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- CDM Platform Release Notes
- CDM Platform 5.46 (scheduled for Sep 4th, 2024)
- CDM Platform 5.45 (released on July 31st, 2024)
- CDM Platform 5.44 (released on July 4th, 2024)
- CDM Platform 5.43 (released on for June 6st, 2024)
- CDM Platform 5.42 (released on Feb 1st, 2024)
- CDM Platform 5.41 (released on Oct 27th, 2023)
- CDM Platform 5.40 (released on Sep 7th, 2023)
- CDM Platform 5.39 (released on Jun 15th, 2023)
- CDM Platform 5.38 (released on Jun 8th, 2023)
- CDM Platform 5.37 (released on Apr 14th, 2023)
- CDM Platform 5.36 (released on Mar 22nd, 2023)
- CDM Platform 5.35 (released on Jan 5th, 2023)
- CDM Platform 5.34 (released on Oct 28th, 2022)
- CDM Platform 5.33 (released on Oct 10th, 2022)
- CDM Platform 5.32 (released on July 30th, 2022)
- CDM Platform 5.31 (released on April 6th, 2022)
- CDM Platform 5.30 (released on March 3rd, 2022)
- CDM Platform 5.29 (released on Feb 15th, 2022)
- CDM Platform 5.28 (released on Nov 3rd, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.27 (released on Oct 11th, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.26 (released on Aug 4th, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.25 (released on July 8th, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.24 (released on Jun 2nd, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.23 (released for May 19th, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.22 (released Apr 16th, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.21 (released Mar 10th, 2021)
- Previous Releases Archive
CDM Platform 5.46 (scheduled for Sep 4th, 2024)¶
Issues: 28
Downloads:(not yet available) TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.45 (released on July 31st, 2024)¶
Issues: 13
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - Import/Export
- ABCD/Biocase:
- fix classification handling in case >1 classifications exist and 1 is selected
- CdmLight (and maybe also ColDP)
- remove names that are not in the synonymy and not directly related via e.g. name relations
- html formatting for nameInSource ("subnames") for sec.-references
- ABCD/Biocase:
- - DataPortal
- Improve search performance for taxon search with thumbnails
- Media
- fix thumbnail display in search
- manifest files from BGBM media server are not shown in media viewer anymore
- copyright sign is always shown
- Link to synonyms corrected (from ...highlite to ...highlight)
- - TaxEditor
- Show abbreviated specimen description in specimen selection dialogue for descriptive data matrix
- Add "active" flag column in user bulkeditor
- Fix sorting of doubtful taxa in navigator
- - WebEditor / Phycobank
- Default annotations type for data added by submitters changed to "internal"
- Remove empty annotations when saving data
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CDM Platform 5.44 (released on July 4th, 2024)¶
Issues: 27
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - Data Model
- Rename "technical" annotation to "internal" annotation and "untyped" annotation to "undefined" annotation
- Fix abbreviation for rank grex
- - Export
- Some changes to CDM light data structure (added column TypeDesignatedBy to SpecimenTypeDesignation, delete NameSpecimenTypeRelation table)
- Allow unique citations using a,b,c (e.g. Luther 2008b)
- - DataPortal
- Fix issues on compact display of types
- open issues: link for types being names and handling of exsiccata
- Fix support for Spanish with new taxon page loading (for now only for feature labels)
- Don't show "dummy" WFO-IDs
- Fix missing link for name types on Phycobank registration pages
- Fix missing taxa in taxon tree (happened for taxa not having a rank or a sec reference)
- Fix incorrect representation for sec-reference DOIs
- Fix issues on compact display of types
- - TaxEditor
- Allow creation of media type specimen from within type module
- Allow to parse "desig. inval."
- Fix character matrix is not opening
- Fix newly created facts are always going to the default factual dataset
- Fix ordering of ranks in rank selection drop down
- Fix bug when moving taxon sub-tree (not yet tested)
- - WebEditor / Phycobank
- Use "internal" as default annotation type and remove empty annotation type from selection list
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CDM Platform 5.43 (released on for June 6st, 2024)¶
Issues: 50
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - Data Model
- WFO-IDs support link pattern (e.g. wfo-12345 links to ...)
