October 15, 2025
We are pleased to announce a new version of FAIRDOM-SEEK is now available, which is version 1.17.1
This is a patch release that includes some important bug fixes and improvements, in particular:
- A minor update to Rails (7.2.2.2) and various libraries for bug and security fixes.
- An update to use version 2 of the ROR API.
- Projects can now specify scientific disciplines, which can then be used for filtering. The disciplines are defined by the OpenAlex classification.
- There is now a check that creators exist before creating a DOI, notifying the user if missing to avoid an error.
- A fix to prevent errors occurring following the deletion of a Collection avatar.
- UI improvement to allow multiple lines of copyright text to be configured.
- UI improvements to the registration page, when there are third-party authentication options configured (e.g. LS Login).
- Licenses are now displayed to also include the short form, which is sometimes more familiar to users.
- Fix to correctly display the preview of the name of a Creator when typing.
- Fix to an incorrect date being displayed when close to a timezone difference.
- Improvements and fixes to manually providing Publication authors, including now searching for registered users and better support for pasting a comma separated list.
- WorkflowHub improvements including:
- Scientific disciplines are propagated from Projects (Teams) to Workflows automatically.
- Workflow RO-Crate fixes to include datePublished, and removed WorkflowSketch as the type.
- DataHub improvements including:
- Dynamic Table improvements.
- JSON-ISA export fixes.
- Units should be transferred from Templates to Sample Types.
- Added ISA compliance as a filtering option.
- Assay stream fixes.
- Fix for downloading samples as Excel.
More details about the changes can be found in the 1.17.1 Release Notes.
Details on installing SEEK can be found in our Documentation, at https://docs.seek4science.org/get-seek.html – including running with Docker.
The upgrade guide can be found in the usual place at https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/upgrading.html