changes and upgrade instructions for 4.12.0

CHANGES.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,25 @@
 Bug fixes and new features
 --------------------------
 
+VLO 4.12.0 (July 2024)
+* Requesting of a record by self link in URL
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/383>
+* Search for records by normalized self link
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/385>
+* Fewer requests made to centre registry on loading of contributors page
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/382>
+* Custom user agent for requests from importer / web app
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/381>
+* Label for 'Format' facet changed 'File type'
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/379>
+* Whitespace properly trimmed in field values
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/378>
+* Adding of a field _metadataDirectory
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/375>
+* `0` values ignored when populating temporal coverage field
+    <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO/issues/323>
+* Various dependency updates
+
 VLO 4.11.6 (December 2023)
 * Using the new linkchecker persistence library (v1.0.0)
 * Upgraded Java XML and JSON binding framework versions

UPGRADE.txt

@@ -83,6 +83,20 @@ updated configuration file:
     `./vlo_solr_importer.sh -c ../config/VloConfig.xml`
 
 
+-------------------------------
+Upgrading from 4.11.x to 4.12.x
+-------------------------------
+
+* Additions to VloConfig.xml:
+
+  - New fields:
+        <field key="NORMALIZED_SELF_LINK">_normalizedSelfLink</field>
+        <field key="METADATA_DIRECTORY">_metadataDirectory</field>
+
+* VLO mapping definitions version 1.8.0 must be used (bundled and can be
+retrieved from <https://github.com/clarin-eric/VLO-mapping/releases/tag/1.8.0>).
+
+
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 Upgrading from 4.10.x to 4.11.x
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