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Release Notes
This chapter has important information about our current and previous releases.
0.15.0
This is a relatively small release to resolve installation issues on Debian
Trixie and Bookworm.
This version has been tested on Debian Bookworm (12), Debian Trixie (13), Ubuntu
22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 43. This release drops support for Debian
Bullseye (11) and Ubuntu 20.04.
Upgrading:
For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading, see “
Upgrading MediaGoblin
” and
Deploying MediaGoblin
”.
Noteworthy changes:
Switch from Bower to NPM to install JavaScript dependencies (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove
lxml
dependency and switch HTML cleaning to
bleach
(Sandro Jäckel, Ben Sturmfels)
Add support for
sqlalchemy
2.0 (Ben Sturmfels)
Bug fixes:
Work around GStreamer 1.26.2 issues in Debian Trixie (Ben Sturmfels)
Pin
pygobject
to 3.50 for Debian Bookworm support (Olivier Mehani)
Other changes
Adopt Sandy Seventies Speedboat theme into MediaGoblin Git repository (Ben Sturmfels)
Add prototype Guix MediaGoblin service (Ben Sturmfels)
Document use of %(var_name) markers in config (Ben Sturmfels)
Improve handling of missing
_version.py
(Ben Sturmfels)
Upgrade configure macros and scripts (Olivier Mehani)
0.14.0
The biggest change in this release is the addition of first-class Docker
installation support — see “
MediaGoblin in Docker
” for details. This update also includes
a significant overhaul of the configure/build system to reduce unnecessary
dependency checks and add some new checks. These checks now inform which media
plugins get enabled and flags why others are not. Many thanks to Olivier for the
several years of work and persistence that went into this change.
This is the
initial release with Docker support, so please let us know if you hit any
issues. Our existing installation method will remain the default.
In addition to this, MediaGoblin now has preliminary support for installation as
an OS package under GNU Guix. See
README-Guix.md
for details on using our Guix
“channel”. This has been enabled by significant work to support more recent
versions of some of all our Python dependencies.
We’re looking forward to spending time on some more user-facing improvements in
the next release.
Upgrading:
For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading, see “
Upgrading MediaGoblin
” and
Deploying MediaGoblin
”.
Noteworthy changes:
Add first-class Docker installation support (Olivier Mehani)
Refactor configure/build system to improve dependency detection (Olivier Mehani)
Add preliminary Guix channel to build MediaGoblin OS package (Ben Sturmfels)
Switch from third-party
virtualenv
tool to built in
venv
package (Ben Sturmfels)
Add support for newer versions of
jsonschema
celery
wtforms
and
werkzeug
(Ben Sturmfels)
Remove old
sqlalchemy-migrate
migrations and Python dependency (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove
pytz
Python dependency (Ben Sturmfels)
Require
jinja2
>= 3.0.3 to avoid conflict with newer
markupsafe
(Ben Sturmfels)
Add extensive examples to default
mediagoblin.ini
config (Olivier Mehani)
Bug fixes:
Avoid unconditionally upgrading Pip due to celery incompatibility (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix test failure with newer pytest (Ben Sturmfels)
Include missing Inconsolata font in Python distribution (Olivier Mehani)
Create parent of key directory before applying restrictive permissions (Olivier Mehani)
Avoid test failure when
CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE
is not defined (Olivier Mehani)
Pin upper version of
lxml
depedency due to removal of
lxml.html.clean
(Ben Sturmfels)
Other changes:
Call
bower
via
npx
(Ben Sturmfels)
Rename
bootstrap.sh
to more common
autogen.sh
(Olivier Mehani)
Add contributing docs to README (Ben Sturmfels)
Replace
runtests.sh
with
make check
(Olivier Mehani)
Add
make docs
(Olivier Mehani)
Switch from deprecated
Image.NEAREST
to
Image.Resampling.NEAREST
(Ben Sturmfels)
Fix SQLAlchemy deprecation warning about
declarative_base
(Ben Sturmfels)
Remove use of deprecated imghdr module (Ben Sturmfels)
Add Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian Trixie CI builds (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix deprecation warning about
logger.warn()
(Ben Sturmfels)
Remove unused lightbox CSS and JS (Ben Sturmfels)
Avoid including development-only tools in Python distribution (Ben Sturmfels)
Switch to catch-all MANIFEST.in (Ben Sturmfels)
Switch to
find_namespace
to avoid setuptools warnings (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove unused
web-advanced.json
(Ben Sturmfels)
Improve audio/video test skipping if dependencies not available (Olivier Mehani)
Improve audio and video layout when jQuery and Video.js are not available (Ben Sturmfels)
0.13.0
This minor release adds support for Python 3.10 and 3.11 and drops support for
Python versions prior to 3.7. It also upgrades a number of Python dependencies
and adds a few small bug fixes and improvements.
