Maintenance Window
2026-10-05
On Monday 5th of October, we will begin maintenance work on the BigPicuture infrastructure. During this time, disruptions to the availability of SDA services may be observed. We will do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum. A notification will be sent out when work is finished.
Main user facing changes: * MFA is required when logging in to acquire download or upload token. * Download(v1) can utilize multiple buckets so no need for the download2.bp.nbis.se endpoint.
2026-06-01
This update focuses on backend scalability (enabling multiple storage backends) and enhanced security (key rotation and expiry). There are no major functional changes for end-users, though some API error handling and download stability improvements are included.
We’re also planning to start demo a new download service, but the current download will continue to be the primary method for download of datasets.
2025-12-16
Extraordinary maintenence window on the 16th to improve database performance. This will speed up submission handling a lot. Detailed changelog will come.
2025-10-06
On Monday 6th of October, we will begin maintenance work on the BigPicuture infrastructure. During this time, disruptions to the availability of SDA services may be observed. We will do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum. A notification will be sent out when work is finished. Maintenance work will mainly consist of updating running services to their latest stable version.
This time there will be no user facing changes, we will add an option for administrators to be able to re-verify uploaded files in the system.
2025-06-09
On Monday 9th of June, we will begin maintenance work on the BigPicuture infrastructure. During this time, disruptions to the availability of SDA services may be observed. We will do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum. A notification will be sent out when work is finished. Maintenance work will mainly consist of updating running services to their latest stable version.
This time there will be no user facing changes, we will add an option for administrators to be able to re-verify uploaded files in the system.
2025-03-03
On Monday 3rd of March, we will begin maintenance work on the BigPicuture infrastructure. During this time, disruptions to the availability of SDA services may be observed. We will do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum. A notification will be sent out when work is finished. Maintenance work will mainly consist of updating running services to their latest stable version.
While this update is mostly for updating our internal services to improve submission automation there is on change to services that are relevant to BigPicture users are listed below.
- The repository’s public key is now available as a base64 encoded string form the login pages info endpoint https://login.bp.nbis.se/info
2024-09-30
On Monday 30th of September, we will begin maintenance work on the BigPicuture infrastructure. During this time, disruptions to the availability of SDA services may be observed. We will do our best to keep the downtime to a minimum. A notification will be sent out when work is finished. Maintenance work will mainly consist of updating running services to their latest stable version.
Changes to services that are relevant to BigPicture users and/or the helpdesk team are listed below.
SDA Download
New service for accessing datasets in the BigPicture repository. Now it’s not necessary to use the work-around with sending emails and public keys but instead once you’ve gotten access to a dataset in REMS you can access it directly via sda-cli (version 0.1.2).
The download service currently supports downloading both decrypted files or files encrypted with your public key directly to your environment.
SDA CLI
It is now possible to provide the the authentication token in the environment instead of having it in the configuration file (version 0.1.3).
SDA Login
Correct branding for authentication services in the login portal