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GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.5

GeoCat is pleased to present our latest distribution of GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.5.

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 2023.5 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 2023.5 is based on GeoNetwork opensource 4.2.13 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

  • Metadata page / Add support to display a menu with static pages.
  • Metadata page / Hide contact for resources header when there is are none.
  • Metadata page / Fixed citation buttons z-index order.
  • Search / Fixed error when the schema is not indexed or not available for a metadata.
  • Static pages / Fixed the display of the submenu when it has no suboptions.
  • Translate roles in the metadata feedback form.
  • Update Twitter icon.

Map viewer

  • Show style selection menu on the right to avoid cropping it

Metadata

  • DOI / Fixed validation failing on organisation encoded using Anchor.

Metadata HNAP schema

  • Metadata editor / Fixed metadata language showing thesaurus dropdown in the basic view.

Administration

  • Configuration option to activate/deactivate the backup during the metadata deletion.
  • Harvesting / New database harvester supporting PostgreSQL and Oracle JDBC connections.
  • Static pages / Fixed error preventing to update the groups related a static page.

API and Automation

  • API / Restrict the access of the API for indexing the WFS features in Elasticsearch to users with an Editor profile or higher.

Other

  • Fixed error in Elasticsearch proxy configuration to index WFS features.
  • Fixed OpenId bearer token API access from a different application.
  • Fixed error when indexing in Elasticsearch the metadata thumbnail if the URL is not valid.
  • Metadata workflow / Add notification level to notify user administrators for the metadata group owner.
  • OpenId fixes and improvements.
  • Translations updates.
  • FontAwesome upgrade to version 6.4.2.

Security

  • GeoTools upgrade to version 28.6.1.