- Deduplicate Etymology (there was 1 for usage in taxa and 1 for usage in names)
- - CDM Library
- formatting of DOIs changed from http to https
- - DataPortal
- Performance improvements
- simple search
- taxon pages (all portals except for palmweb), special focus on fast facts distribution loading; this includes fixing the problem that very large synonymies did show errors when loaded
- all portals with classification tree module enabled (performance improvement especially for those pages showing a large number of taxon nodes in the tree, e.g. >1000 sibblings for Hieracium species in E+M or Cichorieae)
- media loading
- open issues: * search with thumbnail images enabled * search on common names
- Name types are shown as blocks (including fixes for a couple of issues reported for the old display)
- Improved handling of misapplications and pro parte synonyms in simple search
- Suppress showing footnotes in search result (bug fix)
- Improve display of misapplied names in search results (to distinguish between taxa they belong to a misapplications)
- Maps: fix handling of default colors
- Support for WFO-IDs (other IDs following soon)
- Improved, mostly chronological ordering of name relationshipis (if more than 1 name relationship, e.g. homonym, exists)
- Improved, mostly chronological ordering of misapplied names using the same (and therefore rendered in the same line)
- Improved ordering of footnotes, in order of occurrences (there are still open issues if sources and annotations appear in the same line)
- Spanish translation for "Bibliography"
- Remove percentage display in advanced name based search (was always 100%) - open issue: incorrect sorting
- Show sources attached to factual datasets together with their facts
- Fix deduplication of sources having a name used in source
- Fix missing original spelling of accepted taxon names
- Performance improvements
- - Exports
- Some renaming and addition of columns in CDM light
- - WebServices
- fuzzy name matching (1. version)
- TaxEditor
- Performance improvements when saving taxa in larger classification trees
- Allow editing url patterns for external identifier types
- Bug fixes:
- loss of newly added sources in distribution editor (under certain conditions)
- name facts view shows incorrect context menu items (taxon features instead of name features)
- error sometimes shown when saving deduplication in bulk editor
- error shown when handling common name langauges in the preferences
- problems in name/taxon details view if the list of ranks is limited via preferences
- some bug fixes
CDM Platform 5.42 (released on Feb 1st, 2024)¶
Issues: 36
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - Data Model
- Identifier Type "Index Fungorum Name Identifier" added
- - DataPortal
- Full reference information for taxon sedundum reference available as footnote (similar to most other source information) - requires according configuration in the dataportal
- Filter for specimens shown under the taxon pages' specimen tab depending on the taxon-specimen relation type (taxon factual data, specimen identification and/or type designation)
- Filter for factual datasets marked as "unpublished"
- Filter for distribution data via distribution status (by using a term tree for distribution data)
- Improve formatting of DOIs for references
- Fix for media metadata handling - the attributes and labels for media metadata can now be defined in the TaxEditor preferences
- Fix for type designations of synonyms not shown on taxon page specimen tab
- Remove original spelling from taxon page titles (only relevant for new taxon pages as used for E+M)
- Fix for media stored without uri leading to an empty page
- - CDM Library*
- Reduce events being unnecessaryly logged in logfiles and fix some related minor bugs
- Allow handling of in-authors for combination and basionym authorship for fungi and zoological names (includes editing, formatting and parsing)
- - Export
- Export for World Flora Online (WFO) Backbone
- Allow removing synonyms from taxon list exports (CDM light, ColDP, WFO Backbone, etc.)
- Filter for factual datasets marked as do-not-publish in taxon list exports
- Optionally add fullname to ColDP export name table and format authors in IPNI style
- - TaxEditor
- Shortcut for creating a new factual data record if no factual dataset exists yet (by automatically creating a new default dataset)
- Improve formatting of default factual dataset (bold label instead of "*" before the label)
- Show icon for records marked as do-not-publish (for taxa and factual data)
- Disallow changing the DB without closing the TaxEditor via "Switch User" functionality
- Improve tool tips for factual data
- Remove modifier section from factual data details view if no recommended modifiers exist for a given feature
- Fix some "multiple representation exceptions" occuring when editing the synonymy
- Fix error handling when selecting available areas in the distribution editor
- - WebEditor / Phycobank
- Improve handling of usernames already existing in the database during user registration
- Allow adding a type designation registration for an already published name registration
- Fix list of available type designation types (depending on the source in which they were originally published)
- Reduce visibilty of not yet published references to anauthorized users
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CDM Platform 5.41 (released on Oct 27th, 2023)¶
Issues: 15
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - DataPortal
- Implement transliteration for common names
- Fix title for autonym taxon pages (new performance optimized pages only)
- Fix missing quantitative data on specimen pages
- Minor performance improvement for dataportals having identification keys and specimens disabled
- Fix formatting of the title of specimen collectors if they have a protected title cache
- - Import / Export
- ABCD-Import: Fix incorrect handling of selected classification
