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diff --git a/doc/CHANGES.md b/doc/CHANGES.md index c57e89130..d4b8ca379 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES.md +++ b/doc/CHANGES.md @@ -1,3 +1,30 @@ +# Version 0.4 + +## Highlighted features +* Complete overhaul of design, including improved search, modern look and feel, more twitter links, etc +* A banner alerts visitors from other countries to existing sites in their country, or exhorts them to make their own +* Bounce emails that result from user alerts are automatically processed and hard bouncing accounts do not continue to receive alerts. + See the new instructions in INSTALL-exim4.md for details of how to set this up. +* Logged in users now have the ability to download a zipfile of the entire correspondence for a request +* Improved UI for responding to requests. The user now has a single option to "reply" at the bottom of a request, and can adjust who they are replying to on the next page +* [Full list of changes on github](https://github.com/sebbacon/alaveteli/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=closed&milestone=7) + +## Upgrade notes +* Remember to `rake db:migrate` and `git submodule update` +* Ensure you have values for new config variables (see `config/general.yml-example`): + * FORWARD_NONBOUNCE_RESPONSES_TO + * TRACK_SENDER_EMAIL + * TRACK_SENDER_NAME + * HTML_TO_PDF_COMMAND +* Execute `script/rebuild-xapian-index` to create new xapian index + terms used in latest version of search (can take a long time) +* Install wkhtmltopdf to enable PDFs in downloadable zipfiles. A + static binary is recommended on Linux in order to run the command + headless: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list +* Ensure your webserver can serve up generated files by symlinking `cache/zips/download` to `public/download` (this is also done by the `rails-post-deploy` script). If you're using Passenger + Apache, you'll need to add a `PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on` directive to the configuration. + * Note that the zipfile download functionality will currently hang if you're running Alaveteli single-threaded, as it creates a new request to the server to get the print stylesheet version! +* Configure your MTA to handle bounce emails from alerts (see INSTALL-exim4.md) + # Version 0.3 ## Highlighted features |