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Message:	InPort Release 5.0.1 Downtime: Tuesday, December 28 @ 11:00am - 12:30pm Eastern. InPort and its associated services will be under maintenance and unavailable for the deployment of InPort Release 5.0.1. Downtime Schedule Tuesday, December 28, 2021 11:00am - 12:30pm Eastern / 8:00am - 9:30am Pacific / 6:00am - 7:30am Hawaii Impacted Areas - InPort Website: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport - InPort WAF: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf What's New in InPort 5.0.1 This patch consists of various minor enhancements and bug fixes across the application. For more details, please consult the Release Notes below. Call for Feedback on History Reports The InPort Steering group is currently in discussion on ways to revamp and improve Catalog Item History and User History reports in InPort. We would greatly appreciate feedback from the user community on how to improve these features. Please contact us to share your thoughts! Notification of Deprecation - Custom ISO 19115 Upload The custom ISO 19115 upload feature has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. This feature allows a user to supply their own custom file as the ISO 19115-2 export for an InPort metadata record in InPort, rather than relying on the automatically-generated export. This was originally implemented as a provisional feature, when InPort did not natively support all of the sections and fields in ISO commonly used across NMFS and NOS. As all of these elements have been implemented in InPort since then (and have been available for many years), this feature should no longer be needed to ensure metadata completeness in ISO 19115. Our metrics suggest that this feature is not being actively used, but if you have been considering it for the future, or if you have legacy records that still need to transition off this feature, please contact us so we can provide further assistance. InPort 5.0.1 Release Notes * IP-3253, IP-3284 - Improved security of the web application. * IP-3254 - Added controlled attribute examples to XML Loader documentation. * IP-3255 - Improved handling of special characters in search. * IP-3268 - Added version parameters to all static includes. * IP-3269, IP-3274, IP-3275, IP-3276 - Fixed assorted mobility issues. * IP-3270 - Added no-opener attributes to external target links. * IP-3272 - Updated sitemap.xml for more efficient crawling. * IP-3277 - Removed instances of modal dialogs. * IP-3283 - Fixed an issue in the XML Loader when processing keywords in multiple groups.

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InPort Admin

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All Users

Message:

InPort Release 5.0.1 Downtime: Tuesday, December 28 @ 11:00am - 12:30pm Eastern.

InPort and its associated services will be under maintenance and unavailable for the deployment of InPort Release 5.0.1.

Downtime Schedule

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

11:00am - 12:30pm Eastern / 8:00am - 9:30am Pacific / 6:00am - 7:30am Hawaii

Impacted Areas

- InPort Website: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport

- InPort WAF: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf

What's New in InPort 5.0.1

This patch consists of various minor enhancements and bug fixes across the application. For more details, please consult the Release Notes below.

Call for Feedback on History Reports

The InPort Steering group is currently in discussion on ways to revamp and improve Catalog Item History and User History reports in InPort. We would greatly appreciate feedback from the user community on how to improve these features. Please contact us to share your thoughts!

Notification of Deprecation - Custom ISO 19115 Upload

The custom ISO 19115 upload feature has been deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. This feature allows a user to supply their own custom file as the ISO 19115-2 export for an InPort metadata record in InPort, rather than relying on the automatically-generated export.

This was originally implemented as a provisional feature, when InPort did not natively support all of the sections and fields in ISO commonly used across NMFS and NOS. As all of these elements have been implemented in InPort since then (and have been available for many years), this feature should no longer be needed to ensure metadata completeness in ISO 19115.

Our metrics suggest that this feature is not being actively used, but if you have been considering it for the future, or if you have legacy records that still need to transition off this feature, please contact us so we can provide further assistance.

InPort 5.0.1 Release Notes

* IP-3253, IP-3284 - Improved security of the web application.

* IP-3254 - Added controlled attribute examples to XML Loader documentation.

* IP-3255 - Improved handling of special characters in search.

* IP-3268 - Added version parameters to all static includes.

* IP-3269, IP-3274, IP-3275, IP-3276 - Fixed assorted mobility issues.

* IP-3270 - Added no-opener attributes to external target links.

* IP-3272 - Updated sitemap.xml for more efficient crawling.

* IP-3277 - Removed instances of modal dialogs.

* IP-3283 - Fixed an issue in the XML Loader when processing keywords in multiple groups.