Changelog#

v6.8.0 2026-05-20#

Migration notes:

  • Please update your CKAN config file

    /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini#
    ## Plugins Settings

ckan.plugins = (...) ark datapackager citation (...)

## Datapackager Settings

ckanext.datapackager.api_token = API_TOKEN
Notice:
Changes:

  • Add: Data Package support. You can download the dataset as a Data Package or import the Data Package as a dataset.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.10.10.

  • Improvement: (Maintainer’s guide) Use the DNS-01 challenge to obtain a TLS certificate from Let’s Encrypt.

  • Improvement: Tweak the wording.

v6.7.7 2025-12-10#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Improvement: Fix rendering issues caused by Markdown field truncation.

  • Improvement: Datasets not belonging to any project can only be edited by the uploader or collaborators.

  • Improvement: Search in the Chinese documentation.

  • Improvement: Tweak the wording.

v6.7.6 2025-11-05#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.10.9.

  • Improvement: Hide the custom fields when editing a topic or a project.

  • Improvement: Fix links and labels on dashboard/My Projects page.

  • Improvement: Tweak the wording.

v6.7.5 2025-05-20#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.10.8.

v6.7.4 2025-04-17#

Migration notes:

  • Please update your CKAN config file (/etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini) and remove the ckan.base_templates_flder and ckan.base_public_folder configs.

Notice:
Changes:

  • New interface based on Bootstrap 5.

v6.7.3 2025-03-06#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Add: statistics page (an external site).

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.10.7.

  • Improvement: add the blank choice to the encoding field (#27).

  • Improvement: check and restrict the resource format field to not have a leading period.

v6.7.2 2025-01-15#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.10.6.

  • Update: add Docker Compose install and Upgrade BinderHub section to the Maintainer’s guide.

v6.7.1 2024-09-18#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.10.5.

  • Update: ckanext-depositar_theme 1.1.12 and ckanext-geoview 0.2.0.

v6.7.0 2024-07-18#

Migration notes:

  • Please refer to the section 2 of the Installing depositar from source to rebuild a Python virtual environment.

  • Please refer to the section 9 of the Installing depositar from source to setup DataPusher+.

  • Please remove /etc/ckan/default/who.ini.

  • Please update your CKAN config file as follows:

    /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini#
    ## Authorization Settings

ckan.auth.create_unowned_dataset = true
ckan.auth.create_user_via_web = true

## Search Settings

ckan.search.solr_allowed_query_parsers = field

## Plugins Settings

ckan.plugins = dcat activity depositar_iso639 data_depositario depositar_theme_rep_str depositar_theme ark citation wikidatakeyword showcase dcat_json_interface structured_data stats datastore resource_proxy datapusher_plus datatables_view recline_view text_view image_view webpage_view recline_grid_view recline_map_view audio_view video_view pdf_view spatial_metadata spatial_query geo_view geojson_view wmts_view shp_view scheming_datasets

## XLoader Settings

(remove this setting) ckanext.xloader.jobs_db.uri

## Datapusher settings

ckan.datapusher.formats = csv xls xlsx tsv application/csv application/vnd.ms-excel application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet ods application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet

## Theming Settings

ckan.base_public_folder = public-bs3
ckan.base_templates_folder = templates-bs3

## ckanext-data-depositario Settings

(remove this setting) ckanext.data_depositario.googleanalytics.id = GA_ID

  • Run the commands below to upgrade CKAN:

    . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini db upgrade
ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini search-index rebuild

  • Update the nginx config file as follows, then restart nginx:

    /etc/nginx/sites-available/ckan#
    proxy_temp_path /tmp/nginx_proxy 1 2;

server {
    client_max_body_size 100M;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
    }
}
Notice:

  • Since this version, depositar only supports Python 3.7 or greater. depositar now supports Python 3.7 to 3.10.

  • The support for Google Analytics has been removed.

  • Legacy API keys are no longer supported for authentication. API tokens should be used instead. Please refer to the Data API.

Changes:

v6.6.6 2024-05-15#

Changes:

  • Add: (User guide) Binder service

v6.6.5 2024-04-10#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.9.11.

  • Update: Documentation now uses the pydata-sphinx-theme. Amend and make corrections to the documentation.

  • Improvement: Tweak the wording.

v6.6.4 2024-02-15#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Upgrade Python dependencies ahead of upcoming updates of CKAN core.

v6.6.3 2024-01-04#

Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.9.10.

v6.6.2 2023-10-26#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Add: BinderHub which creates computing environments (such as JupyterLab) from public datasets.

  • Improvement: (Solr index) set the type of dynamic field * to string for preventing false tokenization (discussions #13).

  • Improvement: fix a typo in the homepage.

v6.6.1 2023-09-14#

Changes:

  • Update: Amend and make corrections to the documentation.

v6.6.0 2023-06-29#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.9.9.

  • Improvement: fix a typo in the homepage.

v6.5.9 2023-05-11#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Improvement: design tweaks for the homepage and the footer.

v6.5.8 2023-03-09#

Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.9.8.

v6.5.7 2022-12-01#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Improvement: performance tweaks for the homepage.

v6.5.6 2022-11-03#

Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.9.7.

