Title: Release 0.2 of free software archive system Nikita announced
Tags: english, standard, nuug, offentlig innsyn, noark5
Date: 2018-10-18 14:40

<p>This morning, the new release of the
<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
Noark 5 core project</a> was
<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2018-October/000406.html">announced
on the project mailing list</a>.  The free software solution is an
implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
government offices in Norway.  These were the changes in version 0.2
since version 0.1.1 (from NEWS.md):

<ul>
  <li>Fix typos in REL names</li>
  <li>Tidy up error message reporting</li>
  <li>Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger()</li>
  <li>Change some String handling to StringBuffer</li>
  <li>Fix error reporting</li>
  <li>Code tidy-up</li>
  <li>Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid 
      race conditions</li>
  <li>Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings</li>
  <li>Update methods to make them null-safe</li>
  <li>Fix many issues reported by coverity</li>
  <li>Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model</li>
  <li>Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes</li>
  <li>Fix CORS issues when downloading document</li>
  <li>Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload</li>
  <li>Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS</li>
  <li>Adding concept description of mail integration</li>
  <li>Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost</li>
  <li>Better handling of required values during deserialisation </li>
  <li>Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime</li>
  <li>Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors.</li>
  <li>Improve parse error reporting.</li>
  <li>Started on OData search and filtering.</li>
  <li>Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project.</li>
  <li>Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab.</li>
  <li>Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/.</li>
  <li>Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2.</li>
  <li>Added support for OAuth2 authentication.</li>
  <li>Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity.</li>
  <li>Corrected handling of date/datetime fields.</li>
  <li>Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin.</li>
  <li>Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe,
   ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse.</li>
  <li>Several fixes for korrespondansepart*.</li>
  <li>Updated web GUI:
     <ul>
       <li>Now handle both file upload and download.</li>
       <li>Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login.</li>
       <li>Forms now fetches default values from API using GET.</li>
       <li>Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats.</li>
     </ul></li>
</ul>

<p>The changes and improvements are extensive.  Running diffstat on
the changes between git tab 0.1.1 and 0.2 show 1098 files changed,
108666 insertions(+), 54066 deletions(-).</p>

<p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
you, please contact us on IRC
(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
mailing list</a>).</p>

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