Plom Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

Changed

• Client: “sync” button doesn’t pop up a dialog unless there are changes to rubrics.

• Client: “sync” button shows “diffs” of changes to rubrics.

• Non-user-facing changes to how images and image metadata is handled.

Fixed

• Client: “sync” button was not indicating changes made to existing rubrics.

• Manager: partial fix (no more crash) when trying to create synthetic substitute ID pages.

• Client: clicking “cancel” in options dialog no longer applies the options anyway.

• Misc UI fixes.

0.13.1 - 2023-02-24

Changed

• Cover pages of returned work now include the “long name” of the exam.

Fixed

• Manager: assigning papers to “reviewer” was broken server-side (older clients should work with 0.13.1 server).

• Manager: re-assembling papers works again in distributed binaries on Windows and macOS platforms.

• Rubrics should render correctly in dialogs, even if they contain HTML.

• Misc UI fixes.

0.13.0 - 2023-02-13

Fixed

• Ensure Client <= 0.12.2 cannot connect to servers, ensures client bug #2521 (fixed in 0.12.3) cannot mismatch IDs.

• Misc UI fixes.

0.12.3 - 2023-02-11

Changed

• Rubrics: suggest new group name from existing, e.g., have (a), (b) then suggest (c).

• Client: prevent lots of new tabs, which fills the tab bar and could be confusing.

Fixed

• Identifier client bug #2521: “Accept Prediction” button now saves the correct student ID.

• Group names must not have spaces, but client no longer crashes if you make one.

• Remove empty tab on removal of last rubric from group.

• Only “custom user tabs” can be renamed: fix context menus to reflect this.

• Misc fixes.

0.12.2 - 2023-02-05

Changed

• Identifier displays more meaningful certainty values for the Assignment Problem predictions.

Fixed

• Fixed a crash when explicitly syncing rubrics.

• “Experimental features” is now persistent during a single session.

0.12.1 - 2023-01-27

Added

• plom-create command line tool can list and clear paper id prediction tables.

• Plom-Client has an “experimental” menu item: currently creates a bit of friction before using the new parameterized rubrics and absolute rubrics.

Changed

• Revamp Chooser dialog, add “about” dialog.

• Add “about” dialog and version info to Manager tool.

• Possible (if somewhat ill-advised) to replace the prenaming after papers have been created.

• Sadly, the “cat break” feature is currently disabled as the external service is not currently reliable.

Fixed

• Fix rendering of parameterized rubrics.

• Fix modifying group of initially non-grouped rubrics.

• Add notice to UI that macOS packaged binaries cannot reassemble, link to issue.

• Misc fixes.

0.12.0 - 2023-01-21

Added

• “Tech preview” of a web-interface for configuring a Plom server.

• Users can create “absolute rubrics” of the form “2 of 3: comment”.

• The “scope” of rubrics can be adjusted:

  • Rubrics can be version-specific.

  • Rubrics can be parameterized using per-version textual substitutions.

  • Rubrics can be organized into groups such as “(a)” which correspond to shared tabs.

  • Rubrics can be made “exclusive” within a group: at most one rubric can be used from each exclusive group.

• Manager can “bulk-forgive” missing do-not-mark pages.

• Support for external databases.

Changed

• Server stores annotation data in the database instead of in .plom files.

• Client no longer has a “No Answer” button: instead use the “no answer given” rubric.

• Support for non-ascii names is much improved.

• Client: simulated slow network mode for testing/debugging.

• Manager sorts unknown pages by their position in the bundle.

Fixed

• Client: fix potential UI crashes when grading is complete.

• Longer question labels are possible.

• Long names can fit on the prenamed pages by auto-shrinking font.

• Output of plom-finish status is easier to understand.

• Misc fixes.

0.11.1 - 2022-11-14

Added

• Documentation improvements.

Changed

• Client “Tips” screen has more information.

• Command line tools document the available environment variables.

