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This is a high level and scarce summary of the changes between releases. We would recommend to consult log of the DataLad git repository for more details.

0.11.0 (Oct 23, 2018) -- Soon-to-be-perfect

Major refactoring and deprecations

datalad.consts.LOCAL_CENTRAL_PATH constant was deprecated in favor of datalad.locations.default-dataset configuration variable (#2835)

Minor refactoring

"notneeded" messages are no longer reported by default results renderer
run would no longer show "commit instructions" if run failed (#2922)
get_git_dir moved into GitRepo (#2886)
_gitpy_custom_call removed from GitRepo (#2894)
Eliminated majority of uses of GitPython's .repo.rev_parse by adding GitRepo.format_commit (#2902)
GitRepo.get_merge_base argument is now called commitishes instead of treeishes (#2903)

Fixes

update should not leave the dataset in non-clean state (#2858) and some other enhancements (#2859)
Fixed chunking of the long command lines to account for decorators and other arguments (#2864)
Progress bar should not crash the process on some missing progress information (#2891)
Default value for jobs set to be "auto" (not None) to take advantage of possible parallel get if in -g mode (#2861)
[wtf] must not crash if git-annex is not installed etc (#2865), (#2865), ([#2918]), (#2917)
Fixed paths (with spaces etc) handling while reporting annex error output ([#2892]), (#2893)
__del__ should not access .repo but ._repo to avoid attempts for reinstantiation etc (#2901)
Fix up submodule .git right in GitRepo.add_submodule to avoid added added submodules being non git-annex friendly ([#2909]), (#2904)
run-procedure (#2905)
now will provide dataset into the procedure if called within dataset
will not crash if procedure is an executable without .py or .sh suffixes
Use centralized .gitattributes handling while setting annex backend (#2912)
Fixed GlobbedPaths.expand to use stored expanded paths (#2921)

Enhancements and new features

Report progress on clone when installing from "smart" git servers (#2876)
Stale/unused sth_like_file_has_content was removed (#2860)
Enhancements to search to operate on "improved" metadata layouts (#2878)
Output of git annex init operation is now logged (#2881)
New GitRepo.cherry_pick method (#2900)
run-procedure (#2905)
procedures can now recursively be discovered in subdatasets as well. The uppermost has highest priority

0.10.3.1 (Sep 13, 2018) -- Nothing-is-perfect

Emergency bugfix to address forgotten boost of version in datalad/version.py.

0.10.3 (Sep 13, 2018) -- Almost-perfect

This is largely a bugfix release which addressed many (but not yet all) issues of working with git-annex direct and version 6 modes, and operation on Windows in general. Among enhancements you will see the support of public S3 buckets (even with periods in their names), ability to configure new providers interactively, and improved egrep search backend.

Although we do not require with this release, it is recommended to make sure that you are using a recent git-annex since it also had a variety of fixes and enhancements in the past months.

Fixes

Parsing of combined short options has been broken since DataLad v0.10.0. (#2710)
The datalad save instructions shown by datalad run for a command with a non-zero exit were incorrectly formatted. (#2692)
Decompression of zip files (e.g., through datalad add-archive-content) failed on Python 3. (#2702)
Windows:
colored log output was not being processed by colorama. (#2707)
more codepaths now try multiple times when removing a file to deal with latency and locking issues on Windows. (#2795)
Internal git fetch calls have been updated to work around a GitPython BadName issue. ([#2712]), (#2794)
The progess bar for annex file transferring was unable to handle an empty file. (#2717)
datalad add-readme halted when no aggregated metadata was found rather than displaying a warning. (#2731)
datalad rerun failed if --onto was specified and the history contained no run commits. (#2761)
Processing of a command's results failed on a result record with a missing value (e.g., absent field or subfield in metadata). Now the missing value is rendered as "N/A". (#2725).
A couple of documentation links in the "Delineation from related solutions" were misformatted. (#2773)
With the latest git-annex, several known V6 failures are no longer an issue. (#2777)
In direct mode, commit changes would often commit annexed content as regular Git files. A new approach fixes this and resolves a good number of known failures. (#2770)
The reporting of command results failed if the current working directory was removed (e.g., after an unsuccessful install). (#2788)
When installing into an existing empty directory, datalad install removed the directory after a failed clone. (#2788)
datalad run incorrectly handled inputs and outputs for paths with spaces and other characters that require shell escaping. (#2798)
Globbing inputs and outputs for datalad run didn't work correctly if a subdataset wasn't installed. (#2796)
Minor (in)compatibility with git 2.19 - (no) trailing period in an error message now. (#2815)

