Here’s a list of iNat updates for August 2021. Big thanks to @forum_moderators for tracking these!
General
- Changes to limits on taxonomy editing (see main topic)
- Major behind-the-scenes software upgrade
- Stop informing user when email doesn’t exist for password reset for security purposes
- Continued work on API v2
- Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps - you can help
Website
- Users can now flag a place for curation
- Observations of taxon descendants now reindexed when the parent taxon changes
- Now less confusing for curators to create species complexes (see bug report)
Android
- Improvements to computer vision suggestions
- Accessibility support/improvements
- Better date/time imports from HEIF images
- Crash fixes for older Android versions
iOS
- Progress toward version 3.2.2
Seek
- August Challenge released
- Added Greek language support
- When posting to iNaturalist, Seek now checks whether the taxon is inactive and either rolls it up to the nearest common ancestor or replaces the taxon with a single swapped taxon
- Bug fixes
iNat Blog
- August 2nd: Identifier Profile: @kai_schablewski
- August 5th: An American Pika Doing its Thing
- August 10th: It’s Not a Goat, It’s a Japanese Serow!
- August 17th: A Northern Goshawk Flies Off with a Eurasian Coot
- August 24th: Cerratapalooza
- August 27th: Meet Lisette Arellano (ten_salamanders), an iNaturalist Monthly Supporter
- August 31st: Spinner Sharks!
For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.