v4.0.0-rc.2

THIS IS A BREAKING RELEASE - MAKE SURE TO UPDATE ALL YOUR CONFIG FILES!

Change between v4.0.0-rc.1 and v4.0.0-rc.2

• New locale: Polish
• New grid system for the item and catalog cards
• Collection Search shows a map of the results
• Support showing GeoJSON assets on the map (with a detail view)
• Updated to ol-stac v1.1.0, which includes for example:
  • WMTS REST request encoding support
  • Fixes issues in certain GeoTIFF visualizations by loading missing projections
• Show license for catalogs, if provided
• Sort the languages in the chooser using the native names
• Deprecation: CLI parameters for npm commands (e.g. npm run build -- --catalogUrl="https://example.com") are deprecated and will be removed in v5 as they are not supported by Vite
• Bug fixes, for example:
  • CSS improvements for catalog/collection list layout
  • Handle thumbnails von S3 storage better
  • Fixed geojson.io action
  • Fixed the ability to define custom logos in the header
  • Avoid language reset after data source selection
  • Fixed item asset rendering
  • Improved request error handling, e.g. show server error messages from response
  • Fixed downloading of assets with relative URLs
  • Fix sort option titles
  • file:local_path is correctly applied in alternative download mode
  • Fix confusing number representation in bullet point listings
  • Removed command i18n:report, which was not working anymore

Change between v3.3.5 and v4.0.0-rc.1

• Migrated from Leaflet (and stac-layer) to OpenLayers (and ol-stac)
  • New layer switcher
  • Support for multiple projections
  • Support for more advanced basemaps (e.g. Vector Tiles) - make sure to update your basemap.config.js, see new documentation for details
  • Support for more web-map-link types (WMS, WMTS, XYZ, PMTiles)
  • Read additional metadata for better default COG rendering
  • New or updated config options: displayPreview, displayOverview, buildTileUrlTemplate, getMapSourceOptions, crs
  • Removed config options: geoTiffResolution, maxPreviewsOnMap
  • and much more...
• Integration of stac-js into the codecase
  • Allows for more flexibility in Link and Asset actions
• New header design with custom logo option (please provide feedback, we plan an even better version for v5.0)
• Improved sorting behavious in search requests with some small UI tweaks
• Configuration (in config.js) - see the documentation for details:
  • Removed deprecated options and related functionality for redirectLegacyUrls and stacProxyUrl
  • Renamed maxItemsPerPage to maxEntriesPerPage
  • Split config option itemsPerPage into searchResultsPerPage, itemsPerPage, collectionsPerPage
  • allowedDomains accepts more patterns
  • Config option preprocessSTAC now receives a stac-js object as parameter
  • New config option catalogImage to provide an logo for the header
• Bug fixes, for example:
  • Search results display order did not match API response order #621
  • Fix number formatting in international English #639
  • Fix compatibility for OGC APIs #646
  • Make popovers work on MacOS (Safari) #655
  • Show links to prev/next/latest versions if deprecated is not set

v4.0.0-rc.1

THIS IS A BREAKING RELEASE - MAKE SURE TO UPDATE ALL YOUR CONFIG FILES!

Changelog

• Migrated from Leaflet (and stac-layer) to OpenLayers (and ol-stac)
  • New layer switcher
  • Support for multiple projections
  • Support for more advanced basemaps (e.g. Vector Tiles) - make sure to update your basemap.config.js, see new documentation for details
  • Support for more web-map-link types (WMS, WMTS, XYZ, PMTiles)
  • Read additional metadata for better default COG rendering
  • New or updated config options: displayPreview, displayOverview, buildTileUrlTemplate, getMapSourceOptions, crs
  • Removed config options: geoTiffResolution, maxPreviewsOnMap
  • and much more...
• Integration of stac-js into the codecase
  • Allows for more flexibility in Link and Asset actions
• New header design with custom logo option (please provide feedback, we plan an even better version for v5.0)
• Improved sorting behavious in search requests with some small UI tweaks
• Configuration (in config.js) - see the documentation for details:
  • Removed deprecated options and related functionality for redirectLegacyUrls and stacProxyUrl
  • Renamed maxItemsPerPage to maxEntriesPerPage
  • Split config option itemsPerPage into searchResultsPerPage, itemsPerPage, collectionsPerPage
  • allowedDomains accepts more patterns
  • Config option preprocessSTAC now receives a stac-js object as parameter
  • New config option catalogImage to provide an logo for the header
• Bug fixes, for example:
  • Search results display order did not match API response order #621
  • Fix number formatting in international English #639
  • Fix compatibility for OGC APIs #646
  • Make popovers work on MacOS (Safari) #655
  • Show links to prev/next/latest versions if deprecated is not set

