v1.0.0 Alpha 13

What is included in this release

Alpha 13 addressed a number of internal issues and restructured some core components, most notably configuration and globals handling.

New features

• Report file for referential integrity check (#43)
• Support PATCH operations on root node (#44)
• Version number is now controlled by a single file
• Version number added to home page

Enhancements

• Better handling of thread-local and global variables
• Prevent migration script from failing if an HTTP requests fails
• Light LMDB store optimizations

Bug fixes

• Removed extraneous characters from anchor link in output headers (#48)

Other changes

• Added template for release notes (this document). This is not a feature supported by Github, but the template can be manually copied and pasted from .github/release_template.md.

Notes & caveats

• Custom configurations may need to be adapted to the new configuration scheme. Please look at changes in lakesuperior/etc.defaults. Most notably, there is now a single data_dir location, and test.yml file is now deprecated.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to @acoburn for testing and reporting several isssues.