This version has been tested on Debian Bullseye (11), Debian Bookworm (12),
Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 39.
Upgrading:
For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading, see “
Upgrading MediaGoblin
” and
Deploying MediaGoblin
”.
Breaking changes:
MediaGoblin now supports a minimum of Python 3.7 due to use of f-strings
internally and updated versions of required Python packages (Ben Sturmfels)
Changes:
Extend left/right arrow key navigation to paginated views [trac#5627] (Olivier Mehani)
Set videos to preload=”metadata” to prevent upfront download [trac#5625] (Michael McMahon)
Switch from random time password comparison to constant time (Andrew Dudash)
Upgrade Celery library to enable support for Python 3.10/3.11 (Ben Sturmfels)
Add CI builds for Ubuntu 22.04 (Python 3.10), Debian 12 Bookworm (Python 3.11)
and Fedora 39 (Python 3.12) (Ben Sturmfels)
Upgrade to support latest Jinja2 library (Ben Sturmfels)
Upgrade to support latest PyLD library (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix various
ResourceWarning
and
DeprecationWarning
messages (Ben Sturmfels)
Switch default image resize filter to BICUBIC (Ben Sturmfels)
Add “extras_require” entries for docs, audio, video, raw image, LDAP, and OpenID dependencies (Olivier Mehani)
0.12.1
This patch release fixes a number of Python dependency issues, allows us to
support newer autoconf versions, fixes a few small bugs and improves the
documentation.
This version has been tested on Debian Bullseye (11) and Ubuntu 20.04. Due to a
dependency issue, we unfortunately
don’t yet support Python 3.10
, which
means that Debian Bookworm and Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 are not yet
supported. This will be addressed in the upcoming version 0.13.0. This will be
the last release to support Python 3.5.
Upgrading:
For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading, see “
Upgrading MediaGoblin
” and
Deploying MediaGoblin
”.
Changes:
Convert README to Markdown for better display on SourceHut, add goblin, fix links (Ben Sturmfels)
Add a troubleshooting page to the docs. (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix incorrect setuptools install location for db/migrations/env.py (Elisei Roca)
Add a “Troubleshooting” page to the documentation (Ben Sturmfels)
Add Ubuntu 20.04 CI build (Ben Sturmfels)
Add cc0 license to guix package (jgart)
Add instructions to set permissions on installation directories (Ben Sturmfels)
Switch from
py-bcrypt
to
bcrypt
(Elisei Roca)
Explicitly specify we don’t support Python 3.10 yet (Olivier Mehani)
Bug fixes:
Fix references to non-existent package.json [trac#5615] (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove unneeded shebang from test_processing.py (Elisei Roca)
Fix incorrect setuptools install location for db/migrations/env.py (Elisei Roca)
Pin version of
jinja2
dependency to avoid AttributeError and Ubuntu installation issues (Dan Helfman, Olivier Mehani)
Add support for autoconf > 2.69 [srht#12] (Peter Horvath)
Switch to
pytest –forked
for parallel test runs as
pytest-xdist
3.0.2 dropped
–boxed
(Ben Sturmfels)
Fix encoding of passwords before hashing (Olivier Mehani)
Fix remaining bcrypt issue (Olivier Mehani, Elisei Roca)
Document need for Nginx
proxy_set_header Host
config [trac#5612] (Ben Sturmfels)
0.12.0
This release resolves two significant issues in the Celery backend media
processing. The first was causing processed media to be marked as failed and the
second was inhibiting useful error messages. We’ve also
resolved installation issues caused by deprecated upstream code in the Werkzeug
and jsonschema libraries.
We’ve added provisional
gmg serve
and
gmg celery
commands to simplify
deployment. These commands may change in the future and are not yet recommended
in the deployment documentation. If your deployment is already running smoothly,
there’s no reason to switch at this stage.
Please note that installation currently fails on Debian Testing (Bookworm) and
Arch Linux at
./configure
. These issues appear to be related to versions of
autoconf > 2.69. We currently recommend deployment on Debian Bullseye and
Fedora 33.
Upgrading:
For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading, see “
Upgrading MediaGoblin
” and
Deploying MediaGoblin
”.