• plom-scan and plom-hwscan now invisibly watermark PNG/JPEG files, making unique images from identical pages (#1573).

Fixed

• Fix a client-side crash on unexpected identical images (same hash) within the same paper (#2331 and others).

• Fix a manager crash when reassembling and current working directory is not writable (#2335).

• Misc bug fixes and fixes for potential table sorting issues.

0.11.0 - 2022-09-24

Changed

• classlist upload can be forced, allowing one to overwrite the server’s classlist.

Fixed

• Various other fixes.

0.10.1 - 2022-09-08

Added

• manager: faster keyboard navigation of the Unknown Pages dialog.

• re-enable the “review” feature.

Changed

• plom-create newspec replaces plom-create new (although both work).

• plom-create validatespec replaces the previously deprecated plom-create parse.

• manager: respects question labels in most places.

Fixed

• Fix macOS and Windows compiled clients crashes due to missing keyboard maps.

• Fix errors about non-unique rubric keys during server init.

• Various other fixes around server init.

0.10.0 - 2022-08-22

Added

• Annotator: help dialog shows diagrams for keyboard shortcuts.

• Annotator: help dialog shows some “getting started” info for click-drag.

• Marker: can prefer papers tagged @user.

• Marker: can start marking at a particular paper number.

Changed

• Spec format has changed: [[question]] is now preferred to [question.1] (for now both are supported).

• QR format changed, future proofing for more papers, versions and pages.

• “Public Code” shortened from 6 digits to 5.

• Closing Annotator now resets the current tool.

• Annotator: some shortcut keys are now changeable in the help dialog, but this feature is still “beta”.

Fixed

• Some slow bottleneck API calls are faster, although more work is needed.

• Annotator: shortcut keys should display correctly on macOS.

• Annotator: keybindings are now saved between sessions (except for Custom mappings)

• Annotator: many small UI fixes.

• Various documentation fixes.

0.9.4 - 2022-08-04

Fixed

• Fix various Manager UI paper creation functions when using precompiled binaries.

• Fix several Manager UI crashes.

0.9.3 - 2022-07-18

Added

• plom-create can manipulate tags.

• Can tag while peeking at previously marked papers.

Fixed

• Fixes on Python 3.7, and improved CI to ensure minimum Python is tested.

• Fix build of papers with DMN on higher pages such as page 16.

• Annotator: potentially less flaky PageScene due to many bug fixes.

• Fix duplicated LaTeX error dialog.

• LaTeX bounding box size fixes on modern systems.

• Code and dependency cleanups, removal of deprecated code.

0.9.2 - 2022-06-14

Added

• Manager UI tool can add spec and build papers, and download the marks.csv.

Fixed

• Client: creating and modifying tabs is more obvious with context menus and + button.

• Client Identifier zoom level is against persistent between papers (as in 0.8.x).

• UI and other fixes.

0.9.0 - 2022-05-25

Added

• plom-server will autogenerate a manager password if it is started without one.

• plom-create can manage user accounts of a running server.

• Manager displays bundle name/page of unknown pages.

• plom-scan status now displays information about bundles and unknown pages.

• plom-finish audit produces a JSON file for post-grading checking/followup/etc

• Annotator now has a crop tool (in menu) that allows user to excluded unwanted parts of page.

• Annotator now has a “view previous” function that pops up a window that will show previously marked paper(s).

• Clients can use ctrl-mousewheel to zoom in and out.

• Manager: can tag questions and remove annotations, in bulk.

• Demos and testing: randoMarker now also tags random selection of tasks.

Changed

• Plom now requires Python 3.7.

• Plom no longer supports older macOS 10.13 as we cannot reliably build binaries on that system.

• plom-create DB creation now done one test at a time which avoids timeouts and enables future flexibility.

• Manager: improvements to the prediction-related UI.

• Classlists that are not from Canvas must now include a paper_number column, which can be left blank.

• The Plom test-spec no longer uses numberToName, instead use the “paper_number” column in the classlist.

• Reassembled files are now time-stamped.

