Scratchpads 2.9.17 has been released. This release brings two module upgrades and fixes bugs with DOI import and Species Tabs display.

Scratchpads version 2.9.16 has been released, and all NHM-hosted sites have been updated to this latest version.

This week at the TDWG 2020 conference we presented our intention to migrate Scratchpads away from its current Drupal codebase and towards a system that’s easier to support. Part of this involves an exploration of data storage platforms that we can partner with so that our developers can focus more on the user interface.

Scratchpads version 2.9.12 has been released, and we are in the process of updating all sites to this latest version.

Scratchpads version 2.9.11 has been released, and we are in the process of updating all sites to this latest version.

The Scratchpads 2.9.8 release is a maintenance release, fixing a few minor bugs and upgrading Drupal from 7.63 to 7.67.

It's been a busy few months for the Scratchpad team. Today, we completed the deployment of Scratchpads version 2.9.7 to all sites. This was the culmination of the first six-week sprint from Ginger, who implemented the following bug fixes and features in this release:

• Fixed overlapping borders in tables (#5863 - @alycejenni)
• Search submits after clicking an autocomplete suggestion (#5869 - @alycejenni)
• Stopped the upload button jumping around (#5871 - @alycejenni)
• Fixed image display issues on species pages slideshows (#5873 - @alycejenni)
• Allow blocks to be added to main content (#5876 - @benscott)
• "Other" added to gender options in biographies (#5879 - @alycejenni)
• Hide Auto label from Admin>Structure (#5880 - @alycejenni)
• View recently opened/closed issues from sidebar (#5887 - @alycejenni)
• Italics tags allowed in biblio titles again (#5898 - @alycejenni)
• Display terms in a fallback language if not defined in current language (#5905 - @alycejenni)
• Autotag's "fields to populate" drop-down items (#5906 - @alycejenni)
• Fixed AJAX error in contact form when Antibot enabled (#5907 - @alycejenni)
• Fixed CSS issues with custom non-view blocks (#5909 - @alycejenni)
• Titles for custom blocks now display (#5910 - @alycejenni)
• Crossbrowser maps fix (#5904 - @benscott)

• Replace Google-based maps (gm3 module) ( @PaulKiddle)
• Character handling in Literature (#5831, #5803 - @benscott)
• Greek letters (#5769 - @benscott)
• Large file uploads (#5763 - @benscott)
• Performance issues (#5743 - @benscott)
• Private groups context indexing (#5699 - @benscott)
• Spam user registration (#5687 - @benscott)
• Scratchpads classification service (#5674 - @benscott)
• Taxonomy tree widget (#5657 - @benscott)
• Docker SOLR replace image ( @benscott)
• EOL services access #5688 (@benscott)
• Scratchpad sandbox offline (#5824 - @benscott)
• Scratchpads.eu stats (#5689 - @benscott)
• PHP 7.1 Docker (#5808 - @benscott)

Today we have released Scratchpads version 2.9.4 to all sites. This is the first release from the new 6-week development cycle, with Josh Humphries taking his turn to look after the Scratchpads from 1st December 2018 to 17th January 2019.

We are very pleased to announce the move to new, more powerful servers has been completed successfully. This means all Scratchpads are now running faster and will have much less downtime. And, at long last, we are again able to accept applications for new Scratchpads sites. You can sign up for a new site here, find out more about Scratchpads here, or give them a test drive on our sandbox. To our existing users, we’d like to again say thank you for your patience and resilience in sticking with the Scratchpads project through the last years of under-resourcing. It has been a huge effort to get back to this stage, and we hope now the Scratchpads are stable they will again be a worthy repository for your biodiversity data.

Due to a planned server upgrade, NHM-hosted Scratchpads will be readonly from 8am and offline between 11am and 2pm on Wednesday 20th November 2018. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause.