As of late 2014, we have moved our release notes to our "Trello boards", where we actively manage our development schedule. Please see https://trello.com/orcid2 for more details.
We release updates to the Registry regularly. Below is a list of the improvements and enhancements that have been made so far. You can see more details about our releases on our Release boards:
(2014-05-15)
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Move APIs to 1.1
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Push out ability to have multiple client secrets allowing us to rotate secrets when needed
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Update how we handle PMC identifiers
(2014-04-10)
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Tons of improvements to delegation
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Tons of improvements to public client
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Move client details out of profile to it's own table
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Other small improvements
(2014-04-01)
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Improve search with phrases (help find names with Chinese characters)
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Fix Current/past email selector
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Add delegates by email (hidden)
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Refactor import wizard clear cache to work across load balanced machines
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Delegates trusted list improvements (hidden)
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Public Client Authentication Hidden
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UI Improvements
(2014-03-18)
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Clean up Authorization code (remove used metadata)
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Update close modal behavior
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Add privacy policy link to emails
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Admin group fixes
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RC4 - Add new information to ORCID History: verified email and verified primary email
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RC4 - Add new information to ORCID Internal: referred-by
(2014-03-7)
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Fix API call (with PUT) deletes private data
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Add group name to GA tracking for revoke
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DATE: Date listing sorting: use end date if no start date
(2014-02-28)
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Release funding
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Added fundref data
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Added group name to google analytics tracking.
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Admin page beautification.
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Removed Patents code
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Delegates (hidden)
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Prevent webhooks notification until solr indexing
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Fix quicksearch results when we have zero results
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Update bootstrap
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Add Add group id to ORCID Internal
(2014-02-7)
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Another go at the fonts.
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Require one primary email address in 1.2 APIs.
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Fix password popup layout.
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Add client ID to event labels for OAuth sign-in/registration.
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Fix issue where common first name no Last name was breaking duplicate check.
(2014-01-29)
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Fix issue with grants scope breaking scope authorization.
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Add disk caching
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Fix message that says 1.1, but has an element in it when it should only have an
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Prevent invalid scopes from being requested and granted.
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Caching of activities in public profiles
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Caching of internalized languages and country names
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Change date format
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Uservoice widget updates
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Next round of funding improvements
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Other small fixes
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Language code enumerated in the XSD
(2014-01-07)
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Place work duplicate check after adding source information
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Make external id source behavior consistent with other source ids
(2014-01-06)
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Change language list in add work modal to include all ISO_639-1_codes two letter codes
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Various bug fixes
(2013-12-19)
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rc2 added granularity to creation method
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Lot of UI changes including using full popup width.
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Added Korean / hidden beta https://qa.orcid.org/register?lang=ko
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Remove institutions from advance search
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Make privacy help and works more info ipad friendly(ish)
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Prevent chars not allowed in xml1.0 from being outputted
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Fix issue with education and employment deduping each other
(2013-10-10)
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1.2_rc1 - Affiliation's API
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Don't load works more info until mouse over
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General UI fixes
(2013-10-5)
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New ORCID iD structure changed in 1.1!
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Removing the undefined work type form the UI and from the latest orcid-message (1.1)
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Release responsive design
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Add RIS to citiations types in new XSDs. 1.0.23 and 1.1
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Create orcid-message-1.0.23.xsd which only allows education and employment affiliations. Modify orcid-message-1.1.xsd to only allow education and employment.
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Change multi-scope token have expiration of matching longest scope, scopes with shorter scopes are removed past their expirations.
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Updated to bootstrap 3.0.2
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Migrating works to works metadata.
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Add plus sign next to ID to allow user to add more than one ID
(2013-10-24)
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Admin page for deactivation.
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XSD changes to insure given-names is not empty.
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Make works info popover unhidden. Also added to public view.
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Remove concept of single use token.
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Index other work identifiers in Solr.
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Migrate pubmed links.
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Forced hibernate to refresh when a profile transitions to "claimed".
(2013-10-18)
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Stop importing duplicated works
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Added abbreviations to external identifiers types
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Reorders the new works ui screen
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Refactor webhooks to also have a profile_last_modified column
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Journal title to work
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Add Language to work
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Add Translated title to work
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Affiliations API - Beta
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Update to show all work info screen - feature hidden
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New page to help load balancers detect tomcat outage
(2013-09-27)
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Fix for issue with solr record not being found in Postgres.
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Confirm message for revoking client authorization.
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Make our website more XSS resistant.
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Make our email hibernate mappings reuse cached emails objects.
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Update to newest stable version of AngularJs.
