v4.6.0

Bugfixes

• Twitter URL fix for posts and messages with new Twitter format
• fix(csv): display full media URLs in the CSV .
• Improvements to build system

v4.5.0 - performance improvements and bugfixes

40dcbec (transifex-release) Release last transifex updates
8c4e0f9 Fix URL to twitter configuration by @noone0212
02e371e GEOJson optimization by @tuxpiper
8abac73 fix(perf): cache media storage url by @tuxpiper
df39e16 test: gateway checker by @individual-it
2914b69 docker hub publish: master as "latest" release tags as themselves by @tuxpiper

Release candidate - rc-v4.4.4

• GeoJSON optimization #3907 - It seems there is a regression here. #3922
• Gateway checker #3911
• Cache media endpoint request to avoid going to rackspace for it #3917

RC v4.4.2

• fix: comment in gateway check mode file - d7b2f40 @individual-it

• test: gateway checker a84acfb @individual-it

v4.4.1 Bugfixes

Features

• Send user an notification-email when password is changed. Thanks @webong!
  • Issue: #3110

Bugfixes and upgrades

• Issue: Error-message when trying to create new role is not making sense. Thanks @rowasc!
• Issue: optimize post search query on the join with messages Thanks @tuxpiper!
• Issue: user permission is now checked for api key authorizer Thanks @webong!

New PHP requirements and other improvements

PHP 7.1 no longer supported

SInce this PHP release has reached EOL, it is not being supported by this project anymore.

We recommend PHP 7.2.x now

Localization enabled.

User-oriented messages that are generated in the i.e. (think for instance, validation errors) are no longer written in the code, but generated using Lumen's Localization support.

If you find any languages are missing or incomplete, and you would like to contribute translations, don't hesitate to join the transifex project

Other improvements

• Issue #3533 - Setting up a Twitter application is a lengthy process for new users
  • Clarifications have been added to better guide users over the setup process

platform-client updates

This release is paired with another new release of ushahidi/platform-client , please check the corresponding changelog here

v4.3.0 | Depreciation of endpoint

Breaking changes - Depreciation of endpoint
We have depreciated the GET /media-endpoint (without an image-id) for getting information about all media (images) in a deployment. If you are an open source-user having made any customisations using this endpoint, please double-check and fix this before updating to the latest version. The pull-requests connected to this issue are to be found here:

Platform-API: #3832

Platform-client: ushahidi/platform-client#1409

This release also have a corresponding Platform-client-release. See release-notes for Platform-client for further information about changes there.

Bump version to v4.2.0

Bump version to 4.2.0

There are no specific API changes in this release. See v4.2.0 for the platform-client changes

v4.1.0

v4.1.0

Release v4.0.0 | Lumen

This release is a major upgrade and replaces Kohana with Lumen.

Migration guide

PHP

Ushahidi now requires PHP >= 7.0 - < 7.2

Database config changes

The database configuration vars have been renamed.

Old var	New var
DB_NAME	DB_DATABASE
DB_USER	DB_USERNAME
DB_PASS	DB_PASSWORD
DB_TYPE=MySQLi	DB_CONNECTION=mysql

New Configuration keys

Var	Comments
CACHE_DRIVER	Supported options are file, redis and memcached. Read more about Lumen's cache configuration and options here https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.4/cache

Artisan

bin/ushahidi will be deprecated in future versions. You should use artisan instead.

Command name changes

CLI commands have been renamed. If you had cronjobs set up to run dataproviders, etc you will need to update those

Old command	New command
bin/ushahidi dataprovider incoming	artisan datasource:incoming
bin/ushahidi savedsearch	artisan savedsearch:sync
bin/ushahidi notification queue	artisan notification:queue
bin/ushahidi dataprovider outgoing	artisan datasource:outgoing
bin/ushahidi dataprovider webhook send	artisan webhook:send
bin/ushahidi user create	artisan user:create
bin/ushahidi user delete	artisan user:delete
bin/ushahidi config get	artisan config:get
bin/ushahidi config set	artisan config:set
bin/ushahidi export	artisan export
bin/ushahidi import	artisan import

Filesystem changes

Uploaded files have moved from application/media/upload to storage/app. You should move any existing files to the new location.

If you used a CDN for file storage, you should configure the FILESYSTEM_DRIVER variable in your .env file. Then review config/filesystems.php to find the other config parameters, the old CDN_... params have be renamed.

Old configuration files

Old configuration files in application/config are now obsolete. These are not either located in config/, or configured through environment vars (ie. .env)

Platform Client

To use this version of the platform API, you will need to update your version of the platform-client to use the same release version.