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Release Versioning

Accurids uses a SemVer mechanism that includes a sequence of three digits, MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

Incrementing MAJOR

Example: 1.0.0 → 2.0.0

A MAJOR version is incremented if any backward-incompatible breaking changes are included in a release.

Incrementing MINOR

Example: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0

MINOR updates contain new features and functionality.

Incrementing PATCH

Example: 1.1.0 → 1.1.1

PATCH updates are usually hotfixes, quickly tested and released after a critical bug is discovered upon a previous firmware update.

Notes

2.9.2 - 2024-11-18

  1. New Features
    • Pending Changes: Introduced a governance workflow to manage, review, and promote pending changes across datasets, enhancing data management and collaboration.
  2. Enhancements
    • User Interface and Experience: Improved layout and action elements across multiple workflows for better usability.
    • Audit Logs: Improved the logging system for better traceability and usability.
  3. Bug Fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements across the platform to enhance overall performance, usability, and stability.

2.8.1 - 2024-09-04

  1. New Features
    • Request Management: Added a request management feature that allows users to submit, assign, and track progress on dataset and entity-related requests.
  2. Enhancements
    • Public API: Launched a distinct customer API with dedicated documentation, enabling smoother integration with the Accurids platform.
    • User Groups: Upgraded the user group management system, improving member assignment, external authentication integration, and overall security configurations.
    • Matching Table: Enhanced the matching and clustering functionality with new restrictions based on entity types, ensuring more accurate matching proposals and refined control over entity clustering.
    • Dataset Ownership: Implemented the ability to transfer dataset ownership between users, streamlining dataset management when team responsibilities shift.
  3. Bug Fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements across the platform to enhance overall performance, usability, and stability.

2.7.0 - 2024-07-08

  1. New features
    • User Group Security: Introduced comprehensive user group management for enhanced security and user administration.
  2. Enhancements
    • Simplified Search: Improved search functionality and added infinite scroll for better usability and more accurate results.
    • Dataset Management: Added options for specifying dataset visibility (public/private) during creation and improved dataset access rights management as part of user group security enhancements.
    • PID Management: Added a new hash-based configuration type, creating a hash value from the input of required properties.
    • Matching: Enhanced the matching table to cluster similar objects, improving data management and deduplication processes.
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements across the platform to enhance overall performance, usability, and stability.

2.6.0 - 2024-06-11

  1. Enhancements
    • Simplified Search: The search has been simplified for business users, allowing direct search in table columns.
    • Chat Module: Improved handling of long messages and chat names, enhanced scrollbars, loading indicators, and navigation in the chat interface.
    • User Interface and Experience: Overall style and theme improvements.
    • Audit Trail Configuration: Customizable audit trail content for detailed compliance and governance logging.
  2. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements across the platform to enhance overall performance, usability, and stability.

2.5.0 - 2024-04-16

  1. New features
    • CURIE Prefix Management: Introduced a feature to streamline the management of Compact URIs (CURIEs), which simplifies the notation of URIs into manageable prefixes and references
  2. Enhancements
    • Display Patterns: Consistency and reliability in display patterns have been enhanced across the platform, with improvements in the computation and application of display labels.
    • Search & Browse - Audit Trail: The new Audit Trail feature in the Entity Details View offers a comprehensive view of the data lifecycle, essential for compliance, transparency, and governance.
    • Home Screen Customization: Enhanced configuration options for the home screen are now available, allowing different dashboard setups for public viewers and authenticated users.
    • PID Management: Enhanced PID management includes the addition of CURIEs and capabilities for short URL redirection, improving data referencing and integration.
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements across the platform to enhance overall performance, usability, and stability.

