Release 0.44

[Graeme Porteous]

Hi all,

I've created a release branch for the next Alaveteli release (release/0.44.0.0)[1]. We plan to merge this to master next week.

## Highlighted Features

* Apply attachment censor rules and masks in the background (Graeme Porteous)
* Remove "inline" background job processing (Graeme Porteous)
* Add Xapian background job queue (Graeme Porteous)
* Single request guess delivery (Alexander Griffen, Graeme Porteous)
* Detect request email addresses in BCC/Received by headers (Alexander Griffen)
* Add disclosure log to authority JSON (Graeme Porteous)
* Add notify varnish cache job (Matthew Somerville, Graeme Porteous)
* Improve user comment anonymisation (Graeme Porteous)
* Show admin users previous names and slugs (Graeme Porteous)
* Add ability for users to change their name (Graeme Porteous)
* Separate admin account closure actions (Alexander Griffen, Gareth Rees)
* Make user content limit configurable (Gareth Rees)
* Add CSV files to Google Doc Viewer and refactoring (Gareth Rees)
* Show authority notes in admin (Helen Cross)
* Fix IP address matching in user spam scorer (Graeme Porteous)
* Fix logging duplicate events (Matthew Somerville)
* Fix favicon web server configuration (Graeme Porteous)
* Fix asset compilation issues (Graeme Porteous)
* Fix POP poller timeouts (Graeme Porteous)
* Code linting updates and refactoring (Alexander Griffen)
* Dependencies upgrades (Graeme Porteous)

## Highlighted Pro Features

* View and download subscription invoices (Graeme Porteous)
* Add subscription started webhook state (Graeme Porteous)
* Update Stripe token information (Graeme Porteous)
* Improve batch request sending memory limit (Laurent Savaete)
* Fix draft batch request composition bug (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/0.44.0.0
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/release/0.44.0.0/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. There are some additional highlighted features listed below and the full final list of changes can be read here [1].

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

## Additional Highlighted Features

* Improve handling of messages with multiple email addresses (Alexander Griffen)
* Fix admin timeline filters (Helen Cross, Graeme Porteous)
* Update Docker environment scripts (Graeme Porteous)
* Allow authority disclosure log URLs to be translated (Graeme Porteous)
* Remove Vagrant development boxes (Graeme Porteous)
* Improve calculation of authority home pages (Gareth Rees)

Cheers,

[1] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/releases/tag/0.44.0.0
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/0.44.0.0/doc/CHANGES.md#upgrade-notes

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Graeme Porteous
gra...@mysociety.org