Published at October 28th, 2025
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Last updated 6 days ago
5.29.1
We are pleased to announce that version 5.29.1 (4.48.1) of Pure is now released
Always read through the details of the release - including the Upgrade Notes - before installing or upgrading to a new version of Pure
Release date: 5th of March, 2024
Hosted customers:
- Staging environments (including hosted Pure Portal) will be updated 6th of March (APAC + Europe) and 7th of March (North / South America)
- Production environments (including hosted Pure Portal) will be updated 6th of March (APAC + Europe) and 7th of March (North / South America)
Bug fixes
This release contains a number of bug fixes, including the following from Known issues:
- ki000006 Experts community search is not working; Experts community search on the Pure Portal is not working; you'll see Server Error message when you toggle on "expand search to expert community".
- ki000008 Errors on Update ORCID With Pure Data Job; Errors like “Encountered unexpected error. Please contact Elsevier about this error and include exception" occur when the Update ORCID With Pure Data Job runs.
- ki000011 Scopus: Update/Create Journals And Metrics job adds wrong additional searchable titles; The job adds "additional searchable titles" in Journal records, however, their data don't match with those journals.
- ki000019 500 error when creating an award from an application; When you add/remove roles for a user and try to save the record, it takes a very long time or you see a time-out error.
- ki000025 QABO Data Import & Cleanup job has no job sequences; After upgrading to 5.29 version of Pure, the QABO Data Import & Cleanup job has no job sequences. When the job runs, it finishes immediately after job execution and imports nothing.
- ki000026 Scopus: Update/Create Journals And Metrics job imports wrong additional searchable titles; The job brings in wrong data for Additional searchable titles for journal records. The issue was initially reported on 5.25.1 and the fix was released on 5.27.0, however, the issue is persistent in some cases.
- ki000028 Error when opening awards or projects with certain values in remaining budget; When you open certain awards or projects, Pure presents a error box due to a error when calculating the remaining budget.
- ki000029 Personal Users cannot edit their own profile or own content; Student users are experiencing that they cannot edit their own profile data in 5.29.0 and 5.29.0-2.
- ki000031 Editor of Organisations vs Adminitrator of Organisations; A user with the local editor role "Editor of Organization" has the Parent organisation set to Mandatory, even if the user is editing the top-level organisation.
- ki000033 CIENCIAVITAE connector mapping error; CIENCIAVITAE connector exports the name that appears in the Person, not the name that is associated with the publication.