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OpenRefine v3.7.2

05 Apr 16:41
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This is the third stable release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New since 3.7.1

  • The German translation was fixed and other translations were updated (#5750)

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

Assets 6

OpenRefine v3.7.1

10 Mar 12:04
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3.7.1
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OpenRefine v3.7.1

This is the second stable release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

Assets 6

OpenRefine v3.7.0

15 Feb 12:43
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3.7.0
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OpenRefine v3.7.0

This is the first stable release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

Assets 6

OpenRefine v3.7-beta5

27 Jan 08:19
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OpenRefine v3.7-beta5 Pre-release
Pre-release

This is the fourth beta release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

Assets 6

OpenRefine v3.7-beta4

26 Jan 13:58
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3.7-beta4
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OpenRefine v3.7-beta4 Pre-release
Pre-release

This is the fourth beta release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

Assets 2

OpenRefine v3.7-beta3

26 Jan 09:50
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OpenRefine v3.7-beta3 Pre-release
Pre-release

This is the third beta release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

Assets 2

OpenRefine v3.7-beta2

12 Dec 08:32
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OpenRefine v3.7-beta2 Pre-release
Pre-release

This is the second beta release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

Assets 6

OpenRefine v3.7-beta1

12 Dec 08:13
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OpenRefine v3.7-beta1 Pre-release
Pre-release

This is the first beta release of the 3.7 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

  • Most text exposed to users in OpenRefine's UI can now be translated. Some strings (generated server-side) were not translatable so far. To help translators catch up on this backlog, do not hesitate to join us on Weblate. (#5030)
  • New media files can be uploaded to Wikibase instances such as Wikimedia Commons. The wikitext of existing files can also be edited thanks to the new fields introduced. (#4682)
  • A button "Discover Wikibase instances…" was added on the dialog which lists the registered Wikibase instances (#5007), whose design was improved (#5009)
  • In the Wikibase schema editor, statements with non-standard datatypes (such as EDTF dates or musical notations) are now supported, assuming they use strings as underlying representation (#3263)
  • The Wikibase issues tab now makes it possible to locate which rows are responsible for certain issues, using facets (#5033)
  • The default throttle delay for the "Add column by fetching URLs" operation was reduced to 500ms and the error reporting for this field was improved (#5188)
  • Wikibase templates (incomplete Wikibase schemas) can be saved and shared, as a way of helping contributors use the same way of structuring data in a Wikibase instance (#5043, #5303)
  • The line-based importer now supports a custom delimiter, instead of only newlines (#4103)
  • The Excel importer can be configured to import all cells as text, disabling the use of other datatypes supported by OpenRefine (#4838)
  • The "some value" and "no value" Wikibase values can now be uploaded by OpenRefine (#5360)
  • The Excel importer will also avoid coercing cell values to OpenRefine datatypes which do not fully fit them, such as representing a date as a date with time (#5389, #5390).

GREL changes

  • Improved error handling in number formatting with the GREL toString function (#816)
  • The behaviour of the GREL function wholeText() has changed slightly in the way it handles newlines, following an upstream change in the jsoup library (jsoup issue #1636)
  • A new parent GREL function, to obtain the parent element of an XML element, was added (#5176)

For developers

And many bug fixes, see the full list of changes for 3.7.

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OpenRefine v3.6.2

03 Oct 19:16
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3.6.2
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OpenRefine v3.6.2

This is the third stable release of the 3.6 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

Starting with version 3.6, OpenRefine requires Java 11 or later.

New in 3.6.2

  • An overflow issue with the reconciliation dialog was fixed (#5286)

New features

  • The user is now warned when applying the "Fill down" or "Blank down" operations with a pending sorting criterion (#3256)
  • The import preview refreshing can be disabled (#4009)
  • Menu items to reveal collapsed columns were added to the column menus (#4067)
  • The path to the refine.ini configuration file can now be changed on the command line (#4113)
  • It is now possible to download the JSON representation of the operation history, without resorting to copy and paste (#4498)
  • It is now possible to work with Wikibase instances with federation enabled (#4287)
  • The merge strategy for statements can be configured in the Wikibase schema editor. This also adds support for deleting statements. Beware that schemas created with earlier versions of OpenRefine will still use the original merge strategy. (#3383, #2116, #4130)
  • OpenRefine can edit MediaInfo entities and not just Items (#4270)
  • It is possible to disable the new version notification by setting the configuration variable refine.display.new.version.notice=false (#4410)
  • The dialog to reorder and delete columns was improved to easily delete most columns (#4557)
  • The maximum editing speed and the Wikibase tag to apply to all Wikibase edits is now configurable for each Wikibase instance via its manifest (#3359)
  • Extra URL fields in the starting page can be removed thanks to a new button (#4606)
  • The "Use values as identifiers" operation now warns that it does not validate the identifiers (#3172)

