Overview

Many research institutions need to create deliverables from time to time that will contain everything that has been done so far up to a point. Since version 1.2.0, a new field release is present in most of the data models (#616). All the data (samples, files, individuals, studies...) make sense within a Project context. Projects will not have a release field, but rather a new release counter field showing the current release of the data being ingested at the moment.

Every time a user creates a new project, the project will be created with the release counter field set to 1. From that moment on, every time the user creates  new entries (studies, files, samples) within the project, these entries will be tagged with a release number that will match the current value of the release counter of the project where they are contained. 

A new RESTful webservice has been added to increase the release counter of a project, but the only user allowed to increment it is the owner of the project.