v3.3.5

Added

• New Indonesian locale #595
• Better action documentation #354
• Add ThreePipe and NASA-AMMOS 3DTilesRendererJS action #565

Removed

• Removed GeoParquet action for now #354
• Remove geofox.ai action #565

Changed

• Time selection in filters: hide = and ≠ operators for datetimes #569
• Improvements for the actions #354
• Also use getApiCollectionsLink() when detecting the search link #605

Fixed

• Fix logout page redirect after re-login #570
• Fix endless loop for misconfigured catalogUrls #580
• Resubmitting the Search button didn't have any effect #603
• Update stac-migrate and stac-node-validator to fix validation errors reported only in stac-browser #504
• Fix basic http authentication detection #611
• Reset loaded API Collections when encountering a link with rel type data #617
• Updated dependencies
• Updated locales

v3.3.4

• Added Arabic (ar) locale (#571) - (upgrade: add ar to the config option locales in config.js to enable Arabic)
• Add new option 'maxItemsPerPage' (#563) - (upgrade: add the config option maxItemsPerPage to the config.js)
• Fixed unnecessary API requests (#560)
• Fixed redirect to logout page after re-login (#570)
• Updated locales

New Contributors

• @vprivat-ads made their first contribution in #563
• @scottyhq made their first contribution in #566
• @randa-11295 made their first contribution in #571

Full Changelog: v3.3.3...v3.3.4

v3.3.3

• Better implementation of the alternate asset extension
• Better implementation of the storage extension
• Updated stac-fields and stac-node-validator
• Don't throw error if points are shown on a Marker Layer instead of polygons #554
• Updated translations for various languages

v3.3.2

• Fix that the page was scrolling to the top when expanding assets or item assets
• BREAKING: Remove GDAL VFS specifics, so all GDAL /vsi... urls in STAC items are not treated special anymore as they are actually invalid according to the STAC specification v1.1.0

Full Changelog: v3.3.1...v3.3.2

v3.3.1

Bugfix release for STAC Browser v3.3.0:

• More actions for cesium (3Dtiles geofox), potree, static meshes (f3d), pmtiles, geoparquet (#465)
• Load queryables for Collections and Items only where applicable
• Minor fixes around asset handling
• Fix various style issues with pagination and filters
• Editorial changes in the documentation and updated translations

New Contributors

• @jo-chemla made their first contribution in #465
• @SergeCroise made their first contribution in #540

Full Changelog: v3.3.0...v3.3.1

v3.3.0

STAC Browser v3.3.0 has been released!

The upgrade may need changes to existing config files, which are detailed below and are highlighted in bold.

Major improvements

• Support for STAC v1.1.0
• New locales
  (upgrade: updated config option locales in config.js):
  • Portuguese (pt) by @psacra (the former Brazilian Portuguese is available as pt-BR)
  • English (en) is more international and less US-centric (use en-US and en-GB for specific US or UK locales)
• New implementation of the authentication extension, supporting OpenID Connect, HTTP Basic and API keys via header or query parameter
  (upgrade: update config option authConfig in config.js)
• Add more social sharing services (Bluesky, Mastodon)
• Allow to disable social sharing services
  (upgrade: add config option socialSharing: ['email', 'bsky', 'mastodon', 'x'], to config.js)

Minor improvements

• Assets can be downloaded using other HTTP methods
• Support for file:local_path (provides more meaningful filename for downloads)
• User settings can be stored in multiple places (more robust implementation)
• Improved support for the alternate asset extension
• Config options that are objects can be passed via CLI/ENV
• Updated dependencies
• Various bug fixes

Deprecated

• The config options stacProxyUrl and redirectLegacyUrls have been deprecated for removal in a future version

New Contributors and Sponsors

• @Keenan-Nicholson made their first contribution in #434
• @uba made their first contribution in #435
• @psacra made their first contribution in #436
• @alekzvik made their first contribution in #512
• @alukach made their first contribution in #461
• @JanssenBrm made their first contribution in #537

Some of the functionality is funded by the following organizations (ordered alphabetically):

• CloudFerro
• Matthias Mohr - Softwareentwicklung

Full Changelog: v3.2.0...v3.3.0

v3.2.0

I gladly present STAC Browser 3.2.0. The upgrade may need changes to existing config files, which are detailed below and are highlighted in bold.

