Roadmap and Releases

The Arches Roadmap highlights current and upcoming releases, detailing ongoing and planned development of Arches features and capabilities. Information on past releases, with links to release notes, is also included.

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For the most up-to-date roadmap information, visit the Feature Roadmap in the Arches GitHub repository. If you are interested in the development of specific features, enhancement or bug fixes, please see the Issues log in the Arches GitHub repository.

If you have any questions, please post them to the Community Forum or email the Arches Team at contact@archesproject.org.

 

Summary

 

Latest Version: Version 7.6 LTS

Arches Version 7.6 LTS was released on September 30, 2024. This long-term support release includes important new features and performance improvements, with security enhancements, support for plugins, and new bulk import and concept editing capabilities. For more information, visit the full release notes.

 

On the horizon: planned development

Currently, development on Arches is focused on the following initiatives:

  • Arches Lingo, Reference Data Application (release date: June 15, 2025)

 

Seeking support

The following development initiatives have been identified as potential additions to the Arches development roadmap, but are not yet funded:

 

Acknowledgements

While the majority of Arches development is funded by the Getty Conservation Institute, we would like to acknowledge the instances in which so many other organizations have funded development that is now available to the entire Arches community.

 

Current Releases

Version

Release Date

Selected Github Issues Addressed

Release Notes

7.6 LTS

September 30, 2024

  • Adds Github actions to build apps, run tests, and compare coverage between branches for projects

  • Provides a programming interface for developing front-end features in Vue

  • Replaces yarn with npm

  • Adds frontend and Python testing for projects

  • Re-architects search to be fully component-based

  • Adds a JSON-LD bulk import module

  • Adds a Bulk Concept Editor to bulk data manager

  • Adds pluggable permission frameworks and the option to use default deny instance permissions

  • Adds the unlocalized string datatype

  • Supports development of plugin templates without the default header and side navigation (standalone plugins)

  • Allows users to upload shapefiles in the map editor

  • Allows users to use a resource instance geometry as a search filter

  • Removes the size limit of geometries that can be indexed by Elasticsearch

6.2.6

December 15, 2023

  • Fixes is required constraint of resource instance and file-list nodes #10077

  • Fixes undefined graph error in resource instance widget #10152

  • Adds missing file renderers to project template #10171

  • Fixes multiple EDTF nodes in single card used in advanced search returning too many records #10202

  • Fixes error when handling multiple subcard levels in search export #10214

  • Fixes multiple EDTF nodes in single card used in advanced search returning too many records #10202

  • Fixes edtf advanced search error message #10309

  • Disallows selection of concepts outside of a collection in concept widget #10308

  • Sorts resources in resource instance dropdown #10305

  • Upgrades Django from 3.2.21 to 3.2.23

  • Removes broken double click handler in search timewheel #10324

  • Restricts access to system settings endpoint #10319

  • Rate limits requests to authentication endpoints #10323

AfS 1.1

January 18, 2024

Documentation for Arches for Science is in progress.
 

 

Upcoming Releases

Version

Release Date

Key Features

Notes

8.0

June 15, 2025

  • Support for editing and publishing graphs without having to remove resource instances

  • Support for viewing and restoring previous graph publications

  • Support for configuring currently published graphs

  • Support for search by resource relationship

  • Implementation of Controlled List Manager and reference data type

  • Persistent URIs for resource instance data

  • Implementation of logical deletion of resources

  • Bulk Data Manager CLI interface 


Arches Lingo v1

June 15, 2025

  • New reference data application

9.0

September 15, 2027

  • Full migration to Vue

Unfunded:

  • Full migration to Vue

 

Past Releases

Version

Release Date

Release Notes

7.5

December 15, 2023

7.4.3

December 19, 2023

AfS 1.0

December 15, 2023

Arches for Science: webpage | GitHub repository

7.4.2

October 2, 2023

7.4.1

August 3, 2023

7.4.0

June 15, 2023

7.3.0

January 2023

7.2.1

December 2022

7.2.0

November 2022

7.1.1

September 2022

7.1.0

September 2022

7.0

August 2022

6.2.5

October 2, 2023

6.2.4

August 3, 2023

6.2.3

April 2023

6.2.2

February 2023

6.2.1

October 2022

6.2.0

October 2022

6.1.2

November 2022

6.1

June 2022

6.0

September 2022

5.1.4

March 2021

5.1.3

March 2021

5.1.1

March 2021

5.1

October 2020

5.0

January 2020

4.4.3

November 2019

4.4.2

June 2019

4.4.1

February 2019

4.3

August 2018

4.2

June 2018

4.1

January 2018

4.0

October 2017

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Last updated: September 2024