Enhancements and new features

Anonymous access is now supported for S3 and other downloaders. (#2708)
A new interface is available to ease setting up new providers. (#2708)
Metadata: changes to egrep mode search (#2735)
Queries in egrep mode are now case-sensitive when the query contains any uppercase letters and are case-insensitive otherwise. The new mode egrepcs can be used to perform a case-sensitive query with all lower-case letters.
Search can now be limited to a specific key.
Multiple queries (list of expressions) are evaluated using AND to determine whether something is a hit.
A single multi-field query (e.g., pa*:findme) is a hit, when any matching field matches the query.
All matching key/value combinations across all (multi-field) queries are reported in the query_matched result field.
egrep mode now shows all hits rather than limiting the results to the top 20 hits.
The documentation on how to format commands for datalad run has been improved. (#2703)
The method for determining the current working directory on Windows has been improved. (#2707)
datalad --version now simply shows the version without the license. (#2733)
datalad export-archive learned to export under an existing directory via its --filename option. (#2723)
datalad export-to-figshare now generates the zip archive in the root of the dataset unless --filename is specified. (#2723)
After importing datalad.api, help(datalad.api) (or datalad.api? in IPython) now shows a summary of the available DataLad commands. (#2728)
Support for using datalad from IPython has been improved. (#2722)
datalad wtf now returns structured data and reports the version of each extension. (#2741)
The internal handling of gitattributes information has been improved. A user-visible consequence is that datalad create --force no longer duplicates existing attributes. (#2744)
The "annex" metadata extractor can now be used even when no content is present. (#2724)
The add_url_to_file method (called by commands like datalad download-url and datalad add-archive-content) learned how to display a progress bar. (#2738)

0.10.2 (Jul 09, 2018) -- Thesecuriestever

Primarily a bugfix release to accommodate recent git-annex release forbidding file:// and http://localhost/ URLs which might lead to revealing private files if annex is publicly shared.

Fixes

fixed testing to be compatible with recent git-annex (6.20180626)
[download-url] will now download to current directory instead of the top of the dataset

Enhancements and new features

do not quote ~ in URLs to be consistent with quote implementation in Python 3.7 which now follows RFC 3986
run support for user-configured placeholder values
documentation on native git-annex metadata support
handle 401 errors from LORIS tokens
yoda procedure will instantiate README.md
--discover option added to run-procedure to list available procedures

0.10.1 (Jun 17, 2018) -- OHBM polish

The is a minor bugfix release.

Fixes

Be able to use backports.lzma as a drop-in replacement for pyliblzma.
Give help when not specifying a procedure name in run-procedure.
Abort early when a downloader received no filename.
Avoid rerun error when trying to unlock non-available files.

0.10.0 (Jun 09, 2018) -- The Release

This release is a major leap forward in metadata support.

Major refactoring and deprecations

Metadata
Prior metadata provided by datasets under .datalad/meta is no longer used or supported. Metadata must be reaggregated using 0.10 version
Metadata extractor types are no longer auto-guessed and must be explicitly specified in datalad.metadata.nativetype config (could contain multiple values)
Metadata aggregation of a dataset hierarchy no longer updates all datasets in the tree with new metadata. Instead, only the target dataset is updated. This behavior can be changed via the --update-mode switch. The new default prevents needless modification of (3rd-party) subdatasets.
Neuroimaging metadata support has been moved into a dedicated extension: https://github.com/datalad/datalad-neuroimaging
Crawler
moved into a dedicated extension: https://github.com/datalad/datalad-crawler
export_tarball plugin has been generalized to export_archive and can now also generate ZIP archives.
By default a dataset X is now only considered to be a super-dataset of another dataset Y, if Y is also a registered subdataset of X.

