# ODK Central v2025.3 - Map view for Submissions, Bulk deleting Entities, Entities from Repeats and the latest Web Forms

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2025-3-map-view-for-submissions-bulk-deleting-entities-entities-from-repeats-and-the-latest-web-forms/57029>\
**Category:** Releases\
**Tags:** odk-central\
**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2025-3-map-view-for-submissions-bulk-deleting-entities-entities-from-repeats-and-the-latest-web-forms/57029 "2025-11-03T18:02:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2025-3-map-view-for-submissions-bulk-deleting-entities-entities-from-repeats-and-the-latest-web-forms/57029/1 "2025-11-03T18:02:51Z")

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### What’s new

ODK Central v2025.3 adds map views, bulk deletion, and better visibility into system status!

#### 🗺 Map view for Submissions

You can now explore your data visually! In addition to the table view, Submissions can now be viewed on a map, referencing the first geopoint, geotrace, or geoshape found in the form definition (outside any repeat). Multiple points mapped together are displayed in clusters that break apart when you zoom in to show the individual Submissions.

 ![Map submissions](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/2/6/260e2206d16e416326bded41c7ac28d57f0a6e22.jpeg)

#### 🗑 Bulk deleting Entities

Managing Entities just got easier! You can now delete multiple Entities at once directly from the table, making it faster to clean up your data.

![Bulk deleting Entities](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/d/1/d10e8ab5f9a2260c61a47e31c4eba22df140c06d.gif)

#### 👀 Better visibility into system status

We’ve added new ways to understand what’s happening in your server:

1. See each user’s invitation status directly on the System page
2. Submission and Entity tables now include a timestamp so you can easily see if your data is up to date.

## Web Forms

#### 📍 Select one from maps

Select one from map is now available, allowing users to pick a point, line, or shape directly from a map. If the place is an Entity, Web Forms will display the properties associated with it.

![Select one from map](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/7/0/70e77cf7be76c55aac99afd10a4fa900b5e43b14.gif)

#### ✨ Markdown

Markdown and HTML styling is now supported, making it easier to add formatting like bold text, lists, and links to your questions.

 ![Markdown in Web Forms](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/9/1/911c8a178954c448fcd0afe60fa884078b543862.jpeg)

#### 🛠 Foundation for Entities from Repeats

We have been laying the foundation for creating and updating Entities directly from Repeats. See the discussion of the XLSForm spec and XForm spec on the forum: [Create and update Entities from repeats](https://forum.getodk.org/t/create-and-update-entities-from-repeats/55163).

This release of Central (and pyxform v4.1.0) supports the new spec and can process forms that create or update entities in a single Entity list (e.g. collecting data about multiple trees in one submission). A beta version of Collect where you can test this feature is coming in a few days.

#### How to get these improvements?

If you are using Central on [ODK Cloud](https://getodk.org/#pricing), we'll be rolling out these updates in the coming days. If you are self-hosting Central, follow the [upgrade instructions](https://docs.getodk.org/central-upgrade/).

#### What’s next

Our next release will include being able to view Entities on a map! We’re also continuing to work on creating and updating Entities from Repeats. This includes supporting multiple entity lists in one Form where entities are linked automatically though a parent-child relationship.

For our overall roadmap, please check out See [getodk.org/roadmap](https://getodk.org/roadmap).

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**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-central-v2025-3-map-view-for-submissions-bulk-deleting-entities-entities-from-repeats-and-the-latest-web-forms/57029/4 "2025-11-13T19:34:02Z")

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ODK Central v2025.3.1 is now available. It includes the following changes:

- Add support for simplified Chinese
- Updated Web Forms to enhance sanitization of markdown input and add support for attributes to create and update Entities
