Changelog

0.6.0

Release date: 2023-06-15

User Interface:

The navbar was split in two. The top one still holds globally useful navigations like user settings and the search. The navbar below it shows project-related settings and apps that were previously shown in the left-most column of the project graph so that they are now easily accessible from other places.
HELIPORT now uses Font Awesome 6 icons. Font Awesome 6 is backwards-compatible, thus old icons (fa, fas, fab, ... classes) still work.

Architecture Additions:

Introduced the concept of Actions that allow to use functionality of one app inside another app without dependency between the apps
Introduce the concept of a DigitalObject that represents a File
Introduce the concept of a DigitalObject that represents a Directory
Introduce the concept of operation context that allows to cache values with support for python context managers
Introduce the concept of user messages that can be raised as exception to display an error to the user
Introduce the concept of GeneralValue to represent something that can be a value of some parameter of a digital object and can be serialized
Introduce the concept of GeneralDigitalObject to represent objects not stored in the HELIPORT database. A GeneralDigitalObject supports only the most basic functionality but can be easily imported as DigitalObject.
Introduce the concept of object resolution, that allows to represent objects not stored in the HELIPORT database (e.g. in URL parameters)

Core App:

Added field is_helper to DigitalObject to allow representing DigitalObjects that are not explicitly created by the user.
Added functions and methods to allow working with tags more easily
Added view to allow importing a GeneralDigitalObject as DigitalObject into the HELIPORT database
The views are now split into multiple modules within {mod}heliport.core.views
HELIPORT mixins are now found in {mod}heliport.core.mixins; HeliportObjectListView is under {mod}heliport.core.views.generic
Added support for login selection and actions in {class}heliport.core.views.generic.HeliportObjectListView
Added {class}heliport.core.renderers.HeliportPartialRenderer for rendering of HTML partials to be sent via the API
Added {class}heliport.core.negotiation.HeliportContentNegotiation which handles API requests sent from HTMX and returns partials to them

Data Source App:

Extend data source list to support actions
New view to show arbitrary directories and allow file download
Data sources with ssh protocol are now deprecated in favour of the ssh app
New actions to open arbitrary files and directories

UNICORE App:

UNICORE storages can now be added to projects
Implement file and directory interfaces for UNICORE storages (this allows for example a preview)
The UNICORE "overview" view was removed in favor of an interface that looks more like other apps

SSH App:

Introduced this as the new app to handle all ssh functionality
Allows adding SSH files and directories to project
Implement file and directory interfaces for files and directories accessible via SSH (this allows for example a preview)
Add action to migrate old ssh data sources to this app

SMB Files App:

Introduce this as a new app to handle SMB shares
Allow adding SMB shares to project
Implement file and directory interfaces for SMB files and directories (this allows for example a preview)

Version Control App:

Implement file and directory interfaces for GitLab and GitHub files and directories (this allows e.g. download)

Miscellaneous:

The default database location in production mode (DEVELOPMENT == False) changed from ${BASE_DIR}/heliport.sqlite3 to /var/lib/heliport/heliport.sqlite3.
The monitoring extra for the Flower monitor was removed as it wasn't well integrated in the repo and lacked instructions due to not being used by the maintainers.
HELIPORT is now running on Django 4.2.
The main JavaScript and CSS libraries are now installed with yarn and bundled with webpack. Some CSS and JavaScript is managed using django-vendor-files and will be moved into the webpack setup eventually.
HELIPORT now provides heliport-cli as a convenience command for the Django manage.py script.
The minimum required Poetry version is now 1.2.
Added alpinejs to be used in frontend
Added RootedRDFGraph to collections to store RDF data about something specific (that is the root)
Renamed Project.digitalobject_set to Project.parts
Project list now supports pagination and sorting
Projects can now be tagged

0.5.0

Release date: 2022-11-24

This is the first release after some major restructuring in the HELIPORT codebase and infrastructure. Future releases will provide more detailed information about the changes that were introduced.