July 16, 2026
We are pleased to announce a new version of FAIRDOM-SEEK is now available, which is version 1.18.1
This is a patch release that includes some bug fixes and improvements, including:
- Inline document preview, previously only available on Presentation pages, is now also available for SOPs, Documents, Data files and File templates.
- Institution pages now show a link to the full ROR profile, rather than just the ROR ID.
- SEEK now fails fast with a clear error if the database is unreachable at startup, rather than silently falling back to defaults and causing confusing behaviour.
- Improved database performance for Samples, through additional indexes.
- CSV files with non-UTF-8 encodings are now handled gracefully, rather than causing an error.
- DataHub improvements including:
- Units can now be set, and locked, on attributes in global ISA sample type templates.
- Fixes to registered Data files, Strains and SOPs not appearing correctly in the experiment view.
- Fixes to applying Extended Study Templates when creating an Assay.
- WorkflowHub improvements including:
- Updated support for the RO-Crate 1.3 specification.
- Better validation and error handling when adding files to Git-backed workflow versions.
- A fix to an error that prevented new workflow versions being submitted.
CITATION.cfffiles are now validated before being converted to BibTeX.
- Various library and security updates.
There are several more changes, details of which can be found in the 1.18.1 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