CKAN 0.5 Released

February 1st, 2008

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) version 0.5 has just been released.

Changes include:

  • feature to list and search tags
  • feature to make data available in machine-usable form via sql dump
  • feature to purge a revision and associated changes
  • support for reserved html characters in urls
  • upgrade to Pylons 0.9.6
  • new spam management utilities including (partial) blacklist support

The CKAN code is available from:

The data is available from:

We’ve currently got 135 packages. If you come across a large dataset or substantial collection, please consider registering it on CKAN!

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