Release Announcement
Specify 7.8.4 is not compatible with Specify 6.8.0; it requires databases to be updated to Specify 6.8.01 or higher. Instructions on changing the Specify 6 version that Specify 7 uses is available here.
7.8.4 (18 January 2023)
Added
- A new preference has been added allowing users to add children to synonymized parents as well as synonymizing nodes with children (#751 – Instructions – Requested by FWRI, CSIRO, AAFC, RBGE, Ville de Genève, and more)
- Added a Specify crash report visualizer. The tool is mostly for internal use, but can be helpful for system administrators. See #2829 for more information
Changed
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500 error occurredmessages have been replaced by useful error dialogs (#108, #2668 – Requested by many institutions) - Error responses from the backend have been improved dramatically for environments not using debug mode. Errors from MySQL, Django, and other back-end components will now be displayed outside of debug mode showing the ExceptionType, message, and StackTrace in a format that can assist on-site IT and collection administrators in discovering and solving configuration problems. - Introduced a new Specify favicon and icons for a variety of devices (#2752)
- Small beauty improvements have been made, adding shadows and lighter borders to fields throughout Specify (#2773)
- The Delete button has been moved to the Data Set Metadata menu in the WorkBench (#2755)
- Languages that have incomplete localization can be selected after a warning for use in Specify (#2790)
- When no attachment server is present, you can no longer attempt to upload files (#2585 - Reported by The University of Michigan)
- Interactions table names are now dynamic (#2420 – Requested by RBGE)
- Specify now ignores synonymized nodes when checking the tree structure (#2707 – Reported by The University of Michigan)
Fixed
- Queries exported to CSV now use the field label as a heading rather than the field’s string ID (#1575 – Reported by FWRI, CSIRO, RBGE, and many more)
- Exporting a query on a record set now is scoped to the record set query results (#2761 – Reported by CSIRO)
- The print icon now matches other button’s appearance in the GeoMap viewer (#2764)
- Available collections are now only fetched once rather than twice (#2770)
- Separator icons now display correctly on the forms (#2074)
The full changelog is available on GitHub.
For source code go to the GitHub Specify 7 repository.
For more information about Specify 7, or about this release, see https://www.specifysoftware.org/products/specify-7/, or email support@specifysoftware.org.