Fixes

A number of fixes did not make it into the 0.9.x series:

Dynamic configuration overrides via the -c option were not in effect.
save is now more robust with respect to invocation in subdirectories of a dataset.
unlock now reports correct paths when running in a dataset subdirectory.
get is more robust to path that contain symbolic links.
symlinks to subdatasets of a dataset are now correctly treated as a symlink, and not as a subdataset
add now correctly saves staged subdataset additions.
Running datalad save in a dataset no longer adds untracked content to the dataset. In order to add content a path has to be given, e.g. datalad save .
wtf now works reliably with a DataLad that wasn't installed from Git (but, e.g., via pip)
More robust URL handling in simple_with_archives crawler pipeline.

Enhancements and new features

Support for DataLad extension that can contribute API components from 3rd-party sources, incl. commands, metadata extractors, and test case implementations. See https://github.com/datalad/datalad-extension-template for a demo extension.
Metadata (everything has changed!)
Metadata extraction and aggregation is now supported for datasets and individual files.
Metadata query via search can now discover individual files.
Extracted metadata can now be stored in XZ compressed files, is optionally annexed (when exceeding a configurable size threshold), and obtained on demand (new configuration option datalad.metadata.create-aggregate-annex-limit).
Status and availability of aggregated metadata can now be reported via metadata --get-aggregates
New configuration option datalad.metadata.maxfieldsize to exclude too large metadata fields from aggregation.
The type of metadata is no longer guessed during metadata extraction. A new configuration option datalad.metadata.nativetype was introduced to enable one or more particular metadata extractors for a dataset.
New configuration option datalad.metadata.store-aggregate-content to enable the storage of aggregated metadata for dataset content (i.e. file-based metadata) in contrast to just metadata describing a dataset as a whole.
search was completely reimplemented. It offers three different modes now:
'egrep' (default): expression matching in a plain string version of metadata
'textblob': search a text version of all metadata using a fully featured query language (fast indexing, good for keyword search)
'autofield': search an auto-generated index that preserves individual fields of metadata that can be represented in a tabular structure (substantial indexing cost, enables the most detailed queries of all modes)
New extensions:
addurls, an extension for creating a dataset (and possibly subdatasets) from a list of URLs.
export_to_figshare
extract_metadata
add_readme makes use of available metadata
By default the wtf extension now hides sensitive information, which can be included in the output by passing --senstive=some or --senstive=all.
Reduced startup latency by only importing commands necessary for a particular command line call.
datalad create -d <parent> --nosave now registers subdatasets, when possible.
datalad run now provides a way for the caller to save the result when a command has a non-zero exit status.
datalad rerun now has a --script option that can be used to extract previous commands into a file.
A DataLad Singularity container is now available on Singularity Hub.
More casts have been embedded in the use case section of the documentation.
datalad --report-status has a new value 'all' that can be used to temporarily re-enable reporting that was disable by configuration settings.

0.9.3 (Mar 16, 2018) -- pi+0.02 release

Some important bug fixes which should improve usability

Fixes

datalad-archives special remote now will lock on acquiring or extracting an archive - this allows for it to be used with -J flag for parallel operation
relax introduced in 0.9.2 demand on git being configured for datalad operation - now we will just issue a warning
datalad ls should now list "authored date" and work also for datasets in detached HEAD mode
datalad save will now save original file as well, if file was "git mv"ed, so you can now datalad run git mv old new and have changes recorded

Enhancements and new features

--jobs argument now could take auto value which would decide on # of jobs depending on the # of available CPUs. git-annex > 6.20180314 is recommended to avoid regression with -J.
memoize calls to RI meta-constructor -- should speed up operation a bit
DATALAD_SEED environment variable could be used to seed Python RNG and provide reproducible UUIDs etc (useful for testing and demos)

0.9.2 (Mar 04, 2017) -- it is (again) better than ever

Largely a bugfix release with a few enhancements.