- ABCD-Import: Default for Taxon-Specimen link is now IndividualsAssociation (=> specimen linked in taxon facts) and not specimen determination as it was before, also it is freely configurable by the user
- COLDP-Export: improvements for name status and relationship handling, but still has some open issues
- - TaxEditor
- TaxEditor opens in English by default independent of the language of the operating system; this can be switched to German if needed in preferences
- States in character matrix now allow modifiers and "no data" flag; they are now also edited in a pop-up dialogue like quantiative data
- Default descriptions implemented: in taxon factual data there is now 1 description being the default description, new data like new distributions created in the distribution editor is added to this description if not defined otherwise
- Fix missing subareas of area trees in distribution editor area selection dialogue
- Order list of exact values in facts view
CDM Platform 5.40 (released on Sep 7th, 2023)¶
Issues: 27
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - CDM
- Transliteration added to common names (not yet available in dataportal)
- Desciptive data ontology improved (still requires manual import)
- Added "no data status" to quantitative and categorical data which allows selecting from a list of reasons why no data is available (not yet available in descriptive data matrix)
- Remove supportsTextData for characters
- - DataPortal
- Full source information of taxon relations (including misapplications and pro-parte synonyms) in footnotes
- Links to reference DOIs fixed
- Name in source display fixed
- Some improvements on specimen summary page
- shorter title to avoid duplications
- show typified name
- - Export
- Export for Catalogue of Life data package (Col DP) format added (still experimental and not fully complete)
- CDM light:
- fix export for synonyms used in multiple taxa
- allow excluding factual data
- Fine tuning for importing vocabularies and term collections from CDM to CDM
- - TaxEditor
- Matrix:
- fix dropdown for categorical data not comming from a vocabulary but from a term collection
- fix error occurring in some cells with multiple values
- Fix error when selecting a term collection in Character editor as recommended state collection
- Fix language handling for non English terms
- Allow database setting of language for terms
- Disable editing of managed terms
- Show term data in term tree details view
- Fix missing taxon node status symbol after status change of a taxon node
- Matrix:
- - Phycobank
- Correct handling of collection code and barcode on registration pages (deduplication removed)
- Display and link for person ORCIDs fixed on person list site
CDM Platform 5.39 (released on Jun 15th, 2023)¶
Issues: 2
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - DataPortal
- Improve handling of distribution areas trees for distribution information (condensed distribution string, long form and maps)
- Fix open issues in E+M distribution information
- Allow areas multiple times in distribution area tree (for handling overlapping areas)
CDM Platform 5.38 (released on Jun 8th, 2023)¶
Issues: 29
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - CDM
- IUCN status added as a feature (IUCN category vocabulary still missing)
- SupportedCategoricalEnumeration and recommendedModifiers for features supporting categorical data can use any term collection (including user defined term collections with terms from various vocabularies), not only term vocabularies.
- Features support a maximum number of records per fact dataset (if the max number is reached the context menu in the factual data view will not show the feature anymore)
- Features support a maximum number of staes per categorical data (if the max number is reached it will not be possible to add an additional state in the categorical data details view or in the descriptive data matrix)
- Nodes in a term tree allow annotations and markers now
- Publish flag for fact datasets ("descriptions") added (still needs implementation in some webservices)
- Source type "internal" added
- Add long citation for nomenclatural code edition and add some more nomenclatural code editions
- - CDM Library
- Formatting for modifiers of categorical and quantitative data fully implemented
- - DataPortal
- Allow defining a configurable area hierarchy and filter tree for display of distribution data
- Translation for "bibliography" added
- First step for performance improvements (currently only available for Euro+Med or portals similar to E+M)
- Allow defining position of "et al." for nomenclatural authorship (only available for performance improved portals (see above))
- Allow distribution like display of data of another feature (e.g. IUCN status) as condensed distribution string
- Allow alternative root areas for distribution hierarchies
- - Descriptive Data Ontology
- Terms cleaned up and migrated to CDM terms database
- State modifiers according to Endara & al. added
- - TaxEditor
- Allow adding annotations and markers in a term tree
- Allow editing max records per dataset and max states for features and adapt according views (see also "CDM")
- Allow editing publish flag for fact datasets
- Fix parsing (and formatting) of verbatim dates for taxon name free text editing
- Do not allow converting a 1-person team with "& al." to a person
- Fix sorting for features in context menu when not using English as term language
- Fix saving of preferences if >1 vocabulary is available for the feature selection preference
- Fix recommended modifier selection for categorical data states
- - Phycobank
- Fix sending account registration emails
- Fix and improve nomenclatural status handling
CDM Platform 5.37 (released on Apr 14th, 2023)¶
Issues: 6
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - CDM Library
- Fix parsing of verbatim publication dates in case 2 left-sided quotation marks are used (for now only fixed in parser for date published field in details view)
