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diff --git a/docs/_posts/2020-05-06-v3.0.1.md b/docs/_posts/2020-05-06-v3.0.1.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0ac1e6304 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/_posts/2020-05-06-v3.0.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Version 3.0.1 +author: matthew +--- + +<div class="r" align="right"> +</div> + +First of all, I hope you are all safe wherever you may be. We held a couple of +FixMyStreet user groups recently for body users of FixMyStreet in the UK, and +someone from a large body said that their FixMyStreet installation was proving +really useful in these times, as they were making far fewer internal reports +due to the UK lockdown. + +Admist all this, we continue to develop the software, and today are releasing +**version 3.0.1**, a bugfix release with a couple of new features. + +### Admin improvements + +You can now provide an automatic initial update on reports made in a particular +category to a particular body, perhaps to provide information on timings or +similar. Make sure the body has a user to associate comments with, and then add +a response template in the Open state with auto-response checked, restricted to +a list of categories if you wish. After that, the template will be used to +provide an initial update on new reports made. + +We have also added "staff-only" categories, which are categories that staff +users can see but normal users cannot. One council is using this to provide +emergency categories that their contact centre staff can use to make reports +after manual triage. + +The dashboard export and report search should now be quicker, after some +investigation that area. We've also moved the overall stats off the index page +to the stats page, so the index page loads more quickly. + +### Bugfixes + +Thanks to those of you letting us know about bugs or problems. Those we have +fixed include an incorrect To header on emails about inactive accounts, a +couple of issues with the front page recent reports list showing different +results depending on whether the cache was used or not, and a double escape in +the Google Maps URL. + +Others we have fixed include maintaining the category group on pin move with +same category in multiple groups, and fixing sorting by most commented on +the `/around` map view. + +### Development improvements + +As well as the cron scripts, this release now includes a dæmon that you +can use to send reports and updates. Using the dæmon will mean reports +and updates are sent almost immediately after they are confirmed, but will +require a bit more setup, as you'll need to set it up as a dæmon running +all the time in your system. We've provided an example config file for systemd +to hopefully help with that. If you do run the dæmon, be sure to remove +the lines of your crontab that send reports and updates :) + +Alongside that, `send-reports` no longer prints out failures in verbose mode, +there is a separate `send-reports-failure-summary` script to do that. Also the +fetch-comments and fetch-reports scripts have been consolidated into one +`fetch` script, which can also now parallelize fetching. + +### Upgrading + +A full list of changes can be seen in the +[changelog](https://github.com/mysociety/fixmystreet/releases/tag/v3.0.1) as usual. + |