August 2026 Release Notes | FEWS NET Help Center

The following list of updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 26.07 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.

Updates

Update spatial resource to load p_codes (DATA-5258)

When shapefiles are uploaded for Geographic Unit Set Versions to FDW, p_codes fields are saved when values are in the shapefile.

Updates to Delete cache button (DATA-5555)

Updated the Delete cache button on the Data Collection admin page in FDW to use a cache-based lock that prevents deletion of the cached objects for specific Data Collection three minutes after a previous deletion or publish/under review action to eliminate rapid button clicks and reduce database load. The functionality was also optimized to only fetch necessary rows in order to decrease the memory needed for this operation.

Improved home page map default view country labels (DATA-5573)

Updated the FEWS NET website home page map to only show FEWS NET country labels for the default view, with all other country labels appearing when a user zooms in.

FEWS NET API updates

Create serializer for H3 or S2 format data (DATA-5024)

Updated the FEWS NET API to include cell_ids and cell_level columns in the list output when a valid cell_type query parameter of h3 or s2 is supplied.

Enforce consistency on boolean filters across all FDW API endpoints (DATA-5002)

When a boolean filters is given an empty value (e.g., has_datasourcedocuments=), it will return the same results as when set to True (e.g., has_datasourcedocuments=True).

Create a separate border points API end point (DATA-5166)

Border points can be extracted separately using the https://fdw.fews.net/api/borderpoint/ endpoint.

Data Explorer updates

The following updates were released to the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE):

Global updates

Improved error handling of input errors (DATA-5011).
Made updates to the color palette and links to align with the brand and accessibility standards (DATA-5327).
Replaced the built-in tour with a video tour, accessible from the home page and the Help dropdown options (DATA-5490).

Explore data updates

The number of selected filters is shown within the Explore data filter fields whenever a user selects more than one option (DATA-2411)
Added a Chart tab to the Crop topic page which allows breakdowns by product, season, and indicator (DATA-5482)
Updated the columns displayed in the Data Point facts table of the Acute Food Insecurity Classifications topic page (DATA-5277)
Updated the columns displayed in the Data Point facts table of the Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates topic page (DATA-5278)
Updated the columns displayed in the Data Point facts table of the Humanitarian Food Assistance topic page (DATA-5288)

Visualizations updates

Updated the appearance of the Visualization view page and the behavior of buttons (DATA-5078).
Updated the Visualization builder page with a new header showing the Visualization title (DATA-5079).
Added consistent behavior for Generate and Update buttons to display as disabled when parameters have not been set on the Visualization builder page (DATA-5080).
When editing a saved Visualization they own, users will see the title they defined, and can select to Cancel or Save Changes to their edits (DATA-5089).
After selecting to Save Changes to their saved Visualization, users can edit the title and/or description (DATA-5410).
Changed the Update chart button to Update for consistency across all Visualization builder templates (DATA-5435).

Bugs

Check FNIDs for new-line characters (DATA-5397)

Several Geographic Units stored in FDW were found to have a newline character. A new validation ensures that FNIDs only include alphanumeric characters.

Comtrade ingestion is failing when unit of measure isn’t correctly provided for historic data (DATA-5530)

The pipeline that ingests Comtrade data to FDW was not correctly identifying the unit for historic data and raising an error. The unit of measure is now correctly identified so the data can be ingested.

Fix unicode error on PDF creation for country reports (DATA-5554)

Country report PDFs on the FEWS NET website were not rendering correctly when encountering special characters (e.g., "Côte d'Ivoire"). The renderer’s font was switched to Open Sans to resolve the encoding failure with a Unicode-compatible font.

Fix Ethiopia Crop GeographicUnit Tree (DATA-5572)

The crop GeographicUnit tree was showing Ethiopia twice on the tree before Admin1s due to the Crop Level units. Crop Level0 is now treated as Admin0 in the tree view.

FDE bugs

The following bug fixes were released to the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE):

Data Sources bugs

Filtering by Country or Source Organization in the Data Sources section was also filtering on the Explore data topic pages. The filters now apply to Data Sources results only (DATA-5532).

Explore data bugs

Crop downloads were showing as crop_data_undefined. The download name no longer displays “undefined” (DATA-5517).
When selecting more than one geographic filter option, only the last one was successfully selected. Multiple options can now be selected as expected (DATA-5561).
The Clear filters button was not working for the Document Type filter on the Spatial topic page, and selecting any Data Source filter options gave an error. All filters on the topic page are now returning results and can be cleared as expected (DATA-5522).
Corrected issues with the Data Sources filter raising an error for multiple topic pages by correcting the API call used (DATA-5531).
Corrected issues with filtering by Source Document on the Humanitarian Food Assistance topic page (DATA-5565).

Visualizations bugs

The entire Visualization view page would appear blank until the data for the Visualization loaded. Now, the page UI loads before the data loads to assure users that the page is working (DATA-5495).
If a user opened a Visualization view page directly from a link, clicking the Back button would return them to the last page their browser visited. Now, the Back button takes users to the Visualizations page when there isn’t a page history within the Data Explorer (DATA-5496).
Changed the tab labels in the Visualization renderer to “Visualization” to generalize for all Visualization types (DATA-5504).
The date filter was not working consistently when editing Visualizations, due to values pre-populating in the wrong fields. Users can now edit all fields of saved Visualizations as expected (DATA-5518).
The Update button for the Advanced drawer of the Commodity Import Export Annual Bar Chart builder template was staying disabled. Advancing the numeric parameter now enables the Update button (DATA-5519).
The input for the title and descriptions when editing a Visualization was requiring the user to press the Enter button to save changes. Changes are now retained when/if a user clicks out of the title and description input fields when editing a Visualization (DATA-5538).