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:

• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckan/0.5

The data is available from:

• http://ckan.net/license/

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