Major improvements

• Alternate Asset support #247
• WMS support for web-map-links extension by @m-mohr in #382
• Metadata for links by @m-mohr in #382
• JS-based validation with results by @m-mohr in #412
• Docker
  • Github Action to create Docker image by @tschumpr in #392
  • Various improvements for Docker image
• Histogram is displayed for all applicable assets #385
• New locales (upgrade: need to be added manually to locales in config.js):
  • British English (en-GB) by @m-mohr in #410
  • Japanese (ja) by @tmokmss in #417
• Show JPEG/PNG images on map when role overview is set, regardless of whether thumbnail is set or not.
• s3:// links not always titled as being from "Amazon". Defaults to S3, can be customized via language file. #408
• Allow to show keywords in cards (upgrade: new boolean options in config.js named showKeywordsInItemCards and showKeywordsInCatalogCards)
• Add filter for keywords in catalog overview

Minor improvements

• Fix thumbnail ordering in Chrome #370
• Made Search more robust against wrong search links
• Fix the keywords rendering for Items
• Fix sortby format for search POST by @juliayun23 in #406
• Fix that Source pop up doesn't remains open #405
• Catalogs/Collections overview: Clarify what we filter by
• Switching language didn't get applied in all cases #428
• Fix z-index issue for various search components
• Show better message for empty results that occur when following a next link. #426
• Updated dependencies
• Code refactoring and minor bug fixes

Removed or Deprecated

• Removed cogeo.xyz action #368 - upgrade: CoGeoXyz and the corresponding import need to be removed from
  assetActions.config.js
• Removed stacLint option from config - upgrade: can be removed from config.js

New Contributors and Sponsors

• @tschumpr made their first contribution in #392
• @juliayun23 made their first contribution in #406
• @tmokmss made their first contribution in #417

Some of the functionality is funded by the following organizations (ordered alphabetically):

• CloudFerro
• Matthias Mohr - Softwareentwicklung
• SpaceBel
• Tensing

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.2.0

v3.1.0

Added

• Collection Search
• Free-Text Search (q parameter)
• Allow changing configuration without rebuilding from source - [Documentation]
• Pluggable/Extendable interface that allows additional "actions" for Assets and Links (e.g. open a COPC asset in the COPC Viewer) - [Documentation]
• Stats extension, visualized as charts
• Show implemented conformance classes
• Render histograms (raster extension) as bar charts
• Global Item Search: Autocomplete for Collection IDs
• Show providers that are exposed in the Collection summaries
• STAC Browser can be configured through environment variables (SB_{option}, e.g. SB_catalogUrl) - [Documentation]
• Display ID in Source information

Changed

• PRIVACY: Don't send validation requests if not allowed/secure!
• Show source (non-cloud-optimized) GeoTiffs for labels
• Search results show the total number of matches instead of the page size (if available)
• Correctly restrict access to external STAC files if configured
• Remove various workarounds for older versions of stac-fastapi
• Translations are now managed in Crowdin: https://crowdin.com/project/stac-browser/
• Upgraded dependencies (e.g. stac-fields)
• Various minor fixes and improvements
• Don't reset map status when paginating
• Updated OSM basemap URL
• Don't reset item filters when hidden (in the Collection view)

Removed

• BREAKING: stacProxyUrl can't be separated with ; in CLI anymore, use spaces instead. - [Documentation]

Docker

• Smaller image size
• Use nginx as base image and server
• Runtime configuration enabled in Docker image

Documentation

• Added information about URL rewriting in history mode. Please make sure URL rewriting is configured at your host! - [Documentation]
• Added release process - [Documentation]