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Version 1.4.0

This release adds new ways to work with your stations in the operator portal. You can now propose a brand-new station without leaving the portal, see at a glance how complete each station's data is, and move through the forms more quickly. Accounts, stations, and data are unchanged, and existing integrations continue to work.

Submit a new station from the portal

You can now propose a new hydrogen refuelling station directly in the portal. A new Submit new station button appears in your station list for accounts that are allowed to add stations. The form asks only for the essentials: the operating organisation, name, address, country, time zone, a map-picked location, operation status, and dispenser counts.

Depending on how your organisation is set up, a submission is either created right away as a draft station you can finish filling in, or held for a short review by the H2-Stations team before it appears. Either way you are kept informed by email, and a new station never reaches the public map or the API until it is ready.

See how complete your station data is

Each station now shows two data-quality indicators on its detail page, side by side: an AFIR completeness measure and an overall data quality measure. AFIR completeness tells you how fully a station meets the fields required under the AFIR rules, with a clear list of anything still missing so you know exactly what to fill in. The station list also gains a sortable AFIR Quality column, so you can compare your whole fleet at a glance and see which stations need attention.

Quicker, smoother forms

A few changes make day-to-day editing easier:

  • The Save and Cancel buttons now stay pinned to the bottom of the screen on edit and create forms, so they are always within reach on long forms like the station editor.
  • The country and time-zone dropdowns now list only the countries and zones relevant to the initiative, so the lists are shorter and easier to scan.
  • The portal-wide station search now opens with Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac), with a small on-screen hint next to the search box. This no longer clashes with your browser's own in-page find.

Optional, anonymous usage analytics

The portal can now collect anonymous, opt-in usage analytics to help us understand which features are actually used and where to improve. You are asked once to accept or decline, you can change your mind any time under Account, and nothing is collected unless you opt in. No personal information is ever sent. This is off by default and will be enabled gradually.

Station reports working again

Exporting a station report as a PDF works again after a problem that could cause the export to fail.

Behind the scenes

This release also includes a set of improvements with no visible change for users:

  • The public map is faster and more responsive under load, and its 30-second status updates are much lighter on our servers.
  • Map tiles are now served from our own address, removing harmless but noisy browser warnings.
  • The status service and the deployment process are more resilient, recovering cleanly from transient database hiccups and waiting for database updates to finish before starting.
  • A welcome page now greets visitors at the API address, and non-public environments are kept out of search-engine results.