5.1.1

What's changed

Beyond the enhancements and fixes listed below, this release introduces several critical improvements to the security of the client and backend services.

Upgrades

• Geoserver 2.28.6
• Django 5.2.18
• Nginx 1.31.7
• GeoNode MapStore client 5.1.1 with MapStore v2026.02.03
• Django REST framework 3.18.1, djangorestframework-gis 1.3.0

Removed

• #14400 Removed support for Google Cloud Storage as a storage backend

Fixed

• #14397 Replace Dataset does not take the user permissions into account
• #14441 Keywords lost on style updates
• #14462 XML metadata is not regenerated after updating metadata
• #14539 XML file upload fails
• #14668 Error in uploaded metadata in multilang instances
• #14687 Metadata: handler registration order and metadata delta computation
• #14702 Thesaurus keyword autocomplete does not work
• #14662 XLSX upload
• #14667 Extent is not assigned correctly to datasets created from CSV
• #14537 3D Tiles with multiple folders raise error 21
• #14570 Attribute fetch for ArcGIS REST remote datasets is broken
• #14578 Document thumbnail issue
• #14656 The is_monochromatic_image check fails for local thumbnails
• #14676 Creating a user or a group times out and kills the worker, deleting a user is slow
• #14486 Group members are not synced

Enhancements

• #14407 New setting for URL validation
• #14679 Management command for metadata validation
• #14463 Multilang: use the multilang entries in ISO19115 metadata
• #14505 Improved XML metadata upload and download
• #14655 Accept lon as a CSV field for point coordinates
• #14608 Improved cloning of GeoStories, Dashboards and remote datasets
• #14598 Improved resource cloning

Documentation

• Docker setup docs aligned to the new geonode-project architecture
• Documented the XLSX_UPLOAD_ENABLED configuration

The full changelog is available here