This week included another plethora of bug fixes, web interface updates, and quality of life updates!
1 Changes You Might See
- Show associated objs and previous mag in scanning reports by @thomasculino in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6528
- better fill table space by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6531
- track solar system objects as sources by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6530
- Add walkthrough for filter builder by @thomasculino in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6533
- Move broker tab up the sidebar by @thomasculino in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6536
- sortable observation run columns by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6534
- Add sidebar alerts shortcut to default alert broker. by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6538
- Add one-time feature announcement popups. by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6544
- Add feature announcement steps for new alerts and brokers pages. by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6545
- update existing classifications with the sliders by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6548
- config-driven branding for login and About pages by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6546
- boom survey tooltip by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6555
- Refactor sidebar component for improved drawer behavior and styling. by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6557
- Improve comments on source page by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6495
- Candid thumbnail by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6561
- Add links formatting by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6560
- add groups saved to and fix other surveys detections by @thomasculino in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6566
- empty observation page by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6568
- test session teardown by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6556
- Update drawer width for improved layout responsiveness. by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6569
- Improve user management page by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6562
- Fix boom mongo dialog rawpipeline by @thomasculino in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6572
- Add interested button by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6550
2 Changes Behind the Scenes
- automate superobject creation by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6532
- Drop unrecognized filter rows in ATLAS forced photometry ingestion by @thomasculino in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6537
- make filter autosave settable and consistent by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6535
- finish anyOf → enum transition by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6542
- replace the confirmed boolean and gcn_crossmatch array with GcnEventObj.status by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6540
- Make tests reliable and faster by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6549
- EP permissions by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6547
- MPC query readability by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6541
- Parallelize broker ingestion via Kafka consumer groups and multi-process broker_ingest by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6552
- pin baselayer to 32bb65cddd27f04c1c9552aacd53fcfeb1d9785b by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6554
- Fix object query on broker alerts page by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6553
- Fix lost update on profile preferences by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6559
- Type path parameters from handler signatures by @leonitousconforti in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6551
- Add broker_ingest supervisor.conf to .gitignore. by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6558
- other auth backends by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6523
- sentry august 18 by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6564
- backend source-list query cache by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6565
- add per-call timeout for BOOM queries by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6570
- hand the auth pipeline the association a matched sign-in belongs to by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6574
- Avoid 2h ci timeout by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6579
- infer the survey from the object id when saving a broker alert. by @antoine-le-calloch in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6577
- Fix query param parsing for autosaveGroupIds and hasTNSname by @leonitousconforti in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6571
- empty query warning for lasair by @mcoughlin in https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/pull/6581
3 Full Changelog
The full changelog is available at https://github.com/skyportal/skyportal/compare/2026-08-13...2026-08-20