We are pleased to announce TIND release 29.4.0. This is a minor release with a range of bug fixes and improvements across search, file downloads, dashboards, baskets, and metadata mapping. It also comes with accessibility fixes to search results, menus, and the Detailed View.

Highlights include support for multiple iFrame videos per record and citations for records without DOI. Contact TIND Support to activate these on your platform!

The 29.4.0 release schedule is as follows:

> Release 29.4.0 Sandbox & Early Release Instances

• September 1, 2026 (Early morning) - North America
• September 1, 2026 [Evening] - Europe / Asia / ANZ

> Release 29.4.0 to all TIND instances 

• September 1, 2026 (Early morning) - North America
• September 1 , 2026 [Evening] - Europe / Asia / ANZ
  

Changes, improvements and fixes  

• Date Range Search [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Date-range search syntax (e.g. year:2000->2008) now also matches records with more precise dates (e.g. month or day-level dates), instead of only exact year matches.

• Translations [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Updated French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese translations on the record page. Corrected the "Narrow by Collection" translation for Traditional Chinese (zh_TW).

• Baskets Display [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Fixed a display error when subscribing to the public basket which caused the record title to obscure the thumbnail.

• Export [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Fixed an issue where the export button and modal could show incorrect record counts, or appear to be missing, when a search result view was split by collection. 

• Batch Uploader [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Batch uploads that finish with "DONE WITH ERRORS" now describe the error details in the log, instead of an empty log. 

Accessibility

• Detailed View [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Fixed keyboard navigation in the header menu on the Detailed View: Author Profiles is now reachable by keyboard.

• Detailed View [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Updated multi-viewer tabs with improved Aria information and to allow keyboard navigation. 

• Detailed View [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Added appropriate labels to the citation buttons.

• Header Menu [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Reworked how top-level dropdown/hover menus behave so that expanded sub-menus can be dismissed.

• Search Results [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: “status” Aria role was added to announce the number of search results.

• Search Results [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: If the record has a file, file download specifies the file type in screen reader announcement. 

• Search Results [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: H1 header added to the page.  

• Key Pages [DA, ILS, IR, RDM]: Added “main” landmarks to key pages (front page, search, detail).