Version 1.4.1

Added support for skipping pip upgrade and fixed defect with serializing unicode for exports and collection records.

Version 1.4.0

Changes in version 1.4.0:

• README.txt generated for each export. The README.txt contains documentation on the export and the collection.
• The change log on the collection details page now also displays the changes for the collection's seeds.
• When selecting a credential, information is provided on other collections that the credential is used for.
• Harvests will be skipped when the previous harvest has not been completed.
• Users are prevented from entering duplicate seeds.
• When admins delete database records, the corresponding files are deleted as well.
• Fixed permissions problem so that serialization schedule can be turned on.
• Added links to social media sites in the seed table on the collection detail page.
• The timezone is displayed for all dates.

Version 1.3.1

Changes in version 1.3.1:

• Email notifications to admins when a harvest or export fails with unknown_error.
• Fixes to deserialization (import) of collections.

Version 1.3.0

Changes in version 1.3.0:

• Implemented collection portability
• Added monitoring harvesters and exporters
• Removed erroneous “waiting for update” message in harvest tables.
• Enhancement to credential detail page to display which collections are using the credential
• Added monitoring of free space
• Allow users to disable harvest problem notifications.
• Added option for running harvest once.

Version 1.2.0

Changes in version 1.2.0 include:

• User self-management enabled, allowing changing of password, email address, etc.
• Statistics on WARC sizes and counts added to collection set and collection detail pages.
• Improvements to harvest table on collection detail page, including displaying harvest statistics.
• Humanized (added commas) to numbers in harvest statistics.
• Alphabetized ordering of entries in various lists.
• Added ability to bulk-add seeds by UIDs.
• Provide regular emails to users summarizing harvesting activity.

Version 1.1.0

In Version 1.1.0:

• Better handling of bad seeds and other harvesting problems. Messages are more prominently displayed on the collection page and an email is sent to users.
• Users allowed to have multiple credentials per social media platform. (Previously users were only allowed to have one per platform.)
• Improved in-application help.
• UI improvements to export create and details page.
• Warning message on collections page when user has no credentials.
• UI improvements to home page visualizations.
• Fix for problem when entering missing or suspended Twitter screen names.
• Fix for rendering collection page when seeds include unicode characters.

Version 1.0.0

In Version 1.0.0:

• Many minor usability improvements
• Added terms of use wording.

Version 0.6.1

In version 0.6.1, collection was renamed to collection set and seed set was renamed to collection.

Version 0.6.0

Version 0.6.0 includes significant improvements and additions to the UI. These include:

• Added visualizations of items collected over time to the home page.
• Revised navigation bar.
• Harvest options and seed entry are customized to the social media platform.
• Removed raw JSON display and entry of harvest options.
• Added datetime widgets for data entry.
• Added display of harvest history.
• Improved display of change log for credentials, collections, seeds, and seed sets.
• Cleaned up login and signup screens (and fixed the signup process).
• Added email notification upon export completion.
• Provided better handling of seed sets that have different seed requirements (none like Twitter sample stream, one like Twitter search, or multiple like Twitter user timeline)
• Added support for connecting accounts for Twitter and Weibo as a means of getting API credentials.
• Added UI for requesting and viewing exports.
• Added support for pausing and resuming harvests, including stream harvests.
• Additions to REST API.
• UI improvements for just about every page.
• New documentation for processing, authentication, credentials, and deployment on an EC2 instance.
• And a favicon!

v0.5.0

New features in v0.5.0:

• UI support for entering credentials.
• Recording when a WARC file is created (based on listening for warc_created messages from the harvesters)
• Tracking changes to collections, seed sets, and seeds.
• Initial support for requesting and downloading exports. Currently, this is only supported for Flickr and requests must be made using Admin.

Plus, continued refinement of seed set and seed screens.