Here’s a list of iNat updates for July 2021. Thank you for keeping track of these, @forum_moderators.
General
- New Computer Vision Model Released
- Continued work on API v2
- Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps - you can help
Website
- In Compare and the Suggestions tab on the Identify page you can now sort taxa alphabetically by scientific name
- New limits to place creation to improve site performance
- The About tab of species taxon pages indicates whether that species is in the Computer Vision model
Android
- Various bugfixes
iOS - version 3.2.1 released
- Bugfix: setting observation geoprivacy to private in the app no longer hides the true location of the observation in the edit screen
- Bugfix: in explore tab, observation details correctly shows date/time info
- Bugfix: when offline, one’s project list now loads correctly
Seek
- Challenges with less than 100% completion now show Species Nearby, filtered by taxa that a user has not already observed and by the missions they still need to complete
- Bugfix: IDs edited in Seek before posting to iNat will not display computer vision icon
iNat Blog
- July 6th: What a Sawfly Larva!
- July 13th: New Computer Vision Model
- July 13th: A Mite-y Beetle Observation
- July 15th: An Urban Backyard Observation in Mexico Spurs Description of New Tree Cricket Species!
- July 19th: New Limits to Place Creation
- July 27th: A Naturalist in Trinidad and Tobago Spots a Black-veined Hairstreak in her Backyard
- July 30th: Meet Cheng-Tao Lin (@mutolisp), an iNaturalist Monthly Supporter
For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.