- Fromatting for 2nd publisher/place published information and removing publisher information from journals
- - DataPortal
- Fix area filter in advanced search
- Fix area filter in advanced search
- - TaxEditor
- Allow term trees as filter for term selections (e.g. a user defined named area list can now be used to define which areas should be available for distribution data or common names)
- Some finetuning and bugfixes for editing remote server connections (new functionality in v5.36)
- Add editing for 2nd publisher
- Fix editing label of term trees
CDM Platform 5.36 (released on Mar 22nd, 2023)¶
Issues: 24
Downloads:(not yet available) TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - CDM Library
- Add publisher information to formatting of bibliographic references
- Fix error when handling countries and other named areas in the same vocabulary
- - DataPortal
- Handle metadata coming from new BGBM image server
- - TaxEditor
- Allow editing remote server connections (no editing in .cdmLibrary/cdm_remote_servers.json anymore)
- Fix language selection for features in factual data view
- Referencing Objects View
- Fix opening a gathering event
- Improved label for facts and fact sources
- Fix showing vocabulary in term search
- Fix performance issue if using another global ("term") language (e.g. Spanish instead of English)
- Fix saving modified text of quantitative data
- Remove Specimen Excel import and Endnote import
- Terms in CDM default vocabularies are not moveable anymore (only labels and symbols in default vocabularies should be editable, but not which terms are in the vocabularies)
- - Phycobank
- Switch longitude and latitude in Geo Location Field
- Type designation type selection dialogue replaced by automated detection of expected type designation type
- Fix selecting an existing name by a user with submitter rights only
- Allow adding a new journal by a user with submitter rights only
CDM Platform 5.35 (released on Jan 5th, 2023)¶
Issues: 24
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - CDM Model
- Allow specimens as source for factual data
- Allow all term types as states in categorical data (before explicit terms of type State were needed as categorical data states, now any term can be used from what ever vocabulary)
- UsePlural flag added to StateData (descriptive data)
- Improve descriptive data ontology (not yet available)
- Some internal improvements
- - DataPortal
- Fix external links
- Fix missing structured descriptions for specimens
- Fix some red error messages on specimen pages
- - Export
- Add categorical and quantitative data to CDM-light export
- - TaxEditor
- Taxon Editor
- Fix problems with setting/changing focus (which resulted in wrong data selection in Details View and happened especially when trying to change focus before the Views where fully reprinted/refreshed)
- Fix missing focus when opening taxon editor
- Improve performance when changing selection in taxon editor (but still to slow, we know)
- Disable Details View if taxon name is edited as freetext. Can be enabled by clicking on the Details View. This is required to refresh the data before editing.
- Term Editor
- Fix problems with order changes
- Allow multi-select for move and delete
- Allow editing specimen as sources for factual data
- Forbid adding specimen status without status type (resulted in missing data in teh data portals)
- Fix GBIF import
- Minor bug fixes
- Taxon Editor
CDM Platform 5.34 (released on Oct 28th, 2022)¶
Issues: 6
- - CDM Model
- Added nomenclatural status "nom. & orth. cons." (if not available for you in TaxEditor please check the preferences Names->Nomenclatural Status)
- - CDM Library
- Remove duplicated colon for taxa having >1 nomenclatural status
- - TaxEditor
- Fix bug showing an error when trying to delete a name that was link by >10 other records (e.g. as name used in source)
- Fix bug for taxa including hybrid synonyms
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.33 (released on Oct 10th, 2022)¶
Issues: 25
- - CDM Model
- Incorrect label for nomenclatural status "Orthography Conserved" and "Conserved Desig" fixed
- - CDM Library
- Fix problems during parsing or cache updating
- - Data Portal
- Fixed missing informations in compressed specimen table
- Remove unnecessary php-related error message on some pages
- - Documentation
- Add linux and mac installation instructions
- - Exports
- CdmLight: non-names are formatted in italics
- - TaxEditor
- Availability of partial misapplied name creation is configurable
- Time period implemented for credits
- Show description of media in Mediaspecimen, but only if exist
- Adding created by and created to supplemental data view for users and groups
- Drop down for reference type is ordered now
- Reactivate preference for opening new search window for every search
- Bugs:
- some improvements and bug fixes for multilanguage support
- exception when adding annotations to type designation in Bulk Editor
- exception handling for invalid name when creating new user
- fix cancel for specimen search
- fix exception in tree viewer in preferences
- - Browser Editor
- Phycobank:
- fix wrong encoding for cdm server running in docker container
- fixed errors which appear at different places in phycobank during editing caused by incorrect logging handling
- for registering a new combination, an external user is now able to add a name in an existing reference
- self-registration now adds group submitter to new user and persists email and person information
- Phycobank:
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.32 (released on July 30th, 2022)¶
Issues: 44
- - Platform
- Some important software frameworks upgraded
- Website https://cybertaxonomy.org upgraded to Drupal 9
- - CDM Model
- New taxon node status "excluded geographically", "excluded taxonomically", "excluded nomenclaturally", "uncertain application" and "unresolved"
- Taxon node status comment was changed to a general taxon node/placement comment
