v1.4.8_Production

Aggregate v1.4.8

(April 2016)

1. Submission Filters are once again working.
2. Update javarosa library with fixes for:
   • fix date, time, dateTime handling of time zones (in collaboration with SurveyCTO)
   • fix itemset choice lists -- various issues.
   • fix jr:choice-name() context resolution so that it can work with relative paths and repeat groups (SurveyCTO contribution).
   • add CONTROL_FILE_CAPTURE for future arbitrary-file-attachment handling
   • use consistent UTF-8 treatment when writing and reading files
   • better detection and handling of binary-file-format changes across versions
   • build with Java 7
3. Add support for geotrace and geoshape to Export-to-KML (for ODK 1.x).
4. Update Apache HTTP Client libraries to 4.5.2; this should support SNI protocol interactions of external publishers (ODK 1.x - untested).
5. Change Google App Engine update mechanism to use new wizard update tool.
6. Change Google App Engine code to use EAR / module format.
7. Widespread jar update.
8. Correct bug in csv-export library shared with ODK 2.0 tools for exporting datasets in those tools (does not impact Export as CSV in the 1.x toolchain).
9. Add new bulk attachment-POST APIs for ODK 2.0 sync protocol.
10. Rework ui tests to use Chrome for the Selenium web testing.
11. Rework all of the eclipse projects and add documentation for setting up a tomcat eclipse debug environment.
12. Rework the Google App Engine maven projects to use the EAR / module format.
13. Update maven plugins and tools to newer versions.

Upgrading

1. For MySQL installations, please make sure you have this server configuration:

character_set_server=utf8
collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
max_allowed_packet=1073741824

1. For all other installations, there are no special upgrade steps required.
2. The ODK 2.0 sync protocol is compatible with the ODK 2.0 Rev 200 and higher tools.