Module tf.about.releases

Release notes

Consult the tutorials after changes

When we change the API, we make sure that the tutorials show off all possibilities.

See the app-specific tutorials in annotation.

When TF apps have been updated, they will be autoloaded to the newest version provided you call the app as follows:

(in a program)

use('org/repo:latest', ... )

(on the command line)

text-fabric appName:latest

This will get you the newest stable version. To get the newest unstable version:

(in a program)

use('org/repo:hot', ...)

(on the command line)

text-fabric appName:hot

What's going on

See the issue list on GitHub.

9

9.0

9.2

2022-01-06

A big reorganization, so that all things related to a corpus can be stored in the same neighbourhood. Before this release we had the situation that

  • a corpus is resides in org/corpus
  • its tutorials resides in annotation/tutorials/corpus
  • its tf-app resides in annotation/app-corpus
  • its layered search interface is provided by annotation/app-corpus

In the new situation we have

  • a corpus is resides in org/corpus
  • its tutorials resides in org//corpus/tutorial
  • its tf-app resides in org/corpus/app
  • its layered search interface is provided by org/corpus-search

So, in order to make a full fledged TF corpus there is no longer any dependency on the annotation organization.

Additional fixes: quite a bit, among which

  • When downloading zip files from releases, the Uruk images got the wrong paths. That has been fixed in zipData, used by the text-fabric-zip command.

9.1.13

2022-01-02

Test release. Since 9.1.7 the text-fabric distribution has become bloated because setuptools includes a lot more files by default. I now distribute a wheel only, and took care that it has no more than the usual files included.

9.1.12

2021-12-24

  • New data is computed and stored for a corpus: for each text format a frequency list of the characters in the corpus when rendered in that text format: characters()
  • A new function specialCharacters() which provides a widget from which you can easily copy the special characters in the corpus. Call it as A.specialCharacters(fmt=textformat).
  • In the tf.convert.walker module there is an extra cv method: CV.activeNodes().
  • Fix a bug that prevented the text-fabric browser to start up in some cases.

9.1.11

2021-12-16

Loading of features somehow became painfully slow. There binary representations of feature data are pickled Python datastructure. I now optimize the pickled strings before writing them to disk. Then they load much faster afterwards.

In order to feel the effects: perform a FabricCore.clearCache(), which will wipe out all previously generated binary feature data, so that the next time the binary features will be created afresh.

Further improvements:

  • omap@v-w features will not be loaded by default by use() calls. If needed, they can be loaded afterwards by A.load("omap@v-w") call
  • When these mappings are needed by modules of TF, the module will have ensured they are loaded.

9.1.10

2021-12-15

Improved Versions.migrateFeatures(). When migrating features from one data version to another along a node mapping between the two versions, the quality of the links between old nodes and new nodes is taken into account. We migrate feature values only through the best links available.

9.1.9

2021-12-13

  • Made sure that path names of files and directories, when retrieved by means of os.path.expanduser or os.path.abspath use forward slashes rather than backward slashes. These two functions might introduces path with backslashes when on Windows. The rest of TF works with forward slashes exclusively. We want prevent paths with mixed forward slashes and backslashes.
  • The mod parameter in A.use() accepts not only comma separated strings of data modules, but also iterables of such modules.
  • If you want to override the checkout specifiers of standard modules (e.g. the etcbc/parallels/tf or etcbc/phono/tf modules of the bhsa, you can now override them by passing these modules in the mod parameter.

9.1.8

2021-12-10

Fixed missing expander triangles in the feature overview after the incantation. This happened in the classical notebook, not in jupyter lab. The classical notebook styles the summary element in such a way as to rob it from the triangle. A simple overriding CSS instruction was enough.

Thanks to Oliver Glanz for spotting it.

9.1.7

2021-12-09

More information on the metadata of features on the interface.

  • After use("xxx") you get an expandable list of features. Formerly, a feature was represented by its name, hyperlinked to the feature documentation. Now you see also the data type of the feature, its description, and you can expand further to see all metadata of a feature.
  • TF.isLoaded and A.isLoaded (Api.isLoaded()) can show/hide more information, such as the file path to a feature, its data type, its description, and all of its metadata.
  • importMQL (FabricCore.importMQL()) accepts a parameter meta which one can use to specify metadata that is common to all features. Now you can use it to pass feature-specific metadata as well.
  • Several datasources have been converted by means of importMQL: bhsa, extrabiblical and calap. Of these, I have updated the BHSA to have richer metadata in their features (only version 2021) including the standard modules phono, parallels, trees. And while I was at it, also did the non-standard modules valence and bridging.

9.1.6

2021-11-17

Bug in search, spotted by Oliver Glanz, with thanks to him for reporting it. Queries with .f<g. constructs in it (numeric feature comparison) delivered wrong results. The root cause waas clear: I declared the converse of .f<g. to be .g>f.. But this is not the converse, the two are identical. The converse is .f>g.. See code

9.1.5

2021-11-17

Added an extra method A.load() by which you can load extra features after loading the main dataset.

9.1.4

2021-11-14

  • Small fix in the collect() function.
  • Small fix in search when run from the TF browser. Features that are mentioned in feature comparison relations were not shown in the search results. Now they do.

9.1.2,3

2021-11-03

In TF-apps, in the config.yaml where you specify an online location based on section headings, you can configure the app to put leading zeroes before section headings. See webUrlZeros. Small fixes in the handling of these configuration settings.

9.1.1

2021-10-25

Layered search

The layered search app hints in which browsers multiple highlighting is supported. It now works in Safari 15.0 on the Mac. It also works in browsers on iOs and iPadOs. The hints have been updated.

9.1

2021-09-10

Additions to the API

The display functions are

Some of them are defined with the parameter asString=False. When omitted or False, the result will be displayed in the notebook. But when used by the TF-browser, the result will not be displayed, but returned as HTML. Text-Fabric knows when it is used by the TF browser or not.

But there are cases when you want to tell Text-Fabric to not display the result, but to deliver it as HTML. For that the _asString parameter was used. However, it was not defined for all of these display functions.

The improvement is, that it now works for all of the above display functions.

When you pass asString=True, the result will not be displayed (in the notebook), but returned as HTML.

9.0.4

2021-08-26

Fixes

  • Section headings in the BHSA were not always rendered in ltr mode. Fixed.

9.0.2, 9.0.3

2021-08-24

Fixes

  • Bug reported by Gyusang Jin: when a string specification of features that must be loaded contains newlines, an error will occur.
  • TF.loadLog() did not provide useful information anymore. Instead, there is now TF.isLoaded and A.isLoaded (Api.isLoaded()). For compatibility, loadLog still can be called, but is identical to isLoaded.

9.0.1

2021-08-23

Fixes

Thanks for reporting!

9.0.0

2021-07-29

Additions

Volume support: see tf.about.volumes. This allows for partially loading a TF-dataset. It is the start of making Text-Fabric more agile. By being able to load portions of a work, and still not loose the connection with the whole work, it has potential for large corpora that do nit fit into RAM.

However, as it stands now, in order to make portions of a work, the whole work will be loaded. When the portions are made, they can be loaded without loading the whole work.

Later in the development of version 9 I hope to be able to synthesize whole works out of portions without the need of having the whole work in RAM.

Changes

Older releases

See tf.about.releasesold.

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