v31.0.0b3 - 2022-04-30

This is a beta release for the upcoming 31 release.

v31 is a major release with many new features, and several bug fixes and
improvements including major updates to the package and dependency collection and to the license detection.

See https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/v31.0.0b3/CHANGELOG.rst for an overview of the changes.
Please try this release and report any installation issues so we can work towards a stable 31.
Thank you!

What's Changed

• Report packages at top level with file level package_manifests by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2710
• Updated install.rst by @beastrun12j in #2722
• Omnibus fall license improvements by @pombredanne in #2706
• Improve license detection by @pombredanne in #2737
• api.get_licenses: clarify and improve docstring for "min_score" argument by @zacchiro in #2763
• rules with "unqualified" license names are references, not notices by @petergardfjall in #2759
• Fix invalid license yaml files by resolving duplicated keys by @fangxlmr in #2776
• Fix azure pipeline vmimage deprecations by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2775
• Allow license rules to require the presence of certain defining keywords by @mrombout in #2773
• Add first draft ROADMAP by @pombredanne in #2736
• Add CycloneDx output option by @agschrei in #2698
• Remove regular expression futurewarning by @soimkim in #2788
• fix docstring in debian_copyright.py by @adii21-Ux in #2786
• fixes missing whitespace in prerequisites list by @altsalt in #2778
• Add PackageManifest Class by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2748
• Add new licenses and new detection rules by @pombredanne in #2765
• Rename first column of csv output to "path" by @JRavi2 in #2016
• Detect unknown licenses #1675 by @akugarg in #2592
• Improve copyright handling #2350 by @pombredanne in #2791
• Fixing OSI identifier for BSD-3-Clause; see also SPDX license metadata by @karsten-klein in #2797
• Fix GPL license detection false positive #2793 by @KevinJi22 in #2799
• 2789 inconsistent doc html app by @kunalchhabra37 in #2795
• Fixed inconsistency in --html-app FILE in cli-reference by @maynaS in #2790
• Replace freenode references with libera chat by @purna135 in #2816
• Adopt nexB/skeleton and bump dependencies by @pombredanne in #2818
• Fix bug recognizing license as license_notice instead of license_text by @adii21-Ux in #2817
• Fix incorrect license detection #2777 by @KevinJi22 in #2811
• Remove skeleton from docs by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2830
• Detect SPDX-FileContributor tags as authors by @pombredanne in #2838
• New license and copyright rule by @adii21-Ux in #2837
• Add key phrase tags to GPL detection rule by @pombredanne in #2821
• Make --version output valid YAML for parsing #2856 by @KevinJi22 in #2858
• Add Direct Note for Windows Users (New Comers) by @OsmiumOP in #2857
• Fixed Typo in Documentation by @OsmiumOP in #2862
• Remove version check locally by @adii21-Ux in #2860
• License improvement winter 2022 by @pombredanne in #2828
• Update link to documentation by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2867
• Improve license detection by @pombredanne in #2871
• Detect dependencies from build.gradle files by @pombredanne in #2822
• Fix small typo inside notes snippet by @Harshil-Jani in #2829
• Add Package Instances #2691 by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2825
• Improve license clarity scoring by @pombredanne in #2875
• Do not raise exception on package data mismatch #2886 by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2887
• Release 31 by @pombredanne in #2888
• Add primary license in summary by @JonoYang in #2884
• Remove usage of get_terminal_size in click by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2916
• Fix doc builds by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2896
• Update summary plugin by @JonoYang in #2914
• Shorten long file names by @pombredanne in #2918
• Added new copyright test cases by @abhishak3 in #2891
• Add system packages support in the new packages model by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2909
• Fix typo in summary: ambigous->ambiguous by @pombredanne in #2922
• Add system environment to scan headers by @pombredanne in #2923
• Update METADATA.bzl parser by @JonoYang in #2924
• Spring 2022 license updates by @pombredanne in #2921
• Process single package data file correctly by @pombredanne in #2933
• Fix package/dependency creation bugs by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #2932

New Contributors

• @beastrun12j made their first contribution in #2722
• @zacchiro made their first contribution in #2763
• @fangxlmr made their first contribution in #2776
• @mrombout made their first contribution in #2773
• @agschrei made their first contribution in #2698
• @soimkim made their first contribution in #2788
• @adii21-Ux made their first contribution in #2786
• @altsalt made their first contribution in #2778
• @karsten-klein made their first contribution in #2797
• @KevinJi22 made their first contribution in #2799
• @kunalchhabra37 made their first contribution in #2795
• @maynaS made their first contribution in #2790
• @purna135 made their first contribution in #2816
• @OsmiumOP made their first contribution in #2857
• @Harshil-Jani made their first contribution in #2829
• @abhishak3 made their first contribution in #2891

Full Changelog: v30.1.0...v31.0.0b3