Improvements:
Improve usability of report handling page (Rodrigo Martins)
Remove
–system-site-packages
from
./configure
in docs and CI builds as it
is forced anyway (Ben Sturmfels)
Added provisional
gmg serve
and
gmg celery
commands (Ben Sturmfels)
Switch Atom feeds from deprecated werkzeug.contrib.atom to feedgenerator,
upgrade werkzeug (Ben Sturmfels)
Document that
gmg dbupdate
is required after some config changes (Rodrigo
Martins)
Remove Debian 10 development Dockerfile (BenSturmfels)
Add Debian 11 development Dockerfile and CI build (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix/document Guix setup for 100% passing test suite (Ben Sturmfels)
Convert
setup.py
to
setup.cfg
(Ben Sturmfels)
Document re-installation of plugins during upgrade [#5611] (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove unused
extlib/flask-wtf
code (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove unused
translitcodec
dependency (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove references to previous
tinymce
JS dependency (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove plugin for decommissioned Mozilla Persona (Jgart)
Document running multiple MediaGoblin instances on one server (Ben Sturmfels)
Begin conversion from jQuery to vanilla JS (Ben Sturmfels)
Bug fixes:
Fix images being marked as failed after Celery restart since 0.10.0 [#5608] (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix app logging calls not showing in Celery logs (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix test suite on Debian 11 (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove reference to jsonschema.compat no longer available upstream (Marco Pessotto)
0.11.0
Following our final Python 2-compatible release of 0.10.0, this release drops
support for Python 2 and removes all Python 2 compatibility code.
This release also reinstates audio spectrograms with a completely rewritten
Python 3 replacement for the previous Python 2-only audio feature by Fernando
Gutierrez.
Upgrading:
For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading, see “
Deploying MediaGoblin
” and
Upgrading MediaGoblin
”.
Improvements:
Run test for LDAP, OpenID and PDF plugins in development Dockerfiles (Ben Sturmfels)
Add Debian and Fedora CI builds for sourcehut (Jesús E, Ben Sturmfels)
Extend Fedora install docs and development Dockerfile to support audio/video (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove Python 2 installation and compatibility code (Ben Sturmfels)
Reinstate Python 3 audio spectrograms [#5610] (Fernando Gutierrez)
Bug fixes:
Fix missing download link for videos uploaded after 0.10.0 [#5620] (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix raw image plugin installation instruction [#5523] (Ben Sturmfels)
Pin sqlalchemy to fix due to changed internals [#5624] (Charlotte Koch)
Fix test suite to pass 100% (Ben Sturmfels)
Make LDAP plugin Python 3 compatible [#5607] (Olivier Mehani)
Support blank titles in Atom feed [#1018] (Ben Sturmfels)
Avoid Celery/RabbitMQ “connection reset” errors [#5609] (Fernando Gutierrez)
Fix Mac dev setup issues [#5442] (Jeremy Bowman)
Pin a compatible version of WTForms (milquetoast)
0.10.0
This release includes video subtitles and multiple video qualities and a swathe
of smaller improvements and bug-fixes listed below.
Python 3 is now the default when you install MediaGoblin and is strongly
recommended. Python 2 installation is still supported in this release with
./configure –without-python3
, but support will likely be removed in the next
release.
FastCGI support has now been deprecated and removed from the documentation as
our dependency
flup
does not support Python 3.
Upgrading:
For detailed instructions on installing or upgrading, see “
Deploying MediaGoblin
” and
Upgrading MediaGoblin
”.
Highlights:
New video subtitles plugin (Saksham Agrawal) see [mailing list post](
Multiple video qualities (Vijeth Aradhya), see [blog post](
Smaller improvements:
Make the user panel default to open and remember preference in local storage (Matt Deal)
Use OSM tiles in Geolocation plugin (Olivier Mehani)
Add thumbnail image to Atom feed (Ben Sturmfels)
Add links in site-admin documentation foreword (Alexandre Franke)
Add media_titleinfo template hook (Andrew Browning)
Add video icon to collection thumbnail (Andrew Browning)
Use AJAX for posting comments (Vijeth Aradhya)
Show transcoding progress (Vijeth Aradhya)
Add collection option to ‘addmedia’ cli uploading (Stéphane Péchard)
Add creator to filter collections (Stéphane Péchard)
Add ARIA attributes to audio player (Boris Bobrov)
Remove tinymce from dependencies (Boris Bobrov)
Add register_captcha template hook (Andrew Browning)
Switch to rabbitmq by default and in docs (Boris Bobrov)
Log IP address for failed login (Andrew Browning)
Handle collection in batchaddmedia command (Simen Heggestøyl)
Allow API upload filename to be provided using custom header (Romain Porte)
Add tags in API (view them and edit them) (Romain Porte)
Remove use of mediagoblin_local.ini (Boris Bobrov)
EXIF rotation to make the image portrait on demand (chrysn)
Add moderation panel thumbnail header [#5563] (Andrew Browning)
Add Creative Commons 4.0 licenses [#955] (Dpg)
Add Python 2 & 3 Docker files for MediaGoblin hacking (Ben Sturmfels)
