Release 0.39

[Graeme Porteous]

Hi all,

I've created a release branch for the next Alaveteli release (release/0.39.0.0)[1]. We plan to merge this to master later this week.

## Highlighted Features

* Add tool to help challenge FOI refusals (Myfanwy Nixon, Martin Wright, Zarino Zappia, Gareth Rees, Graeme Porteous)
* Add initial support for additional legislations (Graeme Porteous)
* Add legistations reference exemptions detection (Gareth Rees, Graeme Porteous)
* Add post request survey feature (Graeme Porteous)
* Allow author to be an optional blog feed attribute (Gareth Rees)
* Handle UTF8 characters in RFC822 attachment subject lines (Gareth Rees)
* Backpaged content tells external search engines not to index it (Gareth Rees)
* Tweak change request button colours in admin interface (Gareth Rees)
* Add Debian Buster support (Graeme Porteous)
* Add Docker development environment (Graeme Porteous)
* Update list of world FOI websites (Gareth Rees)
* Dependencies upgrades (Gareth Rees, 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/0.39.0.0
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/release/0.39.0.0/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 - the final list of changes can be read here [1]

Updated release highlights:

* Add tool to help challenge FOI refusals (Myfanwy Nixon, Martin Wright, Zarino Zappia, Gareth Rees, Graeme Porteous)

  See: https://www.mysociety.org/2021/06/25/a-tool-to-help-challenge-foi-refusals-now-on-whatdotheyknow/

* Add initial support for additional legislations (Graeme Porteous)

* Add legislations reference exemptions detection (Gareth Rees, Graeme Porteous)

* Add post request survey feature (Graeme Porteous)

* Prevent saving of unescaped characters in regexp Censor Rules (Gareth Rees)
* Truncate list of alternative users shown on user profiles (Gareth Rees)

* Allow author to be an optional blog feed attribute (Gareth Rees)
* Handle UTF8 characters in RFC822 attachment subject lines (Gareth Rees)
* Backpaged content tells external search engines not to index it (Gareth Rees)
* Tweak change request button colours in admin interface (Gareth Rees)
* Add Debian Buster support (Graeme Porteous)

* Add ability to translate pagination links (Graeme Porteous)

* Add Docker development environment (Graeme Porteous)
* Update list of world FOI websites (Gareth Rees)
* Dependencies upgrades (Gareth Rees, Graeme Porteous)

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/0.39.0.0
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/0.39.0.0/doc/CHANGES.md#upgrade-notes

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Graeme Porteous
gra...@mysociety.org