Harvester 2.3 Beta Released

[asmecher]

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of Harvester 2.3 Beta.

This is a major rewrite of numerous parts of the Harvester code, including metadata storage and indexing. It increases indexing flexibility to support plugin-based indexing, including Lucene/SOLR support. It also adds OAI Data Provider support, including the potential to convert between metadata formats (currently from various formats into Dublin Core).

Because of the scope of changes included in the forthcoming release of Harvester 2.3, including the new PKP library that will be included in the next major releases of OJS and OCS, we invite the user community to provide feedback prior to the full release of Harvester 2.3.

The Harvester 2.3 beta package is available at http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester2/download/harvester-2.3.0b1.tar.gz. Note that the Help files have not yet been updated to reflect the new release.

Because of the extensive changes in metadata storage, note that the upgrade process deletes stored metadata and all archives will need to be re-harvested following the upgrade.

[asmecher]

Hi all,

Three Bugzilla entries that may be of interest when testing the beta by upgrading from prior releases:

• http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4014
• http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4015
• http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4016

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[mcrider]

Hi folks,

There is another bug entry relevant to this release: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4020

Cheers,
Matt

[mcrider]

Hi all,

See this bug post for changes to the image upload tool for TinyMCE: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4023

The bug report describes how to fix the error when loading the tool and also has a patch to ensure only proper image types can be uploaded.

Cheers,
Matt