v6.1.1

Improvements:

• Time series data, such as recordset usage or portal-wide statistics now go back three years (rather than since site inception) to improve respective page loading times (0b52a7e...224b428)

Specimen record pages

• symbiota:tidInterpreted fields (from dwc:Identification extension) are now hidden from the Data tab (a3b9d43).
  This is a field meant for internal use by Symbiota, but can still be viewed within the JSON provided through the Raw tab, if desired.
• Data tables for displaying multi-mapped record extensions now render URL strings as clickable hyperlinks (697224c).
• Added human-readable names for 28 fields and 2 new extension tables (see diff at d188ca2).

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where certain URL text strings may be improperly rendered into a hyperlink (06a7c2a).
• Fixed a regression where only the last uncategorized field is displayed in the 'Other' at the bottom of the Data tab for a specimen record (1f787a1).
• Replaced defunct Google Universal Analytics iframe with Google Analytics 4 (863e9e4).
• Fixed a bug where attempting to view a specimen/media record or recordset with an invalid ID may cause an error within idb-portal due to not handling a refused, blank API response (423fc5b, 536dfaa).

Full Changelog: v6.1.0...v6.1.1

Technical Information:

Users’ current workflows should not be interrupted by any of these changes.

End Note:

Thank you for your ongoing support! Please promptly report any potential issues to our portal feedback form.

v6.1.0 - Improved support for displaying extended specimen fields

New Features:

• Multi-value extensions to a specimen record are now displayed in a separate table at the end of a record, such as (but not limited to):
  • http://rs.iobis.org/obis/terms/ExtendedMeasurementOrFact
  • http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Identification

Improvements:

• http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/associatedOccurrences is now displayed in the Data tab of specimen records under the Specimen section.
  This was originally only visible in the JSON data in the Raw tab. We are currently working to bring more fields to the Data tab for better readability.
• Bumped site copyright year

Full Changelog: 6.0.0...v6.1.0

Technical Information:

Users’ current workflows should not be interrupted by any of these changes.

End Note:

Thank you for your ongoing support! Please promptly report any potential issues to our portal feedback form.

v6.0.0 - React Upgrade

iDigBio Portal version 6.0.0 - Release Notes (January 9, 2024)

Introduction:

This release introduces several updates to software packages that power the iDigBio portal.

New Features:

No new user facing features have been introduced in this release.

Upgraded React to version 17.

Upgraded Babel to version 7.

Upgraded Jest to version 24.

Enhanced Redis security.

Search API: Added HTTP/2 support

Search API: Added compression for JSON payloads

Improvements:

React has been updated to version 17 from 15.5, bringing performance enhancements and a cleaner way to organize React code.

Babel has been upgraded to version 7, bringing performance improvements, preset compatibility, and improved support for modern Javascript and React.

Jest has been upgraded to version 24 to patch a security vulnerability. Other benefits of this upgrade include faster test execution and compatibility with modern Javascript features.

API Enhancements: Implemented HTTP/2 and response compression on the search API. This leads to faster load times, reduced bandwidth, and lower latency.

Bolstered security around Redis by adding additional layers of authentication.

Known Issues:

The “draw a circle marker” tool on the portal map is redundant and will likely be removed in a future release.

Technical Information:

Users’ current workflows should not be interrupted by any of these changes.

End Note:

Thank you for your ongoing support! Please promptly report any potential issues to [email protected].

CA fix

Use Ubuntu 18 to have an up to date CA.

Updated copyright for 2021

Updated copyright notice for 2021.

GBIF production API

Switch from the test API endpoint

GBIF Collections

v5.3.12

bump ver

GBIF Collections

GBIF API sourced collections

GBIF Collections with count

v5.3.10-beta

Update collections text to include the count

GBIF Collections - corrections

v5.3.9-beta

Correct GBIF logo