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May 21, 2020, 4:23am
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Version 2.020.25 was deployed to https://kf.kobotoolbox.org/ on Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 18:20 UTC and to https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info/ on Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 00:02 UTC.
This update brings large, behind-the-scenes changes to KoBoToolbox—such as upgrading KPI to Python 3 and Django 2.2 LTS—as well as many user-facing improvements and bug fixes. Below is a list of changes that likely interests the general KoBo community, followed by other changes that are primarily relevant to more technical audiences. We hope you enjoy this release of KoBoToolbox.
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PR
Description
Related Issues
kpi#2597 Improve autonaming of choices; allow manually setting choice names up to 40 characters in the form builder
kpi#623
kpi#2567 Replace hard-coded limit on displayed map points with adjustable slider
kpi#2549
kpi#2560 Increase limit on displayed map points from 5kto 20k when when filtering by response
kpi#2549
kpi#2657 Allow editors to access “Sharing” in the settings panel; restrict “Media” to the owner
kpi#2647
kpi#2530 Allow public sharing to be disabled on forms attached to a collection; hide denied permissions from API output; allow assignment of (all) denied permissions to AnonymousUser
kpi#2528 , kpi#2529
kpi#2400 Add support for Enketo’s single-submission “once” option
kpi#2398
kpi#2579 Removed red warning when group title field is empty
kpi#2526
kpi#2592 Export forms as XLSX instead of XLS; use XlsxWriter instead of xlwt in to_xls_io()
kpi#2591
kpi#2566 Added print button to submission view
kpi#2551 , kpi#2565
kpi#2553 Add clickable link in table view for all media type files in form (images, audio, video)
kpi#2523
kpi#2472 Allow users with Edit Form and View Submissions permissions to add/edit/delete REST Services
kpi#2461
kpi#2454 Show success/pending/failed counts for REST Services in columns instead of tooltips
kpi#2452
kpi#2429 Add option to enable auditing in form builder settings
kpi#2187
kpi#2426 Display API token in settings
kpi#2418
PR
Description
Related Issues
kobocat#617 Disable the list views of users and public forms
kobocat#616 , kobocat#117
kobocat#592 Correctly handle identically-named form media files in different projects within the same user account; remove deleted media files from S3 storage
kobocat#267 , kobocat#584
kpi#2683 Fix app crashing when trying to view the map for a project without any geographic questions
kpi#2670 kpi#2682
kpi#2680 Optimize queries; make the server respond more quickly
kpi#2679 , kpi#2671
kpi#2636 Stop incorrect button hints from appearing in the form builder
kpi#2664 Remove duplicate error notification when permissions assignment fails
kpi#2527
kpi#2660 Fix white-screen crash caused by race condition when trying to load permissions config before the app
kpi#2638 Added EXIF orientation fix for viewing photo submissions
kpi#2241
kpi#2512 Allow assets to be deleted even if they have active REST Services
kpi#2497
kpi#2616 Added quotes around src= in copy paste for ‘Embeddable web for code’
kpi#2614
kpi#2610 Fixed bug where adding a new translation would add an extra null translation
kpi#2604
kpi#2573 Avoid crash in auto report
kpi#2562
kpi#2596 Protect hook endpoints against SSRF attacks
kobocat#600 Protect form media endpoints against SSRF attacks
kpi#2602 Fix group labels not saving
kpi#2526
kpi#2568 Honor form_title from XLSForm settings when importing
kpi#2344
kpi#2569 Ignore map_style if selectedQuestion is not ‘geopoint’
kpi#2558
kpi#2511 , kobocat#599 Invalidate sessions on password change; remove change password button from KoBoCAT to avoid hash mismatches with KPI
kpi#2258 , kpi#2595
kpi#2583 Updated help bubble URL (use HTTPS)
kpi#2582
kpi#2447 Support API access to private-storage endpoints, e.g. exported data: allow Token, Basic authentication classes with django-private-storage
kpi#2338
kpi#2571 Allow users to see AnonymousUser permissions whatever their permissions
kpi#2575 Make search work reliably by parsing queries into ORM filters instead of using Whoosh
kpi#2514
kpi#2565 Fix printing single submission (CSS backdrop issue)
kpi#2551
kpi#2493 Fix moving library item into collection
kpi#2492
