Next Release - Specify 6.1.05

We are rescheduling the Specify 6.1.05 release to the week of January 18, 2010. We found a few additional issues that have been corrected, but which require addtional testing. Monday is a holiday, expect Specify 6.1.05 later in the week. Conversions to Specify 6 continue, nuances in individual databases have slowed us down a bit, but we are actively working on several conversions and plan to complete those and begin the process for additional databases this week.

We have received questions about Specify 6's web interface. We will support GBIF's Internet Publishing Toolkit (IPT) as Specify's web interface software. We do not plan to create a customizable web interface toolkit as we did for Specify 5. IPT is currently available from GBIF, a new version has just been announced. We hope to work with the IPT developers (now headed by J. Wieczorek, UC Berkeley) to address requirements of Specify users.

More soon. [Update: We're running behind schedule, this update will be released the week of January 25, 2010.]