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v2.0.0

v2.0 — Curated is a full platform

New in-app surfaces: Spaces, Artifacts, Search, and dedicated Settings. ArcGIS SDK 5.0 upgrade. Artifact versioning. The widget grew into a workspace.

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  • #major-release

v2.0 is the version where Curated stops being a "widget that does map things" and becomes a workspace. New surfaces for organizing work, a real artifact system, and an ArcGIS SDK upgrade with breaking improvements.

What shipped

New in-app surfaces

  • Spaces — top-level containers for related work. Group conversations, layers, and artifacts that belong together (a project, a market, a customer). Spaces replace the previous flat list of conversations.
  • Artifacts — every shareable output (PDF reports, marketing posts, PlaceStories, exported maps) is now a first-class artifact with its own URL, versions, and a dedicated panel
  • Search — global search across all your conversations, artifacts, layers, and saved prompts. ⌘ K (Mac) or Ctrl K (Windows/Linux) from anywhere.
  • Settings → Organization — admin-facing org configuration (branding, allowed connectors, default region, retention policies)
  • Settings → Personal — per-user preferences (theme, jurisdiction, language, voice mode defaults)
  • Settings → Widgets — admins can mint embeddable Curated widgets, scope what they can do, and share install snippets

ArcGIS SDK 5.0

  • Upgraded from 4.33 → 5.0 — major version bump with breaking changes resolved
  • Layer relationships — Curated can now follow related-table joins automatically
  • Service area / drive-time isochrones as a first-class layer group
  • AI-driven FeatureEffect — visual emphasis on the features that answer your question, computed by Curated and applied to the map without you choosing a style

Artifact versioning

  • Every artifact has version history. You can roll back, compare across versions, or share a specific version's URL.
  • Versions are stored via a recursive CTE on the Django side — efficient even when an artifact has been edited dozens of times.

Why it mattered

This is the version we'd call "v1 of the real product." The previous releases gave us capabilities. v2.0 gave us the organizing structure to actually use them — without it, by month six everyone had a flat list of 200 conversations with no way to find the one they wanted.

If you're a long-time user: your old conversations have been migrated into a default "General" space. Everything is still there, just organized.

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