Release 3.1.79

Version 3.1.79 is a substantial release that includes updates to data, significant enhancements, and many performance improvements and bug fixes. 

Release dates

• Beta: June 9, 2022
• Production: June 27, 2022

New features

• Support for adding custom data sources
• Support for pie, donut, progress, and gauge charts
• New on-map vertical legends
• Support for more granular licensing of the StateBook platform and API's by features and/or geographies

New or updated data

• Impact Potential Score data from Global Impact, LLC
• Climate Risk data from Climate Alpha
• Monthly Stop data from Habidatum
• Updated ACS 5-Year Estimate data from US Census for cities and larger.  (Block group and census tract data is coming!)
• Updated County Business Pattern data from the US Census
• Updated Electricity and Natural Gas data
• Updated Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data from BLS

Note that many datasets are regularly updated each week without being part of a specific release, such as unemployment, economic, industry, and health data.

Important notes on backward compatibility

• The following tabs have been discontinued on the StateBook platform
  • Crime
  • K-12 Schools
  • Government Officials
• The Atlas Data API now reports additional information about custom geographies, differentiating between the requested shape (usually a radius or drive time isochrone, etc) and the returned geographies (usually a collection of block groups or census tracts).