CKAN 2.8.2, 2.7.5 and 2.6.7 patch releases now available
The CKAN technical team is happy to announce that the new patch releases for 2.8.x, 2.7.x and 2.6.x are now available to download and install. These patch releases fix important bugs and security issues, so users should upgrade as soon as possible to the latest patch release for the CKAN version they are using. Patch...
Our Response to the Open Letter to the Open Data Community
On March 2017, the Civic Analytics Network (CAN) - a consortium of Chief Data Officers and analytics principals throughout the United States, published the Open Letter to the Open Data Community. It listed eight guidelines “that, if followed, would advance the capabilities of government data portals across the board and help deliver upon the promise...The Canadian Open Government team and the CKAN Association invite you to attend CKANCon 2018!
The Canadian Open Government team and the CKAN Association invite you to attend CKANCon 2018! CKANcon will be on September 25th from 10:00-16:00 ART the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Remote participation is also encouraged. The conference is being held as a pre-event to the International Open Data Conference (IODC18) taking place later that week. What is...CKAN patch release 2.8.1 now available
We are happy to announce that the new patch release for 2.8.x is now available to download and install. This patch release fix important bugs and security issues, so users should upgrade as soon as possible to the latest patch release for the CKAN version they are using. Patch release upgrades are very straight-forward and...New CKAN version 2.8.0 released, patch versions for 2.5.x, 2.6.x and 2.7.x available
The CKAN team is happy to announce the release of the latest CKAN version, 2.8.0. We have released patch versions for CKAN 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7, which as ever users are strongly encouraged to apply. CKAN 2.8 This is a release that comes packed with lots of fixes and improvements to make CKAN more flexible...
Make Open Data discoverable for search engines
Note: this is a crosspost, originally published on the Liip Blog. Open Data portals are a great way to discover datasets and present them to the public. But they lack interoperability and it’s thus even harder to search across them. Imagine if you’re looking for a dataset it’s just a simple “google search” away. Historically...
Starting work towards the upcoming 2.8 release
The tech team has started the process for stabilizing the upcoming 2.8 release. In practical terms this means a new dev-v2.8 branch that will eventually become the released version. Over the next following weeks we need as much testing as possible to ensure we catch any issues. To give 2.8 beta a try you can...Latest CKAN patch releases now available
We are happy to announce that the new patch releases for 2.5.x, 2.6.x and 2.7.x are now available to download and install (2.5.8, 2.6.5 and 2.7.3). These patch releases fix important bugs and security issues, so users should upgrade as soon as possible to the latest patch release for the CKAN version they are using. Patch release upgrades are very straight-forward and do not contain any...