Releases: aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
Release v2.0.0: Major new features and improvements
This is a major release with several new and improved features and bug fixes.
To install, download scancode-toolkit-2.0.0.zip or scancode-toolkit-2.0.0.tar.bz2 from the Downloads section below and follow installation instructions in the README at https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/master/README.rst
You can also download the source code for pre-built third-party binaries from these locations:
- https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz
- https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.zip
Thank you to all contributors to this release and the 200+ stars and 60+ forks on GitHub!
Some of the key highlights include:
- License: Brand new, faster and more accurate detection engine. New and improved licenses and over 2500+ new detection rules
- Package and dependencies: new and improved detection of multiple package formats: NPM, Maven, NuGet, PHP Composer, Python Pypi and RPM. In most cases direct, declared dependencies are also reported.
- Scan outputs: New SPDX tag/values and RDF outputs. Improved compact JSON format.
- Copyright: several false positive are no longer returned and copyrights are more accurate
- Archive extraction: support for shallow extraction and new archive types
- Performance: everything is generally faster and less memory hungry. Scans can run on multiple processes in parallel with the new
--processesoption speeding up things even further. - You can now install ScanCode as a library from Pypi with
pip install scancode-toolkit
Release v2.0.0.rc3: Final v2 release candidate
This is a stable and final release candidate for v2.0 that can be used for testing and production use.
This is a significant new feature release. Changelog is in preparation.
To install, download scancode-toolkit-2.0.0rc3.zip or scancode-toolkit-2.0.0rc3.tar.bz2 from the Downloads section below and follow installation instructions in the READMErst file or at
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/README.rst
Also available is a Python wheel from Pypi: install on Python 2 with pip install scancode-toolkit
You can also download the source code for pre-built third-party binaries from these locations:
Release v2.0.0.rc2: Second v2 release candidate
This is a stable release candidate for v2.0 that can be used for testing and production use.
This is a significant new feature release. Changelog is in preparation.
To install, download scancode-toolkit-2.0.0rc2.zip or scancode-toolkit-2.0.0rc2.tar.bz2 from the Downloads section below and follow installation instructions in the README at
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/README.rst
You can also download the source code for pre-built third-party binaries from these locations:
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.zip
Release v2.0.0.rc1: First v2 release candidate
Early release candidate used for testing
Release v1.6.3: Experimental improved package detection
This is an unofficial release with experimental improved package detection support
__Unless you want to help with testing this release, please use instead the stable version 1.6.0 at https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/releases/latest __
Release v1.6.1: Experimental wheel support
This is an unofficial release with experimental python wheel support.
Unless you want to help with testing this release, please use instead the stable version 1.6.0 at https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/releases/latest
Release v1.6.0 : Copyright summary
This is a significant new feature release:
- The HTML app now displays a copyright summary graphic
- Improved HTML app UI enhancements
- New and improved license and detection rules and other minor bug fixes
To install, download scancode-toolkit-1.6.0.zip or scancode-toolkit-1.6.0.tar.bz2 from the Downloads section below and follow installation instructions in the README at
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/master/README.rst
You can also download the source code for pre-built third-party binaries from these locations:
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.zip
Release v1.5.0 : New features: licenses summary, authors, emails & URLs
This is a significant new feature release:
- The HTML app now displays a license summary graphic
- Copyright holders and Authors are now collected together with copyrights
- New email and url scan options: scan for URLs and emails: new useful origin clues
- New and improved license and detection rules and other minor bug fixes
These new scans are for now only available in the JSON output.
To install, download scancode-toolkit-1.5.0.zip or scancode-toolkit-1.5.0.tar.bz2 from the Downloads section below and follow installation instructions in the README at
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/master/README.rst
You can also download the source code for pre-built third-party binaries from these locations:
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.zip
Release v1.4.3 : Cosmetic bug fix
This is a minor bug fix release for v1.4:
- In the HTML app, the scanned path was hardcoded as
scancode-toolkit2/scancode-toolkit/samplesinstead of displaying the path that was scanned.
To install, download scancode-toolkit-1.4.3.zip or scancode-toolkit-1.4.3.tar.bz2 from the Downloads section below and follow installation instructions in the README at
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/master/README.rst
You can also download the source code for pre-built third-party binaries from these locations:
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.zip
Release v1.4.2 : Installation bug fixes
This is a major bug fix release for v1.4.0:
- The release archives were missing some code (packagedcode)
- Improved --quiet option for command line operations
To install, download scancode-toolkit-1.4.2.zip or scancode-toolkit-1.4.2.tar.bz2 from the Downloads section below and follow installation instructions in the README at
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/blob/master/README.rst
You can download the source code of pre-built binaries from these locations:
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-thirdparty-src/archive/v1.0.0.zip