Version 0.12.3

• Extend documentation (package development, package summaries, asciinema demo)
• Bugfixes and codebase improvements (e.g., package management and discovery, closing sqlite connections)
• Reduce dependencies (e.g., levenshtein, PyPDF2, pdfminer, daff, psutil)
• Refactor colrev.bibliography_export (add writers)
• Extend tests: cover MacOS and Python 3.12
• Remove unnecessary options (e.g., init --local_pdf_collection)
• Add and test support for GitHub codespaces

Version 0.12.2

• Update CoLRev packages (including interfaces, development docs etc.)
• Refactoring (local-index)
• Implement json-loader
• Make ui_web (dash, blinker) optional to prevent errors in WSL
• Bugfixes

Version 0.12.1

• Refactor and test (dataset, records, provenance, local_index)
• Extract package_manager into a separate internal package
• Use bib-dedupe for matching (instead of simple similarities)
• Update docs

Version 0.12.0

Added

• Add linter colrev_records_variable_naming_convention
• Test coverage increased from 71% to 80%

Changed

• Split records, dataset, created records package.
• Extracted process as a separate package.
• Implemented loaders as a separate package, created a standard interface. SearchSources now create the specific mapping of IDs, entrytypes and fields.
• Moved field standardization from load to SearchSources.
• Extended use of constants
• SearchSourceInterface: renamed run_search to search, prefer prep_link_md over get_masterdata
• Renamed and refactored GeneralOriginFeed to SearchAPIFeed
• Pass record objects instead of dicts (in local_index in particular)
• Replaced unnecessary keyword arguments by positional arguments
• Moved zotero_translation_service to bibliography_export package
• Consolidated code for reference parsing in tei_parser
• Upgraded Grobid to 0.8.0

Removed

• Removed dead code
• Dropped INCONSISTENT_WITH_DOI_METADATA
• transitions dependency

Fixed

• Do not require review_manager for colrev env -i
• Fixed status_stats, including special cases.
• Repository registration: resolve() and absolute() path

Version 0.11.0

Added

• Separate PDF quality model (#268)
• download_from_website pdf-get package
• Separate loader utilities for nbib, ris, bib
• SearchSources: SemanticScholar (#288), Arxiv (#203)
• Constants module for Fields, ENTRYTYPES, etc.
• CEP003 for SearchSources
• New default dedupe package based on bib-dedupe
• Colrev pandas for Jupyter notebooks
• GitHub actions: pip-install test, make documentation

Changed

• Integrated colrev.resolve_crossrefs into load_utils_bib.py
• Defect codes can be ignored based on the IGNORE: prefix (#269)
• Documentation for setup (VM, MacOS, WSL)
• Revised interfaces for SearchSources
• Integrated: pdf_dir + video_dir > files_dir
• poetry extras
• Backward search: export of parameters and expected sample sizes
• Replace thefuzz witz rapidfuzz

Removed

• Package based on dedupe-io, including incompatible dependencies
• Crossref resolution package (integrated in bib-loader)

Version 0.10.4

Fixed

• Removed unstable test case

Version 0.10.3

Changed

• GitHub actions for CoLRev updates now install with Poetry because the fixed dependencies are more stable compared to pip installation

Version 0.10.2

Fixed

• paper_md: export BibTeX file and replace keys containing . to prevent pandoc error

Version 0.10.1

Changed

• SearchTypes: API, TOC, MD are added, PDFS is replaced by FILES.
• SearchTypes are explained in the docs.
• Package documentation is imported to docs.
• colrev.pdfs_dir and colrev.video_dir are integrated into colrev.files_dir.

Version 0.10.0

Added

• SearchSources: SYNERGY datasets, OpenAlex, ERIC, IEEEXplore, ArXiv
• JournalRankings: index, prep, and prescreen
• CoLRev shell via cli-repl (colrev shell)
• prep operation: pause and resume
• Dashboard overview of the sample and project status
• Extended tests, updated documentation (especially for extension development)
• GitHub workflows to update dependencies (poetry update)
• Ruff linter

Changed

• Load: ris/csv/... files are loaded directly (without creating intermediate BibTeX file)
• Introduced namespaced fields (e.g., colrev.pubmed.pubmedid instead of pubmedid)
• Extracted quality checks to separate Quality Model
• Docs: instructions for development setup
• Code quality improvements (codacy)

Removed

• colrev-asreview: extracted to separate package
• watchdog-based service