Add Python 3 docker-compose recipe for MediaGoblin hacking (Ben Sturmfels)
Add basic duplicate detection/prevention for batchaddmedia (Ben Sturmfels)
Add datetime_format config option (Olivier Mehani)
Extend install instructions for raven plugin (Ben Sturmfels)
Add visual feedback on link hover (Muto)
Document SSL/TLS SMTP options (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove flup and fastcgi from documentation (Michael Lynch)
Switch to Python 3 by default (Ben Sturmfels)
Add Python 2 deprecation warning [#5598] (Ben Sturmfels)
Review and update the deploment docs for Debian 10 and CentOS 8 [#5593] (Ben Sturmfels)
Bug fixes:
Pass test paths to py.test via tox (Boris Bobrov)
Length check for login form (Jonathan Sandoval)
Add padding around form field labels (Josh Crompton)
Fix unhelpful SMTP error (Johnathan Sandoval)
Fix the blog_delete page for admins (宋文武)
Fix add_message inconsistencies [#5451] (Andrew Browning)
Handle no mail server configured (Jonathan Sandoval)
Fixed ‘older’ and ‘newer’ arrows for rtl locales (Leah Velleman)
Prevent erroring out in some cases of checking video metadata (Christopher Allan Webber)
Cleanup to avoid duplicated get_upload_file_limits [#928] (Loic Dachary)
Attempt to change email without login [#5462] (Andrew Browning)
Fix text wrapping on thumbnail (Matt Deal)
Modify setup.py version syntax to address #5464 (Andrew Browning)
Fix Python 3 support in pagination (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix typo in user processing panel (Andrew Browning)
Fix text overflow in media headings [#664] (Andrew Browning)
Removed line breaks around the verifier code (vijeth-aradhya)
Fix UnicodeEncodeError in atom feed [#5500] (Andrew Browning)
Commit session after alembic updates have finished (Boris Bobrov)
Add cascade to blog mediatype [#5308] (Robert Smith)
Remove mongodb-related stuff (Boris Bobrov)
Remove exif from blog posts [#830] (Andrew Browning)
Can’t delete blog post drafts [#5513] (ayleph)
Fix add to Collection causes server error [#5514] (ayleph)
Fix zero division error in exif.py [#5524] (Andrew Browning)
Support Unicode characters in configuration values (Simen Heggestøyl)
Make admin panel headers readable in Airy theme (Simen Heggestøyl)
Port batchaddmedia command to Python 3 (Simen Heggestøyl)
Fix location of host-meta.xml file [#5543] (Andrew Browning)
Replaced /bin/celeryd by /bin/celery in lazycelery (Romain Porte)
Prevent video plugin from processing svg [#934] (Andrew Browning)
Process videos with incorrect date tags [#5409] (Andrew Browning)
Fix 2 errors in editor views (ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod)
Fix server crash on blog about page [#5572] (Andrew Browning)
Fix default gmg help message (Boris Bobrov)
Remove requirement for the file to be with single dot in name (Boris Bobrov)
Fix auth error and simplify url and email checks (Boris Bobrov)
Finally fix url validator (Boris Bobrov)
Always guess the same filetype (Boris Bobrov)
Fix bulkupload documentation example (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix URL-based importing with batchaddmedia command (Ben Sturmfels)
Update metadata_display plugin for Python 3 (Ben Sturmfels)
Various Guix-related installation fixes/updates (Ben Sturmfels)
Even up top/bottom margins around header dropdown button (Ben Sturmfels)
Prevent warning when importing GstPbutils (Ben Sturmfels)
Pin werkzeug < 1.0.0, handle moved SharedDataMiddleware in werkzeug >= 0.15.0 (Ben Sturmfels)
Remove audio spectrograms due to instability and lack of Python 3 support (Ben Sturmfels)
Decode request.query_string before use (Ben Sturmfels)
Pin jinja2<3.0.0 due to use of f-strings (Ben Sturmfels)
Fix “KeyError: ‘No such transport: sqlite. Did you mean sqla?’” in tests (Ben Sturmfels)
Unmute videos by default (Ben Sturmfels)
Properly quote –without-python3 in docs (#5596) (Ben Sturmfels)
Pin all Python 2 dependencies allowing patch version upgrades [#5595] (Ben Sturmfels)
0.9.0
This release has a number of improvements, but is also a major
“plumbing upgrade” release to MediaGoblin. Notably, we now support
Python 3, which is pretty cool!
Do this to upgrade
If you haven’t already, switch the git remote URL:
git
remote
set-url
origin
Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
git
fetch
&&
git
checkout
-q
v0.9.0
Run
./bootstrap.sh
&&
./configure
&&
make
Also run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
Bugfixes/improvements:
Python 3 is now a first class citizen! We now support both
Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 or later.
Major updates to internal tooling to pave the way for federation.
Massive overhaul to the database layout (particularly in
permitting generic relations)
OAuth updates
Updating how we handle collections
Add a “graveyard” system with tombstones for keeping information
about removed objects
Large overhaul to how “comments” work. In federation, many things
can reply to many things, so we had to loosen the model.
If your user has some collections available, these will be presented
as a dropdown option while submitting media.
Begin using Alembic for migrations
Lots of bugfixes and etc
- Many fixes to typos
- Some fixes to the blog system
- Switch to waitress for development
- And more…!
