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October 2024 Release Notes

The following list of updates and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 24.10 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.

Updates

Resolve spatial representation of IPC data for remote monitoring countries (DATA-819)

Remote monitoring countries were added to the regional Shapefile packages served by FDW, with updated symbology and README files.

Implement a broken link check report for CKAN (DATA-2933)

A Luigi Task periodically checks across CKAN to determine whether any resource URLs linking to FDW are broken.

More useable implementation of publication_sources field in FDE metadata (DATA-3732)

Improved the publication_sources field in the Metadata tab of FDE. This included repositioning it after the documents section and renaming the DATASOURCEDOCUMENT NAME column to SOURCE DOCUMENT NAME.

Follow up on Market Functions (DATA-4030)

Updated the structure of trade routes so that Source Market and Destination Market are now tied to the Trade Route Geographic Unit. The Trade Route Geographic Unit Type will be road.

Filter data series in FDE domains by active or inactive (DATA-4056)

Data series can now be filtered by active or inactive status in FDE using a new option in the search and filter header of the domain pages.

Add icon for submitted_by as a field for Crop in the metadata endpoint (DATA-4090)

Added an icon to allow the new submitted_by field to render correctly in FDE.

Allowing saving of country local names for country classified products and returning them on the queries (DATA-4120)

Local names for classified products stored on CountryClassifiedProductAliases can be returned by the API with the new used_in_country and used_in_country_group filters that were added to ClassifiedProductViewSet.

Trigger Reset to default button when Use market-level Exchange Rates is selected (DATA-4126)

The Reset to defaults button will now appear in the Customize sidebar of the FDE Prices domain when the Use market-level Exchange Rates option is selected.

Support administrative hierarchy for crop regions (DATA-4148)

FDW now supports administrative levels for Crop Production Units through the addition of new Unit Types.

Bugs

No error for taken username (DATA-4047)

The error messages during account creation in FDE have been updated to clearly indicate when a username is already taken.

FAO price ingestion failure (DATA-4105)

The FAO price ingestion pipeline failure recurring due to metadata mismatches was repaired. The pipeline now runs successfully.

Issue of selecting and clearing the Admin 2 units of the HFA Domain (DATA-4138)

Selected Admin 2 units in the Geographic filter of the Humanitarian Food Assistance Domain in FDE did not show as selected in the filter dropdown list and could not be cleared from the filter box as expected. Selecting the Admin 2 units now works as expected.

Clear selections button is not clearing the selected values of the Data Usage Policy filter of the FIC Domain (DATA-4152)

The Clear sections button was not clearing the selected values of the Data Usage Policy filter of the Acute Food Insecurity Classifications Domain in FDE. The selected values can now be cleared from the filter box.

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