Release notes for August 18, 2026
Wildbook 10.12 is about the matching workflow: getting bulk re-identification through much faster and making sure that confirming a match does what you asked.
Two old bugs that quietly created duplicate individuals are gone: confirming a positive match to an individual with a human-readable ID (like TZ-173) no longer clones it, and typing an existing ID into the encounter page’s “Add to existing individual ID” field now attaches the encounter instead of minting a second individual with the same name.
Search got attention too. Quicksearch ranks by relevance again, individuals now inherit their species from their encounters (so quicksearch and individual search stop showing blank species lines), and filtering individual search by a subspecies returns that subspecies instead of every individual in the database. Bulk imports index encounters after their thumbnails exist, so newly imported encounters no longer show broken images in search results. Field reporters get their free-text locality box back on the React report page, entered dates and times are stored exactly as typed instead of shifting with the server’s timezone, and logged-in researchers can once again edit encounters submitted by the public.
You can find more details here.
Wildbook DOI for August release
Wildbook updates:
- Batch prospect encounter loads in match-result serialization (follow-up to #1676) #1677
- Parallel bulk re-identification (iaMatchThreads, default 1) #1684
- Validate search pagination against index max_result_window; retry queryPit only on stale PIT #1682
- Add verbatimLocality field to React report encounter page #1687
Bug fixes:
- Allow logged-in users to edit public encounters #1655
- Fix no-op single-id updateStandardChildrenBackground overload #1674
- Fix bulk import index ordering after media derivatives #1673
- Apply Search ID: durable DB-backed stored queries + frontend fixes (#1500) #1686
- Restore matchability of spot-crop (unity) annotations on the React Encounter page #1656
- Fix Shepherd/JDO connection leaks causing stuck dbconnections entries #1553
- Fix legacy user accounts with email-as-UUID blocking project membership (#1545) #1546
- fix(report): preserve civil encounter date-times #1688
- Fix COCO export timeouts with temp file approach #1529
- fix(match): link to existing individual by primary key, not just UUID (#1305) #1689
- fix(ia): exclude subspecies from Manual Annotation IA-class dropdown (#1298) #1690
- Fix quicksearch ordering: rank by relevance, not id sort #1697
- fix: resolve existing individuals by name when assigning IDs to encounters (#1318) #1698
- Fix OpenSearch index staleness when encounters assigned to individuals #1547
- fix(ia): restore species→iaClass mapping for spot-map annotations #1699
- Fix silent no-op deep reindex for newly created individuals in assignFromIAAPI #1704
- fix(config): size the DBCP2 connection pool with maxActive #1708
- fix(individuals): inherit taxonomy from encounters so quicksearch shows a species (#1113) #1709
- fix(encounter): sort Individual ID typeahead results by name descending #1716
- bugfix: allow for 2 or more taxonomy words (sub-species) in Individual search #1719
- tiny tweak to get sort order of names correct #1725
- Fix taxonomy-backfill JSP: DataNucleus misparses POSIX regex classes as named SQL parameters #1726
Development updates:
- Match repo to optimized production settings #1670
- Enable GET /api/v3/individuals/{id} with proper view ACL #1633
- feat(ia): WBIA annotation reconciliation sweep #1710
- Migrate Social Diagram reads to secured /api/v3/individuals/info/social-data #1635
- Shut down bulkOpensearchIndex executor after its single task #1675
- Vector-match throughput: batch prospect loads, stateless match search, configurable IA concurrency #1676