v4.9.0

• CHG Germplasm display name: Germinate will now prefer the 'display name' over the internal unique identifier when exporting or visualizing data. The 'display name' is set during import using the 'ACCENAME' field in the MCPD. If none is specified Germinate will automatically use 'ACCENUMB' as the display name.
• CHG Improved data import feedback: Where appropriate, import status errors can now occur multiple times. Prevously each error type was only shown a single time to prevent huge lists of errors when thousands of issues are found in the input file. Now some error types - those we don't expect to see in huge numbers - can be reported back multiple times.
• CHG New command-line interface: Germinate now offers a complete command-line interface (CLI). Currently, this supports data import via the Germinate Data Templates. Please refer to the CLI documentation for more information.
• CHG QBMS support: Germinate now supports QMBS (starting with QBMS v2.0.0), an R package used to interact with BrAPI data providers. Find out more on the QBMS Germinate page.
• CHG Big dependency update: Updated lots of dependencies behind the scenes.

v4.8.4

• CHG: Added more support for data visualizations for different data types of climate/environmental data.
• FIX: Fixed an issue with the climate data import for non-numeric values.

v4.8.2

• FIX: Fixed an issue with the trials data import and the newly introduced 'is timeseries' flag.

v4.8.1

• FIX: Fixed an issue with the trials data import and the newly introduced 'is timeseries' flag.

v4.8.0

• NEW Project support: Germinate now supports projects. These introduce another level of data grouping above experiments. When projects are selected via the web interface, Germinate will only show data related to the selected projects.
• NEW Radar, bubble and heatmap charts: For categorical trait data, we've added radar, bubble and heatmap charts to visualize the data for a selection of germplasm entries against a subset of the traits.
• NEW Institution datasets information: The data statistics page now contains a table that breaks lists the number of datasets per data type for each institution to show their contribution to the overall database.
• NEW WYSIWYG editor: Added a 'what you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG) editor to the home and about page so that administrators can edit the page content through the web interface.
• NEW Trait enhancements: Added trait reference image functionality as well as information about trait set size (how many measurements per subject) and timeseries flag to traits.
• CHG Dependency update: Updated to Java 21 LTS, Node 22 LTS and Gradle 8.8.
• FIX Various bugfixes: Fixed various issues across the board but including data import, dataset editing and trait data export.

v4.7.4

- CHG: Version bump for bugfix release.

v4.7.3

- CHG: Version bump for bugfix release.

v4.7.2

- CHG: Version bump for bugfix release.

v4.7.1

This update mainly adds some Tomcat security features.

v4.7.0

• NEW Data stories: Data stories are a convenient way to showcase some of the data in your Germinate database and make it easy to follow pre-defined steps highlighting specifics of your data.
• NEW Interface selection persistency: To make it easier to share the view you're currently seeing including selections, we have added more selection parameters to the URL. This also helps with the data stories.
• NEW Hidden page auto-discovery: Germinate can now automatically discover which interface pages should be hidden based on the data you currently have in your database. As an example, if you don't have genotypic data, the maps, markers and genotypic export pages will automatically be hidden until you upload genotypic data.
• NEW Theme-based map tiles: As the new default, we have added theme-based map tiles to Germinate to make any data overlays pop even more.
• NEW Trials data coloring: Trials data scatter plots can now be colored by location, so for multi-site trials, you can highlight each location individually.
• FIX Map positions: There was a bug affecting the display of genotypic marker positions in the map details table. This has been fixed.