Release notes

See the app-specific tutorials via tf.about.corpora.

13

This major update has a few small fixes and adds nothing, but it deletes a lot. All functions having to do with XML conversion have been moved out of Text-Fabric, into a new package, Text-Fabric-Factory, which kan be pip installed separately.

13.0

13.0.15-16

2025-10-16

Performance of writing precomputed TF data to disk in suddenly decreased with a factor 3. The culprit turned out to be the pickletools.optimize function in the standard library. It turns out that this optimization does not help much, so I left it out. Also in 3.13 this optimize function had a significant performance penalty. Without it, expect much shorter load times for data that is loaded into TF for the first time.

Update: although the performance drop manifested itself in the optimize function of pickletools, the real culprit is the garbage collector. If we switch it off during feature computation and loading, there is no performance drop at all, and it appears that Python 3.14 is just a bit faster than Python 3.13.

So we keep the garbage collector swithced off during loading and dumping features, but we still do not use the optimize function.

13.0.14

2025-10-14

Fixed an exception when starting TF if the library marimo has been uninstalled. (It seems that the removal of marimo by pip is not complete).

13.0.13

2025-09-04

Moved text-fabric back to github.com/annotation

13.0.12

2025-09-01

Moved the text-fabric repo to gitlab.huc.knaw.nl, but that was unwise. This release has been yanked, you should not install this one.

13.0.11

2025-08-05

Fixed a bug introduced by the previous release.

13.0.8-10

2025-07-16

When using use() and specifying the corpus with app: + path to the app directory of the corpus, loading failed because a leading / got removed somewhere. This removal is functional when loading most modules, but not when loading the main module. A condition to that effect was added.

13.0.7

2025-07-06

A fix in pretty displays: if you passed the parameter extraFeatures, those extra features did not show up in all cases, and one of the ways to let them show up was to set standardFeatures=True. But that should not be necessary, and in fact this was a bug. It has been fixed.

Thanks to Tony Jurg for reporting this.

13.0.1-6

2025-03-18

GitLab backends: downloading deeper-than-toplevel subfolders from a repo led to a wrong directory structure of the downloaded files. This has been fixed.

13.0.0

2025-03-18

The place where the downloader thinks the text-fabric-data directory is, is in fact a parameter, but only the module tf.advanced.repo used it. Now you can also pass it to the use() command in tf.app

This is needed when you drive TF programmatically in contexts where your home directory is not the best place for it. For example in conversion pipelines with multiple projects.