Changes
Allows storage backend for Person headshots to be configured via COUNCILMATIC_HEADSHOT_STORAGE_BACKEND setting.
Release date: 07-15-2024
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Adds councilmatic_bio attribute to Person model.
Release date: 04-05-2023
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Loosens request dependency.
Release date: 02-09-2023
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Version 3.0 represents a major, backwards incompatible release. It drops support
for Python < 3.6, upgrades Django to 3.2 (LTS), and removes the pysolr dependency
so downstream instances can choose their own search engine.
A future release in this series will remove or greatly simplify templates, such that downstream instances must define their own. View code might also be affected.
Release date: 12-20-2022
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Return a date object from BillAction.date_dt and Bill.last_action_date.
Downstream code that references these attributes may need to be updated, e.g.,
if the code expects a date time object.
Release date: 9-15-2020
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Patch XSS vulnerability in search results view.
Release date: 8-20-2020
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Updates refresh_pic to refresh bill versions, as well as bill documents.
Release date: 7-9-2020
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Updates refresh_pic logic to remove documents related to recently updated bills and events, as well as documents related to upcoming events.
Release date: 6-2-2020
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Adds local_start_time property to Councilmatic Event, and uses that start time to group events for display.
Release date: 4-14-2020
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Removes the Councilmatic BillDocument model and updates convert_attachment_text to deal with the new data structure, as well as some subtler request/conversion failures.
Updates all slug fields to SlugFields.
Adds a current_memberships method to Person.
Adds a last_action_date attribute to Bills and updates signals to populate it on bill and event save.
Release date: 3-31-2020
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2.5.0 constitutes a major, backwards incompatible release that factors custom Django models and the import_data management command out of django-councilmatic. Instead, django-councilmatic>=2.5.0 extends the Django implementation of the Open Civic Data standard, python-opencivicdata, and updates application code throughout to accomodate the model changes. Approaches for further extension of the base models are outlined in the README.
Release date: 7-23-2019
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Refactors the data_integrity management script by adding count_councilmatic_bills – an easy-to-override helper function.
Release date: 3-1-2019
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Adds a restict_view boolean field to the Bill model, and updates import_data to populate this field.
Release date: 2-8-2019
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Modifies the convert_rtf management command (used by NYC Councilmatic): now, the script converts by default the most recently updated bills in the Councilmatic database (updated_at), not the most recently updated bills in the OCD database (ocd_updated_at).
Release date: 2-1-2019
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Modifies import_data, so that the script removes the contents of the downloads directory at the end of every import. It does this by default; users have the option to call the command with --keep_downloads.
Fixes a bug in import_data: now, the import considers all bills related to an event agenda item, not just the first one.
Release date: 1-29-2019
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Removes the restrict_view field (reverts changes in 0.10.9).
Release date: 10-17-2018
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Properly logs the results of refresh_pic.
Release date: 10-16-2018
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Adds a custom script that determines if bill and event documents have been modified and, if so, deletes them from DataMade's S3 bucket councilmatic-document-cache. Running this script requires including an AWS_KEY and AWS_SECRET in the settings file.
Adds a restict_view boolean field to the Bill model, and updates import_data to populate this field.
Release date: 10-16-2018
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Captures extras for Membership model.
Release date: 10-8-2018
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Adds an ExactHighlighter class, which enables highlighting multi-word strings via Haystack.
Adds "nofollow" attribute to Legistar links to improve search rankings.
Release date: 9-7-2018
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Fixes a bug in the search functionality (wherein the order_by param was not preserved in the query string).
Release date: 8-2-2018
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Passes GOOGLE_API_KEY into relevant templates. This change requires adding the new variable to settings_deployment.py.
Release date: 7-30-2018
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Refactors template and view logic for sorting search results by date, title, and relevance.
Updates import_data to grab the plain_text for EventAgendaItems.
Bug fix: Removes full_text from the Solr bill_text template. (Instances of Councilmatic need to rebuild_index to benefit from this change.)
Release date: 7-24-2018
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Breaks search bar into its own partial for downstream override.
Release date: 5-31-2018
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Replaces Event.guid field with generic Event.extras field, which accepts an object containing arbitrary keys and values for downstream customizations.
Release date: 5-7-2018
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Fixes bug in EventMedia init method.
Release date: 5-2-2018
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Adds support for multiple event media links, by introducing an EventMedia
model, and removing media_url from the Event model.
Release date: 4-13-2018
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Adds a management command (convert_attachment_text) that converts bill attachments into plain text. LA Metro Councilmatic uses this script.
Release date: 4-9-2018
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Increases the chunk size within migration number 0038 to increase processing time.
Release date: 4-3-2018
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Adds two migrations that unmangle NYC and Chicago Councilmatic bill identifiers and slugs, specifically: adds leading zeroes, and removes unwanted space.
Release date: 4-3-2018
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Changes the path to downloads in import_data: this insures that downloaded data resides in Councilmatic instances, rather than django-councilmatic. This reverts a change in the 0.9.0 release.
Release date: 3-22-2018
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Makes consistent the legislative_session_id on the bill model with other data sources (e.g., OCD legislative identifier). This fixes a bug in the previous release.
Release date: 3-19-2018
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Allows for data from multiple jurisdictions by replacing JURISDICTION_ID setting with JURISDICTION_IDS, an array of OCD API jurisdiction IDs.
Adds Jurisdiction model.
Returns only unique identifiers from alternative_identifiers template filter.
Release date: 3-19-2018
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Substitutes instances of session.get with _get_response - a custom function that sets a timeout of 60 seconds on HTTP requests and raises an error for bad responses.
Pin django-adv-cache-tag to version 1.1.0.
Release date: 2-27-2018
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Includes a new management command that tests for agreement between the Councilmatic database and Solr index.
Makes amendments to import_data:
- Adds
html_textto bills when it exists. - Refactors code redundancies for readability.
Release date: 2-16-2018
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Includes a new management command that converts bill text from RTF to HTML.
Makes amendments to import_data:
- Generates a
last_action_datefor bills. - Imports
rtf_textrather thanocr_full_text. - Removes the integration of
send_notificationsandupdate_indexat the end of a data import. (Assumes that the Councilmatic app calls these commands separately in a cronjob.)
Responsive table for legislation types on About page.
Release date: 1-31-2018
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Speeds up RSS feed load by removing unneeded list evaluations and minimizing object size.
Release date: 12-11-2017
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Raises an error on the legislation search page when Councilmatic cannot connect to Solr.
Release date: 12-07-2017
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Adds a guid field in the Event model, and imports it when available in the OCD API.
Release date: 11-28-2017
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Adds a client for improved Sentry logging when import_data fails or rolls back a transaction.
Release date: 11-13-2017
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Amends import_data codebase: imports shape data, only when the response from the OCD API returns an 'ok' status code.
Release date: 11-7-2017
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Adds an updated_at field to the EventDocument model. This field facilitates the addition of labels, which may indicate changes to upcoming events (e.g., the use of coded labels in LA Metro).
Add a Subject model and a one-to-many relation between Bill and Subject (i.e., one bill can have many subjects/topics). See the following examples:
Add a RelatedBill model. This facilitates the creation of relations among bills, if the Legistar admins chose to create those, as with LA Metro:
Better management of AgendaItems to prevent duplicates: in this relese, import_data deletes old agenda items, before importing new ones.
Enforce a rollback in the event of an IntegrityError.
See commit history for prior changes.
Release date: 11-6-2017