- Namre relationship " avoids homonym of/ causes replacement name " added (as alternative to " has blocking name ")
- Accessed field added to sources based on potenially dynamic references (WebPage, Database, Map) => each usage of the reference can have it's own accessed data, now
- Label for TDWG Area México Distrito Federal adjusted (accent added)
- Credits have a time period (not yet implemented in TaxEditor)
- - Exports
- CDM light
- support for new taxon node status
- support for taxon node source
- support for taxon node comment
- Improved order for type designations with multiple field units
- CDM light
- - Data Portal
- Show name in source for secundum reference of accepted name
- Maps: replace etopo1 by open_topomap
- Specimen
- attribute status shown in tree view and detailed specimen page
- link to stored under and identification fixed
- improved formatting for missing date parts (days and months)
- Improved formatting for pro parte (and partial) misapplications
- Improved Spanish version
- - CDM Server
- Scripts for search index creation fixed and improved
- - TaxEditor
- Specimen barcode available on first page on specimen wizard (was hidden on 4th page before)
- Descriptive dataset matrix can be used for full classifications now
- Bugs
- incorrect allocation of relationship type when choosing "pro parte misapplication" (persisted partial misapplication instead)
- adding a specimen to the descriptive data matrix fails
- make WebPage.Accessed deletable
- error when editing "multilanguage support" preference
- error when editing a feature tree without saving at start
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.31 (released on April 6th, 2022)¶
Issues: 25
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - BGBM Server Instances
- All upgraded to the latest OS (operating system) version
- Functionality added to use the new BGBM media hub
- - Documentation
- Developer documentation refactored and updated
- - Data Portal
- Show "not designated" for type designations if selected
- Improved usage of https for specimen maps
- - TaxEditor
- Specimen status (lost, not seen, etc.) editable in TaxEditor
- Improve referencing objects formatting for descriptive data
- Include area into common name label in facts view
- Fixing and improving the prefilling of the nomenclatural reference search dialogue
- Bugfixes:
- Error after moving a taxon
- Newly created derived unit was not available in selection dialogue
CDM Platform 5.30 (released on March 3rd, 2022)¶
Issues: 10
- - Data Portal
- Fix missing number of search results in advanced search paged result (was 24 instead of 25)
- Fix warning is shown instead of synonymy if a synonyms secundum reference has a not-automized author team
- Fix paging on author search page (relevant for phycobank)
- - TaxEditor
- Disable primary collector (for field units) when no collector team is selected yet
- Fix parser was slow for taxon names with author teams in large databases
- Fix "index out of bounds" exception when moving taxa (to other parent or into synonymy)
- Bibliographic references did show abbreviated author label instead of full author label
- Fix collector dialogue new person button opens new team wizard instead of new person wizard
- Fix term editor does show term in selected language for term representations
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.29 (released on Feb 15th, 2022)¶
Issues: 53
- - CDM Model
- Status such as "lost" or "not seen" added to specimens (derived units) - not yet implemented in TaxEditor
- Status such as "lost" or "not seen" added to specimens (derived units) - not yet implemented in TaxEditor
- - Imports/Exports
- Improved deduplication functionality for imports
- RIS (reference) import implemented for book sections
- Bug fix for handling type designations ruding ABCD import
- - Data Portal
- Search on common names disabled by default
- Implement textbased modul for temporal data (e.g. flowering and fruiting periods)
- Fix duplicated images in image viewer
- Bug fixes to the agent search results page regarding search filters and display of identifiers
- - Formatting
- Remove trailing full stop from specimen full title(-cache)
- Seperator for collection code and accession number for specimen formatting
- Fix missing space before series part in nomenclatural sources if series part starts with a letter
- - CDM Server
- Fix with logging when restarting a single instance via CDM Server management UI
- - BGBM based EDIT databases and portals
- Finished migration to https
- - TaxEditor
- Primary collector editable for field units (to add a field number to a single person within the collector team)
- Tooltip for data cells in bulk editors
- Improve structured descriptive data matrix refresh after adding a specimen or running data aggregation
- Fix:
- Name-in-source not shown if id-in-source is disabled
- Newly created collector team is not shown in selection dialogue
- Incorrect "null" label in author search dialogue
- Missing label in term editor for vocabularies having only protected title cache
- Restore default for "Default feature tree" - selection in preferences
- Error when opening dialogue to create a polytomous identification key
- Error when creating a new taxon in an empty classification
- Error after moving a synonym under certain conditions
- Error when deleting a description in factual data view
- Collector field in specimen dialogue/details view must show the collectors "collector title" not the general title(-cache)
- Error when canceling taxon selection for move-synonym dialogue
- - BrowserEditor
- Password recovery (not only for Phycobank)
- Self-registration service (not only for Phycobank)
- UI Improvements:
- Better representation of sub-collection in collection editor.
- Several bug fixes:
- messed type designation display in the registration summaries fixed.
- Media source citations of media specimens are now shown.
- type status filter UI element in the registration list view has been fixed.
