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General In September 2026 the focus was on entering metadata. Nested metadata groups are now shown as a tree in the METS editor instead of being lined up next to each other, and a group is created and...

General In August 2026 the REST interfaces that had so far been provided through a plugin of their own were moved into the core and reorganised in the process – existing calls continue to work unchang...

General In July 2026 the migration to Tabler icons made a large step forward: it now also reaches those plugins whose interface is built purely in JavaScript rather than with JSF, and it covers the al...

General In June 2026 one focus was the speed of the image display: when paging quickly through the pages of a process, there used to be interruptions because the process data was reloaded with every c...

General May 2026 was dominated by security: in a broad review, the core and around forty plugins were systematically hardened against known attack patterns – from the processing of uploaded archives a...

General In April 2026, many improvements were aimed directly at day-to-day editing work: the metadata editor is more comfortable to use, the ALTO editor saves reliably in S3 installations again, and p...

General In March 2026 the focus was on improvements that are noticeable in daily work: the METS editor was enhanced in several places, the metadata editor can now be opened directly from the list of w...

General In February 2026, the icon migration to Tabler icons was completed in almost all plugins. In addition, the security of REST interfaces has been improved, new plugins for working with archival ...

General In January 2026, the replacement of Font Awesome icons with Tabler icons across the entire Goobi workflow ecosystem was largely completed. There were also important new plugins and extensive f...

General In December, two major topics were in the foreground: the user interface receives a modern new look with the introduction of Tabler icons in the navigation and menu. At the same time, the Batc...

General In November, the focus was on performance and search: the search in the core was significantly accelerated by full-text indexes and database indexes. In addition, a new lightbox component, ima...

General In October, Goobi workflow was extended with a central help menu including a keyboard shortcut overview. The configuration of file groups for exports has also been made significantly more flex...

General In September, the METS editor was at the centre of development: Goobi workflow is receiving comprehensive support for video and audio files, including chapters, subtitles and an integrated vid...

General The major overhaul of the documentation platform continued in August. In addition, there were also innovations in completely different areas. Among other things, Goobi now offers the option of...

General July was our infrastructure month. We revised several aspects of the deployment of Goobi workflow with regard to Docker. The documentation also underwent a major overhaul. Core Docker installa...

General This month, we have been working hard internally on the future plugin for ingesting data into the ARCHE system of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. But there are also innovations in other area...

General This month we have made some visual adjustments to improve accessibility and usability. We also finalised a major construction site regarding the process properties. There were new features in...

General This month, we primarily caught up on a number of digests. These had been somewhat neglected in recent months. However, they have now been fully updated. Of course, we also worked in other are...

General information As expected, the changeover to Java 21 has brought us some additional work. The changes related to both the infrastructure and the user interface, where we completed the Bootstrap ...

General information This month we were finally able to finalise the major conversion of Goobi workflow and all plugins to Java 21. Due to the complexity, we expect that there will certainly be some re...

General A lot of development work has taken place this month to migrate Goobi workflow and all plugins to Java 21. However, as the work is so extensive, we have decided not to publish a release this m...

General With this last version of the year, we are probably releasing the last Goobi workflow release that can still be operated under Java 11 and Tomcat 9. From next month, we will begin the transiti...

General As the October release was published relatively late, there was not much time left in November to develop new features. The digest is correspondingly shorter. Core Adjustments to the vocabular...

General This month's release comes a little late and is correspondingly extensive. We will limit ourselves here to the most important points of this month. Core Access restrictions for metadata The UG...

General As in previous years, the big user meeting was held in Göttingen again this year. Nevertheless, we were still able to achieve a lot this month. Core Conversion to Java 17 We have changed the s...

General The new vocabulary server is finally ready and has already gone live. But many other areas of Goobi have also received new features this month. Core New vocabulary server Goobi workflow has al...

General This month, the focus was on three things in particular: remodelling the vocabulary, implementing the new archive management system and developing the plugin for the Austrian housing fund. Cor...

General This month, the focus was mainly on implementing the new vocabulary management system. However, the archive management has also been given a new look. Core More flexible folder configuration F...

General The changes to the Maven infrastructure described in April have taken much longer than expected. However, progress has also been made in other areas, for example with the vocabularies and some...

General Attention The major changeover in the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins was completed in April. Due to the large amount of rework, we recommend that you only use the May rel...

General Attention The major changeover in the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins is in full swing, which is why there will be no Goobi workflow release in March. Core Config Editor T...

General Attention We are planning a major change to the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins in the coming months. This internal work may temporarily affect the way developers and syst...

General Attention We are planning a major change to the Maven architecture of Goobi workflow and the plugins in the coming months. This internal work may temporarily affect the way developers and syst...

Core Tables Finally, the column width can be customised within Goobi workflow. The information is saved in the browser's local storage. Once a setting has been made, it is therefore linked to the PC a...

Core Process properties The process properties available in Goobi workflow can now also be displayed as a text area. They are configured using the familiar goobiprocessProperties.xml. An example confi...

