What’s new in Open Forest Watch

A public record of platform releases, feature additions, and schema changes. The ForestEventReport schema is a stable contract — field names and types are never changed without versioning.

v1.3.0feature2026-03-17

+HGE Evidence Ledger promotion — POST /pipeline/promote/{id} publishes reports to the cryptographic evidence ledger
+Resend transactional email — alert notifications, API key delivery, daily and weekly digest emails
+Alert frequency preferences — subscribe to immediate, daily, or weekly digest cadence
+Dedicated /subscribe landing page with preset regions (Amazon, Congo, Borneo, West Africa, Cerrado)
+Live ingest feed on /alerts page showing most recent 30-day events
+/changelog and /status pages
+Methodology page shows live API version badge

v1.2.0feature2026-03-10

+Map page — full-screen Leaflet map with cause filters, EUDR toggle, time window, GeoJSON overlay
+OFWMap component with CircleMarker per report, EUDR red-ring markers, fly-to animation
+Embeddable widget — /widget/:id iframe-ready report card, /embed page with copy-paste snippets
+EUDR badge on ReportCard components — red left-border and chip when eudr_triggered
+Homepage stat bar: live EUDR triggered count from /stats
+OpenAPI documentation upgraded to v1.3.0 with full route descriptions

v1.1.0feature2026-03-03

+Download bundle — GET /api/v1/reports/{id}/bundle.zip returns report.json + GeoJSON + evidence_summary.txt + README
+/stats upgrade — EUDR triggered count, country breakdown table, biome breakdown, 30-day activity sparkline
+EUDR-only and post-cutoff-only filter toggles on reports list page
+Actor aggregation backend — /actors aggregated from real report payloads, ranked by report count and area
+Regions backend — /regions aggregated from reports with filtering

v1.0.0release2026-02-24

+Initial production release of Open Forest Watch v1
+Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A integration — NDVI computation, cloud cover, ΔNDVI change detection vs seasonal baselines
+EUDR temporal cut-off analysis — eudr_post_cutoff and eudr_triggered flags on every report
+Commodity-specific risk scoring — soy, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, timber, rubber, cattle commodity chains
+Webhook subscriptions for enterprise consumers (POST /api/v1/webhooks)
+POST /pipeline/analyse-s2/{id} — on-demand deep Sentinel-2 analysis with NDVI baseline comparison
+Bayesian confidence scoring — log-odds evidence fusion with asymmetric uncertainty bounds
+Actor attribution — spatial inference against concession registries and supply chain databases
+Regulatory flag assignment — EUDR, CBAM, REDD+, CITES, ILO 169, national law
+SHA-256 evidence hash on every report — tamper-evident provenance
+ForestEventReport JSON schema v1 (stable contract)
+HGE Core integration — hypothesis lifecycle, Bayesian scoring, evidence ledger

Schema stability guarantee: The ForestEventReport field names and types listed in the methodology will not be changed without incrementing the schema version and providing a migration guide. VERAX and third-party integrators depend on this contract.