farmOS/CHANGELOG.md

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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Changed

Security

2.0.0-beta4 2022-04-13

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Changed

Fixed

Security

2.0.0-beta3 2022-03-03

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Fixed

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2.0.0-beta2 2022-01-19

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2.0.0-beta1 2022-01-01

farmOS 2.x is a complete rewrite of farmOS for Drupal 9. This brings many improvements, modernizations, and new features. The following is a brief summary of notable changes from the 1.x branch of farmOS (aka 7.x-1.x for Drupal 7).

Detailed release notes will be included in this file with each new release moving forward.

Notable changes from farmOS 1.x

  • Data model
    • Documented data model
    • Areas are now types of Assets
    • New Asset types: Land, Structure, Water, Material, Seed
    • Planting Assets are renamed to Plant
    • New Log types: Lab test (merged Soil and Water tests)
    • Inventory tracking for all Asset types
    • Improved Asset location logic, including the ability to designate Assets as "fixed" (with intrinsic geometry) and/or "locations" (allowing other Assets to be moved to them)
    • Improved Group membership logic, including member inheritence of group location
    • Support for Quantity types
    • Revisions for tracking changes to records
    • Improved "Data streams" framework for sensors and other time-series data collection
    • ID tags on all Asset types
    • Flags can be limited by record type
  • User interface/experience (UI/UX)
    • Improved location hierarchy drag-and-drop editor, including ability to edit sub-hierarchies
    • Improved KML/KMZ importer for bulk Land Asset creation
    • Geocoding of GeoJSON and GPX files (in addition to KML/KMZ) on individual Assets and Logs
    • Farm settings UI with simplified module installer
    • Gin admin theme
    • Improved mobile support
  • APIs, libraries, and developer experience (DX)
  • Hosting
    • PostgreSQL database support (alongside MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite3)
    • Automated migration from 1.x to 2.x
    • Improved performance with lazy-loading code and caching options
    • Improved support for translation/localization (l10n)
  • Security
    • Support from the Drupal Security Team
    • Drupal 9 will be supported (with security updates) until November 2023.
    • Drupal 10 will be released mid-2022. farmOS will be prepared to update as soon as possible. This process will be trivial compared to the upgrade from Drupal 7, which required a complete refactor of the codebase. By comparison, updating from Drupal 9 to 10 will simply involve updating deprecated code.