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June 2026 Release Notes

The following list of new features, updates, and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 26.05 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.

New features

Commodity Balance Visualization (DATA-5335)

Created new Visualizations that display commodity balance data to show the stability of a country’s food supply system over time and the factors driving changes in supply and demand.

Trade Visualization (DATA-5336)

Created a Visualization that displays both formal and informal trade data over time (e.g., imports/exports by commodity, partner country, or time period).

Updates

Update Geographic Unit import (DATA-5155)

Made the following updates to the import of Geographic Units in FDW:

  • The data_source_document field is required.

  • The Geographic Unit Set can be created upon upload using the Data Source Document name and country if it does not exist.

  • The latitude and longitude can be edited using the upload file.

  • The description field can now be included in the upload.

Visit the FDW Knowledge Base for updated guidance on uploading markets and IDP camps.

Investigate limiting order_by parameters to only indexed fields (DATA-5232)

Limited the fields that can be used for the ?ordering= parameter when pulling Geographic Units from the API in order to prevent bot traffic.

Blank static maps in PDFs after resaving report nodes DATA-5332

Improved readiness checks to prevent incomplete rendering of static maps in the website-generated report PDFs.

Add Crop Season Type (DATA-5407)

Added a new Crop season_type to support modeling crop production estimates. For Crop seasons, the start_month will be planting start month, and the end_month will be the harvest end month.

FDE updates

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

Global updates

  • Added links to the Data Explorer release blog subscription option on the FEWS NET website using a one-time popup and a button on the user profile page (DATA-4757).

  • Updated the user profile page to improve the display of user permissions and the button request permissions (DATA-5275).

  • Improved the accessibility of tables by adding programmatic descriptions. This fixed issues with screen readers skipping column headings when reading out a data row (DATA-4991).

  • Updated field labels to follow best practices for accessibility (DATA-5236).

Explore data updates

  • Adjusted the naming convention of Crop file downloads to be more descriptive, using the format crop_data_[countryname]/[regionname] (DATA-4405).

  • Updated the Metadata tab to display on the Explore data topic pages when large numbers of Data Series are selected (DATA-5235).

  • Updated permissions to make the Humanitarian Food Assistance topic page visible to all FEWS NET project staff (DATA-5289).

Visualizations updates

  • Added contextual links to the FDE Knowledge Base from the Visualization builder templates to help users select parameters (DATA-4966).

  • Made style and functionality updates to the Visualizations search and filter header (DATA-5054).

  • Added the ability to delete saved Visualizations (DATA-5090).

  • Refined the Save Visualization popover, including adding a choice between saving and viewing the Visualization or saving and creating another Visualization (DATA-5091).

  • Improved the selection of parameters when building Visualizations by automatically applying the correct day of the month upon selection of a month and year, and displaying country and region names rather than codes (DATA-5095) (DATA-5345).

  • Updated the filters for the Commodity Import Export Annual Bar Chart (DATA-5229). See the guidance in the FDE Knowledge Base for details on building this Visualization.

Bugs

Visualization dashboards with the period date global parameter field added were not always showing the Copy link button in the top right corner. The Copy link button now displays consistently.

Update a couple of Spanish translations (DATA-5392)

Updated several Spanish translations for the Acute Food Insecurity Classification Map Visualizations.

Caching issue with PandasRenderer responses DATA-5425

Corrected a caching issue caused when the “results” attribute of the paginated API response is returned as a generator, returning an incorrect number of results. Requests are now returning data as expected.