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5.11.0 Upgrade Notes5.11.0 Upgrade Notes
Please follow the general Upgrading Pure documentation as well as the 5.11.0 (4.30.0) specific instructions below.
PARTICULAR ITEMS TO NOTE WITH THIS RELEASE
PubMed : API key introduction
From 1 May 2018, PubMed will introduce API key functionality for the API used for integration with Pure. You are recommended to sign up for an API key and add it to Pure prior to 1 May. Further details are available in the release notes.
Author collaboration : Deletion of content
The 5.11.0 release includes new 'Author collaboration' functionality. During the 5.11.0 upgrade process, a job will run that will delete all external authors and external organizations beyond the first 50 for all imported Research Output records that have an affiliated Author collaboration. Further details are available in the release notes.
Facilities / Equipment : Deletion of content
The unified Facilities / Equipment model does not include the facility to attach documents to Facility / Equipment records. During the upgrade to 5.11.0, any documents attached to existing Facility / Equipment records will be deleted. Further details are available in the release notes.
Browser support
Changes that influence the user experience in older browsers
The Pure team is refreshing the user interface in Pure, starting with the Report Technology Preview. The goal is to provide a modern, highly interactive user experience.
As the user interface moves towards more interactivity and more complex features, it puts a larger demand on the performance of the browser. Internet Explorer 11 users may therefore experience performance issues (such as stuttering) for features that run smoothly in other browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.
For this reason, we recommend that users migrate away from using Internet Explorer 11 and onto modern browsers like Chrome or Firefox to get the optimal user experience.
Changes that affect Pure 5.11
S3 file storage support
With 5.11 it will be possible to store all files uploaded in Pure to S3.
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A new local file storage adapter for S3 has been added, which will encrypt and put files into a specified S3 bucket. All file actions in in S3 are versioned, enabling easy rollback and backup based on the Pure database state.
In contrast to the other external file storage adapters in Pure (D-Space, Fedora, etc) the S3 adapter can be configured as the default adapter instead of the previously hard-coded local file store. This ensures that only temporary files are stored on the host machine until they can be processed by the preserve content update job.
Streamlined file jobs
The 'Local file store health' and 'Cleanup temporary files' have been merged into one job called 'Preserved Content Maintenance'.
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The 'Preserved Content Maintenance' job performs the following operations on all applicable stores:
On Local file system stores:
- Cleanup files in the mount points that are no longer in use by Pure.
- Validates that the .status files have not been corrupted, and restores them if they have.
On Amazon S3 stores:
- Deletes files that are no longer in use by Pure.
- Restores files from a previous versions if a file is still in use by Pure, but have been deleted in the S3 bucket.
Updated SQL Server JDBC driver
We've updated the SQL server JDBC driver from the jTDS to the Microsoft driver.
Path: jdbc:sqlserver://host:port;databaseName=MyDatabaseName
See the End of Support Announcements for Pure page for all end of support announcements.
Updated at July 27, 2024