2.4.0 - 2024-02-23

  1. New features
    • Chat module: A revolutionary chat feature powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) that transforms how users interact with data, enabling intuitive, conversational searches and dynamic data exploration.
    • Push: Offers the ability to configure datasets for pushing to multiple targets, providing flexibility and control over the data dissemination process. This feature ensures precise management of data flow, tailored to organizational needs and workflows.
    • Data Integrity with SHACL Constraints: Introduces a form leveraging ontology files with SHACL constraints, aimed at enhancing data integrity and facilitating user-friendly data entry.
  2. Updates
    • Preloading Datasets: Enhancements to the functionality for preloading datasets, aiming to improve data management efficiency and access speed.
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements across the platform to enhance overall performance, usability, and stability.

2.3.0 - 2024-01-08

  1. New features
    • Vector-based matching
  2. Updates
    • Editing module enhancements: non-editable datasets, default form for object creation
    • Search page look & feel
    • Entity details view: Highlight cited values
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

2.2.0 - 2023-10-11

  1. New features
    • Matching Table
  2. Updates
    • Dataset incremental updates
    • Improved treeview perfromance
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

2.1.0 - 2023-08-25

  1. New features
    • FHIR Transformation
  2. Updates
    • Matching module enhancements
    • PID module updates
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

2.0.0 - 2023-07-13

  1. New features
    • Editing capability
    • Entity clustering
  2. Updates
    • Performance boost
    • Expanded export formats for searches and SPARQL queries
    • Improved backup
    • PID module UI enhancements
    • PID module API integration
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.6.0 - 2023-03-20

  1. New features
    • Graph visualisation
    • Shortcuts properties
    • SPARQL query
    • Matching module: proposals filter
  2. Updates
    • Performance improvements
    • Enhanced saved search
    • Improved user interface customisation
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.5.1 - 2023-01-28

  1. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.5.0 - 2023-01-06

  1. New features
    • Saved Searches
    • Export of search results
    • Sorting of search results
    • Backups overview
    • Sorting & search of registered users
  2. Updates
    • Performance improvements
    • Enhanced global entity view
    • Namespace overview rendering
    • Removed table view (replaced by the search page)
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.4.1 - 2022-10-19

  1. Updates
    • Resolved Critical Vulnerability in Apache Commons Text Library

1.4.0 - 2022-10-15

  1. New features
    • ID management module: policy and namespace configurations
    • Warm backup strategy
    • Relational database connectors
    • Import datasets via SPARQL: different authorization types support
    • Global entity view: print functionality
    • Metrics dashboard
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced ID management module: redirection configuration and ID generation
    • Improved display properties configuration
    • Security updates
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.3.0 - 2022-07-26

  1. New features
    • Indexing mechanism
    • Additional matching algorithms
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced global entity view
    • Treeview improvements
    • Persistent identifier updates
    • Improved SPARQL pipeline
    • Enhanced search performance
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.2.2 - 2022-07-11

  1. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.2.1 - 2022-07-01

  1. Updates
    • PID module enhancements
  2. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.2.0 - 2022-06-13

  1. Updates
    • Matching module extension
    • Enhanced Global entity view
    • Treeview improvements
    • Tableview enhancements
    • Improved scheduled dataset updates
    • Redirection module extension
    • Security changes
  2. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.1.0 - 2022-03-18

  1. New features
    • Matching module
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced Treeview
    • New Tableview component
    • Improved incoming references identification
    • Performance improvements
    • Security changes
    • Elasticsearch 7.17.1
    • Log4j 2.17.1
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

1.0.3 - 2022-01-31

  1. Updates
    • Enhanced OAuth2 handling

1.0.2 - 2022-01-21

  1. Bug Fixes
    • Facet filters performance
    • Display of labels
    • Treeview rendering

1.0.1 - 2021-12-20

  1. Updates
    • Log4j 2.17.0 (resolved Security Vulnerability CVE-2021-45105)
    • Elasticsearch 7.16.2 (based on Log4j 2.17.0)

