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1 | 1 | Changelog |
2 | 2 | ========= |
3 | 3 |
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| 4 | +v21.4.x (next) |
| 5 | +-------------- |
4 | 6 |
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5 | | -v21.3.x (next) |
6 | | ------------- |
| 7 | +Breaking API changes: |
7 | 8 |
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| 9 | + - The data structure of the JSON output has changed for copyrights, authors |
| 10 | + and holders: we now use proper name for attributes and not a generic "value". |
8 | 11 |
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9 | | -Misc.: |
| 12 | + - The data structure of the JSON output has changed for licenses: we now |
| 13 | + return match details once for each matched license expression rather than |
| 14 | + once for each license in a matched expression. There is a new top-level |
| 15 | + "licenses" attributes that contains the data details for each detected |
| 16 | + licenses only once. This data can contain the reference license text |
| 17 | + as an option. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | + - The data structure of the JSON output has changed for packages: we now |
| 20 | + return "package_manifests" package information at the manifest file-level |
| 21 | + rather than "packages". There is a a new top-level "packages" attribute |
| 22 | + that contains each package instace that can be aggregating data from |
| 23 | + multiple manifests for a single package instance. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Ouputs: |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + - Add new YAML-formatted output. This is exactly the same data structure as for |
| 29 | + the JSON output |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +License scanning: |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | + - Add new command line option to filter ignorable copyrights when included |
| 35 | + in licenses. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +v21.3.30 |
| 40 | +-------- |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +This is a mjor version with no breaking API changes. Heads-up: the next version |
| 43 | +will bring up some significant API changes. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +Security: |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | + - Update dependency versions for security. |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +License scanning: |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | + - Add 22 new and update 71 existing reference licenses |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | + - Update licenses to include the SPDX license list 3.12 |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | + - Improve license detection accuracy with over 2300 new and improved license |
| 58 | + detection rules |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | + - Undeprecate the regexp license and deprecate the hs-regexp-orig license |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | + - Improve license db initial load time with caching for faster scancode |
| 63 | + start time |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + - Ensure that license short names are no more than 50 characters long |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | + - Thank you to Chin-Yeung Li @chinyeungli, Armijn Hemmel @jelmer |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +Copyright scanning: |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | + - Detect SPDX-FileCopyrightText as defined by the FSFE Reuse project |
10 | 73 |
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11 | 74 | - Fix bug when using the --filter-clues command line option |
12 | 75 | Thank you to Van Lindberg @VanL |
13 | 76 |
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| 77 | + - Allow calling copyright detection from text lines to ease integration |
| 78 | + Thank you to Jelmer Vernooij @jelmer |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +Package scanning: |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | + - Add support for installed RPMs detection internally (not wired to scans) |
| 84 | + Thank you to Chin-Yeung Li @chinyeungli |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | + - Improve handling of Debian copyright files with faster and more |
| 87 | + accurate license detection |
| 88 | + Thank you to Thomas Druez @tdruez |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | + - Add new built-in support for installed_files report. Only available when |
| 91 | + used as a library. |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | + - Improve support for RPM, npm, Debian, build scripts (Bazel) and Go packages |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | + - Add new support to collect information from semi-structured Readme files |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +Ouputs: |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | + - Add new Debian copyright-formatted output. |
| 101 | + Thank you to Jelmer Vernooij @jelmer |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | + - Fix bug in --ignore where directories where not skipped correctly |
| 104 | + Thank you to Pierre Tardy @tardyp |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | + |
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15 | 108 | v21.2.25 |
16 | 109 | -------- |
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