Release 7.2

The version 7.2 release includes the new Chronology authority, many new reports, new fields on various records, and numerous bug fixes.

Release date and schedule

CollectionSpace version 7.2 was released in August 2023.

Release notes

Release 7.2 does not contain any breaking changes.

New functionality

• A new Chronology authority has been added. https://collectionspace.atlassian.net/browse/DRYD-1133

• Media record images can now be included in PDF-formatted reports. https://collectionspace.atlassian.net/browse/DRYD-1221

• The following new reports have been added: https://collectionspace.atlassian.net/browse/DRYD-1117

  • Deed of Gift

  • Incoming Loan

  • Outgoing Loan

  • Accessions

  • Deaccessions

  • Referral

  • Incoming Loan Letter

  • Outgoing Loan Letter

  • Box List

  • Tombstone with Image and Budget

  • Tombstone with Parameterized Creator

  • Object with Full Current Place Details

  • Condition

  • Basic Object with Computed Location

• Reports and batch jobs (aka data updates) are now automatically registered when CollectionSpace starts. It is no longer necessary to manually post metadata to the REST API to activate a report or batch job.

• Attempting to create a circular hierarchy (in authority records and Object records) now results in an error.

• In the Anthropology Profile, a new Archaeology Site vocabulary has been added to the Place authority.

• In the Materials Profile, the Valuation procedure has been enabled.

• Selection of alternate terms in authority controlled-fields can now be disabled globally. Previously, this could only be configured on a per-authority basis.

Schema changes

• On the Loan In and Loan Out records, the credit line field has been added.

• On the Object record, a controlled Material field has been added (alongside the existing free text Material field).

• On the Object record, a controlled Object Name field has been added (alongside the existing free text Object Name field).

• In the Anthropology Profile, on the Object record, a NAGPRA Note field has been added.

• On the Object record, new fields bound to the Chronology authority have been added: Object Production Era, Associated Event or Period/Era, Content Event or Period/Era.

• In the Anthropology Profile, on the Object record, a Field Collection Site field has been added.

• On the Object record, a Description Level field has been added.

• On the Object record, an Apparel Size field has been added.

• The system URI field can now be exported.

Bug fixes

• In the built-in reports, fields that reference other records (those controlled by authorities and dynamic term lists) are no longer rendered as URNs.

• Broken images in the footers of some reports have been removed.

• When registering reports and batch jobs (aka data updates), some confusion regarding the doctype=Group and mode=group settings has been resolved. It is now possible to register a report/batch that runs in group mode (and appears on a single Group record sidebar), without having it also appear in the sidebar of search results for Group records.

• REST API calls to retrieve derivatives for a blob (/cspace-services/blobs/{csid}/derivatives) now include correct itemsInPage and totalItems counts.

• REST API calls to the systeminfo endpoint now include the correct build number (git commit hash), instead of always reporting 0.

• The following fields are now correctly exported from search results, instead of being blank: createdBy, createdAt, updatedBy, updatedAt.

• Fields with the same name in different schema now save properly.

• The pop-up that appears when hovering over an authority-controlled field value now continues to work after the value has just been changed.

• Confusing login error messages and spurious login failures have been fixed.

• Unnecessary repeated requests to fulfill searches are no longer made after a login session has expired.