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Release Notes - ISLE v.1.3.0, 2019-09-27

Contributions to this release from:

  • David Keiser-Clark (Williams College), documentation and testing
  • Francesca Livermore (Wesleyan University), documentation
  • Gavin Morris (Born-Digital), code updates and testing
  • Mark McFate (Grinnell College), testing and documentation
  • Mark Sandford (Colgate University), documentation
  • Bethany Seeger (Amherst College), code updates, testing and release manager
  • Noah Smith (Born Digital), code updates and testing
  • Shaun Trujillo (Mount Holyoke College), testing

ISLE (main project)

  • Adds two new optional components for use on Production systems:
    • Varnish - caching web accelearator for high traffic sites
      • Optional Varnish service added to only Production & Local docker-compose files (commented out)
      • Varnish logging added in the .envs
    • Blazegraph - triplestore replacement for Mulgara for high volume ingest
      • Blazegraph / Fedora service changes in the .envs to allow toggling
      • Blazegraph logging added in the .envs
      • Optional Blazegraph service added to all docker-compose(s) (commented out)
  • Automated Testing - updated to include Varnish and Blazegraph in base test suite; and updated instructions to correspond with revised test repository location and keywords/names.
  • Library of Congress standards proxy - High Volume Ingest
  • Resource allocation document for - Local, Staging, Production e.g. RAM, CPU, tuning etc.

Upgrade

If you are coming from ISLE releases 1.2.0 - there will be some additional steps to take to migrate to this new release.

The following files have new Varnish and Blazegraph information and ENVs which may need you to review, edit and/or merge in previous settings:

  • All demo, local, staging, production and test .env files have a new ### Fedora Resource Index section with two new ENV variables.

    • There are in-line instructions on how to switch between the default mulgara and optional component blazegraph

  • All docker-compose.*.yml files have a new optional Blazegraph service section, (commented out) along with a (commented out) Blazegraph volume definition

    • Test - test.env by default now tests Blazegraph instead of mulgara.

  • Production - docker-compose.production.yml - New Varnish service added but commented out.

    • production.env - New Varnish section with ENV variables (commented out)

  • Local - docker-compose.local.yml - New Varnish service added but commented out.

    • local.env - New Varnish section with ENV variables (commented out)

  • Test - docker-compose.test.yml - New Varnish service added.

    • test.env - New Varnish section with ENV variables

ISLE Docker Images

isle-tomcat

  • adoptopenjdk/openjdk8 base image (security updates)
  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • Updated GEN_DEP_PACKS dependencies via apt-get
  • Upgraded tomcat to 8.5.46

isle-fedora

  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • Updated GEN_DEP_PACKS dependencies via apt-get
  • Upgraded Maven to 3.6.2
  • Upgraded Ant to 1.10.7
  • Islandora transforms changes from August 15th
  • Blazegraph work integrated
  • Bug fix https://github.com/Islandora-Collaboration-Group/ISLE/issues/317

isle-imageservices

  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • Updated GEN_DEP_PACKS dependencies via apt-get
  • Cantaloupe upgraded from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3
  • Cleanup of service paths https://github.com/Islandora-Collaboration-Group/ISLE/issues/226

isle-solr

  • Server package management updates via apt-get

isle-apache

  • adoptopenjdk/openjdk8 base image (sec updates)
  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • PHP version 7.1 updates
  • Upgraded FITS to version 1.5.0
  • Upgraded ImageMagick to version 7.0.8-66
  • Composer upgraded from commit / hash August 2, 2019 to Sept 2, 2019 (still v 1.9.0)

isle-mysql

  • apt-get dist-upgrades for dependencies (sec updates)

isle-blazegraph

  • adoptopenjdk/openjdk8 base image (sec updates)
  • Server package management updates via `apt-get
  • ISLE Tomcat base image upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.3.0
  • Blazegraph upgraded from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5

isle-varnish

  • Server package management updates via apt-get
  • ISLE base image change from discontinued isle-ubuntu-basebox to ubuntu:xenial base image (sec updates)
  • Varnish upgraded from 4.1.3-12 to 4.1.11