Update v8.10.0

This update includes two major changes:

The first major change is that the reflectance spectroscopy database now has a line search mode, which returns tables of line positions for bonds/groups for selected minerals. At present, there are 606 lines from 198 materials recorded.

The second major change is that search results now include lines and spectra from related materials. Previously, a luminescence search for 'Feldspar' would return only 33 lines, purely from references that recorded the material as 'Feldspar'. Now, a search for 'Feldspar' returns 191 lines, including lines from Adularia, Albite, Alkali feldspar, Anorthite, Amazonite, Andesine, Anorthite, Bytownite, Celsian, Cleavelandite, K feldspar, Labradorite, Microcline, Oligoclase, Orthoclase, Sanidine, and natural or synthetic variants thereof. Likewise, a reflectance line search for 'Minerals containing OH' returns 215 reflectance lines in 28 materials.

Other minor changes include:

• On each material page (e.g. Albite), luminescence and reflectance lines are now listed separately, which were previously mixed together.
• Also on the material page, duplicate abbreviations and duplicate tags in the material property table have been consolidated.

Posted 2026-09-07 , by Aaron Torpy

Contact: spectroscopy@csiro.au

Tags: update

Update v8.9.0

This is a security update to remove unneeded modules and update some others.

Posted 2026-08-10 , by Aaron Torpy

Contact: spectroscopy@csiro.au

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Update v8.5.0

This is minor update to upgrade bootstrap, and to fix disappearing image captions.

Posted 2026-08-05 , by Aaron Torpy

Contact: spectroscopy@csiro.au

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Update v8.4.5

This is a patch to add a reflectance spectrum plot to each specimen page (see example), which should assist users in discovering and comparing the the VNIR/SWIR/MIR/TIR spectra that are available. This patch also fixes some broken specimen links.

Posted 2026-05-17 , by Aaron Torpy

Contact: spectroscopy@csiro.au

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Update v8.4.4

This is a patch to fix the routine that processes the line table on the measurement page (see example), which previously wrote some broken links when multiple emitters were present in the list.

This update also corrects some lines for rhodonite and rhodochrosite, which were incorrectly attributed to Gaft et al. 1998 instead of 2015.

Posted 2026-04-16 , by Aaron Torpy

Contact: spectroscopy@csiro.au

Tags: update