Core Harvester Much of the functionality of the intranda harvester has been integrated into the Goobi workflow core. Repositories of different types can now be created and configured. The harvester qu...

Core Usability The Goobi workflow creation screen has always prevented a process with the same name from being created again. You would then receive a short error message saying that the process alrea...

Core Usability We are always looking for small areas in the user interface in order to specifically improve usability. In August, it was the area of actions within an assumed task, where we tried to c...

Coming soon GoobiScript changes Documentation of step details Core GoobiScript Templates It often happens that several GoobiScript calls have to be made in succession. Often the calls are repeated bec...

Coming soon GoobiScript templates Documentation of step details Core API Token In the settings of one's own user account, there is a new tab in which an API token can be generated and equipped with th...

Coming soon Documentation of step details Personal API Token Core Error and correction messages Error and correction messages can be sent in an accepted task. New is that now an optional dropdown menu...

Coming soon Documentation of step details Improved PDF-A generation Core User interface We have worked several hundred hours in the background on it and in the result only little changes at the surfac...

Coming soon Porting of user interface to new framework Documentation of step details Improved PDF-A generation REST API Core Periodic tasks For some time now, Goobi workflow has been able to trigger c...

Coming soon Porting of user interface to new framework Periodic tasks * Documentation of step details Core Performance A bottleneck in the performance of SQL queries with "Like" queries could be ident...

Coming soon Porting of user interface to new framework Periodic tasks Documentation of step details Core ALTO Editor The ALTO Editor for OCR correction, which can be opened in the Metadata Editor if r...

Announcements December was marked in the project by the upcoming end of the year: A lot of housekeeping and the attempt to tidy up and finish small things to start with air and a clean desk / project ...

Projects easydb Together with a partner we developed a process chain that allows to import records exported from an easydb fully automatically into Goobi workflow, to process them and to export them i...

Core Better display of validation results in the metadata editor In Goobi workflow, the rule set can be used to control which metadata may occur, for example, how often, where they are permitted and w...

Core Saving in the metadata editor Within the metadata editor, we noticed that different browsers reacted differently when users clicked on the save button. Specifically, the Chrome and Safari web bro...

Core General layout changeover to Bootstrap 5 We already announced it. Some users may have already noticed that the layout will change minimally (at first): We are gradually changing the layout of Goo...

Core Generation of URLs for the SRU Interface and the IIIF Manifest In the project settings there are now two additional fields in the tab METS Parameter to record the URL to the SRU interface of the ...

Opac Plugin for Kalliope documented The plugin has been around for a long time. But somehow we haven't found the time to document the plugin yet, and so one could almost think that Goobi has no connec...

Display of the number of images in tasks and activities Within the user interface, it is now possible to display the number of images as a column. This can be done within the task list as well as in t...

Step plugin for the generation of run sheets We have developed a new plugin that automates the generation of dockets during the workflow. Up to now, it was already possible to download routing slips i...

New GoobiScript for changing person roles For some time now, there have been various GoobiScripts that can very conveniently make changes even to metadata in bulk. In the past, we have often focused o...

Flip functionality in the QA plugin Within the plugin for the quality control of files, it has already been possible for some time that specific individual files can also be changed, provided that thi...

Extension of the user settings for individual configuration of the display mode Within the user settings, there is now the option in the General section for each user to individually define the displa...

Security vulnerability Log4j Like many other well-known software solutions and websites, Goobi workflow was also affected by the security vulnerability within the Log4j programme library. At least the...

Better display in case of metadata that cannot be imported When a process is created in Goobi workflow and data from a catalogue is to be imported for it, it can occasionally happen that it has not al...

Coming soon - Extension of the plugin for issue recognition of newspapers - Support of S3 as storage in further plug-ins - Enhanced accessibility for tables - AEON plugin development - Documentation a...

Coming soon - New plugin for editing configuration files - New plugin for editing rule sets - Adjustments to the institution display - AEON plugin Print view for metadata revised About two years ago w...

Coming soon Development of a new capture plugin for integration with Atlas AEON Development of a new plugin for editing configuration files from the user interface Development of a new plugin for edit...

Coming soon Performance optimisations for very large data sets Development of a new capture plug-in for integration with Atlas AEON Development of a plugin for simultaneous processing of metadata from...

Coming soon Outsourcing of some statistics to plugins with refreshing of the user interface Implementation of a new search syntax Revision of the internal folder structure to comply with the Maven con...

Coming soon Extension of the Archive Management Plugin Extended Java 11 support Adaptation of the export options Extension of the handling of museum data from LIDO New functionality for full text edit...

Coming soon Implementation of an ALTO editor for editing full texts Extensions to the dashboard Adaptations to the caching Major restructuring of metadata groups The metadata editor now allows metadat...

Coming soon Extension of metadata group support Flex editor for capturing manuscripts and more New pagination type for double pages Markup of double pages in METS Support for IIIF URLs within the Vari...

Coming soon Extension of the processing of GoobiScripts New rights management for the execution of GoobiScript Better support for corporate bodies and metadata groups Flex editor for capturing manuscr...