• It is easier to insert extra pages during marking and fewer annotations are wiped (only those in the question directly effected).

• Manager: improved interface around IDing and predictions.

• Manager: improved control of the automatic ID reader.

• Prenamed papers and machine ID reading are in flux: currently both need to be confirmed by a human in the Identifier client. Expect further future changes.

• Many API changes and tweaks.

Fixed

• Non-zero initial orientations should now work properly.

• Custom solutions had the wrong coverpage, showing instead the reassembled coverpage.

• Rapid use of the Ctrl-R dialog no longer needs to wait on the background downloader.

• Improved and hopefully less crashing in classlist validation.

• Timezones are now made explicit.

• Many UI fixes and tweaks.

• Ongoing documentation improvements.

• Many other fixes.

0.8.11 - 2022-04-12

Fixed

• For now, only manager can change passwords.

• Slow client during Rearrange Page dialog use immediately on new page should be fixed.

0.8.10 - 2022-03-27

Added

• plom-create subcommand “status” reports server status.

Changed

• We cannot no longer reliably build for macOS 10.13, will do so on a “best effort” basis. Users should upgrade to at least macOS 10.14.

Fixed

• Don’t pop up a spurious warning about duplicated pages when scanned data had duplicates.

• Shorten overly long page name lists in Rearrange Pages dialog.

• Build fixes on older macOS releases.

• Minor bug fixes.

0.8.8 - 2022-03-14

Added

• Manager shows totals and highlights tabs that need attention.

• Add word “Test” to paper label: “Test 0123 Q1 p. 4”.

• Version numbers to Canvas-related scripts.

Fixed

• Manager tool was broken on Windows.

• Misc fixes and code cleanups.

0.8.7 - 2022-03-02

Added

• plom-create get-ver-map command to extract the version map from a running server.

• Canvas utilities can now take student lists from Sections not just Courses.

Fixed

• Fixed double-undoing during drag-box creation.

• Fixes in Canvas utilities.

• Various other fixes.

0.8.6 - 2022-02-13

Fixed

• “UnID” feature of manager was broken.

• Other minor fixes.

0.8.5 - 2022-02-11

Changed

• Increase read default read timeouts.

• Clean up demo scripts.

0.8.2 - 2022-02-07

Fixed

• Fix broken Windows client binary.

• Fix few contrib scripts.

• Fixed mockplom LaTeX style (for mocking up Plom’s QR codes) on recent systems (which sadly breaks it on TexLive 2019 and earlier).

• Misc fixes.

0.8.1 - 2022-02-03

Changed

• Unknowns can be mapped to multiple HW Pages.

Fixed

• Fix demos when used with invalid SSL certs.

• Misc fixes.

0.8.0 - 2022-02-01

Added

• Manager can “unidentify” papers including prenamed papers.

• Solutions - can now optionally watermark solutions with the SID.

• SSL verification enabled by default for releases.

• Extra pages can optionally map onto more than one question.

• Client Marker window can request any paper number with a long press on “Get next”.

• Mild warnings when user gives 0 but there are some ticks on page. Similar mild warnings when user gives full but there are crosses.

• Manager and plom-finish now has list of “dangling” pages - ones which are attached to not-completely-scanned groups. Manager can remove those pages.

• GNU/Linux binaries now using AppImage which should be more portable.

• More sanity checks especially around finishing and uploading.

Changed

• Command line tool plom-build has been renamed to plom-create and/or python3 -m plom.create.

• Module plom.produce has been renamed to plom.create.

• Tags have been overhauled, with bug fixes and improved functionality

• Annotator can tag papers directly.

• Server can now optionally start without a spec file.

• Deprecated “LoosePages” have been removed.

• Tests have exactly one ID page (before they could have more than one).

• Spec files have more sanity checks and some keys are now optional.

  • Do not mark pages now specified directly as list “doNotMarkPages = [1,2,3]”

• Misc plom-manager improvements.