  • Update: ckanext-xloader 0.11.0.

v6.5.5 2022-10-14#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.9.6.

  • Improvement: performance and design tweaks for the homepage.

v6.5.4 2022-09-23#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Update: New design of the homepage.

v6.5.3 2022-07-08#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Add: ARK Persistent Identifier which assigns ARKs as persistent identifiers (PID) to datasets.

  • Update: Rename the Author field to Creator.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.5.2 2022-05-06#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where the month is wrongly displayed in the BibTeX generic citation style.

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where the citation-key in the BibTeX generic citation may not be valid.

  • Improvement: Load the ckanext.data_depositario.demo.enabled config correctly.

  • Update: Correct some errors in documentation.

v6.5.1 2022-03-25#

Notice:

  • This version requires the latest ckanext-wikidatakeyword.

  • This version requires Solr 8. Run the commands below to upgrade Solr to 8.11.1:

    sudo service solr stop
sudo rm /etc/default/solr.in.sh
sudo bash ./install_solr_service.sh solr-8.11.1.tgz -f
sudo -u solr /opt/solr/bin/solr delete -c ckan
sudo -u solr /opt/solr/bin/solr create -c ckan
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-data-depositario/solr/schema.xml /var/solr/data/ckan/conf/managed-schema
wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/github/magese/ik-analyzer/8.5.0/ik-analyzer-8.5.0.jar
wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/locationtech/jts/jts-core/1.18.2/jts-core-1.18.2.jar
sudo cp ik-analyzer-8.5.0.jar /opt/solr/server/solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/.
sudo cp jts-core-1.18.2.jar /opt/solr/server/solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/.
sudo mkdir /opt/solr/server/solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-data-depositario/solr/IKAnalyzer.cfg.xml /opt/solr/server/solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/.
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-data-depositario/solr/words.dic /var/solr/data/ckan/conf/words.dic
. /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini search-index rebuild
Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.9.5.

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where some fields disappear when displaying the form with errors.

v6.5.0 2022-02-18#

Notice:

  • Since this version, depositar only supports Python 3.6 or greater. depositar now supports Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8.

  • Please rebuild the Python virtual environment and update the CKAN config file according to the Installing depositar from source section. Then run the commands below:

    . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini db upgrade
ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini search-index rebuild
python /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/migration/migrate_package_activity.py -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini
Changes:

v6.4.6 2021-09-10#

Notice:

  • This version requires a requirements upgrade:

    pip install -r /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-data-depositario/requirements.txt
pip install -r /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-spatial/pip-requirements-py2.txt
pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ckan/ckanext-xloader/master/requirements.txt
pip install -r /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-dcat/requirements.txt

  • This version does require a database upgrade:

    wget -O- https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-xloader/raw/master/full_text_function.sql | sudo -u postgres psql datastore_default

  • This version requires changes to the configuration file. You will have to manually change the following settings according to the 5-c. section in the Installing depositar from source:

    • Plugins Settings

    • Schema Settings

  • This version requires changes to the deployment configurations. You will have to set the startup script for XLoader according to the section 2 (XLoader Settings) and the section 5 in the Deploying a source install.

  • The following Python modules can be safely removed:

    • ckanext-repeating

    • DataPusher

Changes:

  • Add: (User guide) Citing a Dataset.

  • Update: (Metadata at the dataset level) Description of Data Type (PARSE.Insight Content-types).

    • Plain text: Remove CSV

    • Structured text: Add CSV and JSON

  • Improvement: CSS refactoring and simplified.

  • Improvement: Replace DataPusher with XLoader for uploading data to the DataStore to prevent from failures due to wrong field type guessing (#11).

  • Upgrade Python dependencies ahead of upcoming updates of CKAN core.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.4.5 2021-07-30#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Improvement: Fix the HTTP 500 error when uploading datasets via the Action API without keywords.

  • Improvement: Fix overflow with long url in WebKit browsers.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.4.4 2021-06-18#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Add: Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.11.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.4.3 2021-04-01#

Changes:

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.10.

v6.4.2 2020-12-17#

Notice:
Changes:

v6.4.1 2020-08-20#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Improvement: Add links to manual, icons, and help texts on dataset and resource form.

  • Update: Correct some errors in documentation.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.8.

  • Remove: Google+ share button.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.4.0 2020-06-10#

Notice:
Changes:

  • Improvement: Simplify metadata. Merge Descriptive Information into Basic Information, and add the Spatio-temporal Information section. Please refer to the following table for details. You can also find new metadata standard at the Metadata section.

Original Field Name

Changes

Remarks

Language

Provide all ISO 639-3 languages. Accept multiple values.

Keywords

Rename as “Wikidata Keywords”

Data Type

Adopt the PARSE.Insight Content-types used by Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data). Accept multiple values.