1.0.0 - 2021-12-13

  1. New features
    • New look-up handling strategy
    • Redirection audit
    • Language tags handling
    • New dataset details page
  2. Updates
    • Elasticsearch 7.16.1 (resolved Security Vulnerability CVE-2021-45046)
    • Performance improvements
    • Enhanced ID Management module including both ID Generation and Redirection
    • Improved incoming references representation
    • Updated OAuth2 handling
    • Security improvements
    • Updated display of the global entity view
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.9.2 - 2021-09-30

  1. New features
    • Display of trees from modularized datasets
    • Search view table
  2. Updates
    • Faster look-up
    • Enhanced display of incoming and outgoing mappings
    • Improved incoming references detection
    • Updated display of the global entity view
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.9.1 - 2021-09-08

  1. Bug Fixes
    • Indexing issue

0.9.0 - 2021-08-11

  1. New features
    • Extension of semantic type filter
    • Scheduled data updates for configured graphs
    • Data synchronization from public repositories
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced value concatenation
    • Improved multi-level nesting
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.8.1 - 2021-07-08

  1. Updates
    • Enhanced dataset indexing
  2. Bug Fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.8.0 - 2021-06-30

  1. New Features
    • Dataset metadata display
      • Display of the graph URIs
      • Display of the ontology URIs
    • Modularization capability
      • Dataset dependency graph
    • Display of data patterns
      • Value concatenation
      • Multi-Level nesting
  2. Updates
    • Improved sign-in process
    • Table sort across all data
    • Enhanced tree view
  3. Bug Fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.7.0 - 2021-05-08

  1. New Features
    • Multi-Node cluster
    • Compressed files upload
    • Triple database replication
    • Loading indicators
    • Ontology and graph URIs identification
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced table view sorting
    • Ordered hierarchical properties
    • Usability improvements for search filters
    • Improved datasets overview
    • Enhanced tree view breadcrumbs and performance
    • Updated reification statement display
    • Improved license overview
  3. Bug Fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.6.6 - 2021-04-28

  1. Updates
    • Enhanced search functionality

0.6.5 - 2021-03-18

  1. Updates
    • Enhanced UMLS semantic type filter search

0.6.4 - 2021-02-12

  1. New Features
    • Automatic detection of sub-property assertions
    • UMLS semantic type filter search
    • Repository usage metrics
    • User specified customization
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced compact tree view
    • Usability improvements for search filters
    • Updated Elasticsearch version
    • Improved datasets overview
    • Enhanced authentication handling
  3. Bug Fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.6.3 - 2020-12-11

  1. New Features
    • Compact tree view
    • Search functionality in entity details view
    • Multiple datasets in search hits
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced breadcrumbs in entity details view
    • Improved dataset overview
    • Usability improvements for Properties Configuration
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.6.2 - 2020-11-19

  1. New Features
    • configurable JIRA issue collector
    • Basic content metrics service
    • Search functionality in dataset overview
    • Properties display configuration
    • Autocompletion for property filter
    • Tree cycle issue report
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced license management
    • Improved dataset table
    • Enhanced global entity view
    • Security improvements
    • Improved dataset details
    • Enhanced ingest pipeline
    • Injection of custom path configuration
    • Improved sign-in process
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.6.1 - 2020-09-24

  1. New Features
    • Customization of favicon and HTML title
  2. Updates
    • Additional Color Customizations

0.6.0 - 2020-09-21

  1. New Features
    • Global entity view
    • Dataset hits
    • Configuration of hierarchical properties
    • Dataset colors
    • Formatted HTML fields
    • Reflection of filtering in web page URL
    • Table view for ID Generator
    • ID Redirection
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced entity counting
    • Improved banner customization
    • Simplified license structure
    • Enhanced datasets view
    • Clickable URIs in the table view
    • Enhanced treeview
    • Improved code reliability, security and maintainability
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.5.0 - 2020-08-03

  1. New Features
    • Data migration for product upgrade
    • Incoming References for entity view
    • User confimation by email
    • Persistent Identifiers creation feature
    • Account deletion feature
    • Loading error report
  2. Updates
    • Tooltip harmonization
    • Enhanced Usability
    • Compact mapping view with aggregate for datasets
    • Enhanced treeview
    • Additional supported file formats
    • Improved entity details table
    • Clickable outline link
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements
  4. Important Notes:
    • Please, update your "Reverse Proxy Setup" based on the information described at https://docs.accurids.com/admin-guide/setup/reverse-proxy-setup/ under "Configure a BaseURL of the Accurids Installation (optional)" section.

