This morning, the new release of the +Nikita +Noark 5 core project was +announced +on the project mailing list. 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): + +
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- Fix typos in REL names +
- Tidy up error message reporting +
- Fix issue where we used Integer.valueOf(), not Integer.getInteger() +
- Change some String handling to StringBuffer +
- Fix error reporting +
- Code tidy-up +
- Fix issue using static non-synchronized SimpleDateFormat to avoid + race conditions +
- Fix problem where deserialisers were treating integers as strings +
- Update methods to make them null-safe +
- Fix many issues reported by coverity +
- Improve equals(), compareTo() and hash() in domain model +
- Improvements to the domain model for metadata classes +
- Fix CORS issues when downloading document +
- Implementation of case-handling with registryEntry and document upload +
- Better support in Javascript for OPTIONS +
- Adding concept description of mail integration +
- Improve setting of default values for GET on ny-journalpost +
- Better handling of required values during deserialisation +
- Changed tilknyttetDato (M620) from date to dateTime +
- Corrected some opprettetDato (M600) (de)serialisation errors. +
- Improve parse error reporting. +
- Started on OData search and filtering. +
- Added Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to project. +
- Moved repository and project from Github to Gitlab. +
- Restructured repository, moved code into src/ and web/. +
- Updated code to use Spring Boot version 2. +
- Added support for OAuth2 authentication. +
- Fixed several bugs discovered by Coverity. +
- Corrected handling of date/datetime fields. +
- Improved error reporting when rejecting during deserializatoin. +
- Adjusted default values provided for ny-arkivdel, ny-mappe, + ny-saksmappe, ny-journalpost and ny-dokumentbeskrivelse. +
- Several fixes for korrespondansepart*. +
- Updated web GUI:
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- Now handle both file upload and download. +
- Uses new OAuth2 authentication for login. +
- Forms now fetches default values from API using GET. +
- Added RFC 822 (email), TIFF and JPEG to list of possible file formats. +
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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(-).
+ +If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to +you, please contact us on IRC +(#nikita on +irc.freenode.net) or email +(nikita-noark +mailing list).
+ +As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.
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