Indico

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*Released on January 12, 2018*

Improvements
^^^^^^^^^^^^

- Add ``author_type`` and ``is_speaker`` fields for persons in the JSON
abstract export
- Add legacy redirect for ``conferenceTimeTable.py``

Bugfixes
^^^^^^^^

- Fix unicode error when searching external users from the "Search
Users" dialog
- Fix missing event management menu/layout when creating a material
package from the event management area
- Fix error when viewing a contribution with co-authors
- Fix sorting of registration form items not working anymore after
moving/disabling some items
- Fix error after updating from 2.0rc1 if there are cached Mako
templates
- Fix error when retrieving an image referenced in an abstract fails
- Fix rendering of time pickers in recent Firefox versions (:issue:`3194`)
- Fix error when trying to use the html serializer with the timetable API
- Fix error when receiving invalid payment events that should be ignored
- Fix last occurrence not being created when cloning events (:issue:`3192`)
- Fix multiple links in the same line being replaced with the first one
when converting abstracts/contributions to PDF (:issue:`2816`)
- Fix PDF generation when there are links with ``&`` in the URL
- Fix incorrect spacing in abstract author/speaker lists (:issue:`3205`)

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*Released on December 8, 2017*

Improvements
^^^^^^^^^^^^

- Allow changing the reloader used by the dev server (:issue:`3150`)

Bugfixes
^^^^^^^^

- Do not show borders above/below the message in registration emails
unless both the header and body blocks are used (:issue:`3151`)
- Roll-back the database transaction when an error occurs.
- Fix rendering of the LaTeX error box (:issue:`3163`)
- Fix "N/A" being displayed in a survey result if 0 is entered in
a number field
- Fix "N/A" not being displayed in a survey result if nothing is
selected in a multi-choice select field
- Fix error when using ``target_*`` placeholders in abstract
notification emails for actions other than "Merged" (:issue:`3171`)
- Show full track title in tooltips on abstract pages
- Show correct review indicators when a reviewer still has to review
an abstract in a different track
- Fix unicode error when searching external users in an LDAP backend

Internal Changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

- Remove ``SCSS_DEBUG_INFO`` config option.

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*Released on November 10, 2017*

Improvements
^^^^^^^^^^^^

- Hide category field in event creation dialog if there are no
subcategories (:issue:`3112`)
- Remove length limit from registration form field captions (:issue:`3119`)
- Use semicolons instead of commas as separator when exporting list
values (such as multi-select registration form fields) to CSV or
Excel (:issue:`3060`)
- Use custom site title in page title (:issue:`3018`)
- Allow manually entering dates in datetime fields (:issue:`3136`)
- Send emails through a celery task. This ensures users do not get
an error if the mail server is temporarily unavailable. Sending an
email is also retried for a while in case of failure. In case of a
persistent failure the email is dumped to the temp directory and
can be re-sent manually using the new ``indico resend_email``
command (:issue:`3121`)
- Reject requests containing NUL bytes in the query string (:issue:`3142`)

Bugfixes
^^^^^^^^

- Do not intercept HTTP exceptions containing a custom response.
When raising such exceptions we do not want the default handling
but rather send the custom response to the client.
- Do not apply margin for empty root category sidebar (:issue:`3116`,
thanks :user:`nop33`)
- Fix alignment of info-grid items on main conference page (:issue:`3126`)
- Properly align the label of the attachment folder title field
- Fix some rare unicode errors during exception handling/logging
- Clarify messages in session block rescheduling dialogs (:issue:`3080`)
- Fix event header bar in IE11 (:issue:`3135`)
- Fix footer on login page (:issue:`3132`)
- Use correct module name for abstract notification emails in the event log
- Remove linebreaks from email subject in paper review notifications
- Fix extra padding in the CFA roles dialog (:issue:`3129`)
- Do not show an extra day in timetable management if an event begins
before a DST change
- Disable caching when retrieving the list of unscheduled contributions
- Process placeholders in the subject when emailing registrants
- Fix Shibboleth login with non-ascii names (:issue:`3143`)

Internal Changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

- Add new ``is_ticket_blocked`` signal that can be used by plugins to
disable ticket downloads for a registration.

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*Released on October 20, 2017*

This is the first release of the 2.0 series, which is an almost complete
rewrite of Indico based on a modern software stack and PostgreSQL.