Research Data Australia other service updates

See also the page  Research Data Australia Changelog , which covers changes made to RDA's Portal and Registry software, the Harvester or Mycelium.

This page covers other user-visible changes made to the RDA service, for example, changes to configuration and to the content hosted on the demo or production servers.

Elasticsearch upgraded from v5 to v9

Release date:

• Prod: 8 October 2025

RDA Production Elasticsearch cluster was upgraded from v5 to v9, and re-indexed. There was no downtime and no loss of records.

Database Cluster System Maintenance

Release date:

• Prod: 30 July 2024

RDA Production database cluster will undergo system maintenance. This should be an online activity with no downtime occurring.

Link Checker

Release date:

• Demo & Prod: 18 April 2023

Fixed Defect:

• Amended registry_prefix from researchdata.ands.org.au to researchdata.edu.au

This change will ensure that when the linkchecker produces the broken links email that the resolving address of the objects with broken links is the correct address