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dsROCrate 0.1.0

New Features

• Added check_permissions() support for backend connections, allowing users to verify whether a connection has sufficient privileges to run safe_* auditing functions before execution (#15).
• Permission validation now provides actionable feedback, including guidance on how to configure Opal users and roles when required permissions are missing (#15).
• Added Opal version validation during backend checks to ensure compatibility with APIs required for auditing and permission verification workflows (#22).

Improvements

• Refactored backend validation into an extensible S3 framework, providing a cleaner architecture for supporting additional backends in future releases (#23).
• Introduced a unified backend validation workflow that standardises connection, version and permission checks across auditing functions (#23).
• Replaced use of opalr::opal.datasources() with opalr::opal.projects(), reducing the permissions required for metadata extraction and improving compatibility with auditor accounts (#21).
• Updated auditing workflows to support Opal’s Audit System role, reducing the need for administrator-level accounts when generating RO-Crates and audit reports (#20).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed generation of orphaned permission entities in RO-Crates by excluding administrator and auditor permissions from dataset permission records where corresponding user entities are not included (#19).
• Improved consistency between safe_data() and safe_people() permission handling (#19).

Documentation

• Updated deployment vignette to reference the FederatedMethods-maintained DataSHIELD Docker deployment resources and repository structure (#16).
• Updated user documentation to reflect support for Opal’s Audit System role and revised permission requirements (#20).
• Reviewed documentation for internal helper functions and adjusted visibility of internal APIs where appropriate (#17).
• Added documentation and examples for backend permission validation workflows (#15).

Internal Changes

• Improved separation of concerns between connection validation, backend capability checks and permission validation (#22, #23).
• Refined internal validation infrastructure to simplify future backend integrations.
• General maintenance, testing and documentation updates.

dsROCrate 0.0.2

• This patch addresses an issue with the vignettes. The safe_output.opal() S3 generic now uses overwrite = TRUE to update the root (./) entity.

dsROCrate 0.0.1

• Initial CRAN submission.
• This version contains standard functions for auditing (audit()), reporting (report()) and extracting five safe principle components (safe_*()).
• This version currently only supports OBiBa’s Opal as the backend.

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They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.