ResourceSpace Labs is our innovation programme, giving customers early access to the latest features and improvements before they're officially released, on a dedicated test system completely separate from their production system.

All our customers have access to their own dedicated Labs testing installation, available via their extranet - just click the "labs" tab. Your labs installation tracks our development trunk, enabling customers to:

The latest features from our development team

r28929 2026-06-02 cevans Change $thumbs_default to hide by default, improve comment
Development q13661: New collection bar layout
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28928 2026-06-02 cevans Change $thumbs_default to hide by default, improve comment
Development q13661: New collection bar layout
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28905 2026-06-01 jnorman Update FC page to use new dash type styling
Development q13760: SPRINT: Featured Collection tiles to gain new styling as per dash tiles
Refreshed Featured Collection tiles for consistency with the new dash.
r28882 2026-05-29 acota Field input dark mode following design updates
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28881 2026-05-29 acota Resource type selector design for dark mode
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28875 2026-05-29 acota Drop the show_powered_by_logo config
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28867 2026-05-28 cevans New collection bar layout
Development q13661: New collection bar layout
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28849 2026-05-28 acota Header and search redesign
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28843 2026-05-27 jnorman Merging dash tile changes to trunk
Development q13489: Improved styling for Dash tiles
  • Highlighted as an issue to address in the usability report.
r28779 2026-05-19 abaxter Ability to update location from csv
Development q12907: Ability to add geo location from resource metadata
  • Easier populating of resource location metadata.
r28777 2026-05-19 jbrooke Adding colour theme selector
Development q13564: Theme colour config option
  • Modernising the user interface, cutting down on over-customisation.
r28734 2026-05-14 dhuby Typesense readme points to KB instead
Development q13660: [SPRINT] Typesense support for ultra fast search
Improve search performance. Easier scaling. Additional search features.
r28732 2026-05-14 tpiechowicz Hero banner replacing large slideshow.
Development q13488: Hero banner replacing large slideshow
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28730 2026-05-14 dhuby Typesense search plugin and hooks to support it
Development q13660: [SPRINT] Typesense support for ultra fast search
Improve search performance. Easier scaling. Additional search features.
r28675 2026-05-08 jbrooke Removing antivirus, feedback, flickr_theme_publish, image_text, meta_append and wordpress_sso plugins
Development q13641: Remove deprecated plugins
  • Removing unused plugins which can get in the way of new UI developments and may be broken/untested.
r28662 2026-05-07 abaxter Add alternative files by CSV upload and batch replace
Development q12911: Ability to add alternative files in bulk
  • Requested by four customers
  • Enhances existing CSV Upload plugin and batch replace feature
r28643 2026-05-05 jbrooke Display which user credentials will be shared via user_api_session.php
Development q13684: TagQuest integration
  • Enables ResourceSpace integration with TagQuest that gamifies the process of adding metadata. https://tagquest.io/
r28634 2026-05-01 jbrooke Adding TagQuest to API_ISSUE_VALID_DESTINATIONS
Development q13684: TagQuest integration
  • Enables ResourceSpace integration with TagQuest that gamifies the process of adding metadata. https://tagquest.io/
r28532 2026-04-10 cevans Allow AI curl request timeouts to be overridden by remote config
Development q13686: Local LLM to replace OpenAI GPT
  • Control over costs. The server isn't going to be cheap but it's finite, and our customers can use this functionality as much as they like.
  • Data does not leave the data centre. This should mean uptake is higher as we had some pushback.
  • We control the model selection and as better models become available we can drop those in. No price increase.
r28530 2026-04-10 cevans Alter curl timeout defaults for AI requests to allow more time to respond
Development q13686: Local LLM to replace OpenAI GPT
  • Control over costs. The server isn't going to be cheap but it's finite, and our customers can use this functionality as much as they like.
  • Data does not leave the data centre. This should mean uptake is higher as we had some pushback.
  • We control the model selection and as better models become available we can drop those in. No price increase.