EPrints 3.4.8

This page contains information about the provisional EPrints v3.4.8 tag and release on GitHub. A date for this release is yet to be scheduled.

Release Notes (Provisional)

EPrints 3.4.8 is planned to be released in the Summer of 2026.

• Zero codename: TO BE DETERMINED
• Publications flavour codename: TO BE DETERMINED

New Dependencies

Check earlier dependencies for EPrints 3.4.7 and before.

If you wish to set a timezone of the dates and times displayed on your repository, you will need to make sure the DateTime Perl module is installed. For RHEL-based Linux this can be installed with the perl-DateTime RPM. For Debian-based Linux this requires libdatetime-perl.

Changes Since 3.4.7

New Functionality

• Adds export_file_as_attachment option to force exports to be downloaded
• Adds an export plugin for document URLs
• Adds clear buttons to multiple Compound fields
• Adds support for rendering time with a given timezone

Security and Privacy Improvements

• Prevents 'javascript:' URLs from being saved in URL fields
• Modifies fix for SetLang referrer misuse

General Improvements

• Updates metatags functionality to equivalent to v1.4 plus further improvements to ensure its export plugins are compliant with unit tests
• Removes the progress bar even if the upload fails
• Remove no longer required progressid from file uploads
• Adds support for number format months to BibTex import
• Makes the default encoding of imports 'UTF-8'
• Adds labels connecting to radio buttons for Boolean and Set
• Improves Longtext_counter MetaField
• Removes MPM event warning message
• Improves CRUD API fault tolerance
• Better specifies MetaField property defaults

Bug Fixes

• Fixes sample EP_TRIGGER_BEGIN and EP_TRIGGER_END subroutines
• Checks that $id->{id_type} is set before comparing it
• Fixes issues with Convert::PlainText handling large DOCX
• Makes unsupported packaging format a bad request (400) not server error (500)
• Don't add export link elements to deleted item page head
• Specifies more appropriate empty_values for Int and Float MetaFields
• [https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.4/issues/508 Fixes eval blocks calling user-defined toform or fromform functions to work as effective try/catch blocks.

Planned Features and Improvements

See 3.4.8 milestone on GitHub for more details.