Release notes

• 01 July 2026

  One of our first big post-migration improvements is to update our data visualization and mapping libraries. We’re now using Leaflet and Vega-Altair to display data.

• 01 June 2026

  We will remove the NetLoss Calculator from the main navigation and from pages where we automatically pull in its calculations at the country level. It will also be deprecated on the Pulse API for Netloss. Measuring the economic impact of shutdowns is important, and that’s why it needs to be as accurate as possible.

• 09 April 2026

  The front page of Pulse has been updated, reflecting the final stage of a large project to migrate to a new front and back end, and the first steps toward a new design and structure for Pulse. The most visible improvements are to the layout and content, but the big news is what’s behind the scenes.

• 01 April 2026

  We’ve updated the Internet Resilience Index with corrected data. This is after we fixed a bug that corrected how we were importing affordability data from the ITU. We also fixed a bug that that affected the regional and sub-regional averages in the Internet Resilience Index (IRI).

• 17 March 2026

  We've fixed an issue with active networks indicator on the country reports page. It was showing zero active networks for each country, and this was a bug.

• 27 February 2026

  We've updated how we refer to the different markets in the concentration endpoints in the API to reflect the names we use on the website.

• 10 February 2026

  We created the Concentration section of Pulse as a way to track the concentration and consolidation of the Internet services market over the long term. We know that this topic is vital to understanding and advocating for an Internet that’s reliable and available. With this update, our goal is to simplify and streamline the page so we can move it to the new Pulse platform.

• 30 January 2026

  We’ve recently migrated around 700 blog and news pages and re-run the translations, so there are some slight changes if you use the site in Spanish or French—we hope for the better. You might have noticed some ways that Pulse looks and behaves differently. We’ve been migrating everything from our previous Wordpress site to a Wagtail site that uses Django for the back end.

• 20 January 2026

  We’ve updated the Internet Resilience Index with more recent data, and we’ve fixed some bugs caused by a data import that didn’t go as planned.

• 08 January 2026

  We've fixed a couple of bugs in the data displayed on the country reports