v6.0.0: Going full-auto

This release officially gives NCA the "radical to the max" rating. It used to be "totally rad", which was of course already quite a wonderful accomplishment, but we're all very pleased to get this new designation. Way to go, team! The awards ceremony will be held at the Bill And Ted Colosseum this Sunday.

• Batch automation is in: you do not need somebody to load batches manually into ONI. We instead have integrated NCA and ONI using the new (and also pretty rad) ONI Agent.
• You can upload MARC XML directly into NCA, provisioning a title "skeleton" and loading it into your staging and production ONI environments at the same time.
• MARC Org Codes (NCA) / Awardees (ONI) are automatically sent to ONI when NCA has a batch with a code that ONI servers haven't yet seen.

See the full changelog for details and migration instructions.

v5.0.1: Non-admins can be given rights to make batches

The user list now includes the "Batch Builder" role, critical for letting non-admins build batches.

Oops.

v5.0.0: Massive UI refactor, plus batch generation!

This release brings us to Bootstrap 5, removes a bunch of unnecessary JavaScript (bootstrap's and an obsolete version of jQuery), and adds one of the biggest features in quite a while: batches may now be generated on demand by users with the new "Batch Builder" role! Note: this release failed to include a way to actually give users this role, so please grab the next release instead. (pending)

Other highlights:

• We have a new dark mode (thanks primarily to Bootstrap) which respects your operating system's setting
• SFTPGo integration, when unavailable, only causes problems with title views; it doesn't stop NCA from running
• Various batch views now display a page count, not just an issue count

See the full list of changes for version 5!

v4.4.0

Better batching! Minor bug fixes! Tens of commits!!

The big improvements here are batching speed, but there were also a handful of code cleanup tasks, new and improved tests, and dev fixes.

See our full changelog for full details.

v4.3.2: Minor improvements

Upgraded SFTPGo to v2.5, which shouldn't affect many people, if anybody. Minor fixes as well. As usual, see the v4.3.2 section of our changelog for details.

v4.3.1 hotfix

Just adds a chunk of code to let people purge a batch that failed QC. Changelog for v4.3.1

v4.3.0: REM

Lots of stuff for devs with a couple fixes for regular people. The highlights are:

• Batches can no longer contain issues that can't even be loaded into ONI (titles that haven't gotten an LCCN validated).
• Errors are no longer reported when issues take a long time to bring into NCA from a scanned location

For a full list, as always, see the changelog

v4.2.0: Docs, batch loading, and refactors

The most visible changes are to our documentation, which has had a complete theme rewrite. The theme is still based on the general look and feel of techdoc, which was a good base, but which turned out to be inaccessible to non-mouse users in lots of annoying ways. The new theme should be 100% WCAG 2.1 AA compliant.

Batch loading is significantly easier now because we've unified the batch-load directory for staging and production. Batches are generated and immediately synced to the production batch location, and loaded from there regardless of the environment. This means batch-load instructions are unified, and there's no more of the "purge from staging, load to prod, reload to staging" dance to worry about - once a batch is flagged as good, there's no need to reload it on staging.

As usual, see our full changelog notes for details.

v4.1.2: normal people can enter page labels!

There are some little dev fixes here, but the big change is that you don't have to write code or hack the database directly in order to enter page labels. What a concept!

v4.1.1: Small fixes

Just some tiny fixes, see our full changelog for the list.