5.34.0 (4.53.0) Release notes 

Pure Core: Administration

Pure Mail

Introducing OAuth to Pure Mail for Microsoft 365

As Microsoft has announced that they no longer will support basic authentication (basic auth) as SMTP Auth (to connect to their SMTP Server) we have introduced OAuth for Microsoft 365 with Pure version 5.33.1. 

Test your mail configuration

To help you to set up Pure mail, we have added an option to send a test email to an email address you provide. You can find this under Administrator → System settings → Email queue

Pure API

We’re excited to announce the latest enhancements to the Pure API, expanding access to new entities:

• Funding Opportunity: Access structured data on funding opportunities, enabling integration with research workflows and discovery systems.
• Impact: Highlight information on research impact, providing insights into engagement, influence, and real-world outcomes.

These additions extend the API’s coverage and support richer integrations with institutional research data.

Pure WS 524

Change to /ws/api/524/changes endpoint

Starting with the next release, the changes endpoint enforces a maximum lookback window of 30 days for the tokenOrDate parameter.

• Requests with a tokenOrDate parameter older than 30 days will return an error.
• This change ensures more reliable performance and response times for all users.

Pure Portal

We are increasing the security of your test and staging Portals. From this release, the Portal is set to closed (non-public) by default. This is done to counter act human and technical errors of Portals being exposed to the public before they are ready. With the default now being “closed”, making the Portal open to public is a deliberate action that is performed when everything is ready.

This decreases the risk of a test / staging portal being accidentally exposed to the public. 

This also means that Pure admins need to always set up specific users to access the closed Portal. 

Integrations

Improved Handling of Former Employees in ORCID Integrations

With this release we have included an enhancement to our ORCID integration that can help maintain accurate affiliation data in ORCID and provide flexibility for managing ORCID connections for former and returning employees.

When an employee leaves the institution, the system sends a final data push to ORCID to ensure the affiliation end date is properly recorded.

After this update, the ORCID authentication for that person is paused, meaning their details and publications will no longer be parsed or updated.

If the person later rejoins the institution, the ORCID authentication will be reinstated automatically.

Additionally, the person can log into ORCID at any time to revoke the authentication between Pure and ORCID themselves.

Additional Filtering Options in OAI

In order to provide you with more flexibility on what data that should be exposed via OAI we have included a few filtering options

Exclude content type 

You can now configure which content types should be exposed via OAI (Administration > Web services > OAI configuration > Filter OAI output. 

Note: As default, all content types are enabled

Exclude keyword group

Previously, when setting up a keyword group, you could choose if you wanted to the keywords to be visible on “Portals and via OAI”. This has been separated into 2 different settings, allowing you to showcase something on the portal but not via OAI (or the other way around. 

REF2029

Show research output reviews to all authors

It is now possible for co-authors to see any review proposed by any of the authors. By enabling this, any reviews proposed, will become visible to all the co-authors in Pure. Pure will still respect the settings on the review, such that the final grade and summary, is only visible if this have been configured to be so. The co-authors will be able to see the final grade and/or summary, when that is marked as being visible. 

By default, this is disabled, but can be enabled under Administrator > System settings > Review.

Change proposing author

It is now possible to change the proposing authors on reviews. This can be especially useful if the proposing author have left the institution, or it was done by an administrator. The proposing author can be changed by clicking on the pencil next to the proposing author on the review editor.

Enable/disable proposing reviews on PUX

For those institutions that aren't using review, or hasn't rolled out REF reviews to personal users, we have introduced a configuration option to enabled or disable the propose button on the personal overview page. If this is disabled, the Review section will still appear if any reviews are assigned to the person, or if the person has proposed any review. It only controls the visibility of the Propose button

This can be configured in Administrator > System settings > REF2029. The default is on.

Default review REF2029 review template

We have seen that some institutions have deleted the default REF2029 review template, and this was used for the bulk upload functionality for reviews. When this was deleted, the bulk upload functionality does not work, and the templates cannot be created manually again. We have therefore recreated the REF2029 review template, and we have also locked this template so that it can no longer be deleted by accident.  

REF open access compliance status

We have added information about the REF open access compliance status in the Review editor. This was a requested update to help process the review requests.

Reporting

Updated to reporting UI

To help navigate the reporting module, we have made some updates to the UI. We have updated how to navigate between the data tables and the data story. These are new tabs in the top of the page.

Furthermore, we have added a shortcut when creating data stories to quickly go to the data table you're currently sourcing data from. This can be especially useful when creating data stories and wanting to add additional information to the data table that should be used in the data story.

Bug fixes

This release contains a number of bug fixes, including the following from Known issues: