seek-1.17.0 news

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+title:  "FAIRDOM-SEEK 1.17.0 Released"
+date:   2025-07-21
+categories: announcements release
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+![SEEK](/images/logo/fairdom-seek-logo-horiz.svg)
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+We are pleased to announce a new version of [FAIRDOM-SEEK](/products/seek/) – [version 1.17.0](https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/releases/#version-1170)
+
+This is a large new version, and highlights include:
+
+* A period of maintenance, doing various updates and spring cleaning, including:
+  * Rails upgrade to 7.2
+  * Ruby upgrade to 3.3
+  * Updates of dependencies.
+  * Addressing hard to maintain code and cleaning up technical debt.
+* Integrated Institutions with [Research Organization Registry (ROR)](https://ror.org/)
+  * When either editing or creating, Institutions can be searched via the ROR api and automatically populated.
+  * Linking an Institution to an ROR persistent identifier, either through searching or manually.
+  * Added a field for Department, for cases where more specific details are needed.
+  * Update the API to include ROR details.
+  * Institutions can still be registered manually, without ROR, for cases where it is missing from the registry.
+* Extended support for [Fair Data Station (FDS)](https://fairds.fairbydesign.nl/)
+  * Extended Metadata types and Sample types can now be easily created from an example output from FDS.
+  * Asynchronous imports and updates using a background job, with current status displayed, to support large cases which would otherwise timeout.
+  * Retaining a history of the FDS files used to import or update.
+  * recognises disabled EMT's.
+* Further integration with the ELIXIR Norway [NeLS](https://elixir.no/Services-bak/nels) system, to support more features that can be done directly in SEEK:
+  * Browsing datasets, subtypes, files and folders.
+  * Downloading files.
+  * Creating datasets.
+  * Creating folders.
+  * Uploading files.
+  * Updates required to use the latest NeLS API.
+* [WorkflowHub](https://about.workflowhub.eu/) enhancements:
+  * Git related api and documentation improvements.
+  * Updates to the [EDAM](https://edamontology.org/page) controlled vocabularies to synchronise with their latest ontology - for topics, operations, data types and data formats.
+* [DataHub](https://fair-dom.org/fairdom-in-use/Datahub) enhancements:
+  * Dynamic table fixes and improvements.
+  * Improve non-text attributes (e.g. related DataFiles, Samples) in Experiment view.
+  * Fix to linking Sample types to Assay Streams.
+* Added the ability to edit the title and description for ISA snapshots.
+* Where SEEK is used together with a triple store, the RDF registered now correctly sets the data type, e.g. for datetime.
+* A rework of exporting a list of publications, with a fix to correctly apply the visible filters applied.
+* A configurable maximum number of filters (default 5) that can be applied by anonymous users, to reduce overheads from AI bots.
+* Fixes related to deleting contributors.
+* Fix to the Restart Background Workers feature available to administrators, as well as clearer indication of what are running and how many there should be.
+* Admin feature to list all registered users with profiles.
+
+
+... and much more.
+
+Details on installing SEEK can be found in our Documentation, at [https://docs.seek4science.org/get-seek.html](https://docs.seek4science.org/get-seek.html) – including running with [Docker](https://www.docker.com/).
+
+The upgrade guide can be found in the usual place at [https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/upgrading.html](https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/upgrading.html).
+
+Details on upgrading for Docker can be found on the page [https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/docker/docker-compose.html](https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/docker/docker-compose.html).