(Español) Dear Symbiota community, All 54 Symbiota Support Hub (SSH)-hosted portals and services are now fully operational following the unprecedented security breach that occurred in July. To summarize what happened, we believe that the breach of the IT infrastructure that…
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The Symbiota Support Hub continues to troubleshoot ongoing portal slowdowns. To address performance issues on our servers, we have made a temporary change to portals operating on the newest codebase (3.3.9) that will affect data downloads. We expect that these…
July-September 2025 The items below are a reference archive of messages sent to the Symbiota community during the unprecedented portal outage in late summer 2025. 9/11/2025 The Weevil Portal has been successfully restored. 9/9/2025 The following portals have now been…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in the annual Botany meeting, July 27-30, 2025 in Palm Springs, CA. Presentations Help Desk
As part of our mission, the Symbiota Support Hub is hard at work trying to make it easier for people like you to get Help & Resources for using Symbiota portals. To this end, we have transitioned the Symbiota Docs help…
The Symbiota Support Hub is excited to announce the release of the newest version of Symbiota: Symbiota 3.3! SSH-managed* Symbiota portals that you know and love will be updated to this newest code version over the coming weeks. This code version largely…
The Symbiota Support Hub participated in the annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), May 27-31, 2025in Lawrence, KS. Presentations The SSH gave the following oral presentations at the conference (slide decks below!): Mark…
As of Spring 2025, the Symbiota Support Hub is now a GBIF Network! This status better showcases the distributed, collaborative community of Symbiota portals and the people that keep them running. The Symbiota Support Hub continues to also be a…
Please register to participate! With the launch of Symbiota 3.1 came a new version of the search form intended to replace the old form. In an effort to be able to deprecate the old form, we want to make sure the new form meets…
The Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) is planning the rollout of its next major code release, “Symbiota 3.2”, to all SSH-maintained Symbiota portals. Thanks to funding from multiple collaborators, we are continuing to enhance Symbiota portals like CCH2 to better meet…