Release notes for May 6, 2026
This Wildbook update brings a long-needed redesign to the matching page as well as improvements to detection and spot-mapping.
Wildbook DOI for May release
Match results page update and matching improvements
- Redesigned match result page #1369
- Optimized Modified Groth for Spot Mapping #1473, #1526
- Faster detections #1530
- Added Spot mapping links to encounter page #1538
- Initial support of vectors and embeddings #1328
- Bugfix: Site setting vector fix #1561
New export option
- Export COCO file for machine learning training #1425
- Optimize COCO export streaming for larger datasets #1433
- Populating NaNs in COCO export #1466
Bug fixes
- Allow hour and minute to be 0 #1432
- Display individual name instead of UUID in quick search bar #1421
- Display location name instead of ID in encounter page #1431
- Remove timeout limit to reduce false logouts #1450
- Fix issue when overlaid annotations are unclickable #1454
- Add loading icon when a drop-down menu doesn’t populate data quickly #1446
- Fix search for Encounter.alternateID that prevented results from displaying #1453
- Remove Twitter AssetStore reference #1447
- web.xml duplicate fix #1493
- Don’t lose subspecies on Encounter page species setter #1497
- Fix date bugs identified in ARW #1502
- Imports jsp query speedup by #1521
- Allow admins to delete any ImportTask #1510
- Persist Bulk Import table sorting across pages #1342
- Encounter page automatically refreshes when detections are ready #1537
- Add suggested individual name on encounter page #1436, #1423
- Prevent future encounter dates #1504
- Fix incorrect detection percentage display in bulk import #1438
- Fix bounding box not appearing on encounter after detection completes #1559
- Fix null contact issue on encounter page #1539
- Fix a couple test failures/errors #1544
- Fix Individual gallery permission issue #1499
- Hide invalid annotations #1488
- Validation error for projectIdPrefix / researchProjectName in bulk import #1379
- Remove link from score since we have an icon for that #1555
Development updates
- Migrating to Log4j2 and Alloy to support aggregated logs with Loki #1426
- Add Claude workflow #1455
- Update authentication token in claude.yml #1460
- Update API token in Claude Code Review workflow #1461
- Update yml files to control who and when can use Claude code #1468
- Updated Privacy Policy and User Agreement #1402