v1.2.0

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v1.2.0

Improvements

• Added the action start connectors.
  This command allows you to wait until all of the specified connectors are available and accepting connections. This feature is very handy when paired with the new MRSM_SQL_X URI environment variables.

• Added MRSM_PLUGINS_DIR.
  This one's been on my to-do list for quite a bit! You can now place your plugins in a dedicated, version-controlled directory outside of your root directory.

  Like MRSM_ROOT_DIR, specify a path with the environment variable MRSM_PLUGINS_DIR:

  MRSM_PLUGINS_DIR=plugins \
    mrsm show plugins

• Allow for symlinking in URI environment variables.
  You may now reference configuration keys within URI variables:

  MRSM_SQL_FOO=postgresql://user:MRSM{meerschaum:connectors:sql:main:password}@localhost:5432/db

• Increased token expiration window to 12 hours.
  This should reduce the number of login requests needed.

• Improved virtual environment verification.
  More edge cases have been addressed.

• Symlink Meerschaum into Plugin virtual environments.
  If plugins do not specify Meerschaum in the required list, Meerschaum will be symlinked to the currently running package.

Breaking changes

• API endpoints for registering and editing users changed.
  To comply with OAuth2 convention, the API endpoint for registering a user is now a url-encoded form submission to /users/register (/user/edit for editing).

  You must upgrade both the server and client to v1.2.0+ to login to your API instances.

• Replaced meerschaum.utils.sql.update_query() with meerschaum.utils.sql.get_update_queries().
  The new function returns a list of query strings rather than a single query. These queries are executed within a single transaction.

Bugfixes

• Removed version enforcement in pip_install().
  This changed behavior allows for custom version constraints to be specified in Meerschaum plugins.

• Backported UPDATE FROM query for older versions of SQLite.
  The current mutable data logic uses an UPDATE FROM query, but this syntax is only present in versions of SQLite greater than 3.33.0 (released 2020-08-14). This releases splits the same logic into DELETE and INSERT queries for older versions of SQLite.

• Fixed missing suggestions for shell-only commands.
  Completions for commands like instance are now suggested.

• Fixed an issue with killing background jobs.
  The signals were not being sent correctly, so this release includes better job process management.

• Install from requirements.txt if required is not present.

• Fixed issue with custom actions with underscores on the Web UI.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.2.0.