0.4.2 - 2020-06-03

  1. New Features
    • Contributor user group
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced search ranking
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.4.1 - 2020-05-05

  1. New Features
    • API Key functionality
  2. Updates
    • Enhanced UI responsiveness
    • Deployment under relative path
    • Enhanced Usability
    • Editable dataset metadata
    • In-dataset browseable mappings
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.4.0 - 2020-03-30

  1. New Features
    • Browse functionality
    • Enabling and disabling datasets
    • Dataset metadata editing
    • In-place help
    • Link from the dataset overview to the tree view
  2. Updates
    • Boosted search and filtering
    • Improved UI customization
    • Enhanced entity and dataset views
    • Pre-configured mapping properties
    • Additional supported file formats
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements
  4. Important Notes:
    • Remove the esdata and working-dir volumes to start the Accurids 0.4.0 release without errors. Docker compose file will recreate them.
    • First registered user will obtain admin rights

0.3.4 - 2020-03-11

  1. New Features
    • Configurable SPARQL endpoints for dataset import
    • In-place help for the mapping management
  2. Updates
    • Dataset overview table is now sortable
    • Additional supported file formats
    • Enhanced dataset properties view
    • UI customization: welcome page, theme, banner title
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements
  4. Important Notes:
    • Remove the esdata and working-dir volumes to start the Accurids 0.3.4 release without errors. Docker compose file will recreate them
    • First registered user will obtain admin rights

0.3.3 - 2020-02-26

  1. New Features
    • UI customization: logo, color, welcome page
    • Breadcrumbs for the entity path to root
    • Tree view with selectable hierarchical property
    • Display of search results and time
    • Usage of popup for setting a filter
  2. Updates
    • User login information
    • Additional dataset properties
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.3.2 - 2020-02-07

  1. New Features
    • Personalized dataset filter for search
    • Deletion of datasets by creator only
    • Backend for the user profile page
    • Property filter in Search
    • Tree View: Cycle Detection in the quality report
    • TDB Locking utility
    • License key functionality for Accurids
    • Dataset indication when browsing content
    • Pagination for search results
  2. Updates
    • Bug reporting from with Jira Issue Collector
    • Improved Tree View Performance
    • Longer length of edit field for property mappings
    • Updated 'Terms of Service'
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements
  4. Important Notes:
    • Remove the esdata and working-dir volumes to start the Accurids 0.3.2 release without errors. Docker compose file will recreate them
    • First registered user will obtain admin rights

0.3.1 - 2020-01-13

  1. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.3.0 - 2020-01-08

  1. New Features
    • User login with Azure AD
    • Update of a dataset
    • Dataset Details View
    • Display of entity statements
    • Entity search with SKOS-XL
    • Display SKOS-XL Properties with Labels in Entity Statements
  2. Updates
    • Redesign of Dataset Creation Page
    • Improvement of tree view performance
    • Changes to the tree view scrolling behaviour
    • Linebreak for long String values to avoid horizontal scrolling
  3. Bug fixes
    • Various bug fixes and improvements

0.2.7 - 2019-12-17

  1. Aligned styling of overview pages
  2. Hidden dataset description column on dataset overview
  3. Property label API displays labels instead of URIs in the entity details page
  4. Design of Mapping API
  5. Extended mapping view shows all direct mappings (incoming and outgoing) for an entity from all datasets
  6. Basic PURL server component
  7. Elasticsearch updated to 6.8.4
  8. Bug fixes:
    • Various bug fixes and improvements