Archivematica 1.11 and Storage Service 0.16 release notes

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March ## 2020

Supported environments

Please see the installation instructions.

Archivematica 1.11 and Storage Service 0.16 are supported for production use in the following environments:

• Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit Server Edition
• Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit Server Edition
• CentOS 7 64-bit

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

Added

PREMIS Event import

This feature allows the import of PREMIS events which took place prior to processing in Archivematica. The PREMIS events are written in an xml format (see sample data) and placed in the metadata folder of a transfer. The PREMIS events are then written to the AIP METS file.

This work was sponsored by Piql and the Norwegian Health Archives. Thank you!

• Documentation: link
• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/710

S3 as a transfer source

This allows an Amazon S3 space to be used as a transfer source location. This feature is a community PR from Wellcome Collection. Thank you!

• Documentation: link
• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/975

Easier access to AIP METS

This feature add a "View METS" button in the user interface when viewing an AIP in Archival Storage. The METS file is then downloaded to your desktop for you viewing pleasure.

• Documentation: link
• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/644

Changed

Performance and monitoring improvements

This is a collection of issues fixed that improve performance for processing at scale, and also enable performance monitoring through external applications such as Prometheus and Grafana.

These updates have been sponsored by Piql and the Norwegian Health Archives. Thank you!

• Documentation: link
• Issues:
  • Commonly used database tables don't have indexes: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/907
  • MCPServer should reuse database connections: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/913
  • Archivematica does not output metrics to analyze its performance: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/906
  • MCPService must process all transfer packages sent to it at once: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/911
  • Some jobs run even when disabled: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/866
  • "Check transfer directory for objects" executed multiple times: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/782
  • index_aip crashes elasticsearch for large transfers: https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/issues/1199

Improvements for full disks

Managing workflows when various spaces on the disk fill up is a recognized pain point for Archivematica users. This project makes three overall changes to storage space reporting in Archivematica and the Storage Service in an effort to mitigate these issues:

• Change the processing storage usage page to clarify storage paths/locations and improve usability:
• Improve the transfer source location and AIP storage location pages to clarify storage paths/locations and improve usability
• Change Storage Service functionality to support the above changes.

Allow users to choose whether to receive fail report emails

Users can now be configured to either receive fail report emails or not (previously all users received the emails). This is a community contribution from Hillel Arnold at Rockefeller Archive Center- thank you!

• Documentation: link
• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/709

Removed

As discussed on the community forum the quarantine micro-service has been removed from Archivematica in this release.

• Issue: https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/issues/598
• ADR: https://github.com/archivematica/archivematica-architectural-decisions/blob/master/0008-remove-quarantine.md

Fixed

List bugfixes with a link to the Github issue.

• Bugfix 1: link
• Bugfix 2: link. Sponsored by someone!
• Bugfix 3: link

Upgraded tools and dependencies

• Update to PRONOM v.95 https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/791

End of life dependencies

Python 2 has reached end of life. The Archivematica delivery team along with a number of community contributors has been working on upgrading this dependency. This release merges all Python 3 code that was ready in advance of the release, while still supporting Python 2. Components which have been upgraded and/or tested using Python 3 include:

• Dashboard: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/810
• Storage Service: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/806 Note We were not able to test some storage spaces, including Sword2, LOCKSS-o-matic and DSpace.
• amclient: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/817
• Automation tools: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/815
• Fixity: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/814
• am/compose: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/804
• Fido: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/847

We will continue to work toward full Python 3 use in upcoming releases.