Version 8.0

Muscat 8.0 is the last major release of 2021. New important features have been implemented as well as many enhancements built on user feedback.

• Plaine & Easie code in the incipit fields (031) is validated, with errors highlighted and explained
• Sidebar in the full record view follows the page as you scroll, now with a "go to top" button
• The modification history of Sources now show publication status
• Edits in Subject Headings authorities now automatically synchronized with Sources
• Cleanup and editing of relator codes in authority files
• Short title information added to field Parent record (773$a) automatically upon export
• Implementation of SAML for single sign on (thanks to our contributors Ferran Jorba and Oliver Valls), which will help other institutions willing to use Muscat to integrate it more easily in their systems

This release of Muscat also includes many more enhancements. Please refer to the changelog for the complete list of changes.

Version 7.1.3

Maintenance release to Muscat 7.1.2, including a fix to speed up Verovio loading on some browsers.

• Fix #1118, make sure 588 does not appear where it should not
• Implement async verovio rendering
• Remove the notification diff, will exist only as the controller.
• Make uglifies happy with es6
• Add spinner for incipit loading
• Fix #1147, implement background Verovio rendering also for MEI files
• Fix #1145, show 598
• #1145 add group for coded instrumentation
• Ignore index files
• Added some country ISO codes to people
• Added surinam iso-country-code
• Remove 593 from validation until the field is refactored

Version 7.1.2

Maintenance release to Muscat 7.1. Some of the improvements include:

• Update to rails 5.2.6
• Fix #1120, move 595 so it is displayed
• Fix #891 use better field analyzer for shelfmark
• Fix #1132 Add icon to holdings with digital images
• Fix #1132 Add css
• Fix #1125 and other translations
• Fix #1135, make sure 001 is preserved
• Fix #1137, do not display 787 as initial entry
• Fix #1136, completely remove 511
• Fix #1133, collections go only in composite volumes, also clean up the code a bit
• Fix #1118, add and remove tags
• Fix #1138, implement validation to avoid 787 and 773 pointing to themselves.
• Fix #1128 Add new validations
• Fix #1128, properly show errors on select items
• Show all subtags for 852, remove the partial, it was used for linking but that is done automatically now.
• Fix #516, make sure the + sign is only in the first element
• Fix #1035 Add big warning for holdings missing
• Bump rdoc from 6.2.1 to 6.3.2
• Update Verovio to version 3.6.0

Please consult the CHANGELOG for the full list.

Version 7.1.1

Small release with a couple bugfixes:

• #1124 Fix 670 autocomplete
• #1124 Fix holdings :unapproved
• #1124 Skip "referring_source_relations" and "source_person_relations" jump tables
• #1124 Fix "inprogress" and "unpublished" legacy values in versions
• Force queries to be AND as it was with solr 5.5
• Fix user form not saving new users
• Add validation for 730 $0

Version 7.1

Muscat 7.1 brings numerous enhancements. This release includes many notable new features:

• New field Related Source (787) to show relationships between manuscripts
• New field for Publisher number (028)
• The number of subentries for a collection are also now shown in the record view
• Buttons in the editing view now have colors
• Search now available for Internal notes (599)
• Automatic hyperlinks in comments so users do not need to copy and paste
• Old shelfmarks (olim) are now displayed in the full record view
• Changing the life dates in a person's authority record now correctly updates the linked source records
• Many new fields are added to the index to aid searching

This release of Muscat also includes many more technical enhancements. For the complete changelog please refer to the changelog and to the full release statement for this version.

Version 7.0.3

Hide the 787 tag.

Version 7.0.2

Intermediate release with a few small bugfixes. Changelog here.

Version 7.0.1

Version 7.0.1 brings some small bug fixes, particularly in the new translations, that could not make it in 7.0.
The small changelog is available Here

Version 7.0

Muscat 7.0 is the late 2020 release, bringing many major features:

• New Polish translation of Muscat by the Fryderyka Chopin Institute from the RISM working group in Poland
• Expansion of the authority file for Institutions to create closer alignment with LRM and RDA, in collaboration with the IAML Project Group on Series C
• Folders containing records for sources (up to 25,000 records) can be exported in MARCXML or CSV format
• A new and improved behind-the-scenes translation layout and many translation improvements for the interface
• Music incipits can be added as MEI files
• Refinements to the background validation job
• Crono gem is deprecated and periodic tasks are run using cron
• Update to rails 5.2.4.4
• The Catalogue model is renamed into Publication
• holding_institution and various other tables are normalised to use the *_to_* schema default in Muscat (holdings_institutions -> holdings_to_institutions)

NOTE This version includes various non-destructive migrations so rake db:migrate is needed after an upgrade.

As usual there are many more enhancements, which can be found in the long Changelog

Note: this is a small update to the original 7.0 release which fixes two small issues.

Version 6.3.1

Small hotfix to fix two issues:

• Fix #963 "frozen string literal"
• Remove 856 $x from Catalogue validation