0.8.1
This release is a security and bugfix release. We recommend you upgrade as
soon as possible.
Do this to upgrade
If you haven’t already, switch the git remote URL:
git
remote
set-url
origin
Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
git
fetch
&&
git
checkout
-q
v0.8.1
Run
./bootstrap.sh
&&
./configure
&&
make
Also run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
(Please check intermediate release steps as well if not upgrading from
0.8.0)
Bugfixes/improvements:
Most importantly, there is an
important security fix
Quoting here a portion of the
release blogpost
We
have
had
security
problem
in
our
OAuth
implementation
reported
to
us
privately
and
have
taken
steps
to
address
it
The
security
problem
affects
all
versions
of
GNU
MediaGoblin
since
0.5.0
have
created
patch
for
this
and
released
minor
version
0.8.1
It
's strongly advised
that
everyone
upgrade
as
soon
as
they
can
In
order
to
exploit
the
security
issue
an
attacker
must
have
had
access
to
logged
in
session
to
your
GNU
MediaGoblin
account
If
you
have
kept
your
username
and
password
secret
logging
in
only
over
HTTPS
and
you
've not left yourself logged in on publicly accessible
computers
you
should
be
safe
However
it
's still advised all users
take
the
following
precautions
listed
below
Users
should
check
their
authorized
clients
Any
client
which
looks
unfamiliar
to
you
you
should
deauthorize
To
check
this
Log
in
to
the
GNU
MediaGoblin
instance
Click
the
drop
down
arrow
in
the
upper
right
Click
"Change account settings"
At
the
bottom
click
the
"Deauthorize applications"
link
If
you
are
unsure
of
any
of
these
click
"Deauthorize"
There are other bugfixes, but they are fairly minor.
0.8.0
This release has a number of changes related to the way we recommend
building MediaGoblin; upgrade steps are below.
Do this to upgrade
If you haven’t already, switch the git remote URL:
git
remote
set-url
origin
If you don’t have node.js installed, you’ll need it for handling
MediaGoblin’s static web dependencies. Install this via your
distribution! (In the glorious future MediaGoblin will be simply
packaged for your distribution so you won’t have to worry about
this!)
Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
git
fetch
&&
git
checkout
-q
v0.8.0
Run
./bootstrap.sh
&&
./configure
&&
make
Also run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
Please note the important steps of 0 and 2, which have not appeared in
prior upgrade guides!
Additionally:
Are you using audio or video media types? In that case, you’ll need
to update your GStreamer instance to 1.0.
The Pump API needs some data passed through to the WSGI application,
so if you are using Apache with mod_wsgi you should be sure to make
sure to add “WSGIPassAuthorization On” to your config. (Using the
default MediaGoblin documentation and config, things should work
as-is.)
Bugfixes/improvements:
Preliminary / experimental support for Python 3!
Footer forced to the bottom of page
Massive improvements to Pump API support
Able to run on multiple existing Pump clients! Including Pumpa
and Dianara!
much cleaner ./configure && make support; it’s now the default
Clearer documentation on permissions and installation
Switched from Transifex, which had become proprietary, to an
instance of Pootle hosted for GNU
Moved to GStreamer 1.0! This also adds a new thumbnailer which
gives much better results in
Removed terrible check-JavaScript-dependencies-into-your-application
setup, now using Bower for dependency tracking
Put some scaffolding in place for Alembic, which will be used for
future migration work
Automatically create a fresh mediagoblin.ini from
mediagoblin.ini.example
no more need for mediagoblin_local.ini (though it’s still supported)
Fix lowercasing of username in auth steps
Slowly moving towards removing global state (a source of many bugs)
0.7.1
This is a purely bugfix release. Important changes happened since
0.7.0; if running MediaGoblin 0.7.0, an upgrade is highly recommended;
see below. This release is especially useful if you have been running
PostgreSQL and have been receiving seemingly random database transaction
errors.
Do this to upgrade
Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
git
fetch
&&
git
checkout
-q
v0.7.1
&&
git
submodule
init
&&
git
submodule
update
Make sure to run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
Bugfixes/improvements:
The
MOST IMPORTANT
change in this release:
Disabling a couple of non-critical features that were causing
database transaction issues. (These should be back by 0.8.0.)
Disabled the “checking if the database is up to date at
MediaGoblin startup” feature
Disabled the garbage collection stuff by default for now
(You can set garbage_collection under the config MediaGoblin
header to something other than 0 to turn it back on for now, but
it’s potentially risky for the moment.)
