OpenRefine v3.4-beta2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-07-04 // over 3 years ago
  • 🚀 This is the second beta release of OpenRefine 3.4. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

    🆕 New features

    • 🏁 We now offer a Windows package with embedded Java runtime engine (no need to install Java with this one) (#2272)
    • Importing data from SQLite is now possible (#1951)
    • 🔊 Modal dialogs can now be closed with the ESC key (#1018)
    • A cell.errorMessage field has been added, to fetch the error message stored in a cell (it was originally cell.error in 3.4 beta) (#525)
    • 🔧 Google OAuth credentials for Google Sheets and Google Drive integration are configurable (#2383)
    • A new menu item was created to extract entity identifiers from a reconciled column (#1975)
    • It is now possible to quote all cell values in the custom tabular exporter (#1869)
    • An option was added in the CSV/TSV importer to strip whitespace in cell values (#791)
    • The Google Sheets and Google Drive export have been added to the main "Export" menu (#2453)
    • 👍 The cross function now supports any value for input (instead of just cells) and is no longer restricted to the column where it is invoked (#1950)
    • The cross function now works for any type of cell value (#2461)
    • 🔧 It is now possible to configure the maxlag value used by the Wikidata extension by setting wikibase.upload.maxLag to some integer in the preferences (in the first beta, it was wikibase:upload:maxLag and that was renamed later to match the naming convention of other preferences) (#2304)
    • Facets can be minimized (#2553)

    👀 See the full list of changes.

    Checksums

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