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]

v3.1.0-rc.1

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]

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

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

Documentation

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

v3.0.2

Added

• Added sorting option for catalogs and items (cardViewSort) -> make sure to update your config file!
• Improved additional filters in search: choose between AND / OR
• Support for POST search (defaults to POST now)
• Cards to the parent collections are also shown for catalogs and collections

Changed

• Show child links before collections for distraction free infinite scrolling
• Improved URL generation #319 #326
• Send Accept header to enforce correct response media type
• The search link must be application/geo+json opengeospatial/ogcapi-features#832
• Apply allowedDomains to both headers and query parameters #313
• Rewrote CQL generation
• Improved UI for additional filters in search

Fixed

• Expand/Collapse in Tree easier to do
• Better layout for catalogs with thumbnails
• Make asset copy/open behavior consistent #332
• Clarify in README that since v3.0.0 environment variables for configuration are not supported
• Fix the image aspect ratio in the catalog list view #318
• Set thumbnail size for b-card-img-lazy component
• Fix sort for search
• Added further documentation for translation and metadata customization
• other minor fixes and clean-up

v3.0.1

• For the common case of Bearer tokens, allow to just provide a "Bearer" string in the authentication config (instead of a formatter function)
• Fix computed properties in the StacHeader component
• Fix "Show on map" button for GeoJSON #312
• Search:
  • Handle the bounding box filter better in search #300
  • Remove the Filter extension workaround for invalid stac-fastapi implementations (if "additional filters" don't show up for you, check your stac-fastapi version)
  • Don't fail if non-Items are in the ItemCollection returned by search, ignore them instead. This may happen in OGC API - Records implementations such as pycsw.
  • Show LIKE (matches) operator in "additional filters" only if the CQL advanced comparison operators are exposed in the conformance classes of the API
  • Queryables were not always correctly loaded (due to a superfluous resetCatalog event)

v3.0.0

• Fix issue with overly long words in card descriptions
• Fix CQL-Text filter with quotes around numbers #294
• rel="item" links broken when STACBROWSER follows them #298
• Upgrade dependencies

v3.0.0-rc.1

First release candidate, feature-freeze.

• Show file formats in Collection cards
• Allow to configure non-OSM basemaps #289
• catalogUrl can be provided through a function #287
• Minor bugfixes, improvements etc.

v3.0.0-beta.9

• Improved the translations
• Improved documentation
• Enhance schema.org metadata + SEO
• Fix issues with paginated collections
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

v3.0.0-beta.8

Changes

• Multi-language support added (German, Englisch, French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish)
• Improved styling (e.g. for Sidebar)
• Improved bundle size etc
• Improved SEO + schema.org metadata
• Priority mode for Collections / child links
• Fixed issue in sidebar where elements were not loading
• Improved handling of legacy URLs
• Extended the README
• A lot of code clean-up and minor bug fixes

Note: Some of the new features add new config entries. Please make sure to update your config files!

New Contributors

• @jfbourgon made their first contribution in #248
• @p1d1d1 made their first contribution in #267
• @mneagul made their first contribution in #272
• @rnanclares made their first contribution in #274

Full Changelog: v3.0.0-beta.7...v3.0.0-beta.8