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GeoCat Find 2026.1

GeoCat is pleased to present our latest distribution of GeoCat Find 2026.1.

To migrate from earlier versions, see the Upgrade guide.

Overview

GeoCat Find 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.

GeoCat Find 2026.1 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

GeoCat Find Plugin repository

GeoCat Find 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.

GeoCat Find Documentation

Enterprise documentation is now available at https://docs.geocat.com/find/2026

GeoNetwork Technology

GeoCat Find 2026.1 is based on GeoNetwork opensource 4.4.x. This version of GeoNetwork changed the search engine to use ElasticSearch. See how to Install and Configure Elasticsearch.

This section describes the main changes in this new version.

User interface

  • Help text was added or corrected in several places: the static page link editor, the metadata import category field, and the cookie consent "reject" link (which had a typo).

Dutch view

  • Metadata editor / Unify size of control-label style with label elements (#82)
  • Metadata page / Fix display of metadata workflow status label.
  • Metadata page / Hide empty keyword sections.
  • Update the cookie consent notice to a neutral notification shown at the bottom-right of the page, replacing the previous cookie-graphic banner in the top-left corner.

Minimal view

  • Update the cookie consent notice to a neutral notification shown at the bottom-right of the page, replacing the previous cookie-graphic banner in the top-left corner.

Map viewer

  • Background map images (OSM) that failed to appear in the metadata full record view were fixed.

Metadata

  • Batch editing no longer tries to add an XML node that doesn't exist when using XPath "replace" mode.
  • Dublin Core / Keyword indexing errors were fixed.
  • Full record view / Only show the "Data model" (feature catalogue) tab when the record has an embedded feature catalogue, instead of displaying it empty for ISO 19115-3 records without one (such as interactive maps).
  • ISO19139 / Fix DOI removal process.
  • ISO19115-3 / Missing French translations for codelists were added.
  • Metadata editor / Add a configuration to define mandatory keywords from a thesaurus.
  • Metadata editor / Fix online resources format parameter when adding a new online resource.
  • Metadata editor / Geographic extent suggestions in the metadata editor (the region/extent autocomplete) are now sorted alphabetically.
  • Metadata editor / The service-linking dialog in the metadata editor now closes properly once a service has been linked to the metadata record.
  • Searching / Security constraints user note field is now searchable, exposing the ISO metadata element that records notes about security constraints on a dataset.
  • Searching / Swedish was added to the search index mapping, fixing search errors when the interface language was switched to Swedish.- The ISO19115-3/2018 full-view formatter no longer shows an empty "extent" section when no extent is available.
  • The ISO19115-3/2018 full-view formatter no longer shows an empty "extent" section when no extent is available.

Metadata Dutch dataset / services schemas

  • Add missing metadata editor translations for contact fields.
  • DCAT-AP NL: Add the value DCAT-AP-NL 3 in application profile.

Administration

  • Add new static page status so that administrators respect the group restriction:
  • GROUPS: only users in the configured groups can access the page
  • GROUPS_AND_ADMIN: users in the configured groups or administrators can access the page
  • Configuration option for the supported file types allowed to be uploaded to the metadata.
  • Configuration option to skip attachments on record duplication.
  • Harvesters:
  • Add support for API Key.
  • Add support for reindexing all metadata of a harvester.
  • Improve logging for UUID collision handling in harvester.
  • CSW harvester:
    • Avoid using unneeded nested operator when only one logical operator is used.
  • GeoNetwork 4.x harvester:
    • Add configuration filter options for categories, metadata standard name, and group owners.
    • Fix missing one record due to pagination bug.
    • It is now more resilient: unrecognized fields in the source/group data no longer abort the harvest, and a missing or invalid date value in a harvested record no longer causes a crash.
  • Restrict username / group name characters:
  • Group name may only contain alphanumeric characters and hyphens (not consecutive). Cannot begin or end with an hyphen.
  • Username may only contain alphanumeric characters and hyphens, dots or colons or at-arrow (not consecutive). Cannot begin or end with an hyphen, colon or at-arrow.
  • Max length of group name is 32.
  • Max length of username is 255.
  • Simple URL harvester / Improve CKAN Harvester by converting HTML to plain text.
  • Support group types. See details at https://docs.geocat.com/catalogue/documentation/administrator-guide/managing-users-and-groups/creating-group/
  • User management / User edit should enable the Save button when selecting the 'Is Administrator' checkbox.
  • Fix delete users with metadata user feedback entries associated.

API changes

  • Creating metadata via the API now correctly applies auto-corrections process before checking for duplicates.
  • CSW GetRecords no longer errors out when a client requests an output schema that isn't supported by the given metadata schema.
  • Search endpoints were unified so that all of them report consistent "process source node" information.

Security

  • Fixed several places where page content wasn't properly cleaned before being displayed. Screens such as the broken-link dashboards, the WFS indexing dashboard, map feature tooltips, and the user search results could display data (like URLs, file names, or search terms) in a way that could be misused to run unwanted code in another user's browser. This content is now always shown as plain, safe text.
  • Cleaned up map feature information and layer credit text. When hovering over a feature on the map, or viewing the credit/attribution text for a background map layer, that information is now sanitized before being shown, closing a similar risk to the one above.
  • Strengthened the login redirect check for Single Sign-On. When signing in through an external identity provider (OIDC or Keycloak), the catalog now verifies that the page you're returned to after login genuinely belongs to the catalog itself, rather than trusting whatever address was supplied. This prevents the login process from being misused to redirect users to an unrelated, potentially malicious site.
  • Tightened the security of the metadata "formatter" engine. Formatters control how a metadata record's details are displayed. This update restricts what operations a formatter template is allowed to perform, reducing the risk of a formatter being used to run unintended actions on the server.
  • Security fix for GHSA-7g84-xmh5-w98w

Other

  • Add Log4j2 support for JSON log output.
  • New postgres-postgis config file with an hikari cp connection pool.
  • Library updates:
  • Update ace editor to version 1.44.0.
  • Update commons-fileupload to version 1.6.0.
  • Update FOP to version 2.11.
  • Update GeoTools to version 33.5.
  • Update Jackson from 2.18.2 to 2.22.0.
  • Update jquery-migrate to version 3.6.0.
  • Update moment to 2.30.1 and moment-timezone to 0.6.2
  • Update Lodash to version 4.18.1.
  • Update Log4j2 to version 2.24.3.
  • Update OpenLayers to version 10.9.0.
  • Update proj4 to version 2.20.9
  • Update Tika to version 3.2.2.
  • Update application translations.