• API calls have a default 10s timeout (and 2 retries), so semi-inevitable failures fail faster.

• Top-middle “stamp” on pages now shows the group label (question number, DNM, etc)

  • and extra sheet templates have been updated to match.

• Work in progress on updating annotation styles.

• The history of connections between rubrics is tracked in their metadata.

Fixed

• Potential memory leaks in Annotator, Manager, and dialogs.

• JPEG support is no longer restricted to sizes in multiples of 16, better rotation support.

• Improved disc-space usage due to JPEG use in more places.

• Removing or adding pages is more selective about which annotations are invalidated.

• A large number of modal dialog fixes.

• Other misc changes.

0.7.12 - 2022-01-30

Fixed

• Minor fixes.

0.7.11 - 2021-12-22

Changed

• Client warns if its version is older than the server.

Fixed

• Classlist import was broken when using multiple name fields.

• MacOS continuous integration fixed.

• Fix a crash in autoIDing related to unhandled errors.

0.7.9 - 2021-12-06

Added

• Manager can “unidentify” papers including prenamed papers.

• Horizontal position of the prenamed box can be tweaked from command line.

Fixed

• Client: save user tabs on manual sync and on annotator close.

• Workarounds for high memory use during reassembly and solution assembly.

• Correctly stop background uploader thread on Marker close.

• Client: refreshing solution view updates image from server.

0.7.7 - 2021-11-15

Changed

• Client: fit-to-width and fit-to-height pan to the top and left respectively.

Fixed

• Tweaks and fixes about reassembly and solution assembly.

• Client: better dark theme support, other tweaks.

• Other minor fixes, including potential crashes caught by pylint.

0.7.5 - 2021-11-07

Fixed

• Upload queue length was misreported, potentially losing the last upload on rapid quit.

• Cleanup of client shutdown, hopefully fewer crashes in corner cases.

• Some database cleanup when pages are added to already annotated papers.

• Other minor fixes about admissible usernames and passwords.

0.7.4 - 2021-10-28

Added

• The question-version map can be passed into plom-build instead of building a random map.

Changed

• Image download and reassembly is now interleaved instead of pre-downloading all images.

• Can reassemble just one paper or just one solution.

Fixed

• Ensure the margin box surrounding the page cannot be deleted.

0.7.3 - 2021-10-23

Changed

• Marker -> View is now allowed to view any question, any paper.

Fixed

• Clients can tag unannotated questions.

• Various fixes to auto reading of student IDs.

• Various fixes in generating and posting solutions.

0.7.2 - 2021-10-13

Added

• Solutions can be attached to each question/version.

  • client can view solution for the current question/version.

  • solutions for individual students can be returned along with marked test via webpage

Changed

• plom-scan and plom-hwscan can now list bundles.

• Added a –no-scan option to plom-demo and plom-hwdemo so that fake-data created but not processed or uploaded.

• More import and module improvements: one can now do python -m plom.client and python -m plom.server, and similarly for most other modules.

Fixed

• Various CI cleanups that should help external contributors.

• Fixed a crash in the page re-arranger dialog.

• Various other fixes.

0.7.1 - 2021-09-23

Added

• Client binaries for macOS are now distributed as standard .app bundles (still unsigned unfortunately).

• plom-build make can now tweak the vertical position of the pre-printed name/ids.

• plom-build make can build single papers.

• The server manager UI is now accessible from PlomClient: just login with the manager account.

Changed

• Classlists can contain additional columns.

• Classlist-related API updates.

• Ongoing improvements to scripting Plom via import and module improvements.

Fixed

• Papers can be re-printed (without repopulating the database).

• Misc fixes.

0.7.0 - 2021-09-04

Added

• plom-server launch foo starts a plom server in the directory foo.

• plom-server has new command line args to control logging.

• New PlomServer, PlomDemoServer, and PlomLiteDemoServer objects for interactively running servers, or otherwise running a server in a background process.

• plom-hwscan can now specify precise per-page mappings from the bundle to questions on the server.

