Release notes

What changed between versions

A plain-language history of the academic website, focused on features and behaviour rather than implementation details. Technical v6 changes are recorded in the academic-website CHANGELOG. Detailed pre-v6 changes remain in the academic-kickstart CHANGELOG.

v6.0.0-rc.1 "Swift Harbour"

Current release

First release candidate in the Next.js repository

1 Oct 2026

Swift Harbour is the first release candidate for the rebuilt academic website and the production version of bgonzalezbustamante.com: a modern public research profile connected safely to Research Dashboard, deployed after staged validation and production-domain migration.

Academic profile and trajectory

  • Introduced a new portrait-led homepage with current appointments, research interests, institutional links, DORA and CRediT research-practice information, and an Academic trajectory page covering selected education and professional positions.
  • Added a clearer view of completed and ongoing appointments while keeping the main navigation focused on the core public research sections.

Research portfolio

  • Expanded Publications with filters, citation information, language indicators, related projects, publication analytics and a co-authorship network.
  • Added Projects, Conferences and Teaching sections, including research outputs, funding information, presentation maps and roadmaps, keynote markers, controlled teaching-role tags, academic-level tags, and cumulative teaching information.

Activity and site coverage

  • Added public yearly work-activity summaries and a compact view of recent and forthcoming conference presentations.
  • Added population-progress indicators showing how much of the intended Publications, Projects, Conferences and Teaching record has been added while the new site is still being populated.

Platform and privacy

  • Rebuilt the site with Next.js and a responsive Oxford-inspired visual system designed for the new public academic profile.
  • Connected the site to Research Dashboard only through deliberately public, anonymous-safe data contracts; private research-management records, account information and individual work sessions remain outside the public website.
  • Improved search metadata, preview indexing safeguards, keyboard/reduced-motion accessibility, browser security headers and homepage loading behaviour for the production launch.
  • Added permanent redirects for legacy website URLs that have clear replacements while preserving unchanged publication URLs and normal not-found behaviour for material without a current equivalent.
  • Added a Website Carbon estimate in the footer, maintained as a local snapshot rather than fetched from an external service on each visit; the production site was re-tested after cut-over.

v5.4.9 and earlier "Legacy academic website"

Pre-v6 Hugo/Wowchemy implementation

Through 21 Sep 2026

Versions before v6 belong to the academic-kickstart generation of the website, which remains the historical record for the Hugo/Wowchemy implementation.

Historical scope

  • Maintained the academic profile, publications, projects, presentations and other research-facing material for bgonzalezbustamante.com.
  • The full pre-v6 release history remains available in the academic-kickstart CHANGELOG.