1.7 Highlights ★

New and fixed in 1.7.0 (June 2026) and 1.7.1 (August 2026).

Table of Contents

1. New features
   1. Updated admin interface
   2. Tab based navigation
   3. Plus button
   4. Archiver role expanded
   5. Header and footer partials
   6. Clone templates from URL
   7. Streamed downloads
   8. Enhanced statistics
   9. Validation improvements
   10. Security scanning
2. Fixes
   1. 1.7.1
   2. 1.7.0
3. Major upgrades
4. Deprecated

New features

Updated admin interface

You can now assign users directly from an archive view:

And assign archives directly from a user view:

Tab based navigation

Plus button

New items are created with the plus button on the bottom right side of the page.

Archiver role expanded

• See all users and all companies
• Manage any archive
• Delete a company

Header and footer partials

A Ruby view can now render the header and footer fields defined in XML with render 'header' and render 'footer'.

Clone templates from URL

Clone templates directly from a URL, in addition to the git server at maler.kdrs.no.

Streamed downloads

Downloads of LOBs and zip files are now streamed, reducing memory usage and improving performance for large files. Download checkboxes are now checked by default.

Enhanced statistics

• Grouped by activity type (view/download)
• Period selector: 1 month, 3 months, 1 year, all time

Validation improvements

• Validations show the path to the file with the error
• Detects foreign keys without a parent record

Security scanning

Added bundler-audit as a security scanner for dependencies.

Fixes

1.7.1

• db: upgrade could stop on db:migrate
• db: leftover logo field cleaned up
• user grants: archives sorted by name
• ui: forms and tables adapt when the window is narrow
• ui: less wrapping in grants pages
• ui: user form radio buttons adjusted
• ui: shorter footer text to fit narrow windows
• ui: login and tools adapt when the window is narrow
• ui: new template button moved to the blue button bottom right
• ui: wider catalog settings dialog
• lib: Puma webserver 6.x to 7.x
• lib: local Tomcat CAS server 9.0.117 to 9.0.120

1.7.0

• security: fix for the archiver role
• security: renaming a company in the cloud now requires admin
• security: user catalog update was allowed when LOCAL_LOGIN=false
• statistics: view was not scoped to the current archive
• lobs: MIME type detection was not running for Solr LOBs
• templates: crash when the template manager was loaded concurrently
• user grants: full name and email are shown instead of company name, and the list is sorted
• ui: redirect loop when the redirected page also had an error
• ui: print and download buttons are now translated
• db: MySQL tables are converted from utf8mb3 to utf8mb4
• xml: duplicate tag detection
• xml: the row tag with value max will fetch the maximum number of rows (currently 10.000)

Major upgrades

Component	From	To
Rails	6.1.7.10	8.0.2
Ruby	3.2.2	3.3.7
Solr	8	9
DBPTK	2	3

Deprecated

• The customview tag is deprecated. Use rubyview instead.
• The logo feature has been removed. We are considering built in logos.
• Edit mode deprecated