Fixes

Execution of external commands (git) should not get stuck when lots of both stdout and stderr output, and should not loose remaining output in some cases
Config overrides provided in the command line (-c) should now be handled correctly
Consider more remotes (not just tracking one, which might be none) while installing subdatasets
Compatibility with git 2.16 with some changed behaviors/annotations for submodules
Fail remove if annex drop failed
Do not fail operating on files which start with dash (-)
URL unquote paths within S3, URLs and DataLad RIs (///)
In non-interactive mode fail if authentication/access fails
Web UI:
refactored a little to fix incorrect listing of submodules in subdirectories
now auto-focuses on search edit box upon entering the page
Assure that extracted from tarballs directories have executable bit set

Enhancements and new features

A log message and progress bar will now inform if a tarball to be downloaded while getting specific files (requires git-annex > 6.20180206)
A dedicated datalad rerun command capable of rerunning entire sequences of previously run commands. Reproducibility through VCS. Use ``run`` even if not interested in ``rerun``
Alert the user if git is not yet configured but git operations are requested
Delay collection of previous ssh connections until it is actually needed. Also do not require ':' while specifying ssh host
AutomagicIO: Added proxying of isfile, lzma.LZMAFile and io.open
Testing:
added DATALAD_DATASETS_TOPURL=http://datasets-tests.datalad.org to run tests against another website to not obscure access stats
tests run against temporary HOME to avoid side-effects
better unit-testing of interactions with special remotes
CONTRIBUTING.md describes how to setup and use git-hub tool to "attach" commits to an issue making it into a PR
DATALAD_USE_DEFAULT_GIT env variable could be used to cause DataLad to use default (not the one possibly bundled with git-annex) git
Be more robust while handling not supported requests by annex in special remotes
Use of swallow_logs in the code was refactored away -- less mysteries now, just increase logging level
wtf plugin will report more information about environment, externals and the system

0.9.1 (Oct 01, 2017) -- "DATALAD!"(JBTM)

Minor bugfix release

Fixes

Should work correctly with subdatasets named as numbers of bool values (requires also GitPython >= 2.1.6)
Custom special remotes should work without crashing with git-annex >= 6.20170924

0.9.0 (Sep 19, 2017) -- isn't it a lucky day even though not a Friday?

Major refactoring and deprecations

the files argument of save has been renamed to path to be uniform with any other command
all major commands now implement more uniform API semantics and result reporting. Functionality for modification detection of dataset content has been completely replaced with a more efficient implementation
publish now features a --transfer-data switch that allows for a disambiguous specification of whether to publish data -- independent of the selection which datasets to publish (which is done via their paths). Moreover, publish now transfers data before repository content is pushed.

Fixes

drop no longer errors when some subdatasets are not installed
install will no longer report nothing when a Dataset instance was given as a source argument, but rather perform as expected
remove doesn't remove when some files of a dataset could not be dropped
publish
no longer hides error during a repository push
publish behaves "correctly" for --since= in considering only the differences the last "pushed" state
data transfer handling while publishing with dependencies, to github
improved robustness with broken Git configuration
search should search for unicode strings correctly and not crash
robustify git-annex special remotes protocol handling to allow for spaces in the last argument
UI credentials interface should now allow to Ctrl-C the entry
should not fail while operating on submodules named with numerics only or by bool (true/false) names
[crawl] templates should not now override settings for largefiles if specified in .gitattributes

Enhancements and new features

Exciting new feature run command to protocol execution of an external command and rerun computation if desired. See screencast
save now uses Git for detecting with sundatasets need to be inspected for potential changes, instead of performing a complete traversal of a dataset tree
add looks for changes relative to the last commited state of a dataset to discover files to add more efficiently
[diff] can now report untracked files in addition to modified files
[uninstall] will check itself whether a subdataset is properly registered in a superdataset, even when no superdataset is given in a call
[subdatasets] can now configure subdatasets for exclusion from recursive installation (datalad-recursiveinstall submodule configuration property)
precrafted pipelines of [crawl] now will not override annex.largefiles setting if any was set within .gitattribues (e.g. by datalad create --text-no-annex)
framework for screencasts: tools/cast* tools and sample cast scripts under doc/casts which are published at datalad.org/features.html
new project YouTube channel
tests failing in direct and/or v6 modes marked explicitly

0.8.1 (Aug 13, 2017) -- the best birthday gift

Bugfixes

Fixes

Do not attempt to update a not installed sub-dataset
In case of too many files to be specified for get or copy_to, we will make multiple invocations of underlying git-annex command to not overfill command line
More robust handling of unicode output in terminals which might not support it