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.28 (released on Nov 3rd, 2021)¶
Issues: 20
- - CDM Library
- Fix bug when updating older databases not being in use for some time
- - Data Portal
- Fix bug which shows exceptions when searching with misapplications included and which does not show the result correctly
- - TaxEditor
- Menu entries and labels using label for former "name editor" updated to "taxon editor"
- "Name used in source" available for accepted taxon secundum references
- Sources for descriptions which are also shown for each description item are no longer editable in the description item details view
- Sources for disabled descriptions/ description items are visible now
- Improved performance and memory usage for loading combo box terms which belong to term types with a large number of terms (e.g. character states)
- Descriptive Dataset Matrix:
- fix handling for unexpected data with >1 record per category => now all data is shown but the data is not editable (before it was invisible)
- clones, created during aggregation are not editable in factual data view anymore
- matrix does not collapse after aggregation anymore (has open issues)
- aggregation wizard:
- fix incorrect selection of min rank when max rank is selected
- selection of "aggregate full dataset" is functional now
- fix handling for unexpected data with >1 record per category => now all data is shown but the data is not editable (before it was invisible)
- Distribution Editor: vocabularies with multi-language labels did occur twice in select dialogue
- Bug fixes:
- "set as basionym" was not available for heterotypic synonyms after changing synonymy via drag&drop
- when removing all elements of a description, the description disappeared from factual data view
- - Web editor
- Bug fix for displaying scientific name in the registrations list view
- Bug fix for editing the nomenclatural standard abbreviation of authors
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.27 (released on Oct 11th, 2021)¶
Issues: 53
- - CDM Model
- Labels for countries updated (only short form is available as default language, official form - like Federal Republic of Germany - is available in description), all countries updated to current state
- Spanish country names added (only available on request for now)
- Added "Cultivar Group" as taxon name epithet
- including split of rank "grex" as either cultivar rank (for orchids) or old botanical rank
- Ranks lusus, subgrex and subproles added
- - CDM Library
- Bug fixed in deduplication for persons parsed during freetext taxon name editing (deduplication did not work since release 5.25)
- Improved handling for cultivar names (ICNCP) - support for parsing and formatting cultivars, cultivar groups and grex (ICNCP)
- Parser supports pseudo-person "hort."
- Email service for password recovery implemented (not yet available in user interfaces)
- Improved descriptive dataset aggregation
- include "literatur" descriptions
- improved source handling
- improved re-aggregation handling
- - Data Portal
- Improvements to the "External Links" management and updating link templates.
- Improved representation of web application media items in the media galleries
- Fix failing misapplied name handling
- Support for https finalized
- pre-configured map layers using HTTPS (most BGBM based dataportals use HTTPS now)
- wnsuring access to the web service is handled via HTTPS
- Improved default formatting and footnote handling in distribution strings
- Improvements to the "External Links" management and updating link templates.
- - Import / Export
- CDM light:
- dummy lines for empty tables added
- type specimens added to specimen table
- type designation to specimen relationship table added
- RIS reference import
- import for tag PY fixed
- import for tag CY implemented
- CDM light:
- - TaxEditor
- Former "Name Editor" (freetext editor area) was re-named to "Taxon Editor" (please only use the name in future)
- Descriptive dataset matrix:
- fix error when adding a new specimen to the matrix (reload matrix was required after this error)
- improve performance when loading and saving the matrix
- improved aggregation (see also "Cdm Library" above) * improved aggregation dialog * important open issue: aggregating full descriptive dataset does currently not work
- Editing for language vocabularies available
- Performance improvement for descriptive dataset matrix
- Improved support for cultivar names
- Available common name languages added as database preference (it was a local preference before already)
- Improved workflow support for secundum references when moving a taxon to a new parent
- Set "unplaced", "excluded" and "doubtful" removed from taxon navigator context menu, as they require usually the reason for setting the flag information
- Bugfixes:
- error message and need to reload matrix after adding a new specimen to descriptive dataset matrix
- error message when opening specimen import views
- bugs appearing under certain conditions in "Move taxon" dialogue
- - Web editor
- Improved editing of publication sections
- Improved display and order of type designations
- Editor for persons and teams improved through field descriptions
- Editing of collector titles is available
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
CDM Platform 5.26 (released on Aug 4th, 2021)¶
Issues: 10
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
- - CDM Library
- Fixing wrong labels of specimen scans (this mainly affects the Data Portal representation in the specimen table view)
- Fixing problem with the image metadata web service
- Fixing wrong labels of specimen scans (this mainly affects the Data Portal representation in the specimen table view)
- - Data Portal