kpi#2533 Show a helpful message when a map is requested for a form that has a geographic question but no responses to that question
kpi#2173
kpi#2516 When assigning permissions in bulk, make sure KoBoCAT permissions are synchronized correctly
kpi#2481 Authenticated users cannot access publicly shared data without specific permissions
kpi#2480
kpi#2483 Add close/back button in settings to match the rest of the UI
kpi#2479
kpi#2457 Display REST Services custom wrapper errors better
kpi#2456
kpi#2477 Don’t show delete option for non-owners (they couldn’t use it anyway)
kpi#2466
kpi#2505 Avoid losing AnonymousUser permissions when editing some user permissions
kpi#2502
kpi#2491 Fix bulk delete chevron icon
kpi#2451 Fix some UI crashes by adding safety check for id param
kpi#2441 Fix issue where with the form builder where questions dragged into group are not in the group after saving
kpi#2380
kpi#2458 Fix copy team permissions
kpi#2455 , kpi#2453
kpi#2463 Toggle token field btw. password and text
kpi#2406 Bugfix: disaggregating map results by nested groups questions
kpi#1476
kpi#2403 Limit project name to 255 characters
kpi#2345
kpi#2396 Fix version list overlapping other content when a form has many versions
kpi#2342
kobocat#603 Make access to notes follow permissions of their associated submissions
kobocat#601
kobocat#613 Use 150K iterations when hasing passwords to match Django 2.2
kobocat#612
kobocat#589 Removed duplicate ‘media_file=’ argument when building media urls
kobocat#586 , kobocat#588 , kobocat#590
kobocat#583 Do not allow non-granted users to get edit data link
kobocat#561 Remove Legacy Rest Services from KoBoCAT completely
kobocat#560 , kobocat#557 , tasks#310
kobocat#541 Add small, medium, and large image URLs to submission JSON; includes management command to update old submissions
kobocat#576 Trivially change Legacy Rest Services verbiage
kobocat#575 Do not show KPI REST Services in KoBoCAT legacy list
kobocat#574 Disable adding KoBoCAT Legacy Rest Services (now handled by KPI)
kobocat#573 Fix 500 error when trying to import ZIP of submissions to inactive form
kobocat#571
kobocat#562 Support bulk deletion of submissions in the API
kpi#2321
PR
Description
Related Issues
kpi#2710 Increase request body & file upload max. sizes to 10 MB (KPI only; does not affect submissions)
kpi#2709
kpi#2705 Fix KoBoCAT user and digest sync when using separate databases
kpi#2704
kpi#2699 Fix check for anonymous permissions when an authenticated user has no explicitly-assigned permissions
kpi#2698
kpi#2694 Fix memory leak when using management command populate_kc_xform_kpi_asset_uid
kpi#2644 , kobocat#609 Add note about shared-database branch to README
kpi#2632 Migrate text-based JSON fields without locking tables
kpi#2603 Fix S3 / private storage issues
kpi#2574 , kobocat#596 Support special characters in MongoDB and Redis password
kobo-install#72
kpi#2545 Add checks for two-database upgrade problems
kpi#2543
kpi#2535 Add KPI identifier to service_health response so that health checkers can verify that KPI is responding (not KoBoCAT or some other service)
kpi#2508 Django 2 Upgrade (part 4). Upgrade to Django 2.2 LTS
kpi#2489 , kpi#2490
kpi#2507 Django 2 Upgrade (part 3): Force explicitly “on_delete” for foreign keys.
kpi#2504 Django 2 Upgrade (part 2): Drop Python 2 support
kpi#2489
kpi#2503 Django 2 Upgrade (part 1): Drop Python2 support __future__ imports removal.
kpi#2460 Python 3 support
kpi#2301 , kpi#2232
kpi#2499 Preserve anonymous perms in sync_kobocat_xforms
kpi#2498
kobocat#531 Database split: KoBoCAT and KPI use separate Postgres databases
kobo-docker#230
kobocat#570 Check for stuck exports only once every 6 hours
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does this up-gradation make any change in existing forms which are currently using for data collection?
Hi @ahsanmani ,
Could you please be more specific so that we could help you provide an appropriate response. Generally speaking, this upgrade should not affect your survey project in a negative way which distorts your data.
Have a great day!
I shall start data collection for the first time using kobo in 3 forms from next morning, so I am just afraid whether there will be any problem in that data collection as there will be an up-gradation.
As you replied, “Generally speaking, this upgrade should not affect your survey project in a negative way which distorts your data.”, I think I got my answer. Thank you.
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