Enhancements and new features

Ship a copy of numpy.testing to facilitate [test] without requiring numpy as dependency. Also allow to pass to command which test(s) to run
In get and copy_to provide actual original requested paths, not the ones we deduced need to be transferred, solely for knowing the total

0.8.0 (Jul 31, 2017) -- it is better than ever

A variety of fixes and enhancements

Fixes

publish would now push merged git-annex branch even if no other changes were done
publish should be able to publish using relative path within SSH URI (git hook would use relative paths)
publish should better tollerate publishing to pure git and git-annex special remotes

Enhancements and new features

plugin mechanism came to replace export. See export_tarball for the replacement of export. Now it should be easy to extend datalad's interface with custom functionality to be invoked along with other commands.
Minimalistic coloring of the results rendering
publish/copy_to got progress bar report now and support of --jobs
minor fixes and enhancements to crawler (e.g. support of recursive removes)

0.7.0 (Jun 25, 2017) -- when it works - it is quite awesome!

New features, refactorings, and bug fixes.

Major refactoring and deprecations

add-sibling has been fully replaced by the siblings command
create-sibling, and [unlock] have been re-written to support the same common API as most other commands

Enhancements and new features

siblings can now be used to query and configure a local repository by using the sibling name here
siblings can now query and set annex preferred content configuration. This includes wanted (as previously supported in other commands), and now also required
New metadata command to interface with datasets/files meta-data
Documentation for all commands is now built in a uniform fashion
Significant parts of the documentation of been updated
Instantiate GitPython's Repo instances lazily

Fixes

API documentation is now rendered properly as HTML, and is easier to browse by having more compact pages
Closed files left open on various occasions (Popen PIPEs, etc)
Restored basic (consumer mode of operation) compatibility with Windows OS

0.6.0 (Jun 14, 2017) -- German perfectionism

This release includes a huge refactoring to make code base and functionality more robust and flexible

outputs from API commands could now be highly customized. See --output-format, --report-status, --report-type, and --report-type options for datalad command.
effort was made to refactor code base so that underlying functions behave as generators where possible
input paths/arguments analysis was redone for majority of the commands to provide unified behavior

Major refactoring and deprecations

add-sibling and rewrite-urls were refactored in favor of new siblings command which should be used for siblings manipulations
'datalad.api.alwaysrender' config setting/support is removed in favor of new outputs processing

Fixes

Do not flush manually git index in pre-commit to avoid "Death by the Lock" issue
Deployed by publish post-update hook script now should be more robust (tolerate directory names with spaces, etc.)
A variety of fixes, see list of pull requests and issues closed for more information

Enhancements and new features

new annotate-paths plumbing command to inspect and annotate provided paths. Use --modified to summarize changes between different points in the history
new clone plumbing command to provide a subset (install a single dataset from a URL) functionality of install
new [diff] plumbing command
new siblings command to list or manipulate siblings
new [subdatasets] command to list subdatasets and their properties
drop and remove commands were refactored
benchmarks/ collection of Airspeed velocity benchmarks initiated. See reports at http://datalad.github.io/datalad/
crawler would try to download a new url multiple times increasing delay between attempts. Helps to resolve problems with extended crawls of Amazon S3
CRCNS crawler pipeline now also fetches and aggregates meta-data for the datasets from datacite
overall optimisations to benefit from the aforementioned refactoring and improve user-experience
a few stub and not (yet) implemented commands (e.g. move) were removed from the interface
Web frontend got proper coloring for the breadcrumbs and some additional caching to speed up interactions. See http://datasets.datalad.org
Small improvements to the online documentation. See e.g. summary of differences between git/git-annex/datalad

0.5.1 (Mar 25, 2017) -- cannot stop the progress

A bugfix release

Fixes

add was forcing addition of files to annex regardless of settings in .gitattributes. Now that decision is left to annex by default
tools/testing/run_doc_examples used to run doc examples as tests, fixed up to provide status per each example and not fail at once
doc/examples
3rdparty_analysis_workflow.sh was fixed up to reflect changes in the API of 0.5.0.
progress bars
should no longer crash datalad and report correct sizes and speeds
should provide progress reports while using Python 3.x

