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diff --git a/doc/CHANGES.md b/doc/CHANGES.md index e9a53ddee..1ba87e76c 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES.md +++ b/doc/CHANGES.md @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +#rails-3-develop + +## Highlighted features +* Individual incoming and outgoing messages can be made hidden, or requester_only from the admin interface. +* Zip downloads now can be run in single-threaded instances, and use send_file rather than a redirect to serve up cached zip files. + +## Upgrade notes +* By default, Alaveteli will now serve up request zip files itself, which will occupy a Rails process until the file has been received. To pass these files off to Apache, and free up the Rails process, install the libapache2-mod-xsendfile package, and update your httpd.conf file with the new Sendfile clause at the end of config/httpd.conf-example). +* In your production install, from the Alaveteli directory (as the Alaveteli deploy user), run the following commands to remove the zip download directory from direct access by your webserver, and preserve any cached zip files: +`mkdir cache/zips/production/` +`mv cache/zips/download cache/zips/production/download` +`rm public/download` +* This release upgrades the assumed version of Ubuntu from lucid (10.04) to precise (12.04) +* This release upgrades rubygems in config/packages - version 1.8.15 is available from squeeze-backports on Debian or by default in Ubuntu precise. This upgrade may result in "invalid date format in specification:" errors - these should be fixable by manually deleting the gems specs that are being referenced in the error and re-running rails-post-deploy + # Version 0.13 ## Highlighted features diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index ea8871888..e99cb491d 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -These instructions assume Debian Squeeze (64-bit) or Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. +These instructions assume Debian Squeeze (64-bit) or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise). [Install instructions for OS X](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/wiki/OS-X-Quickstart) are under development. Debian Squeeze is the best supported deployment platform. @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ You need to configure [apt-pinning](http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences#Pinnin In order to configure apt-pinning and to keep most packages coming from the Debian stable repository while installing the ones required from testing and the mySociety repository you need to run the following commands: echo "Package: *" >> /tmp/preferences + echo "Pin: release a=squeeze-backports">> /tmp/preferences + echo "Pin-Priority: 200" >> /tmp/preferences + echo "" >> /tmp/preferences + echo "Package: *" >> /tmp/preferences echo "Pin: release a=testing">> /tmp/preferences echo "Pin-Priority: 50" >> /tmp/preferences sudo cp /tmp/preferences /etc/apt/ @@ -49,6 +53,7 @@ If you are running Debian, add the following repositories to deb http://debian.mysociety.org squeeze main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib + deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free The repositories above allow us to install the packages `wkhtmltopdf-static` and `bundler` using `apt`; so if you're running |