v2.10.0

This is a new version, with a very cool new feature: data collection!

PYBOSSA now can be used as a tool for gathering data from volunteers: i.e. filling surveys, answering questions regarding specific studies, and most importantly saving as a task run files of any type: PDFs, images, videos, audios, etc.

This new feature allows you to create your own specific data capturing tool for your next citizen science or crowdsourcing project! For example, you can create a project where users can send you geololized photos taken with their phones. Or you could record the signing of birds in the wild saving as well the latitude and longitude so other volunteers could help you to identify them.

The documentation as usual in https://docs.pybossa.com

v2.9.5

This new version allows users to access their own data, even when they mark their profiles as restricted. v2.9.4 was not allowing them to see their own data, and this now fixes it. As soon as a user marks his/her profile as restricted, only he/she will be able to access it.

v2.9.4

This new version fixes minor issues regarding GDPR:

• It checks if the user has created projects and if the answer is yes, it exports them when the user requests to export his/her data.
• It checks if the user has created taskruns and if the answer is yes, it exports them when the user requests to export his/her data.
• If a user request to delete his/her account, the PYBOSSA server checks if the server has MAILCHIMP enabled for deleting it, otherwise it skips this check.

v2.9.3 aka GDPR compliant

We've just released a new version of PYBOSSA with several features, but more specifically we've made it GDPR compliant. The new version adds the following:

• Users can now delete their accounts directly from their own profiles.
• Users can now download all their personal data, projects and contributions in ZIP files.
• Users can now restrict the processing of their data.
• Anonymous contributions are pseudoanonymize faking the real IP of where that answer is coming from.

For more information, please go to https://docs.pybossa.com/gdpr/ and see the specifics and how you can upgrade your PYBOSSA server.

We strongly recommend you to upgrade to v2.9.3 before the 25 of May, as the GDPR stats that day! Enjoy!!

v2.9.2

This release is a minor one. It fixes an issue when using external_uid and an authenticated user, as the user_id was saved. This ensures that whenever external_uid is used, user_id and user_ip will be None.

v2.9.0

This new version features the following:

• JSONB for data storage. We are now only supporting PostgreSQL >= 9.5 as JSONB has so many benefits over plain JSON data type. In the next releases, we will start using this new data storage to improve the API filtering options.
• Fixes to the news item feed (thanks to British Library @alexandermendes)
• Add historical contributions to the home page and category pages (thanks to Bloomberg @jayflo).
• Allow publishing a project from an SPA (thanks to British Library @alexandermendes).
• Add Flask-Profiler to get better insights about the performance of the API endpoints.
• Allow adding co-owners to projects (thanks to Bloomberg @fiorda)

Enjoy!!!

v2.8.0

This new release has a few improvements regarding PYBOSSA caching system:

• Now changes done to projects via the API also refresh the cache.
• The home page of PYBOSSA now only returns the featured projects. The rest of the data can be always obtained via the /category endpoints and leaderboards using JavaScript.

WARNING: Before updating be sure that your PYBOSSA theme uses the latest version of pybossa-default-theme.

v2.7.2

A small release with a few nice additions:

• Transfer project ownership: now you can pass your project to another person.
• Filter categories via API based on different filters like n_tasks.

Enjoy!!!

v2.7.1

This is just a minor improvement. It adds missing libraries into the documentation for installing PYBOSSA as well as to Vagrant.

v2.7.0

A major bump in the version numbers, because we have added LDAP support to PYBOSSA! Also, this release includes the following fixes, improvements, features:

• The Uploader now respects if you upload, PNG or JPEG (previously it saved all images as PNG).
• Now you can make global announcements via the Admin panel, so your users could know about global news on your server.
• We have a new PYBOSSA importer: local CSV files. Upload a CSV file to get all your tasks uploaded! Bloomberg has developed this new feature.

Enjoy