data.qld.gov.au update to CKAN 2.11

The Queensland Government Open Data Portal runs on the CKAN software platform. On June 5th, 2025, this platform will be updated to the latest stable release, namely CKAN 2.11.2. Most customers using this portal will likely not notice any changes following the update.

We appreciate that some of our customers use Application Programming Interfaces or APIs to access our data. One change discovered in the testing of this software update was that API users performing a datastore_search_sql call will now receive ‘numeric’ field type values as plain numbers. CKAN previously provided these values within double quotes as a string. For example:

CKAN 2.10:

"foo": "123", "baz": "456"

CKAN 2.11:

"foo": 123, "baz": 456

If you are NOT a more technical user making API calls, this change does not affect you.

Systems that expect the presence of the double quotes around numeric values, may require remedial action. We hope this information will assist the managers of computer systems that consume Queensland Government Open Data to maximise continuity.

Further information on the changes in CKAN version 2.11 can be found here: https://ckan.org/blog/the-new-ckan-211-release-is-now-available.

If you manage a system that consumes data from data.qld.gov.au and would like to register your details to receive advance notice of system changes that affect API calls, or if you have any questions about this update, please use the Contact page.