GREL changes

  • A new GREL function, parent, was introduced to obtain the parent element of an XML element (#4181)
  • A new GREL function, scriptText, was introduced to obtain the text contained in a <script> or <style> element in HTML (#4189)
  • The random (previously randomNumber) GREL function was improved (#3143)
  • A new GREL function parseUri was introduced (#1857)
  • A new GREL function detectLanguage was introduced (#642)
  • New GREL functions encode and decode were introduced (#148)
  • The error handling of the pow and exp functions was improved (#3062)
  • The division operator returns NaN when computing 0/0 (#377)
  • A function timeSinceUnixEpochToDate was introduced, to convert a duration since Epoch to a date object (#608)
  • A function replaceEach was introduced, to replace multiple substrings in one go (#2606)

For extension developers

  • (from 3.6-rc1 on) We migrated to jQuery 3.6.0. If you are using jQuery in your extension, some jQuery syntaxes that have been deprecated earlier might have been removed. If your extension runs with OpenRefine 3.5.2, you can check the web developer console for warning messages when the extension is used: fixing those should be enough for your extension to be compatible with OpenRefine 3.6 (#4891)

And many bug fixes, see the complete list of changes for 3.6.

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OpenRefine v3.6.1

22 Aug 19:46
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3.6.1
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OpenRefine v3.6.1

This is the second stable release of the 3.6 series. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

Starting with version 3.6, OpenRefine requires Java 11 or later.

New in 3.6.1

  • The editing of redirected Wikibase entities was fixed (#5162)
  • A bug with selection of clusters in the clustering dialog was fixed (#5138)
  • Date handling in the Google data extension was fixed (#5107)
  • A packaging issue in MacOS was tentatively fixed (#5160)

New features

  • The user is now warned when applying the "Fill down" or "Blank down" operations with a pending sorting criterion (#3256)
  • The import preview refreshing can be disabled (#4009)
  • Menu items to reveal collapsed columns were added to the column menus (#4067)
  • The path to the refine.ini configuration file can now be changed on the command line (#4113)
  • It is now possible to download the JSON representation of the operation history, without resorting to copy and paste (#4498)
  • It is now possible to work with Wikibase instances with federation enabled (#4287)
  • The merge strategy for statements can be configured in the Wikibase schema editor. This also adds support for deleting statements. Beware that schemas created with earlier versions of OpenRefine will still use the original merge strategy. (#3383, #2116, #4130)
  • OpenRefine can edit MediaInfo entities and not just Items (#4270)
  • It is possible to disable the new version notification by setting the configuration variable refine.display.new.version.notice=false (#4410)
  • The dialog to reorder and delete columns was improved to easily delete most columns (#4557)
  • The maximum editing speed and the Wikibase tag to apply to all Wikibase edits is now configurable for each Wikibase instance via its manifest (#3359)
  • Extra URL fields in the starting page can be removed thanks to a new button (#4606)
  • The "Use values as identifiers" operation now warns that it does not validate the identifiers (#3172)

GREL changes

  • A new GREL function, parent, was introduced to obtain the parent element of an XML element (#4181)
  • A new GREL function, scriptText, was introduced to obtain the text contained in a <script> or <style> element in HTML (#4189)
  • The random (previously randomNumber) GREL function was improved (#3143)
  • A new GREL function parseUri was introduced (#1857)
  • A new GREL function detectLanguage was introduced (#642)
  • New GREL functions encode and decode were introduced (#148)
  • The error handling of the pow and exp functions was improved (#3062)
  • The division operator returns NaN when computing 0/0 (#377)
  • A function timeSinceUnixEpochToDate was introduced, to convert a duration since Epoch to a date object (#608)
  • A function replaceEach was introduced, to replace multiple substrings in one go (#2606)

For extension developers

  • (from 3.6-rc1 on) We migrated to jQuery 3.6.0. If you are using jQuery in your extension, some jQuery syntaxes that have been deprecated earlier might have been removed. If your extension runs with OpenRefine 3.5.2, you can check the web developer console for warning messages when the extension is used: fixing those should be enough for your extension to be compatible with OpenRefine 3.6 (#4891)

And many bug fixes, see the complete list of changes for 3.6.

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