• plom-hwscan can override the bundle name.

• LaTeX errors are now displayed to markers.

• plom-build rubrics now supports csv in addition to json and toml.

Changed

• plom-server launch --mastertoken aabbccdd... replaces the old way (without the keyword argument).

• QR creation now uses segno instead of pyqrcode.

• plom-hwscan is more flexible about filenames: you do not need to put PDF files in a special directory.

• The plomgrading/server container (Docker image) is now based on Ubuntu 20.04.

Fixed

• plom-finish reassemble not longer needs direct file access to the server (except when using the --ided-only option).

• Low-level API changes and improvements.

• Many bug fixes.

0.6.5 - 2021-07-19

Changed

• The jpegtran-cffi package which is used for lossless jpeg rotations is not longer a hard dependency. Jpeg is still only used rarely and improvements to the client means its not a serious problem if a few pages are rotated.

Fixed

• Client: better handling of rare upload failures: warning dialog pops up if the queue is growing, and a single timeout will no longer block the entire queue.

• Misc bug fixes and doc updates.

0.6.4 - 2021-06-23

Added

• Experimental support for writing graded papers and final marks to Canvas.

Changed

• The userListRaw.csv file is no longer inside the serverConfiguration directory.

• Server saves its log to a file automatically (as well as echoing to stdout).

Fixed

• Misc bug fixes.

0.6.3 - 2021-05-28

Fixed

• Minor bug fix to stop user being able to create 0-point relative rubrics. Related server-side rubric sanity checking.

• Fix Flatpak and source packaging to include icons and cursors.

• Misc bug fixes.

0.6.2 - 2021-05-16

Changed

• Packaging fixes including a revamp of .../share/plom.

Fixed

• Workaround for blurry results from very tall scans.

• Misc bug and documentation fixes.

0.6.1 - 2021-04-16

Changed

• Client now has two tabs for + and - deltas, which improves their shortcut key access.

• Minor tweaks and bug fixes.

0.6.0 - 2021-04-14

Added

• Questions can be given custom labels in the spec file. These will generally be used instead of “Q1”, “Q2”, etc.

• plom-demo now has --port option.

• New plom-build rubric subcommand can upload/download rubric lists from the server.

Changed

• The left-hand-on-mouse option has been removed from annotator/marker - replaced with general key-binding options.

• Significant changes to rubrics: now shared between users and can be grouped into “tabs” within the user interface.

• Client: “Deltas” are now a special kind of rubric with their own tab.

• New client default keybindings involve a “spatial navigation” metaphor: left-right between tabs, up-down between rubrics.

• Rubrics are not longer saved on disc on client systems.

• Client: click-and-drag associates a rubric with a box on the page: no need for shift-modifier key as before.

• Client: The escape-key will now cancel an annotation mid-draw (box, ellipse, line, arrows, rubric)

• Client: There is no longer an explicit choice of “marking up/down mode” - it is determined by the rubrics used.

• Changed order of commands to start server: plom-server init now should be run before plom-build parse.

0.5.21 - 2021-03-18

Changed

• Server has more flexibility in creating demo/auto users with --auto and new --auto-named.

Fixed

• Misc fixes.

0.5.19 - 2021-03-09

Changed

• Client rubrics list can no longer use drag-n-drop to reorder: this feature will return in 0.6.0, but for now its too buggy.

Fixed

• Misc bug fixes and UI tweaks.

• LaTeX appears smoother on non-white backgrounds.

• Important dependency bumps including a aiohttp security fix.

0.5.18 - 2021-03-02

Added

• Client shows path information in the Options dialog.

• Server: one can defer choosing number of papers until the classlist is uploaded by using “-1” for numberToName and/or numberToPrint.

Changed

• Client background/uploader can operate in parallel.

• Client no longer looks for config file in the current folder. The Options dialog shows config and log locations.

0.5.17 - 2021-02-10

Added

• plom-hwscan -q all will upload a paper to all questions, a common operation for self-scanned work.