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Update to remove user voice from OAuth page.
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Sync Java and XSD work types
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Display line breaks in bio & work descriptions
(2013-09-19)
- Add a page where group owners can create their own client credentials.
(2013-09-16)
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Refactor "Is this you" to open the public profile in a new window.
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Refactor work contributor Database persistence.
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Release profile depreciation.
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Autolink external work ids.
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Release email verification reminder, 7 days after adding email.
(2013-08-27)
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Speed up logins by not loading works
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Allow CORS json request to public API
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Display other external ids in user interface
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Increase bio field
(2013-08-19)
- Release Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish and French
(2013-08-13)
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Upgrade spring security
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Remove modernizr.js (except the old style personal info page)
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Add ORCID researcher id count caching.
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Require password to change security question.
(2013-08-09)
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Show better error message for incomplete verify links
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Remove external ids and biography when profile is deactivated
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Fix missing trash can on website urls
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Save an individual work, instead of all works when adding a work
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Do not display bowser version error messages in modals
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Persist locale when user registers or claims a profile
(2013-07-31)
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Make new add works modal live
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Fix revoke token list to display newly added clients
(2013-07-26)
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Versioned API
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Locale is persisted
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Improved work-external-identifier-id validation
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Rework statistics page
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Put email text in properties files
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Public launch of statistics page
(2013-06-27)
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Fix email's with spaces being allowed into the db
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Quick Search is AJAX and paginates
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Push out property files for Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Spanish, French and English.
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Fix registration redirecting non-existent pages issue.
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Push out statistics page. /statistics
(2013-06-12)
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Improve Solr quick search results.
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Send out one-off verify email via MailGun. Also first html email.
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Remove legancy email code.
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Upgrade java-bibtex.
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Release experimental RDF.
(2013-06-05)
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Added in defensive threading to kill jbibtex thread locks
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Caching public records with Solr
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Works delete and privacy settings are ajaxed on the /my-orcid
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"View Public Record" button displays white text when hover
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When adding works manually, the last digits of the year are now visible
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Import wizzard popup now have a header, a footer and a close button.
(2013-05-17)
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Caching ORCID Profiles!
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Migrated unknown bootstrap to 2.3.1
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Fix read public profile issue
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User is asked to verify email on login if primary isn't verified
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Add source to works
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Added jsonp user logout feature
(2013-05-02)
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Upgrade 1.0.5 java-bibtex
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Use solar instead of postgres for public search results
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Enable ajax registration
(2013-04-30)
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DB optimisations for externtal identifiers
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Ajax registration form - hidden feature /register?ajax
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Store fields in solar
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IE 7 External ID Display Issues
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Implement timestamp session caching for Profile
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Implement caching for static data in db (like select box values)
(2013-04-24)
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Email specific DAOs
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Expand external identifier length
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Fixed fonts on http:// pages
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Fixed token validation logic
(2013-04-23)
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Refactor works to reuse db table rows
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Upgraded EhCache
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Terms of use in blank window
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Prototype statistics page
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Member Webhooks
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Enabled CDN
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New script to create releases
(2013-04-16)
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Added Delete External ID button.
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Ajaxed Email Preferences
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Ajaxed Deactivate Account
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Ajaxed Change Password
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Ajaxed Privacy Preferences
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Changed delete links to trash cans
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Updated font awesome
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XML's orcid-id now reflect environment
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Order Work Chronologically
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Releasing new privacy toggle on account setting page
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Completed account settings translation
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Add missing links on java web app footer and header
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Order works chronologically
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Add Disengagement GA Tracking
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New Privacy Selector used in Multi Email
(2013-04-02)
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Import Wizard opens in new tab one window sooner
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Fixed JavaScript Internet Explorer race condition with our new gaEvent Tracking
(2013-03-28)
- April Fools internationalized ORC/Troll
(2013-03-25)
- Multiple emails -MPV (minium viable product)
(2013-03-21)
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GA event tracking, with custom page change extensions
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Import wizard now has descriptions
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Tons of orc translations
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RDF content request now return 406
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You can now add contributor works via API
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Import wizard now opens 3rd parties into new window after Authorize
(2013-03-12)
- Migrate java web-app about links to point to orcid.org
- Search by ORCID iD (love it Will!)
- Claim email is now only good for one use
- Fix IE caching issue for login check (I Hope!)
- Multiple email backend release
- Last name is now not required (Way to go Angel)
- Fix login error formatting.
- Email is now case insensitive on login screen.
- Email is validated on OAuth Create
- Formatting improvement to Personal Info Window (Brian's making us look nice)