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Museum Tech Newsletter
September 09, 2026
 
An AI-curated digest of what museums, archives, heritage organizations, and individual researchers are building on GitHub — plus curated news from the cultural heritage sector — delivered every Wednesday.
9 New Repos 116 Releases 121 Active Orgs
This week, from the 736 sources we track in 55+ countries.
01  Spotlight
mirador
Mirador Viewer
Mirador 4.2.4 updates the GalleryView layout to align content to the flex-start and adds spacing between gallery items. The release fixes the placeholder grid on the add‑items page, guards against small thumbnails in the right sidebar, and reorders canvas navigation controls so previous/next appear before zoom. It also replaces lodash flatten utilities with native flat/flatMap, swaps react-resize-observer for react‑hook/resize‑observer, and removes lodash difference in favor of filter. Additional stability improvements include handling of companionWindowId crashes and ignoring non‑quick touch/pen gestures on annotations.
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02  Releases
mirador
Mirador Viewer  · JavaScript  · ★ 614
The v4.2.4 release updates GalleryView alignment, adds spacing, fixes placeholder grid, improves thumbnail handling, adjusts stroke drawing, replaces flatten with flat()/flatMap(), switches to react-hook/resize-observer, adds a baseline test for elastic mode, and reorders canvas navigation controls.
sipi
Cooperative Information Systems  · C++  · ★ 38
Version 9.0.0 of SIPI introduces breaking CLI flag removals, changes default throttling behavior, adds constant‑time credential compare, and updates admission mode defaults.
dezoomify
lovasoa  · Rust  · ★ 820
dezoomify v3.0.2 stable release adds support for protocol 1.0, provides new binaries for Linux, Chromium, and Firefox, and includes GPG‑signed artifacts and installation instructions.
three.js
mrdoob  · JavaScript  · ★ 115319
Release r186 adds linting, cleanup, fixes stale index bookkeeping, introduces Renderer.resetState(), adjusts render target scaling, improves visibility handling, and refines several core utilities.
tainacan
Tainacan Project  · Vue  · ★ 171
Fixes a download button overflow, adds an allow‑fullscreen option to documents, introduces preset advanced search criteria, adds per‑word search engine default, and provides autocomplete/tag‑input filters for control metadata types in Tainacan core.
blacklight
Blacklight (Discovery)  · Ruby  · ★ 793
Blacklight 9.1.0 introduces light/dark mode support, makes Devise optional by using Rails' built‑in authentication generator, and raises minimum Ruby, Rails, and ViewComponent versions while continuing refactoring of SearchBuilder/SearchService.
kitodo-publication  · v3.1.9
Kitodo
ndlocr-lite  · 1.3.1
National Diet Library Lab
Europeana-Cloud  · v17
Europeana
dsp-app  · v13.14.0
Cooperative Information Systems
join-the-dots-dev  · v1.9.0
Natural History Museum
go-parquet  · v0.2.0
San Francisco International Airport Museum
portal.js  · v2.38.0
Europeana
osf.io  · 26.20.0
Open Science Framework
go-embeddings  · v0.6.0
San Francisco International Airport Museum
tainacan-mapster  · v0.2.0-beta
Tainacan Project
iiif-net  · v0.4.6
Digirati
textannoviz  · v1.15.0
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
illiad-addon-blacklight  · v1.6
Cornell University Library
llm-newsletter-kit-core  · v3.0.3
Heripo Lab
03  Most Active Repos
1. tainacan  — tainacan
101 commits, 232 files changed
2. francearchives-cubicweb  — culturegouv
1 commit, 300 files changed
3. francearchives-cubicweb-edition  — culturegouv
1 commit, 300 files changed
4. salut-sistema-disseny  — gencat
1 commit, 300 files changed
5. ForestGEO  — Smithsonian
104 commits, 152 files changed
04  Notable Pushes
data-aggregator
Art Institute of Chicago  · PHP  · ★ 96
Added `scale_factors` to the image model, integrated Cloudflare KV, imported IIIF width/height metadata, added ZeroTrust authentication for test environments, and refactored DB calls and test utilities.
openseadragon
Open Seadragon
dezoomify
lovasoa
AliceVision
AliceVision
audioguide-app
SmartCompanion Audioguide
dpo-packrat
Smithsonian Institution
Node-Assets
Babylon.js Engine
dsp-api
Cooperative Information Systems
mirador
Mirador Viewer
lenticular-lens
Loghi (HTR Tooling)
catalogue-pipeline
Wellcome Collection
kitodo-production
Kitodo
hyku
Samvera
sipi
Cooperative Information Systems
figgy
Princeton University Library
maplibre-gl-js
maplibre
fixtures
IIIF Consortium
blacklight
Blacklight (Discovery)
geocoder
San Francisco International Airport Museum
graph-editor
Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
iiif-net
Digirati
navara
MapLibre
pandas4
National Library of Australia
geonames-rdf
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
graffitihouse
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
frischmuth-frontend
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
atrium-galaxy-tools
DARIAH-EU
colmap
Colmap
tigerdata_metadata_schema
Princeton University Library
madoc-platform
Digirati
ngx-mime
Nasjonalbiblioteket - AI Lab
LinkedDataHub
Knowledge Graph Management System
marinegeo-metadata
Smithsonian Institution
tainacan
Tainacan Project
StoryMapJS
Northwestern University Knight Lab
Primo-NDE-Customization-Package
MIT Libraries
Barnes-Online-Collection
Barnes Foundation
dmg-rest-api
Design Museum Gent
hyrax
Samvera
geniza
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
ckanext-nhm
Natural History Museum
redlist_evaluation_tool
Luomus
apis-acdhch-default-settings
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
standards
CLARIN ERIC
kepler.gl
Kepler.gl
DanSpecify
Natural History Museum of Denmark
SEKO
National Library of Finland
ds-caselaw-utils
The National Archives UK
rpb
North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
ohm-deploy
Open Historical Map
ForestGEO
Smithsonian Institution
tainacan-mapster
Tainacan Project
searchworks_traject_indexer
SUL Digital Library Systems
explorator
Harvard Art Museums
corppa
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
05  Tool Watch
IIIF
dezoomify  · v3.0.2
dezoomify v3.0.2 stable release adds support for protocol 1.0, provides new binaries for Linux, Chromium, and Firefox, and includes GPG‑signed artifacts and installation instructions.
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dezoomify
Recorded the checksum inventory for the v3.0.2 release of dezoomify.
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dezoomify  · v3.0.0
dezoomify 3.0.0 unifies website, browser extension, and CLI tool, adds proper image saving, broader site support without extra setup, and clearer feedback for errors and large images.
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Three.js
Three.js  · r186
Release r186 adds linting, cleanup, fixes stale index bookkeeping, introduces Renderer.resetState(), adjusts render target scaling, improves visibility handling, and refines several core utilities.
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MapLibre GL
MapLibre GL
Performance optimization that skips hidden layers before clipping masks and reduces dynamic buffer rebinds in MapLibre GL JS.
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