Enhancements and new features

doc/examples
nipype_workshop_dataset.sh new example to demonstrate how new super- and sub- datasets were established as a part of our datasets collection

0.5.0 (Mar 20, 2017) -- it's huge

This release includes an avalanche of bug fixes, enhancements, and additions which at large should stay consistent with previous behavior but provide better functioning. Lots of code was refactored to provide more consistent code-base, and some API breakage has happened. Further work is ongoing to standardize output and results reporting (#1350)

Most notable changes

requires git-annex >= 6.20161210 (or better even >= 6.20161210 for improved functionality)
commands should now operate on paths specified (if any), without causing side-effects on other dirty/staged files
save
- -a is deprecated in favor of -u or --all-updates so only changes known components get saved, and no new files automagically added
- -S does no longer store the originating dataset in its commit message
add
- can specify commit/save message with -m
add-sibling and create-sibling
- now take the name of the sibling (remote) as a -s (--name) option, not a positional argument
- --publish-depends to setup publishing data and code to multiple repositories (e.g. github + webserve) should now be functional see this comment
- got --publish-by-default to specify what refs should be published by default
- got --annex-wanted, --annex-groupwanted and --annex-group settings which would be used to instruct annex about preferred content. publish then will publish data using those settings if wanted is set.
- got --inherit option to automagically figure out url/wanted and other git/annex settings for new remote sub-dataset to be constructed
publish
- got --skip-failing refactored into --missing option which could use new feature of create-sibling --inherit

Fixes

More consistent interaction through ssh - all ssh connections go through sshrun shim for a "single point of authentication", etc.
More robust ls operation outside of the datasets
A number of fixes for direct and v6 mode of annex

Enhancements and new features

New drop and remove commands
clean
- got --what to specify explicitly what cleaning steps to perform and now could be invoked with -r
datalad and git-annex-remote* scripts now do not use setuptools entry points mechanism and rely on simple import to shorten start up time
Dataset is also now using Flyweight pattern, so the same instance is reused for the same dataset
progressbars should not add more empty lines

Internal refactoring

Majority of the commands now go through _prep for arguments validation and pre-processing to avoid recursive invocations

0.4.1 (Nov 10, 2016) -- CA release

Requires now GitPython >= 2.1.0

Fixes

save
- to not save staged files if explicit paths were provided
improved (but not yet complete) support for direct mode
update to not crash if some sub-datasets are not installed
do not log calls to git config to avoid leakage of possibly sensitive settings to the logs

Enhancements and new features

New rfc822-compliant metadata format
save
- -S to save the change also within all super-datasets
add now has progress-bar reporting
create-sibling-github to create a :term:sibling of a dataset on github
OpenfMRI crawler and datasets were enriched with URLs to separate files where also available from openfmri s3 bucket (if upgrading your datalad datasets, you might need to run git annex enableremote datalad to make them available)
various enhancements to log messages
web interface
- populates "install" box first thus making UX better over slower connections

0.4 (Oct 22, 2016) -- Paris is waiting

Primarily it is a bugfix release but because of significant refactoring of the install and get implementation, it gets a new minor release.

Fixes

be able to get or install while providing paths while being outside of a dataset
remote annex datasets get properly initialized
robust detection of outdated git-annex

Enhancements and new features

interface changes
- get --recursion-limit=existing to not recurse into not-installed subdatasets
- get -n to possibly install sub-datasets without getting any data
- install --jobs|-J to specify number of parallel jobs for annex get call could use (ATM would not work when data comes from archives)
more (unit-)testing
documentation: see http://docs.datalad.org/en/latest/basics.html for basic principles and useful shortcuts in referring to datasets
various webface improvements: breadcrumb paths, instructions how to install dataset, show version from the tags, etc.

