Added configuration for favicon display
• Improved error messages for PDF generation
• Enhanced bulk import/update capabilities with new configuration options

Community Contributions

• 76 community contributions accepted
• 134 Pull Requests merged
• 146 Jira Tickets closed
• Contributions from multiple community members and organizations