Release Notes: Web Portal

Owned by Jeff Ussing
Last updated: 17 Oct 2022
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SDC Web Portal

GitHub - USDOT-SDC/sdc-dot-webportal

The Secure Data Commons is an online data warehousing and analysis platform for transportation researchers. On this portal, researchers can take advantage of pre-established programming environments to access and analyze a growing set of transportation-related data sets. The SDC platform provides a collaborative environment for traffic engineers, researchers, data scientists and anyone who is interested in carrying out research and analysis on different datasets related to traffic, weather, crashes, and others.

What's New

Check out the newest features and enhancements we've just released.

v2.8.1 (2021-11-21)

  • BugFix: Register/Login component has been updated to ensure all non-dot.gov users are redirected.

What's Next

Here are the features and enhancements we're working on... or at least we're thinking about working on them. 

  • TBC (v2.9 - Improvements to the data export form.)

What's Old

v2.8 (2021-02-10)

  • The workstation resizing message has been updated so the user is told to stop their workstation and save their work before resize.

  • The SDC Support email address change is being deployed to the post-migration site.

  • The message about PII or CBI data is being deployed to the post-migration site.


v2.7 (2020-08-21)


v2.6.1 (2020-08-07)

  • PDF for SDC Access Request Form updated to v2

  • The words "Data Definition" have been removed from the information titles for the projects

  • The workstation resizing bug has been fixed with providing ARM workstations as possible choices

  • A notification is shown before uploading data to the SDC to inform the user no PII or CBI data is allowed to be uploaded


v2.6 (2020-07-07)


v2.5 (2020-04-07)

  • Add Auto-Export request option for users with trusted status in the export request pop-up window

  • Add Auto-Export request approving menu for data providers in the export requests tab ** Includes justification provided by Data Analyst


v2.4.1 (2020-04-04)

  • Inject the Cognito user pool through the environment so all environments do not need to use the dev Cognito pool


v2.4 (2020-01-28)

  • Change login functionality to allow users to be redirected to Login.gov

  • Add syncing screen after login from Login.gov so users can sync their Login.gov account with their SDC account


v2.3 (2019-11-11)

  • Bug fix for export functionality


v2.2 (2019-11-01)

  • Provides a new feature for users to modify their workstation to a different configuration on-demand

  • Provides a new feature for users to schedule workstation uptime, so users can continue to keep their workstations running without being stopped by the nightly process


v2.1 (2019-08-08)

  • Enabled HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) policy to ensure data is encrypted before it is sent, making it impossible for attackers to read or modify the data in transit to the authenticated server. HSTS protects against HTTP downgrade attacks (SSL stripping attacks) by requiring all traffic to use HTTPS, and rewrites requests that do not point to encrypted sources.