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GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.6

GeoCat is pleased to present our latest distribution of GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.6.

To migrate from GeoNetwork Enterprise 2022 or earlier, see the Upgrade guide.

Overview

GeoNetwork Enterprise is an outstanding catalog application providing record publishing and search capabilities to share information. Built to support international open standards GeoNetwork offers metadata editing and management with a focus on geospatial content.

GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.6 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

GeoNetwork Enterprise Plugin repository

GeoNetwork Enterprise is provided as a base package which can be extended with plugins. Plugins have an independent lifecycle. Each plugin advertises its compatibility with relevant GeoNetwork versions.

Plugins are available via the plugin repository.

Documentation on how to install the plugin is available in the plugin.

GeoNetwork Enterprise Documentation

Documentation is now available at https://docs.geocat.net/find/2023

GeoNetwork Technology

GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.6 is based on GeoNetwork opensource 4.2.14 release. This version of GeoNetwork has switched the search engine to use ElasticSearch instead of Lucene, as in previous versions.

See how to Install and Configure Elasticsearch.

This section describes the main changes in this new version.

User interface

  • Fix texts in the update batch privileges dialog.
  • Search page / Facets / Fix removal of values encoded as 0 in facet filter objects.
  • Search page / Fix in the metadata selection widget the number of metadata selected, which was displaying the value 1 always, independently of the number of metadata selected.

Dutch UI view

  • Home page / Fix topic categories display with fluid layout.
  • Metadata editor / update button onhover styling for file drop area.
  • Metadata page / Fix social link bar permalink.
  • Update Twitter icon in social media template.

Map viewer

  • Fix WMS layers cannot be added to map via saved selections.

Metadata

  • Fix batch validation issues.
  • ISO19115-3 / Escape characters for resource identifier indexing.
  • ISO19115-3 / ISO19139 / Handle process steps with multiple sources in lineage.
  • ISO19115-3 / Update nonGeographicDataset French translation.
  • Metadata editor / Add support to display the index error reporting in the editor.
  • Metadata editor / Avoid displaying the tooltip icon next to buttons to add new elements, when the tooltips mode is set to icon.
  • Metadata editor / Validation report / Display errors for optional validation rules as warnings.
  • Metadata editor / Validation report / Show schema validation after the optional validation rules.
  • Metadata feedback / Fix email text.
  • Metadata import / Enable overwrite for workflow records. Check whether the record already has a working copy, creating one if it doesn’t exist yet, and updating the working copy with the imported metadata.
  • Metadata page / Adjust the image modal dynamically to the image size for small images.
  • Metadata page / Improve distribution section in full view.
  • Metadata rating / Fix logged users appearing as logged out in the ratings panel.
  • Metadata rating / Support multilingual rating emails.
  • Metadata workflow / Delete resources when a new working copy is cancelled.
  • Metadata workflow / Hide enable workflow button when the metadata group is excluded from the metadata workflow.
  • Support metadata attachments greater than 2GB.
  • Support resume metadata attachment downloads.
  • Workflow / Check workflow only when setting a workflow status.

Metadata HNAP schema

  • Add index report to the editor side panel.
  • Add translation for CRS unit. Remove MX_ScopeCode for substitution group.
  • Fix online resource validation messages to be more clear.
  • Update translation for non geospatial datasets.

Metadata Dutch dataset schemas (1.3.1 and 2.1.0)

  • Metadata editor / use duration directive for gts:TM_PeriodDuration and gml:duration

Metadata Dutch 1.2.1 service schema

  • Update INSPIRE validation rules translations.

Administration

  • Database harvester / support qualified table names (schema.table) and improve sanitize of table / field names.
  • New GeoNetwork 4.x harvester.
  • New SFTP harvester.
  • Settings / Fix INSPIRE Atom type setting value selected.
  • Simple URL harvester / replace % char from property names. Some DKAN JSON with property names including the char % in property names (e. g. %Ref:downloadURL), that caused an error converting the JSON to XML.
  • Static pages / Add support for mail links.

API and Automation

  • Fix content type and filename for resized image attachments API.
  • Remove RDF searcher and related APIs not implemented for Elasticsearch. Users can use CSW GetRecords with dcat output schema to retrieve the metadata in DCAT/RDF format.

Other

  • CSW Server / Fix processing of wildcard queries.
  • Documentation / User guide - searching information improvements.
  • Improve error logging of exceptions when building the metadata validation rules.
  • Fix metadata feedback email text
  • Fix SessionExpirationFilter.
  • OpenId / Fix issue with oidc invalid session by adding session filter.
  • OpenId / Update bearer token auth to use access token.
  • OpenId / Implement OIDC logout and fix oidc typo.
  • OpenId / Added missing logs for OIDC login.
  • Remote INSPIRE ATOM harvester / fix scheduling.
  • Set UTF-8 on sent mails.
  • Update LibreTranslate client to fix issues with character encoding.
  • Update localization bundles to be UTF-8 so that we don't need to escape special characters.
  • Update validation rules exceptions to support internationalization.
  • Update test mokito library to version 4.

Security

  • Update Spring Security to version 5.7.14.