- Improved representation of web app media in the image gallery (see also "User manual part 4": "Using the TaxEditor", chapter 10.1 "Multiple media representations" on https://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/redmine/projects/edit/wiki/PlatformDocumentation)
- Option to use the long summary-label or short collecting string for field units labels
- - Import / Export
- Fixing bug in the cdm-light export, when it is starting export via the TaxEditor
- - TaxEditor
- fixed bug related to "Open URL" button for protologues
- fixed bug related to delete of not persisted facts
- fixed bug related to "Open URL" button for protologues
- - Web editor
- fixed bug in author team editor
CDM Platform 5.25 (released on July 8th, 2021)¶
Issues: 44
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - CDM Model
- Collector title (including protectable collector titlecache) for persons and teams
- Explicit nomenclatural title for persons
- New unspecific "non ..." taxon name relationship
- New class for taxonomic operations (experimental)
- Fix column length for author and descriptive dataset titlecache in some databases
- Collector title (including protectable collector titlecache) for persons and teams
- - CDM Library
- Improve field unit and specimen formatting algorithm
- Fix titlecaches handling for some data that could not be found by search due to incorrectly stored empty titlecaches
- Improve title generation for media title generated form underlying file name
- - Data Portal
- Fully refactored external links modul allows for adding removing and re-organizing external links
- Fix formatting for references using nomenclatural code edition
- Fix position of footnotes for notes in brackets
- Fix a couple of errors triggered by incorrect data initialization on server side
- Fixed bug in advanced taxon search
- - Import / Export
- Some improvements on CDM light export (e.g. formatting of homotypical groups)
- - TaxEditor
- Make all disabled fields copyable (for copy&paste)
- Authors
- Make new nomenclatural title and collector title (+cache) fiels editable
- Open search dialogue immediately when adding a new team member
- Allow search on collector titlecache
- Bulk editor
- Collector titlecache and protected fiels for collector and titlecache and nomenclatural titlecache available in author bulk editor
- Set focus to remaining record after deduplication in bulk editor
- Term tree editor
- improved handling of newly created term trees
- added symbols to distinguis trees and lists
- show (disabled) details for terms
- show supplemental data for term nodes
- add "open in vocabulary"
- improve drag&drop
- Specimens
- remove "field unit" form record basis selection combo box
- remove title dialogue for new specimens in specimen list editor
- Bugs:
- incorrect filling of details view after a new misapplication has been created
- fixed bug when editing taxon name supplemental data (e.g. name identifiers) in name editor
- exception when deleting a synonym with no name attached
- in specimen details view the titlecache field is not enabled if the specimen has a protected titecache
- inform user that TaxEditor resart is required if an "OptionalDataException" is the cause of an error
- - Web editor
CDM Platform 5.24 (released on Jun 2nd, 2021)¶
Issues: 13
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - CDM Library
- Formatting
- remove full stop at the end of title caches for references
- handle nomenclatural title cache similar to nomenclatural source formatting (but without detail)
- Formatting
- - Data Portal
- Search including misapplications works again
- Image viewer displays media files much faster in specific situations.
- Bugfix for specimen with media
- - TaxEditor
- Finalize "allow duplicates" handling for term trees
- Handling of computed descriptions configurable (selectable modes: not visible, not enabled, enabled)
- Editing field units works again
- Fix delete synonyms that are used as "named used in source"
- Improve handling of "OptionalDataException"
- Fix error when deselecting a term during term selection dialogue for term tree items
- - Web editor
- Bugfix for name type designations in phycobank editor
CDM Platform 5.23 (released for May 19th, 2021)¶
Issues: 46
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - CDM Model
- Adaptations for the upcoming taxon concept/identifier strategy for E+M
- Rename ICNB to ICN
- Label for nomenclatural code editions
- Unified word seperator (underscore) for role based groups
- - CDM Library
- Formatting and Parsing
- Improved formatting for teams (no et al. anymore for long citations, unified short citation handling)
- Improved formatting for references * year behind author and followed by colon, not at the end anymore * pages for booksections * improved formatting for subsections of booksections and articles
- Improved formatting for misapplications (when being searched via titleCache e.g. in TaxEditor)
- Improved formatting of specimen being media
- Improved formatting for specimen being DNA samples
- Improved formatting for condensed distribution string for areas having subareas with various status
- parser for original spelling
- Media info service added for fast image metadata reading
- role "user manager" added
- Formatting and Parsing
- - Imports/Exports
- CDM Light
- Add appended phrase to taxon table
- move condensed distribution string to simple facts
- fix handling of sec references of misapplied names/pro parte synonyms
- CDM Light
- - CDM Server
- instances with severe problems should not start
- - Data Portal
- Remove duplicates from specimen trees
- Remove redundant field unit information from derived units in specimen view
- Bugfix for regressions in context with using extended secundum sources in 5.22
- Some further bug fixes for specimen related data
- - TaxEditor
- Flag to include authors in taxon and name search in TaxEditor
- Include misapplications and pro parte synonyms in "set secundum for subtree"
