Dataverse Software 5.4.1

This release provides a fix for a regression introduced in 5.4 and implements a few other small changes. Please use 5.4.1 for production deployments instead of 5.4.

Release Highlights

API Backwards Compatibility Maintained

The syntax in the example in the Basic File Access section of the Dataverse Software Guides will continue to work.

Direct Upload API Now Available for Replacing Files

Users can now replace files using the direct upload API. For more information, see the Direct DataFile Upload/Replace API section of the Dataverse Software Guides.

Complete List of Changes

For the complete list of code changes in this release, see the 5.4.1 Milestone in Github.

For help with upgrading, installing, or general questions please post to the Dataverse Community Google Group or email [email protected].

Installation

If this is a new installation, please see our Installation Guide.

Upgrade Instructions

0. These instructions assume that you've already successfully upgraded from Dataverse Software 4.x to Dataverse Software 5 following the instructions in the Dataverse Software 5 Release Notes. After upgrading from the 4.x series to 5.0, you should progress through the other 5.x releases before attempting the upgrade to 5.4.1.

If you are running Payara as a non-root user (and you should be!), remember not to execute the commands below as root. Use sudo to change to that user first. For example, sudo -i -u dataverse if dataverse is your dedicated application user.

In the following commands we assume that Payara 5 is installed in /usr/local/payara5. If not, adjust as needed.

export PAYARA=/usr/local/payara5

(or setenv PAYARA /usr/local/payara5 if you are using a csh-like shell)

1. Undeploy the previous version.

• $PAYARA/bin/asadmin list-applications
• $PAYARA/bin/asadmin undeploy dataverse<-version>

2. Stop Payara and remove the generated directory

• service payara stop
• rm -rf $PAYARA/glassfish/domains/domain1/generated

3. Start Payara

• service payara start

4. Deploy this version.

• $PAYARA/bin/asadmin deploy dataverse-5.4.1.war

5. Restart payara

• service payara stop
• service payara start