GeoNode Files

What's changed

Beyond the enhancements and fixes listed below, this release introduces several critical improvements to the security of the client and backend services.

Upgrades

• Geoserver 2.28.6
• Django 5.2.18
• Nginx 1.31.7
• GeoNode MapStore client 5.1.1 with MapStore v2026.02.03
• Django REST framework 3.18.1, djangorestframework-gis 1.3.0

Removed

• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14400 Removed support for Google Cloud Storage as a storage backend

Fixed

• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14397 Replace Dataset does not take the user permissions into account
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14441 Keywords lost on style updates
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14462 XML metadata is not regenerated after updating metadata
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14539 XML file upload fails
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14668 Error in uploaded metadata in multilang instances
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14687 Metadata: handler registration order and metadata delta computation
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14702 Thesaurus keyword autocomplete does not work
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14662 XLSX upload
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14667 Extent is not assigned correctly to datasets created from CSV
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14537 3D Tiles with multiple folders raise error 21
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14570 Attribute fetch for ArcGIS REST remote datasets is broken
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14578 Document thumbnail issue
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14656 The is_monochromatic_image check fails for local thumbnails
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14676 Creating a user or a group times out and kills the worker, deleting a user is slow
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14486 Group members are not synced

Enhancements

• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14407 New setting for URL validation
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14679 Management command for metadata validation
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14463 Multilang: use the multilang entries in ISO19115 metadata
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14505 Improved XML metadata upload and download
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14655 Accept lon as a CSV field for point coordinates
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14608 Improved cloning of GeoStories, Dashboards and remote datasets
• https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/14598 Improved resource cloning

Documentation

• Docker setup docs aligned to the new geonode-project architecture
• Documented the XLSX_UPLOAD_ENABLED configuration

The full changelog is available here