🚀 STAPLE Release — v1.2.0

What’s New
• Added task copy functionality
• Automatically add new people and teams to tasks
• Added multi-contributor invitations
• Improved project summary with anonymization of tasks
• Updated email notifications
• Added several navigation and usability improvements

What's Changed

• merge newest information from dev into translations by @doomlab in #455
• Translations by @doomlab in #461
• Small visual updates by @doomlab in #462
• Copy task button by @doomlab in #463
• Add all feature by @doomlab in #464
• Fix project summary by @doomlab in #465
• Update email notifications by @doomlab in #466
• Invite multiple contributors by @doomlab in #467
• Whitelist email by @doomlab in #468
• Overdue task reminder by @doomlab in #469
• add buttons to jump around by @doomlab in #470
• Comments textarea by @doomlab in #471
• Select all options by @doomlab in #472
• Mark pm by @doomlab in #473
• Anonymize tasks by @doomlab in #474
• Approval markers by @doomlab in #475
• Deal with form select view by @doomlab in #476
• Fixing project summary deleting by @doomlab in #480
• Notification profile update by @doomlab in #479

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

STAPLE v1.1.0 Release

🚀 STAPLE v1.1.0 Release

We’re excited to announce the next release of STAPLE, packed with features that improve project tracking, collaboration, and documentation.

✨ New Features
• Project Summaries – Generate and view summaries at the project level for a quick snapshot of progress.
• Task Approvals – Added the ability for project managers to approve tasks, improving accountability and oversight.
• Comments & Notes – Keep discussions and important context directly within tasks through a new comments and notes system.
• Markdown Support for Textareas – Richer editing experience with Markdown across text inputs, making notes and documentation more flexible and readable.

🛠 Improvements
• Refined user experience for project and task navigation.
• General UI polish and minor bug fixes.

What's Changed

• Add notes by @doomlab in #441
• fix autosave by @doomlab in #442
• Notes milestones fix by @doomlab in #445
• fix comments issues by @doomlab in #447
• Notes milestones fix by @doomlab in #449
• forgot to pull dev before copying sigh by @doomlab in #452
• Textarea fixes by @doomlab in #453

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

MVP STAPLE v1.0.0

🚀 STAPLE v1.0.0 — MVP Release

We’re excited to announce the public release of STAPLE: Science Tracking Across the Project Lifespan — an open-source project management platform built specifically for researchers. This MVP version includes core functionality for managing research workflows with transparency, coordination, and metadata at the center.

🔍 What is STAPLE?

STAPLE bridges the gap between scientific work and scientific documentation. It offers robust tools for:

• ✅ Tracking tasks, contributors, and project outputs
• 📄 Managing metadata through editable, schema-compliant forms
• 👥 Capturing contributor roles (e.g., via CRediT)
• 📦 Generating shareable project summaries and FAIR metadata exports
• 🔁 Encouraging transparent workflows with audit trails and review systems

✨ Highlights in This Release

• Dashboard Overviews: Personalized home and project dashboards with task summaries, project activity, and overdue alerts.
• Task Management: Create, assign, track, and approve tasks—individually or by team—with logging and metadata integration.
• Form System: Build or import structured metadata forms (including JSON support) and assign them to tasks.
• Contributors & Roles: Track contributor participation, assign roles, and view individual summaries with role distribution charts.
• Project Summaries:
  • Internal export: self-contained bundles for archiving or review
  • External viewer: share project snapshots via uploadable JSON
• Milestone Tracking: Gantt chart support with milestones linked to tasks and grant objectives.
• Customization: Modular dashboard widgets, tag-based views, and role-based permissions.
• Notifications & Comments: In-app and email alerts, plus threaded task discussions.
• JSON-LD & schema.org support: Metadata outputs are discoverable and web-friendly.

Mostly MVP!

We release this version with most of the minimum desired features. We expect to fix bugs and do the following features soon:

• turn on emailing notifications daily
• more tooltips for navigation and learning the software
• project summary in human and machine readable formats

STAPLE v0.0.1

STAPLE Release v0.0.1

• initial release of the software
• includes most features for MVP
• allows citation of the project through zenodo