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• June 19, 2025: Resolved (commit 42e6fcd) issue 949 and issue 971.
• June 18, 2025: Resolved (commit 97fc6e65) issue 338 and (commit 97fc6e6) issue 958.
• June 17, 2025: Resolved (commit 087c707) issue 962, (commit e506f92) issue 957, and (commit a070a96) issue 968; fixed some broken tests.
• June 16: 2025: Commented out logic in workbench to enable check for updates introduced in commit fc74be4be (needs more testing). Fixed (commit 25aea6f) behavior of delete_zip_archive_after_extraction config setting so it doesn't delete local .zip archives on --check.
• June 11, 2025: Resolved (commit b852280) issue 893 and (commit fc74be4) issue 338.
• June 3, 2025: Resolved (commit 2595490) issue 953.
• May 31, 2025: Resolved (commit 8b59144) issue 952.
• May 29, 2025: Resolved (commit e89ebe6) issue 951.
• May 19, 2025: Resolved (commit f44916c) issue 948.
• May 9, 2025: Merged PR 922 (refactor field handler classes) and PR 930 (adds a linked data field type). Thanks very much @whikloj!
• May 8, 2025: Additional work on issue 895 (commit 5977be0): added ability to configure a subset of input CSV for add_media tasks.
• May 5, 2025: Resolved (commit b09b116) issue 946 (Thanks @alxp!); merged (commit e02528d) PR 940. Thanks @noahwsmith!
• May 1, 2025: Resolved (commit 4c44e30) issue 714.
• April 30, 2025: Resolved (commit 89698d0) issue 945.
• April 27, 2025: Merged (commit df1f263) in changes to introduce add_alt_text and update_alt_text tasks.
• April 24, 2025: (Commit 71ba537) added show_percentage_of_csv_input_processed setting to add_media tasks.
• April 23, 2025: Merged (commit b7b009a) PR 942 that adds the ability to export multiple media files in export_csv and get_data_from_view tasks. Thanks @alxp!
• April 8, 2025: Merged (commit 7d8be02) fix for issue 937 (thanks @alxp!).
• April 3, 2025: Merged (commit e65062c) fix for issue 928 (thanks @mitchmac and @dara2!); resolved (commit e65062c) issue 935.
• March 28, 2025: Resolved (commit 189b025) issue 932.
• March 25, 2025: Resolved (commit e5b5576) issue 918 and (commit 561dfc3) issue 919. Thanks @whikloj!
• March 4, 2025: Resolved (commit 11ab1e) issue 915.
• February 28, 2025: Resolved (commit 07b54b3) issue 909.
• February 24, 2025: Resolved (commit aecb50e) issue 894 and (comit 73bd6ba) issue 902.
• February 23, 2025: Resolved (commit 8f7f03d) issue 899.
• February 18, 2025: Resolved (commit 859fc16) issue 896, (commit 0eb524c) issue 900, and (commit 850f7fd) issue 901.
• February 13, 2025: Resolved (commit 8de8951) issue 886 and (commit 9da97fb) issue 877.
• February 7, 2025: Resolved (commit cb25ee9) issue 872 and issue 878.
• February 3, 2025: Resolved (commit 57d9de1) issue 883 and (commit 95eaef3) issue 884.
• January 30, 2025: Merged in fix for issue 882. Thanks Born-Digital!
• January 16, 2025: Resolved (commit 3c58532) issue 747. Thank you @joecorall!
• January 12, 2025: Resolved (commit 49853cb) issue 875.
• January 9, 2025: Resolved (commit 8fb1290) issue 873.
• January 1, 2025: Resolved (commit f8dce4c) issue 799.

Documentation

• June 20, 2025: Added ""Deferring Solr indexing" to the "Reducing Workbench's impact on Drupal" page; added mention of the new check for whether Workbench is up to date to the "Optimizing your use of Workbench" page.
• June 19, 2025: Updated the "Creating paged, compound, and collection content" page to update socs on using the paged_content_ignore_files config setting.
