The 2.1.1 patch addresses a number of quality improvements, including a time-stamp discrepancy issue impacting the image search results from the Planet inspector tool, compared to the timestamp on results returned by the image search panel. These time stamps are now consistent and accurate.

The 2.1 patch makes a number of quality improvements incl bug fixes and standardizing experiences between Planet's QGIS Plugin and Explorer apps, it also significantly revamps the download/order checkout process.

In 2.1 Users can find:

• Full support for imagery assets across all Planet item types such as rectified and un-rectified assets
• Consistent download experience between Planet Explorer and the ArcGIS Add-In
• An improved imagery checkout process with clearer documentation for imagery assets
• Support for arbitrary geometry clipping and multi-polygon clipping

Customers can now bring their own service account to manage GEE scene delivery, offering users a dedicated ingest queue and independence from Planet's default delivery service account

Released a 2.0.1 patch for the Planet QGIS Plugin, which fixes the timestamp users were seeing in their imagery search results to make sure dates reflect the acquired date, not the published date.

The "Earth Engine Resource Writer" IAM permissions are now beta supported in Google Cloud Projects. I.e., there is no longer a need to request these IAM roles from Google to enable your EE delivery from Planet today.