Fixed

• Fix a crash with rearranger dialog revisiting a view with re-orientated pages.

• Rearranger dialog can load previously re-oriented pages.

• Misc fixes.

0.5.16 - 2021-01-29

Changed

• Rotations in the adjust-pages dialog are now done in metadata.

Fixed

• Client: fixed regression loading the default comment file.

• Improve testing of minimum versions of dependencies.

0.5.15 - 2021-01-25

Added

• Annotation colour defaults to red but can be changed in the Annotator menu.

Changed

• Untested scikit-learn used by default for digit recognition. Tensorflow code still present and could return as default, after someone tests both on real data.

• Client: Ctrl-return forces LaTeX rendering of text annotations.

• Client: saves config file and comments in a central location.

Fixed

• Flatpak client can save config and comment files.

• Fixed paper generation by working around a bug present in certain versions of pymupdf library.

0.5.13 - 2021-01-06

Fixed

• Patched a memory leak when using the “adjust pages” dialog.

• Small fixes for various crashes.

0.5.11 - 2020-12-16

Added

• plom-hwscan can now upload pages to multiple questions, for use with self-scanned work.

Changed

• plom-build make now outputs a csv file showing the test numbers, question/page versions and student-info if named paper.

• plom-build make --without-qr builds pdf files without QR codes stamped on them.

• plom-build make --no-pdf builds everything but the PDF files are 0-length files.

Fixed

• Adjust-Pages: fix deduping when shared page not included in current question.

• Fixed some times in manager tool.

0.5.10 - 2020-12-06

Fixed

• Various fixes and minor refactoring.

0.5.9 - 2020-11-27

Changed

• Adjust Pages dialog labels pages that are shared between questions.

• Minor UI tweaks.

Fixed

• Fixed a platform-specific crash on start-up due to invalid chars in log filename.

0.5.8 - 2020-11-25

Added

• Annotator: shift-drag with comment tool draws a highlighting box which is then connected to the rubric element.

• Annotator: page now has a margin to allow more space for annotations. The additional space is cropped on submission.

• Finishing tools: support salted hashes for return codes on the command line.

Changed

• Accept QR-coded pages that are landscape.

• Returned PDF files are often much smaller b/c reassembly now tries both png and jpeg.

• Server: more logging during authentication, including client version.

• Adjust Pages: dialog allows multiple selections for add/remove.

• Adjust Pages: you can have no pages transiently while re-arranging.

• Adjust Pages: icons resize automatically on dialog resize.

• Adjust Pages: middle bar can be dragged to resize top or bottom list.

• Client generates log files by default (disable under More Options).

Fixed

• Misc fixes and refactoring of the pagescene code.

• API: refactoring for simpler image download code.

• Adjust Pages: re-entering dialog shows the current state instead of the original state.

0.5.7 - 2020-11-07

Fixed

• Fix stale-pages from previous papers appearing in the Adjust Pages dialog.

0.5.6 - 2020-11-06

Added

• Preliminary support for changing the overall scale of annotations; adjust using the menu/shortcut keys.

Changed

• “Rearrange Pages” is now called “Adjust Pages” with a more prominent button.

Fixed

• “Adjust Pages” dialog now opens faster, in some cases much faster.

• Other misc fixes and minor UI tweaks.

0.5.5 - 2020-10-23

Changed

• Fix crash when drag-and-drop comments.

0.5.3 - 2020-10-22

Added

• Scan now has command line arguments to enable/disable bitmap (jpeg) extraction.

• Server now logs failed token authentication events.

Changed

• Opening the “Rearrange Pages” dialog displays a wait cursor as it may take some time.

• New command line arguments for plom-finish for digital return.

• Canvas-related return code handing reduced from 12 digits to 9 by default.

• Scan white balancing disabled by default (now matches hwscan behaviour).

• Scan bitmap extraction disabled by default (again to match hwscan).

