Beacon Version 2.1.1 Released

A minor release of the Beacon Standard

A new Beacon version was released on Dec 13, 2024. While this is a minor point release of the Beacon Standard, i.e. does not contain breaking changes compared to 2.1.0, it provides a large number of bug fixes and cosmetic improvements such as better VRS alignment:

  • Updated links for make beacon compatible with upgraded VRS version 1.3
  • Changed uri for uri-template in Endpoint.singleEntryUrl
  • Moved info definition from beaconCommonComponents to an own common info schema
  • Added links to each of the schema version releases in the changelog
  • Improved inline documentation
  • Deleted includedConcepts from aCollectionOf
  • Removed the particular filteringTermsUrl entry related to a particular entry type
  • Moved default outside items object to the same items level
  • Defined content for default property in OpenAPI
  • Created examples for filters in OpenAPI
  • Moved default property in to the lowest level for securityLevels property in OpenAPI
  • Redefined includeResultsetResponses in OpenAPI
  • Defined content for responses in OpenAPI
  • Refactored definitions for $defs
  • Implemented new feature for filteringTerms values

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