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@pombredanne pombredanne released this 14 Nov 15:28
· 1075 commits to develop since this release
v3.0.0
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This is the final release v3.0.0

Some highlights:

  • project renamed to aboutcode-toolkit
  • ABOUT files are now YAML formatted.
  • There is new support for license expressions.
  • Support JSON input and output format: #246 and #277
  • Support for Python 2 and Python 3 #280
  • Improved help texts and USAGE texts
  • Updated the SPECIFICATION.rst
  • Published on Pypi as a wheel

Key name changes:

  • about_file is replaced by about_file_path
  • dje_license_key is replaced by license_expression
  • version is no longer a required field

CLI API changes

  • Break down the three major functions: inventory, genabout and genattrib into 3 subcommands:
    i.e. about inventory, about generate and about attrib

  • A new check subcommand is available to validate ABOUT files #281

  • Some options changes

    • --extract_license is now --fetch-license
    • --license_text_location is now --license-notice-text-location
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