Some fixes to the 0.7.0 docs
Fixed Sandy 70s speedboat navbar by updating git submodule
Added support for cr2 files in raw_image media type
Added a description to setup.py
Collection and CollectionItem objects now have nicer in-python representations
Fixed Unicode error with raw image mediatype logging
Fixed #945 “Host metadata does not confirm to spec (/.well-known/meta-data)”
Add XRD+XML formatting for /.well-known/host-meta
Add /.well-known/webfinger API to lookup user hrefs
deleteuser gmg subcommand now fails gracefully
Removed a false download link from setup.py
0.7.0
Do this to upgrade
Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
git
fetch
&&
git
checkout
-q
v0.7.0
&&
git
submodule
init
&&
git
submodule
update
Make sure to run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
(NOTE: earlier versions of the 0.7.0 release instructions left out the
git
submodule
init
step! If you did an upgrade earlier based on
these instructions and your theme looks weirdly aligned, try running
the following:)
git
submodule
init
&&
git
submodule
update
New features:
New mobile upload API making use of the
Pump API
(which will be the foundation for MediaGoblin’s federation)
New theme: Sandy 70s Speedboat!
Metadata features! We also now have a JSON-LD context.
Many improvements for archival institutions, including metadata
support and featuring items on the homepage. With the (new!)
archivalook plugin enabled, featuring media is possible.
Additionally, metadata about the particular media item will show up
in the sidebar.
In the future these plugins may be separated, but for now they have
come together as part of the same plugin.
There is a new gmg subcommand called batchaddmedia that allows for
uploading many files at once. This is aimed to be useful for
archival institutions and groups where there is an already existing
and large set of available media that needs to be included.
Speaking of, the call to PostgreSQL in the makefile is fixed.
We have a new, generic media-page context hook that allows for
adding context depending on the type of media.
Tired of video thumbnails breaking during processing all the time?
Good news, everyone! Video thumbnail generation should not fail
frequently anymore. (We think…)
You can now set default permissions for new users in the config.
bootstrap.sh / gnu configuration stuff still exists, but moves to be
experimental-bootstrap.sh so as to not confuse newcomers. There are
some problems currently with the autoconf stuff that we need to work
out… we still have interest in supporting it, though help is
welcome.
MediaGoblin now checks whether or not the database is up to date
when starting.
Switched to
Skeleton
as a system for
graphic design.
New gmg subcommands for administrators:
- A “deletemedia” command
- A “deleteuser” command
We now have a blogging media type… it’s very experimental,
however. Use with caution!
We have switched to exifread as an external library for reading EXIF
data. It’s basically the same thing as before, but packaged
separately from MediaGoblin.
Many improvements to internationalization. Also (still rudimentary,
but existent!) RTL language support!
Known issues:
The host-meta is now JSON by default; in the spec it should be XML by
default. We have done this because of compatibility with the pump
API. We are checking with upstream to see if there is a way to
resolve this discrepancy.
0.6.1
This is a short, bugfix release.
Do this to upgrade
Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
git
fetch
&&
git
checkout
-q
v0.6.1
Make sure to run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
This release switches the default terms of service to be off by
default and corrects some mistakes in the default terms of service.
Turning the terms of service on is very easy, just set
show_tos
in
the
[mediagoblin]
section of your config to
true
0.6.0
Do this to upgrade
Update to the latest release. If checked out from git, run:
git
fetch
&&
git
checkout
-q
v0.6.0
Make sure to run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
This tool has a lot of new tools for administrators, hence the
nickname “Lore of the Admin”!
New features:
New tools to control how much users can upload, both as a general
user limit, or per file.
You can set this with the following options in your MediaGoblin
config file:
upload_limit
and
max_file_size
. Both are integers
in megabytes.
There is an option to control how much each individual user can
upload too, though an interface for this is not yet exposed. See
the “uploaded” field on the core__users table.
MediaGoblin now contains an authentication plugin for LDAP! You
can turn on the mediagoblin.plugins.ldap plugin to make use of
this. See the documentation:
LDAP plugin
There’s a new command line upload tool! At long last! See
./bin/gmg addmedia –help
for info on how to use this.
There’s now a terms of service document included in MediaGoblin.
It’s turned on by default, but you can turn it off if you prefer,
just set the configuration option of
show_tos
in the [mediagoblin]
section of your config to false.
Alternately, you can override the template for the terms of service
document to set up your own.
We have a lot of new administrative tooling features!
There’s a built-in privileges/permissions system now.
Administrators are given access to modifying these parameters
from a user administration panel.
Users can submit reports about other problematic users or media
and administrators are given tools to resolve said reports and
ban/unban users if needed.
New version of video.js is included with MediaGoblin. Slight
amount of skinning to match the MediaGoblin look, otherwise also
uses the new default skin.
Developer-oriented changes:
New developer tool for quickly setting up a development environment
in
devtools/make_example_database.sh
. Requires doing a checkout
of our other tool
mg_dev_environments
(probably in the parent Directory) though!
A “foundations” framework has entered into the codebase.
This is mostly just relevant to coders, but it does mean that it’s
much easier to add database structures that need some entries filled
automatically by default.
