Archivematica 1.13.0 and Storage Service 0.18.0 release notes

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Environments

Please see the installation instructions.

Archivematica 1.13.0 and Storage Service 0.18.0 have been tested in the following environments:

Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit Server Edition
CentOS 7 64-bit

Please note that we've dropped support for Ubuntu Linux 16.04 since it reached the end of its five-year LTS window on April 30th 2021. We're planning to add support for Ubuntu 20.04 in the short term.

For development purposes, most of our developers prefer to use Docker containers. These and all above environments are linked from the installation instructions above.

Added

Disableable virus scanning

Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/869

Virus scanning can now be disabled from the processing configuration.

This change was contributed by Bodleian Library. Thank you!

Purge management command

Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/1239

A new management command has been added to provide a mechanism to remove old processing data from the system filling up the application database and search indices.

Strong password validation

Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/1332

Archivematica and the Storage Service can now require strong passwords for user accounts. Prompts are given when creating a new user if the password doesn't meet the requirements.

This feature was sponsored by the City of Winnipeg Archives. Thank you!

Changed

Python 3

Issues: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A1.13.0+label%3A%22%3Asnake%3A%C2%B3+Python+3%22

All Archivematica components are now running on Python 3.6.

Archivematica Storage Service now uses MySQL by default

Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/952

MySQL is now the default database in Archivematica Storage Service. SQLite is still supported but we encourage users to migrate. We have documented the process: Migrating data from SQLite to MySQL.

Allow replicated AIPs to be packaged in a different format from the original

Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/1440

By using an offline replica storage space it is now possible to replicate AIPs in a different packaging format than the original AIP (helpful in use cases such as offline tape storage, etc).

This change was sponsored by Norwegian Health Archives. Thank you!

Tasks will open in one tab only

Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/85

Now instead of opening multiple tabs every time a user clicks on a task gear, they will all open in one new tab.