Version 4.2.0
GeoNetwork 4.2.0 release is a major release.
Migration instructions
Due to H2 database major update, when migrating from a previous version drop the following database caches:
- JS/CSS cache database in \$DATA_DIR/wro4j-cache.mv.db
- Formatter cache database in \$DATA_DIR/data/resources/htmlcache/formatter-cache/info-store.mv.db
If using H2 as the main database consider migrating to an external database (see Configuring the database) or read H2 migration guide and migrate the database to version 2 format.
Then start the application.
If using GeoNetwork 4.2.0 with an H2 version 1 database, the following error will be reported by H2 driver:
List of changes
Major changes:
- Library updates including the move to H2 version 2 (not compatible with H2 version 1)
- Search / Multilingual support
- Search / Display results as table
- Search / Associated resources can now be part of the search response API
- Record view / Improved navigation
- Record view / Dataset citation formatter
- Toolbar / Add menu to switch portals
- Editing / Define preferred template and group to easily create new records
- Editing / Database search and replace
- Editing / Batch editing examples and copy/paste facilities
- Editing / Use directories for ISO19115-3 records Managing directories
- Editing / Easily register service in Spatineo monitor for ISO19115-3
- INSPIRE / Configure API endpoint and gateway URL
- Admin / Languages / Easily remove unneeded languages to keep admin form as simple as possible
- Admin / Harvesting / Order options according to processing to better understand the harvesting steps
- Admin / Harvesting / JSON file support
- Admin / Thesaurus / Improved form and add support for description
- Admin / Link analysis / Filter by HTTP status. Those status gives more details, a link could be valid with an authorization required status.
and more ... see 4.2.0 issues and pull requests for full details.