0.3.1 (Oct 1, 2016) -- what a wonderful week

Primarily bugfixes but also a number of enhancements and core refactorings

Fixes

do not build manpages and examples during installation to avoid problems with possibly previously outdated dependencies
install can be called on already installed dataset (with -r or -g)

Enhancements and new features

complete overhaul of datalad configuration settings handling (see Configuration documentation), so majority of the environment. Now uses git format and stores persistent configuration settings under .datalad/config and local within .git/config variables we have used were renamed to match configuration names
create-sibling does not now by default upload web front-end
export command with a plug-in interface and tarball plugin to export datasets
in Python, .api functions with rendering of results in command line got a _-suffixed sibling, which would render results as well in Python as well (e.g., using search_ instead of search would also render results, not only output them back as Python objects)
get
- --jobs option (passed to annex get) for parallel downloads
- total and per-download (with git-annex >= 6.20160923) progress bars (note that if content is to be obtained from an archive, no progress will be reported yet)
install --reckless mode option
search
- highlights locations and fieldmaps for better readability
- supports -d^ or -d/// to point to top-most or centrally installed meta-datasets
- "complete" paths to the datasets are reported now
- -s option to specify which fields (only) to search
various enhancements and small fixes to meta-data handling, ls, custom remotes, code-base formatting, downloaders, etc
completely switched to tqdm library (progressbar is no longer used/supported)

0.3 (Sep 23, 2016) -- winter is coming

Lots of everything, including but not limited to

enhanced index viewer, as the one on http://datasets.datalad.org
initial new data providers support: Kaggle, BALSA, NDA, NITRC
initial meta-data support and management
new and/or improved crawler pipelines for BALSA, CRCNS, OpenfMRI
refactored install command, now with separate get
some other commands renaming/refactoring (e.g., create-sibling)
datalad search would give you an option to install datalad's super-dataset under ~/datalad if ran outside of a dataset

0.2.3 (Jun 28, 2016) -- busy OHBM

New features and bugfix release

support of /// urls to point to http://datasets.datalad.org
variety of fixes and enhancements throughout

0.2.2 (Jun 20, 2016) -- OHBM we are coming!

New feature and bugfix release

greately improved documentation
publish command API RFing allows for custom options to annex, and uses --to REMOTE for consistent with annex invocation
variety of fixes and enhancements throughout

0.2.1 (Jun 10, 2016)

variety of fixes and enhancements throughout

0.2 (May 20, 2016)

Major RFing to switch from relying on rdf to git native submodules etc

0.1 (Oct 14, 2015)

Release primarily focusing on interface functionality including initial publishing

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0.11.0 (Oct 23, 2018) -- Soon-to-be-perfect

Major refactoring and deprecations

Minor refactoring

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.10.3.1 (Sep 13, 2018) -- Nothing-is-perfect

0.10.3 (Sep 13, 2018) -- Almost-perfect

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.10.2 (Jul 09, 2018) -- Thesecuriestever

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.10.1 (Jun 17, 2018) -- OHBM polish

Fixes

0.10.0 (Jun 09, 2018) -- The Release

Major refactoring and deprecations

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.9.3 (Mar 16, 2018) -- pi+0.02 release

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.9.2 (Mar 04, 2017) -- it is (again) better than ever

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.9.1 (Oct 01, 2017) -- "DATALAD!"(JBTM)

Fixes

0.9.0 (Sep 19, 2017) -- isn't it a lucky day even though not a Friday?

Major refactoring and deprecations

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.8.1 (Aug 13, 2017) -- the best birthday gift

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.8.0 (Jul 31, 2017) -- it is better than ever

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.7.0 (Jun 25, 2017) -- when it works - it is quite awesome!

Major refactoring and deprecations

Enhancements and new features

Fixes

0.6.0 (Jun 14, 2017) -- German perfectionism

Major refactoring and deprecations

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.5.1 (Mar 25, 2017) -- cannot stop the progress

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.5.0 (Mar 20, 2017) -- it's huge

Most notable changes

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

Internal refactoring

0.4.1 (Nov 10, 2016) -- CA release

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.4 (Oct 22, 2016) -- Paris is waiting

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.3.1 (Oct 1, 2016) -- what a wonderful week

Fixes

Enhancements and new features

0.3 (Sep 23, 2016) -- winter is coming

0.2.3 (Jun 28, 2016) -- busy OHBM

0.2.2 (Jun 20, 2016) -- OHBM we are coming!

0.2.1 (Jun 10, 2016)

0.2 (May 20, 2016)

0.1 (Oct 14, 2015)