• The database now creates Annotation entries upon client submission rather than task assignment.

Fixed

• Fixed drag-and-drop reordering of the rubric/comment list.

• Fixed a bug where reannotating a reannotated paper from previous session doubled the underlying pages.

• Various bug fixes.

0.5.2 - 2020-10-06

Added

• A collection of utility scripts now ships in share/plom/contrib.

Changed

• Command-line utilities can load credentials from environment variables.

Fixed

• There are now constraints on the returned image resolution preventing huge return images in some cases.

• Fixed crashes related to deleting comments.

• Various bug fixes.

0.5.1 - 2020-09-25

Added

• Annotator: Ctrl-r shortcut key for Rearrange Pages tool.

Changed

• plom-hwscan has command line arguments for gamma shift, off by default as it sometimes worsens already poor scans with large shadows.

• plom-hwscan does not extract jpeg’s by default (it may in the future).

• plom-hwscan has new command line arguments for jpeg extraction.

Fixed

• Workaround for bug in PyMuPDF 1.17.6.

• Various packaging improvements and fixes.

• “Rearrange Pages” dialog resizing improved.

0.5.0 - 2020-08-26

Added

• Client now has a menu button for less-commonly used commands.

• Client can now insert small images, see “insert image” in menu.

• Client has experimental “Rearrange pages” dialog to fine-tune page selection and layout.

• We again offer prebuilt client binaries for some OSes.

• Server has new experimental “Homework mode” to deal with student-scanned images.

• Server can use Scikit-learn (instead of the default TensorFlow) for reading student numbers.

Changed

• Command line utilities can report their version.

• Example demo data uses handwritten digits instead of fonts.

• Annotator remains open between papers.

• Totaller client was removed.

• ID-subclient - student name + id is entered in single field which auto-completes on both.

• Client sidebar can be set to the left or right (independent of mouse handedness).

• Grades output filename is now “marks.csv”.

• Changes to various command-line tools to streamline uploading and other operations.

• Scanning is now based more strongly on concept of “bundles” of papers.

• Most tools now interact with the server via the API instead of using the file system.

• Server docker image uses pinned dependency information for reproducibility.

• Server, Manager and Client handling of “unknown” pages has improved.

• Client has visual feedback for ctrl-, shift- tool alternatives via mouse cursor.

• Various client UI tweaks.

• Various improvements to the manager UI tool.

Fixed

• Fix left-hand mouse mode.

• Annotation font sizes no longer directly depend on UI font size (but some issues still remain).

• Pan mode no longer incorrectly moves objections.

• Many other bug fixes.

0.4.2 - 2020-04-21

Added

• User-management can be performed by the manager client.

Changed

• Greater fidelity to the original scan because JPEG files are (carefully) extracted and used directly.

• JPEG transformations are done without lossy re-encoding, when possible.

• PNG files should be a little smaller with fewer interpolation artifacts in the reass

• User credentials now handled by database rather than separate authentication object.

• Client can no longer revert; this feature may return later if needed.

Fixed

• Various bug fixes.

0.4.1 - 2020-04-13

Added

• Re-enabled the automatic IDing of papers using machine learning.

• Python package has improved dependency information.

• plom-demo checks if server is running and warns if directory isn’t empty.

• Appdata metadata added for Plom Client.

Changed

• Manager UI tool has better reporting of what users are doing.

• Manager and command line tools report papers that are marked “out”; this may be useful in case of client crashes, to identify (and reset) papers marking out for grading/IDing.

• Update for new plomgrading.org domain name.

• Remove testing tool dependencies on xvfb.

Fixed

• Fixed toml dependency in Dockerfile.

• Various misc fixes.

0.4.0 - 2020-04-04

Added

• Plom is now a python package.

• Annotator has a “no answer given” button which places crossed lines on page, leaves a comment, sets mark to 0.

• Client can log to a file (set under “More options”).

• Client has expert option to disable background upload/download.

• Client can generate a log file for debugging.

• Server management UI.

