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+slug: january-2024-update
+title: January 2024 Update
+date: 2024-02-01T09:12
+authors: [ bpepple ]
+tags: [ comic, database, metron, metrontagger, multiverses, universes ]
+---
+
+# January 2024 News
+
+## Issues Indexed
+
+The [Metron Project](https://metron.cloud/) had a total of **7,816** issues added to its database during January bring
+the total number of issues to **106,500**. I wish to give big thanks to everyone who has helped with the project.
+Thanks!
+
+## Universes Support
+
+[Universe](https://github.com/bpepple/metron/issues/173) support has been added to Metron, which will allow users to add
+Publisher's universes to Issues, Characters, and Teams. I've used information from a variety of sources to populate the
+initial universes, but I'm sure there is still a lot to be added.
+
+To aid updating existing issues faster with this information I've created
+a [Django Management Command](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/howto/custom-management-commands/) to update a
+series' issues. To make a request to update a series with Universe information, please provide the necessary
+information in this [discussion page](https://github.com/bpepple/metron/discussions/208).
+
+import UniverseImage from './universe-detail.png';
+
+<img src={UniverseImage} alt="Universe Detail" style={{width: 800}} />
+
+## Software Updates
+
+New versions of [Mokkari](https://github.com/Metron-Project/mokkari)
+and [Metron-Tagger](https://github.com/Metron-Project/metron-tagger) have been released, which primarily deal with
+using [Pydantic](https://pydantic.dev/) and adding *Universe* support.
+
+## Outstanding Bug Fixed
+
+Fixed an outstanding [bug](https://github.com/bpepple/metron/pull/210) where regular users were not able to add a new
+creator when adding a credit record to an Issue. Thanks to [THElegend5](https://github.com/THElegend5) for reporting
+this bug!
+
+![Creator Widget](./creator_credit.png "Creator Widget")