The comparison of the old and new options:

Statistics → Scientific and statistical data formats
Books → Standard office documents
Pictures (Non spatial) → Images
Pictures (Spatial) → Images
Vector → Scientific and statistical data formats
3D Model → Structured graphics
Multimedia → Audiovisual data

Time Period Shortcut

Removed

This field is just a tool for inputing for filling temporal information of the dataset and not part of metadata.

Temporal Resolution

Remove the “Decade” and “Century” options. Rename “Year”, “Month”, and “Date” as “Yearly”, “Monthly”, and “Daily”, respectively.

The definitions of decade and century are controversial and seldom used by datasets in depositar.

Start Time

Does not restricted to the “Temporal Resolution” field anymore.

End Time

Does not restricted to the “Temporal Resolution” field anymore.

Add a validator to check whether end time is greater than or equal to start time.

Prompted fields when “Books” is selected in the “Data Type” field

Remove the following fields:

ISBN-13
ISSN
Journal
Volume
Proceeding
Location
Publisher
Publication Year
Book Query
URL
Historical Material
Village of Research Area
Religion of Research Area
Family of Research Area
Reservoir of Research Area
Industry of Research Area
Notes

The values of removed fields are merged into the “Remarks” field.

Prompted fields when “Pictures” is selected in the “Data Type” field

Remove the following fields:

Original Source
Scan Size
Scanning Resolution
Scale Denominator

The following fields remain but are moved to another place:

Spatial Resolution
Preprocessing

The values of removed fields are merged into the “Remarks” field.

Spatial Resolution

Moved to the Spatio-temporal Information section.

Formerly used to describe “Pictures” type datasets.

Preprocessing

Rename as “Process Step”. Moved to the Management Information section.

Formerly used to describe “Pictures” type datasets.

Created Time

Support the YYYY and YYYY-MM format without converting missing month and day to “01.”

Maintainer

Rename as “Contact Person”

Renaming to meet the practical requirements of data management.

Maintainer Email

Rename as “Contact Person Email”

Renaming to meet the practical requirements of data management. Add an email validation.

Maintainer Phone

Removed

Removal due to privacy concerns.

Identifier

Removed

The value of this field is merged into the “Remarks” field.

Encoding

Rename as “Character Encodings”

This is a field in the resource level.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.3.6 2019-08-26#

  • Add: Citation widget on dataset page.

  • Update: Correct some errors in documentation.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.6.

v6.3.5 2019-03-29#

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where newly created user cannot add datasets to existed topics (#6).

  • Other improvements.

v6.3.4 2018-12-18#

  • Improvement: Fix the scrollable when showing facets on mobile devices.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.5.

v6.3.3 2018-12-07#

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where search filters and pills in results cannot be displayed correctly.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.3.2 2018-10-25#

  • Update: UI hotfix.

v6.3.1 2018-10-25#

  • Update: Miscellaneous UI improvements.

v6.3.0 2018-10-23#

  • Update: Revamped look.

And, registration is open to the public as of today.

v6.2.1 2018-08-24#

  • Update: Email confirmation required to create an account.

  • Update: Correct some errors in documentation.

  • Update: Update licenses to match https://licenses.opendefinition.org/. Add CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

  • Remove: News block in the home page.

v6.2.0 2018-07-20#

  • Improvement: Add a “License Details” tool beside all Licenses filters.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.4.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.1.3 2018-07-06#

  • Add: English documentation in footer.

  • Improvement: Move the language selector to the top-right corner.

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where the Preprocessing dataset level field cannot be displayed correctly (#2).

  • Improvement: Correct some errors in Chinese documentation.

v6.1.2 2018-05-10#

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.6.

v6.1.1 2018-04-23#

  • Add: Documentation in footer (Chinese only at present).

v6.1.0 2018-03-23#

  • Add: Site status in footer.

  • Improvement: Fix the wrong positive_float_validator validator.

  • Improvement: Apply the suitable validators to schema fields.

  • Improvement: Add LineString support to map for filling spatial extent.

  • Improvement: Add edit and delete tools to map for filling spatial extent.

  • Update: Leaflet.draw 0.4.1.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.5.

  • Move the Wikidata-powered keyword function to an extension: depositar-io/ckanext-wikidatakeyword.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.0 2017-11-03#

  • Add: A Keywords field, which integrates wikidata entries, replaces the old theme and spatial keywords.

  • Add: System will generate a hash if the new dataset’s title can not be slugfied.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.4.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v5.0.x 2017-09-05#

  • Improvement: Simplified metadata with three categories – basic information, descriptive Information, and management information. Add Remarks to replace Reference and Sub Project. Move Encoding to resource level. Remove some fields which are not often used.

  • Improvement: After a user fills in Spatial field using a map, system will generate geojson value and parcel corner and lock those fields.

  • Improvement: Maintainer and Maintainer Email can be filled in with logged-in account information.

  • Improvement: Add a checkbox to open a dataset for organization members only.

  • Improvement: Separate translations for our custom extension from CKAN core thanks to CKAN 2.5’s translation capabilities for extensions.

  • Update: ckanext-pages verison with zh_TW language.

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.3.

  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

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