Refactoring to the authentication code and the reprocessing code
0.5.1
v0.5.1 is a bugfix release… the steps are the same as for 0.5.1.
Bugfixes:
python 2.6 compatibility restored
Fixed last release’s release notes ;)
0.5.0
NOTE:
If using the API is important to you, we’re in a state of
transition towards a new API via the Pump API. As such, though the old
API still probably works, some changes have happened to the way OAuth
works to make it more Pump-compatible. If you’re heavily using
clients using the old API, you may wish to hold off on upgrading for
now. Otherwise, jump in and have fun! :)
Do this to upgrade
Make sure to run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
after upgrading.
Note that a couple of things have changed with
mediagoblin.ini
. First
we have a new Authentication System. You need to add
[[mediagoblin.plugins.basic_auth]]
under the
[plugins]
section of
your config file. Second, media types are now plugins, so you need to add
each media type under the
[plugins]
section of your config file.
We have made a script to transition your
mediagoblin_local.ini
file for
you. This script can be found at:
New features
As mentioned above, we now have a plugable Authentication system. You can
use any combination of the multiple authentication systems
basic_auth plugin
, Persona,
OpenID plugin
or write your own!
Media types are now plugins! This means that new media types will
be able to do new, fancy things they couldn’t in the future.
We now have notification support! This allows you to subscribe to media
comments and to be notified when someone comments on your media.
New reprocessing framework! You can now reprocess failed uploads, and
send already processed media back to processing to re-transcode or resize
media.
Comment preview!
Users now have the ability to change their email associated with their
account.
New OAuth code as we move closer to federation support.
Experimental pyconfigure support for GNU-style configure and makefile
deployment.
Database foundations! You can now pre-populate the database models.
Way faster unit test run-time via in-memory database.
All mongokit stuff has been cleaned up.
Fixes for non-ASCII filenames.
The option to stay logged in.
MediaGoblin has been upgraded to use the latest
Celery
version.
You can now add jinja2 extensions to your config file to use in custom
templates.
Fixed video permission issues.
MediaGoblin docs are now hosted with multiple versions.
We removed redundant tooltips from the STL media display.
We are now using itsdangerous for verification tokens.
0.4.1
This is a bugfix release for 0.4.0. This only implements one major
fix in the newly released document support which prevented the
“conversion via libreoffice” feature.
If you were running 0.4.0 you can upgrade to v0.4.1 via a simple
switch and restarting MediaGoblin/Celery with no other actions.
Otherwise, follow 0.4.0 instructions.
0.4.0
Do this to upgrade
Make sure to run
./bin/python
setup.py
develop
--upgrade
&&
./bin/gmg
dbupdate
after upgrading.
See “For Theme authors” if you have a custom theme.
Note that
./bin/gmg
theme
assetlink
is now just
./bin/gmg
assetlink
and covers both plugins and assets.
Keep on reading to hear more about new plugin features.
If you want to take advantage of new plugins that have statically
served assets, you are going to need to add the new “plugin_static”
section to your Nginx config. Basically the following for Nginx:
# Plugin static files (usually symlinked in)
location
plugin_static
alias
srv
mediagoblin
example
org
mediagoblin
user_dev
plugin_static
Similarly, if you’ve got a modified paste config, you may want to
borrow the app:plugin_static section from the default paste.ini
file.
We now use itsdangerous for sessions; if you had any references to
beaker in your paste config you can remove them. Again, see the
default paste.ini config
We also now use git submodules. Please do:
git
submodule
init
&&
git
submodule
update
You will need to do this to use the new PDF support.
For theme authors
If you have your own theme or you have any “user modified templates”,
please note the following:
mediagoblin/bits/ files above-content.html, body-end.html,
body-start.html now are renamed… they have underscores instead of
dashes in the filenames now :)
There’s a new file:
mediagoblin/bits/frontpage_welcome.html
You can easily customize this to give a welcome page appropriate to
your site.
New features
PDF media type!
Improved plugin system. More flexible, better documented, with a
new plugin authoring section of the docs.
itsdangerous based sessions. No more beaker!
New, experimental Piwigo-based API. This means you should be able
to use MediaGoblin with something like Shotwell. (Again, a word of
caution: this is
very experimental
!)
Human readable timestamps, and the option to display the original
date of an image when available (available as the
“original_date_visible” variable)
Moved unit testing system from nosetests to py.test so we can better
handle issues with SQLAlchemy exploding with different database
configurations. Long story :)
You can now disable the ability to post comments.
Tags now can be up to length 255 characters by default.
0.3.3
Do this to upgrade
Make sure to run
bin/gmg
dbupdate
after upgrading.
OpenStreetMap is now a plugin, so if you want to use it, add the
following to your config file:
[plugins]
[[mediagoblin.plugins.geolocation]]
If you have your own theme, you may need to make some adjustments to
it as some theme related things may have changed in this release.
