CommunitySolidServer/RELEASE_NOTES.md

Community Solid Server release notes

v3.0.0

New features

• The Identity Provider now uses the webid scope as required for Solid-OIDC.
• The VoidLocker can be used to disable locking for development/testing purposes. This can be enabled by changing the /config/util/resource-locker/ import to debug-void.json
• Added support for setting a quota on the server. See the config/quota-file.json config for an example.
• An official docker image is now built on each version tag and published at https://hub.docker.com/r/solidproject/community-server.
• Added support for N3 Patch.
• It is now possible to customize arguments to the community-solid-server command, which enables passing custom variables to configurations and setting new default values.
• The AppRunner functions have changed to require Components.js variables. This is important for anyone who starts the server from code.
• When logging in, a consent screen will now provide information about the client.

Configuration changes

You might need to make changes to your v2 configuration if you use a custom config.

The following changes pertain to the imports in the default configs:

• A new configuration option needs to be imported:
  • /app/variables/default/json contains everything related to parsing CLI arguments and assigning values to variables.

The following changes are relevant for v2 custom configs that replaced certain features.

• Conversion has been simplified so most converters are part of the conversion chain:
  • /util/representation-conversion/default.json
• The IDP settings have changed to support the latest Solid-OIDC draft.
  • /identity/handler/provider-factory/identity.json
• Requests targeting the OIDC library now use a separate handler.
  • /http/handler/default.json
  • /identity/handler/default.json
• The architecture of IDP interaction handlers has completely changed to improve modularity
  • /identity/handler/interaction/*
  • /identity/registration/*

Interface changes

These changes are relevant if you wrote custom modules for the server that depend on existing interfaces.

• TypedRepresentationConverter function signatures changed and base functionality moved to BaseTypedRepresentationConverter.
• Many changes to several components related to the IDP. This includes the HTML templates.

v2.0.0

New features

• Pod owners always have Control access to resources stored in their Pod.
• The server now offers a one-time setup upon first boot. This can be accessed by going to /setup. Configurations with a persistent backend enforce setup before the server can be used, preventing unintended modifications in the backend. These have corresponding *-no-setup.json files where setup is disabled, so the pre-v2.0 behavior is still available.
• ETag, Last-Modified, If-None-Match, and related conditional headers are supported.
• PATCHing containers is now supported.
• PUT/POST requests with empty bodies are supported.
• WebACL authorization supports groups.
• IDP components (registration, login, etc.) fully support JSON input and output.
• There is a new configuration sparql-file-storage.json to have a SPARQL backend with file storage. sparql-file-storage.json.
• A server can be set up to restrict access to IDP components using WebACL. A consequence of this is that IDP components are only accessible using a trailing slash. E.g., /idp/register/ works, /idp/register will error.

Configuration changes

You might need to make changes to your v1 configuration if you use a custom config.

The following changes pertain to the imports in the default configs:

• There are 2 new configuration options that for which a valid option needs to be imported:
  • /app/setup determines how and if setup should be enabled.
  • /identity/access determines if IDP access (e.g., registration) should be restricted
• The /app/init/default.json configuration no longer initializes the root container. This behaviour has been moved to the other options for /app/init.
• /ldp/permissions changed to /ldp/modes and only has a default option now.

The following changes are relevant for v1 custom configs that replaced certain features. The path indicates which JSON-LD files were impacted by the change.

• IdentityProviderHttpHandler and InteractionRoute arguments have changed substantially.
  • /identity/handler/default.json
  • /identity/handler/interaction/*
  • /identity/registration/*.
• All internal storage is now stored in the /.internal/ container.
  • /storage/key-value/resource-store.json.
• Patching related classes have changed.
  • /storage/middleware/stores/patching.json.
• BasicRequestParser now needs a conditionsParser argument.
  • /ldp/handler/components/request-parser.json.
• LinkTypeParser has been renamed to LinkRelParser and now takes mappings as input.
  • /ldp/metadata-parser/*
• ComposedAuxiliaryStrategy isRootRequired has been renamed to requiredInRoot.
  • /util/auxiliary/strategies/acl.json.
• Many changes to authentication and authorization structure.
  • Config /ldp/authentication/* and /ldp/authorization/*.
• All HttpHandlers have been changed.
  • /app/setup/handlers/setup.json
  • /http/handler/default.json
  • /identity/handler/default.json
  • /ldp/handler/default.json.

v1.1.0

New features

• The ConstantConverter can now filter on media type using the enabledMediaRanges and disabledMediaRanges options. That way, the server can be configured to bypass a default UI when accessing images or PDF documents. (https://github.com/solid/community-server/discussions/895, https://github.com/solid/community-server/pull/925)

v1.0.0

First release of the Community Solid Server.