Internal changelog

This documentation is only visible to GBIF staff.

There are release notes on gbif.org, but some additional milestones are worth recording internally.

2024

30 January 2023: DWCA downloads no longer include non-Darwin-Core Dublin Core terms: https://github.com/gbif/occurrence/commit/7c82bcc673e2d0796d5e542666532906db66e716

2019

15 May 2019: All DWCA files are retained on NFS during crawling: https://github.com/gbif/crawler/commit/01b05e551c3bc139ba6bff02504e65a089fdbf2a

2017

17 August 2017: portal16 website deployed to www.gbif.org.

21 June 2017: gbif.org switched to new servers in the the Panum datacentre.

20 January 2017: Migration of LiveLink to Box.com completed.

2015

5-6 December 2015: Migration of GBIF email to MS365.

3 February 2015: First GBIF download with a DOI, https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.v8zc57. First dataset with a GBIF DOI, https://doi.org/10.15468/iht3z1

2013

23 September 2013: The first retained download is created, 0000222-130906152512535.

2007

19 December 2007: A dump of occurrence, dataset and publisher data is the oldest available from the MySQL-based platform. This dump is the oldest snapshot available for quarterly analytics.