New features
New dropdown menu for accessing various features.
Significantly improved URL generation. Now MediaGoblin won’t give
up on making a slug if it looks like there will be a duplicate;
it’ll try extra hard to generate a meaningful one instead.
Similarly, linking to an id no longer can possibly conflict with
linking to a slug; /u/username/m/id:35/ is the kind of reference we
now use to linking to entries with ids. However, old links with
entries that linked to ids should work just fine with our migration.
The only URLs that might break in this release are ones using colons
or equal signs.
New template hooks for plugin authoring.
As a demonstration of new template hooks for plugin authoring,
OpenStreetMap support now moved to a plugin!
Method to add media to collections switched from icon of paperclip
to button with “add to collection” text.
Bug where videos often failed to produce a proper thumbnail fixed!
Copying around files in MediaGoblin now much more efficient, doesn’t
waste gobs of memory.
Video transcoding now optional for videos that meet certain
criteria. By default, MediaGoblin will not transcode WebM videos
that are smaller in resolution than the MediaGoblin defaults, and
MediaGoblin can also be configured to allow Theora files to not be
transcoded as well.
Per-user license preference option; always want your uploads to be
BY-SA and tired of changing that field? You can now set your
license preference in your user settings.
Video player now responsive; better for mobile!
You can now delete your account from the user preferences page if
you so wish.
Other changes
Plugin writers: Internal restructuring led to mediagoblin.db.sql* be
mediagoblin.db.* starting from 0.3.3
Dependency list has been reduced not requiring the “webob” package anymore.
And many small fixes/improvements, too numerous to list!
0.3.2
This will be the last release that is capable of converting from an earlier
MongoDB-based MediaGoblin instance to the newer SQL-based system.
Do this to upgrade
# directory of your MediaGoblin install
cd /srv/mediagoblin.example.org
# copy source for this release
git fetch
git checkout tags/v0.3.2
# perform any needed database updates
bin/gmg dbupdate
# restart your servers however you do that, e.g.,
sudo service mediagoblin-paster restart
sudo service mediagoblin-celeryd restart
New features
3d model support!
You can now upload STL and OBJ files and display them in
MediaGoblin. Requires a recent Blender; for details see:
Deploying MediaGoblin
trim_whitespace
We bundle the optional plugin trim_whitespace which reduces the size
of the delivered HTML output by reducing redundant whitespace.
See
Part 2: Core plugin documentation
for plugin documentation
A new API!
It isn’t well documented yet but we do have an API. There is an
android application in progress
which makes use of it, and there are some demo applications between
automgtic
, an
automatic media uploader for your desktop
and
OMGMG
, an example of
a web application hooking up to the API.
This is a plugin, so you have to enable it in your MediaGoblin
config file by adding a section under [plugins] like:
plugins
[[
mediagoblin
plugins
api
]]
Note that the API works but is not nailed down… the way it is
called may change in future releases.
OAuth login support
For applications that use OAuth to connect to the API.
This is a plugin, so you have to enable it in your MediaGoblin
config file by adding a section under [plugins] like:
plugins
[[
mediagoblin
plugins
oauth
]]
Collections
We now have user-curated collections support. These are arbitrary
galleries that are customizable by users. You can add media to
these by clicking on the paperclip icon when logged in and looking
at a media entry.
OpenStreetMap licensing display improvements
More accurate display of OSM licensing, and less disruptive: you
click to “expand” the display of said licensing.
Geolocation is also now on by default.
Miscellaneous visual improvements
We’ve made a number of small visual improvements including newer and
nicer looking thumbnails and improved checkbox placement.
0.3.1
Do this to upgrade
Make sure to run
bin/gmg
dbuptdate
after upgrading.
If you set up your server config with an older version of
MediaGoblin and the MediaGoblin docs, it’s possible you don’t
have the “theme static files” alias, so double check to make
sure that section is there if you are having problems.
New features
theming support
MediaGoblin now also includes theming support, which you can
read about in the section
Theming MediaGoblin
flatpages
MediaGoblin has a flatpages plugin allowing you to add pages that
are aren’t media-related like “About this site…”, “Terms of
service…”, etc.
See
Part 2: Core plugin documentation
for plugin documentation
0.3.0
This release has one important change. You need to act when
upgrading from a previous version!
This release changes the database system from MongoDB to
SQL(alchemy). If you want to setup a fresh instance, just
follow the instructions in the deployment chapter. If on
the other hand you want to continue to use one instance,
read on.
To convert your data from MongoDB to SQL(alchemy), you need
to follow these steps:
Make sure your MongoDB is still running and has your
data, it’s needed for the conversion.
Configure the
sql_engine
URI in the config to represent
your target database (see:
Deploying MediaGoblin
You need an empty database.
Then run the following command:
bin
gmg
cf
mediagoblin_config
ini
convert_mongo_to_sql
Start your server and investigate.
That’s it.
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