- Improved progress monitoring and reporting for some long running tasks (like "set XXX for subtree")
- Refresh navigator after ABCD import
- Improved handling of specimen being media or DNA sample
- Sorting for distribution status drop downs in distribution editor improved
- Disable computed descriptions in factual data view
- Bug fixes: * Error when swaping taxon and synonym * Incorrect handling of selected secundum references when moving a synonym to another accepted taxon * Removed warning (and data loss) before trying to open a taxon a second time in name editor * Problems when saving a polytoumos key (including fix for incorrect numbering after such changes) * Selection for team members does not filter on persons only * Disable details view for structure and property trees in character editor * Searching for not existing UUIDs in bulk editor throws exception * Remove duplicated terms from search in databases with >1 language (e.g. Englisch and Spanisch)
CDM Platform 5.22 (released Apr 16th, 2021)¶
Issues: 46
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - CDM Model
- Handle taxon secundum source and classification source as "full" sources now with external links etc. (similar to nomenclatural sources) - classification sources are not yet handled as such in TaxEditor
- Add "ratio to" for characters expressing a property ratio between 2 structures (e.g. length ration upper leave to lower leave)
- - CDM Library
- Improve name parser to recognize journals like PhytoKeys and PLoS ONE
- Improve name parser to recognize and handle "ser." correctly
- Improve formatting for bibliographic in-references
- Improved formatting for taxa using a webpage as secundum reference (title does not include the URI anymore)
- Improve taxon search for names with protected title cache (for these taxa the search runs on the full name and not on the name without author only now)
- Sorting for certain invalid designations improved (e.g. for misspellings, which are set to the end now)
- - Imports/Exports
- Cdm light:
- fix bug in type designation export
- flag names in name type designations to make it possible to format them in italics
- ABCD import:
- mark taxon descriptions as specimens holding descriptions where suitable and use only a single description for holding specimens
- Cdm light:
- - Data Portal
- New implementation of the specimen tree view that shows specimen data in a collapsible derivation tree
- Lower default zoom level for occurrence maps
- Fix sort order in condensed distribution strings for E+M
- - TaxEditor
- Referencing objects
- improve performance
- cancelable if list is long
- allow "open in ..." also for sources
- improved label for some categories
- recursive call of referencing objects view
- Sources
- implement advanced secundum sources
- Reduce visible fields for nomenclatural sources
- Remove "type" from all external links
- Bulk editors
- fix behavior when they are opened first time by selecting a single record (e.g. via "open in" context menu) - the bulk editor could then not be used for further search anymore
- show and allow editing by "created by"
- text in fields is copyable
- Make handling of original spellings configurable when deleting a name
- Add symbol to taxon factual datasets holding specimens
- Add preferred stable identifier field in type designation duplicate wizard
- Bug fixes
- correct saving of publish flags for occurrences/specimen
- ordering in character editor structure tree
- multi-select handling for "open in distribution editor" in taxon navigator
- unpersisted term tree title for newly created term trees
- exception when reusing a name in new taxon dialogue
- cancel behavior for "Change accepted to synonym"
- Referencing objects
- - Web editor
CDM Platform 5.21 (released Mar 10th, 2021)¶
Issues: 41
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - CDM Library
- Added distribution status "undefined" to CDM library
- Improved formatting for classifications
- - Data Portal
- Correct formatting of condensed distribution string for E+M
- Show distributions of "fallback" areas in textual representations of distributions (for E+M)
- Remove distributions with status "undefined" from distributions in data portal (for E+M)
- Media viewer shows source data for images
- - TaxEditor
- Fix problem with using TaxEditor on a system using an non-standard encoding (e.g. Turkish)
- Fix critical bug where data changes under certain conditions can get lost if a taxon and its parent taxon is edited at the same time
- Improve performance when saving taxa (and some other operations), mostly for database with large classification trees
- Support workflow for taxon operations (accepted -> synonym, syn -> acc, swap acc/syn, syn->misapplication, move taxon etc) if publish flag or secundum are not equal for taxon and "parent" taxon
- Descriptive data matrix
- Sources for "literature" records editable
- Specimenlist added to taxon (individual associations) are marked as such
- Make copyright statements reusable
- Make abbreviated title and URI editable for rights statements in supplemental data view
- Distribution status "isAbsent" attribute editable
- Order termlists/-trees which are marked as unordered alphabetically by default
- Remove multi-select from default feature tree selection
- Improved image handling for images related to taxa or specimen (media view)
- Further bugfixes
- exception when swapping synonym and accepted if taxon is used in a descriptive dataset
- exception when opening default feature tree selection preference page
- exception when trying to open orphaned taxa in name editor
- LayoutComposite exception when working with taxon related images
- - Web editor
- Phycobank registration UI
- full support for type designation references
- UI-improvements and bugfixes
- Phycobank registration UI
Previous Releases Archive¶
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