• Command-line scripts for creating tests, managing server, scanning, and finishing.

• Simple toy test+server for demonstrating Plom.

• Test-specification now has “do-not-mark” pages for formula-sheets and instruction pages.

Changed

• Server: improved database.

• Server: new upload procedure/tools.

• Reassembly tasks are now faster.

• Client: if there are annotations, confirm before closing/cancelling.

Fixed

• Server: manager-related database locks fixed.

• In some regrade cases, delta-comments did not apply correctly.

• Client: fix ctrl-= zoom toggle.

• Various bug fixes.

0.3.0 - 2020-02-10

Added

• saved comments are filtered per question and per test.

• Marker has a “view” button to look at any test number.

Changed

• The manual-identifier now has a “discard” option for unneeded page images, such as blank extra pages.

• More robust networking by moving to https (rather than raw sockets). This is handled by the “requests” library on the client side and the “aiohttp” library on the server side.

• Client: config and saved comments now more human-readable in toml files.

• Client: can download test/server info before logging in.

• Client is more pessimistic about errors and will crash instead of trying to continue in most cases.

• Client checks for double-logins and can force logout a previous session.

• Client: you must make at least one annotation on the page.

Fixed

• Many fixes, especially related to client crashes due to networking.

0.2.2 - 2019-11-29

Added

• Can now build papers with student Names/IDs pre-written on page 1.

• Client now has a “view” button to quickly view other questions.

Changed

• Warning given for non-Latin names in classlist (may cause problems in PDFs).

Fixed

• Annotator mark up/down and handedness preferences now saved between sessions.

0.2.1 - 2019-11-11

Added

• preliminary support for a canned user list.

• autogenerate password suggestions for new users.

• 05 script now warns about potential extra pages.

• Annotator - spacebar pans through paper (down and right), shift-space pans back (up and left). Ctrl+space, Ctrl-shift-space does similarly but more slowly.

• Annotator - zoom-mode click-drag creates a (temp) rectangle to zoom into.

Changed

• make 04 script less verbose.

• Increase timeout on server ping test.

• Annotator has more keybindings for grades of 0-10 (see “key help”).

• resizing annotator persists between papers.

• zooming annotator persists between papers.

• docs: changes for uploading to the new Canvas gradebook.

• Annotator - can no longer click in region around score-box. This prevents accidentally pasting objects behind the scorebox.

Fixed

• fixed race conditions when/uploading and downloading.

• certain file transfers are more robust at reporting errors.

• userManager was failing to start.

• return to greeter dialog on e.g., wrong server or pagegroup/version out of range.

• mark_reverter less fragile if files do not exist.

• if you skip identifying a test, the client will defer it until the end.

• identifying has various other UI fixes.

0.2.0 - 2019-10-11

Added

Client

• delete tool: right-mouse button drag sweeps out a rectangle and deletes its contents.

• improve zoom (“ctrl-=” cycles through zoom modes).

• shift-click and control-click should now emulate right-click and middle-click.

• middle-button in line/pen tools creates line/path with arrow-heads at both ends.

• annotations are now saved in “.plom” files, supports continuing previously marked papers.

• marker now uploads/downloads papers in the background.

Server

• Handle upload/download of .plom files.

• New 12_archive script makes a minimal zip file for archiving.

• Support for Docker.

• New templates for making your own tests.

Changed

Client

• client not backward compatible with v0.1.0 servers.

• mark-total mode is removed.

• comment-delta is now its own grouped object, with many changes to encourage comment-reuse.

• comment-add and edit is now via a pop-up window.

• user can now make 0-point comments (for which the zero is pasted).

• user can also make no-point comments which are pasted as just text.

• general GUI improvements.

Server

• Server not backward compatible with v0.1.0 clients.

• More general support for student names.

• Returned PDF files have better sizes for printing hardcopies.

Fixed

• Many many bugfixes.

0.1.0 - 2019-06-26

This is the first release of Plom, PaperLess Open Marking.