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 "Crimson Delta"

In development

Stable v6.0.0 release in preparation

In development

Crimson Delta is a final polish pass before the first stable v6 release.

Small refinements

  • Made the main navigation clearer with coral hover states and Oxford-blue current-section highlighting.
  • Added a dated Catholic Calendar footer with a calendar icon and better mobile handling for long observances.
  • Improved Weekly timeline metric labels so longer working-time ranges stay within their boxes.
  • Applied a security maintenance update to the website image-processing tools.

v6.0.0-rc.2 "Bold River"

Current release

Second release candidate

6 Oct 2026

Bold River adds new ways to explore my software, favourite paintings and weekly activity, with improvements across the website.

New things to explore

  • Explore the Software Ecosystem catalogue of applications, packages and other tools.
  • Browse Selected paintings, with museum links and image credits.
  • Visit the Weekly timeline to see illustrated penguins representing daily work and coffee activity.

Website improvements

  • Refreshed the profile photograph and artwork, and improved navigation on mobile.
  • Made research activity and collaboration summaries clearer, and updated the illustrated page-not-found screen.
  • Added Catholic Calendar highlights to the footer and clearer information about artwork credits.

v6.0.0-rc.1 "Swift Harbour"

Previous release

First release candidate

1 Oct 2026

Swift Harbour launched the rebuilt academic website with a clearer research profile and a responsive design.

Academic profile and research

  • Introduced the new homepage, Academic trajectory and information about research practices.
  • Expanded Publications, Projects, Conferences and Teaching, including research links, maps and summaries.

Activity and navigation

  • Added yearly work-activity summaries and recent and forthcoming conference presentations.
  • Made the site easier to navigate on different screens and improved links from the previous website.

Website experience

  • Improved accessibility, page loading and search visibility while keeping private research-management records off the public site.
  • Added a Website Carbon estimate to the footer and introduced the illustrated page-not-found screen.

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.

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