The following list of features, updates, and bug fixes are included in the latest Sprint 24.11 release to the FEWS NET Data Platform.

New features

Update FDW to allow Data Collections to be used as an inventory of files (DATA-4189)

The FDW data model can now be used as a flexible data inventory of resources such as files or URLs. Resources can be associated with Data Collections without requiring Data Series or Data Points.

Updates

Implement a broken link check report for CKAN (DATA-2933)

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Add TopoJSON and FDW-generated Shapefile as FDE spatial domain export options (DATA-3500)

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LandScan 2023 data has been added to FDW and can be used to calculate the population for all countries.

Bugs

Fix API for extracting Shapefiles for global LHZ boundaries (DATA-3874)

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