Release Notes

20250522

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/256 - clarify component loader status language
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/255 - component loader update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/238 - entry update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/245 - license and terms update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/254 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/257 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/258 - bugfix

20250515

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/251 - css update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/249 - add bulkloader precheck
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/225 - simplify record loader status options
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/250 - security patch
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/217 - improve low-quality agent creation guardrails
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/252 - improve publication search
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/175 - make agent attribute rules available as procedure; use it in pre-loader checks
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/253 - UI bugfix

20250508

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/240 - internal
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/222 - better error handling
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/239 - better archive and saved search handling
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/242 - improve container sort (and modernize back-end code)
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/244 - transaction identifier bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/224 - commponent loader simplification
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/246 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/221 - update documentation

20250424

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/234 - security update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/232 - security update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/231 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/229 - Data QC check
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/228 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/230 - suport NULL search in permits
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/214 - restructure agent attribtues

20250410

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/220 - bugfix and optimization of locality metadata/derived data search
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/219 - remove inoperative helper function
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/218 - better collection_cde values
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/215 - security update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/211 - Agent API access/security update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/212 - media UI udpates
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/150 - better handling of failed record loads
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/148 - dangerous toys

20250401

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/146 - modify container access permissions
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/147 - review
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/159 - rebuild cached locality data
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/209 - depth to record search results
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/213 - formatted_scientific_name init and update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/179 - UI shortcur

20250327

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/125 - further normalize agent type
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/207 - component loader bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/203 - improve HTML rendering
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/196 - add safeguard
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/161 - documentation update
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/193 - add management shortcut
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/184 - documentation bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/178 - documentation clarification
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/176 - simplify search UI
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/204 - better account recovery
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/183 - handle NULL in mass-verify widget

20250313

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/160 - add private/public flag to record attributes
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/189 - eliminate unnecessary encumbrances
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/200 - new private record attribute
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/201 - encumbarnce cleanup
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/202 - encumbarnce cleanup
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/198 - encumbarnce cleanup
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/197 - encumbarnce cleanup
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/199 - component loader buxfix

20250303

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/181 - Display-only bug fix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/123 - Finalize user-supplied SQL protections
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/188 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/182 - Display-only bug fix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/177 - enhance noise detection
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/185 - bugfix involving duplicate loan items
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/134 - add a place to note account maintenance actions
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/190 - hopeful bugfix)
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/191 - update to reflect changes in NCBI webservice
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/194 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/186 - add taxon name type to taxonomy export to support filtering by globalnames
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/180 - add link to docs
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/61 - remove unused clutter
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/172 - better formatting/UI for project funding USD
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/192 - remove inapplicable links in loan form

20250203

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/169 - maintenance
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/174 - bugfix

20250130

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/170 - rebuild manage identification ot use component loader, split move part container to new component loader feeder
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/173 - add increment existing functionality to identification tool
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/119 - add collector.collector_remarks

20250127

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/166 - add media terms
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/158 - add life_stage to cache
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/167 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/165 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/168 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/163 - maintenance

20250123

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/39 - add units to container dimensions; rebuild and modernize underlying logic
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/164 - prevent more unlicensed and inappropriately-licensed media while working towards a solution
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/153 - modernization
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/155 - security patch
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/151 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/154 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/157 - bugfix

20250113

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/144 - optimize
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/149 - sanitize

20250108

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/143 - add suborder to record search
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/118 - rebuild part attributes; modernize, combine terms and datatype controls, add private/public
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/145 - bugfix

20250102

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/141 - clarify documentation
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/139 - identification loader bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/140 - update/version component loader template with identifiers doc link
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/113 - add ‘no coordinates’ report
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/139 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/37 - saved search and archive create UI
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/116 - update inline documentation

20241218

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/136 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/137 - continue separation of spatial and administrative geography data
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/138 - bugfix and data cleanup
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/120 - cleanup
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/135 - new role write_report to better protect reports

20241216

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/128 - continue separation of spatial and administrative data
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/132 - bugfix

20241211

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/133 - bugfix (?!) involving transaction/record intersection permissions

20241210

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/129 - add prevent initial submit to search form, example:
  • https://arctos.database.museum/search.cfm?cat_num=14 - default bahavior, form immediately searches for passed-in parameters
  • https://arctos.database.museum/search.cfm?cat_num=14&autosubmit=false - new behavior, form loads with passed-in data filled and highlighted, but does not submit
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/121 - new code table for permit use conditions
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/122 - new permit structure use condition - serves as a succinct summary of what’s required by the permit
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/131 - make transaction identifier (eg “loan number”) public
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/108 - internal update

20241205

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/124 - split geography continent/odean into two ‘fields’
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/126 - begin the process of moving spatial data out of ‘assertable’ place data
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/127 - bugfix

20241202

• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/96 - require write_sql role to write sql (but belay final implementation). This will better protect the system while still allowing nearly anyone to change the parts of reports that mostly don’t cause system-wide disruptions.
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/115 - bugfix
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/117 - minor UI adjustment
• https://github.com/ArctosDB/dev/issues/114 - link to reports from transaction search results

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