• June 18, 2025: Updated the "Configuration" page to add the check_for_workbench_updates config setting.
• June 16, 2025: Updated docs on the delete_zip_archive_after_extraction config setting to clarify that it applies only to remote .zip archive files, not local ones.
• June 12, 2025: Added "Printing all configuration values" section to the docs. Updated the "Troubleshooting" page to suggest deferring indexing to speed up create and update tasks.
• June 11, 2025: Updated the "The CSV ID to node ID map" page to add a section on using the new csv_id_to_node_id_map_allowed_hosts config setting.
• June 9, 2025: Updated the "Rolling back nodes and media" page to add a section on rolling back a subset of the nodes identified in the rollback.csv file.
• June 4, 2025: Updated the "Configuration" page to add the recovery_mode_starting_from_node_id config setting.
• June 3, 2025: Updated "Generating CSV files" to include changes made in resolving issue 953.
• May 6, 2025: Added new "Using Workbench within a Docker container" docs.
• May 1, 2025: Added new "Automatically populating the "Viewer override" field" page; broke some config settings into a new "Input CSV content templating settings" section.
• April 27, 2025: Updated "Adding alt text to images" and associated pages to document the new add_alt_text and update_alt_text tasks.
• April 24, 2025: Updated "Configuration" entry for the show_percentage_of_csv_input_processed config setting.
• April 23, 2025: Updated Generating CSV Files to reflect new functionality around exporting media files.
• April 8, 2025: Merged section into "Installation" on preferred way to install Islandora Workbench on macOS. Thanks @alxp! Also clarified use of the media_types_override and media_type_by_media_use config settings in the "Configuring media types" and "Adding multiple media" pages.
• April 3, 2025: Added entry to the "Configuration" page for the new viewer_override_fieldname config setting.
• April 1, 2025: Replaced outdated "field_display_hints" with "field_viewer_override".
• March 4, 2025: Clarified where the path_to_python and path_to_workbench_script config settings go - the config file for the primary task. Thanks for the suggestion @edlington!
• March 3, 2025: Fixed a typo on the "Configuration" page.
• March 1, 2025: Merged in fixes to docs for get_islandora_7_content.py by @whikloj. Thanks!
• February 28, 2025: Added "The remove_password_from_config_file configuration setting".
• February 27, 2025: Added "Optimizing your use of Workbench".
• February 24, 2025: Updated docs on "Deleting nodes".
• February 23, 2025: Updated docs on "Configuration" to include new show_percentage_of_csv_input_processed setting.
• February 18, 2025: Updated docs on "Processing specific CSV rows"; updated "Reducing Workbench's impact on Drupal" and the HTTP configuration settings.
• February 16, 2025: Updated docs on using Paragraph fields in create_terms and update_terms tasks. Thanks @dara2!
• February 15, 2025: Added documentation on ingesting large files, mainly pointing to Islandora's documentation on this topic; updated "Using CSV row ranges" to clarify that csv_start_row and csv_stop_row only apply to create and update tasks.
• February 14, 2025: Moved change log entries up to the end of 2024 into their own page.
• February 10, 2025: Added "Recovering from interrupted create tasks" and updated associated other pages; moved "The CSV ID to node ID map" from "Generating CSV Files" into its own page.
• February 7, 2025: Fixed the broken "Note" on the section on using Paragraph fields.
• February 3, 2025: Added completion_message to the "Miscellaneous" section of the "Configuration settings" list.
• January 22, 2025: Updated "Requirements and installation" to document preferred way of installing libraries used by Workbench (issue 879).
• January 16, 2025: Updated "Requirements and installation" and "Development guide" to reflect changes introduced in merge request 849 (adding CI integration tests). Removed the Roadmap since it was out of date.
• January 6, 2025: Updated docs on "Using the CSV ID to node ID map".
• January 6, 2025: Updated docs on "Checking if nodes already exist".
• January 1, 2025: Updated docs on "Rolling back nodes and media" to include new settings added in issue 868.