Release Notes - Yoda v2.0
Version: 2.0
Released: TBA
What’s new
Changes affecting functionality for data stewards and researchers
- Multi-file download: added support for downloading multiple files and folders as a ZIP directly from the portal
- Open data package download: added support for downloading an open data package as a ZIP from the landing page
- File browser navigation: implemented a feature to jump directly to files in file browsers during searches
- Keyword selector: introduced a new keyword selector in metadata forms, supporting controlled vocabularies
- SURF Portal theme: added a new theme for the SURF portal
- Multiple deposit groups: enhanced support for managing multiple deposit groups
- Landingpage themes: added support for customizable themes on landing pages
- Data Package archiving: improved the reliability of the data package archiving process (“copy to vault”)
- Vault archiving workflow: enhanced support for the vault archiving workflow
- Secured status removal: removed
Secured
status from the research space - Intake module deprecation: Deprecated the intake module
Changes affecting technical administrators
- Ubuntu and AlmaLinux support: added support for Ubuntu 24.04 and AlmaLinux 9
- New admin privilege group: introduced a new admin privilege group (priv-admin)
- Functional administration page: added a new administration page for performing functional tasks via the portal
- Ansible library for iRODS: added an Ansible library to modify iRODS resources
- NFS Shares Configuration: introduced an Ansible role for configuring NFS shares as iRODS resources
- Rsyslog Support: added support for rsyslog to log iRODS messages in a readable format
- RADIUS fallback removal: removed the RADIUS fallback option
- Experimental caching: introduced experimental support for portal view and API caching
Other changes
- Python: update rulesets to 3.12
- iRODS: update to v4.3.4
- Python-irodsclient: update to v3.1.1
- GoCommands: update to v0.10.24
- Flask and dependencies: update to v3.1.1
- Bootstrap: update to v5.3.6
- Mailpit: update to v1.27.1
Known issues
- Collections with single apex “’” in the name do not work (irods/irods#5727)
- Deadlock in msiDataObjRepl & msiDataObjCopy when called from Python (irods_rule_engine_plugin_python#54)
- Deallocation of KeyValPair results in bad AVU or error (irods/irods#8265)
- Renaming collection with multi-byte characters mangles subcollection paths (irods/irods#6239)
Upgrading from previous release
The playbook requires Ansible 2.16.x or higher.
Version constraints:
- Requires Yoda external user service to be on version 1.9.x or higher.
- Requires Yoda public server to be on version 1.9.x or higher.
-
Backup/copy custom configurations made to Yoda version 1.9.5 / 1.10.0 To view what files were changed from the defaults, run
git diff
. -
After ensuring the configurations are stored safely in another folder, reset the Yoda folder using
git stash
or when you want to delete all changes made:git reset --hard
. - Check out the
v2.0.0-rc.0
tag of the Yoda Git repository:git checkout v2.0.0-rc.0
- Set the Yoda version to
v2.0.0-rc.0
in the configuration:yoda_version: v2.0.0-rc.0
- Install all Ansible collections needed to deploy Yoda:
ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
- Run the Ansible playbook in check mode:
ansible-playbook -i <path-to-your-environment> playbook.yml --check ### EXAMPLE ### ansible-playbook -i /environments/development/allinone playbook.yml --check
- If the playbook has finished successfully in check mode, run the Ansible playbook normally:
ansible-playbook -i <path-to-your-environment> playbook.yml ### EXAMPLE ### ansible-playbook -i /environments/development/allinone playbook.yml
- Update publication endpoints if there are published packages (DataCite, landingpages and OAI-PMH):
irule -r irods_rule_engine_plugin-irods_rule_language-instance -F /etc/irods/yoda-ruleset/tools/update-publications.r