Release 0.42

[Graeme Porteous]

Hi all,

I've created a release branch for the next Alaveteli release (release/0.42.0.0)[1]. We plan to merge this to master the first week in January.

## Highlighted Features

* Use CSV output and ignore case for `users:count_per_domain` stats (Gareth Rees)
* Improve storage of event parameter data (Graeme Porteous)
* Allow admins to destroy post redirects (Gareth Rees)
* Add initial administration UI for batch requests (Gareth Rees)
* Add ability to hide individual attachments using prominence (Graeme Porteous)
* Refactor requests, outgoing messages, incoming messages and attachments prominence to be consistent and reusable (Graeme Porteous)
* Fix categorisation game total requests count (Gareth Rees)
* Add count of requests in each prominence state to body and user admin pages (Gareth Rees)
* Update `all-authorities.csv` endpoint to download and cache file nightly (Graeme Porteous)
* Improved notes feature, allowing multiple notes to be associated with bodies and requests. Association can either be direct or via a tag. Tagged notes are useful for displaying one note to a subset of bodies or requests which are all tagged with the same tag (Gareth Rees, Graeme Porteous, Lucas Cumsille Montesinos)
* Add administration UI for notes (Graeme Porteous)
* Add administration UI for tags (Graeme Porteous)
* Allow outgoing messages, incoming messages to be tagged (Graeme Porteous)
* Automatically apply `missing_email` tag to bodies who are missing a request email so that they can be found in a public list (Gareth Rees)
* Improve linking from outgoing & incoming message admin pages (Gareth Rees)
* Allow admins to destroy user post redirects (Gareth Rees)
* Use correct mime type for cached CSV attachments (Gareth Rees)
* Improvements to the admin object columns listings (Gareth Rees, Graeme Porteous)
* Protect mass-tag update buttons in admin bodies lists (Gareth Rees)
* Dependencies upgrades (Alexander Griffen, Graeme Porteous)

## Highlighted Pro Features

* Allow former pro to classify embargo requests (Graeme Porteous)

Upgrade notes are available in the Changelog [2].

Please get in touch via this mailing list if you have questions or concerns with any of these changes.

As ever, a huge thanks to everyone who contributed.

Cheers,

[1] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/tree/release/0.42.0.0
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/release/0.42.0.0/doc/CHANGES.md#upgrade-notes

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Graeme Porteous
gra...@mysociety.org

[Graeme Porteous]

Hi all,

This release has now been merged to master [1]. Other than some minor dependency updates there were no additional changes made to the pre-release.

Before upgrading please read and perform actions described in the upgrade notes available in the Changelog [2].

Cheers,

[1] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/releases/tag/0.42.0.0
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/0.42.0.0/doc/CHANGES.md#upgrade-notes

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Graeme Porteous
gra...@mysociety.org