Release notes

What changed between versions

A plain-language history of the TERGAP News Corpus Dashboard. These notes focus on changes that affect corpus exploration and collection planning rather than implementation details.

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v0.1.0-beta.2 "Granite Orbit"

Current beta4 Oct 2026

Changes since beta.1

Granite Orbit adds clearer project and funding context, improves collection planning, and refocuses the geographic view on the Africa-focused collection.

Project context

Added a fuller TERGAP introduction together with clearer links to the project, Leiden University, FGGA, and ISGA.

Funding and presentation

Added ERC funding attribution and refined the header, footer, and explanatory text for a clearer public-facing layout.

Collection planning

Made the In progress queue state explicit so a country is shown as active only when it is marked manually in the collection queue.

Geographic focus

Refocused the corpus map on Africa while retaining surrounding regional context.

v0.1.0-beta.1 "Frozen Atlas"

Previous beta15 Sept 2026

First public beta

Frozen Atlas introduced the first public beta of the TERGAP News Corpus Dashboard, providing aggregate country-level views of the collected news corpora while keeping article-level JSON files outside the deployed application.

Corpus exploration

Introduced interactive geographic, temporal, source, and content-length views with shared country selection across the dashboard.

Collection planning

Added country-level collection planning and overview tools to support ongoing corpus expansion.

Data and privacy

Published aggregate indicators only, with article-level JSON files kept outside the deployed application.