Coming soon Flex editor for capturing handwriting and more Extension of rights management for individual GoobiScripts Enhancement of the dashboard Better support for corporate bodies New function for ...

Coming soon Extension of LayoutWizzard functionalities Extension of the documentation for many existing plugins Implementation of metadata transfer from images Extension for handling corporate bodies ...

Coming soon Final work on the archive management plugin Extension of the Flex editor for provenances * Extension of the vocabulary management New single sign-on authentication for users based on HTTP ...

Coming soon Extension of single sign-on support Implementation of checksum comparisons for exports Completion of accessibility work according to WCAG Swagger support Workflow plugin for exporting a co...

Coming soon Completion of the tectonics editor Extension of the manuscript editor with provenance information Implementation of a multi-process editor Implementation of a tectonics editor Data managem...

Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Implementation of a tectonics processing mask Extension of metadata processing for a better handling of corporate bodies...

Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Completion of WCAG compatibility Revision of the process creation page to use the data of the respective ruleset Extensi...

Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Extension of the folder management per process Accessibility according to WCAG * Enabling a cross-process possibility fo...

Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: LayoutWizzard Refactoring Conversion of the Goobi code to use CDI Accessibility according to WCAG 2.1 Display of audio a...

Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Refactorization of the LayoutWizzard plugin for automatic image cropping Conversion of the Goobi code to use CDI Extensi...

Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: LayoutWizzard extensions Audio and Video integrations Documentation Extension of the vocabulary functionalities Projects...

Coming soon In the coming weeks we will probably focus on the following points: Further expansion of scalability to cloud infrastructure Completion of the flexible editor for handwriting capture Autom...

Coming soon Migration of Goobi workflow for Java 11 support Extension of the vocabulary manager * Implementation of a flexible editor for manuscript indexing Capture of image sections for structural a...

Multi-client capability in Goobi workflow With the current release, Goobi workflow is now multi-client capable. To this end, Goobi workflow now has institutions to which the routing slips, rule sets, ...

Two new GoobiScripts Two new GoobiScripts have been added: deleteUserGroup removes a user group from steps renameStep renames a step in multiple processes Single sign on with openID Connect Goobi work...

New REST endpoint for file upload into an operation. A file can now be copied to one of the image folders of an operation via multipart POST. The endpoint looks like this: POST https://mygoobi.tld/goo...

New login screen There is a new login screen that better reflects the "workflow" in the name. Removed intermediate session screen If you were already logged in as a user and tried this again in anothe...

ActiveMQ queues are now displayed Already [some time ago](/en/workflow/digests/2019/04) we added a new queue to Goobi. There hasn't been much of this queue so far, it did its work quietly in the backg...

Optimizing the image display Previously, the entire process was fetched from the database if an image from this process was to be displayed. This has now been optimized so that database queries are no...

Integration of VIAF for authority data acquisition A search in the [VIAF](https://viaf.org/) has been integrated into the metadata editor. In this way, the authority databases from 40 countries can be...

Adjustments to the mass import screen The interface for the mass import of Goobi workflow has been massively revised. Previously, users had to select the correct import mechanism and then import the p...

Thumbnails folder per process Goobi workflow has now been extended so that thumbnails can now also be used in addition to the directories already used for the master files and derivatives. After compl...

Better display of results for script executions If a GoobiScript was faulty, the red error status was a good indicator, but the cause was often not visible. Therefore the display was extended to show ...

Display of longer OCR results within the METS editor now scrollable If the results of a full-text recognition were displayed within the METS editor, the full-text recognition has been abbreviated for ...

Usability adjustments for the boxes within the METS Editor Within Goobi's METS editor, there were a few minor improvements in usability. For example, the title bars of the boxes can now be clicked acr...

Extended support of standard data via DANTE In addition to the metadata fields for texttareas, select menus, read-only fields or the connection of [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) and [GND](https...

Final conversion to maven as build-tool After extensive testing, the internal management of program libraries and interaction with the 170 plug-ins currently available were converted to [Maven](https:...

Optimized image display within the METS editor The metadata editor has been reworked for a better image display. In particular for the ideal display with consideration of image height and image width ...

Individual styling of Goobi Goobi has been enhanced so that users can now influence the visual design. Using smaller CSS instructions, each user can now adjust colors, fonts, spacing and much more for...

Support of S3 as storage system for Goobi workflow After several months of development, support for S3 as a storage system for Goobi workflow has now been integrated. This means that Goobi can now be ...

Support of 3D objects in the entire workflow After several months of work on support for processing and displaying 3D objects, the first milestone has now been reached. 3D objects are now supported in...

New GoobiScript for editing metadata There are now several new GoobiScripts for manipulating metadata within METS files. This GoobiScript, like all others, can be called and executed simultaneously fo...

Storage of file sizes within the Goobi database In order to guarantee the possibility to generate further individual statistics, from now on the respective storage space within the database is also ca...

At this point we provide a detailed insight into our current developments. We try to keep them relatively up to date and to summarize for each month if possible what innovations or changes have been m...