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Announcements of the latest features

February 2023

July 2022

November 2021

September 2020

January 2020

June 2019

  • OpenRefine 3.2 is released

November 2018

  • OpenRefine 3.1 is released

September 2018

  • OpenRefine 3.0 is released
  • There are many new features in v3.0, including Wikidata extension, Google drive API & OpenRefine Database Import Extension

November 2017

  • OpenRefine 2.8 is released
  • Google%20Inc.%20News%20Lab made a generous $100,000 grant to OpenRefine Foundation to begin working on features important to News Organizations that use OpenRefine.
  • Owen Stephens is added as a new Core contributor

June 2017

  • Antonin Delpeuch is added as a new Core contributor
  • Jacky pushed some new functionality into our master branch that lets you transfrom cells across all columns

October 2015

OpenRefine 2.6 release candidate 2 is released

August 2013

OpenRefine 2.6 beta 1 is released

October 2012

Project renamed to OpenRefine and moved to Github

December 2011

Google Refine 2.5 is released ([ChangesFor2p5 change list])

June 2011

Google Refine 2.1 is released([ChangesFor2p1 change list])

November 2010

Google Refine 2.0 is released ([ChangesFor2p0 change list]).

May 2010

May 28th, 2010

Freebase Gridworks 1.1 is released.

  • Features:
  • Row/record sorting (Issue 32)
  • CSV exporter (Issue 59)
  • Mqlwrite exporter
  • - Templating exporter (experimental)
  • Fixes:
  • Issue 34: "Behavior of Text Filter is unpredictable when "regular expression" mode is enabled." Regex was not compiled with case insensitivity flag.
  • Issue 4: "Match All bug with ZIP code". Numeric values in cells were not stringified first before comparison.
  • Issue 41: "Envelope quotation marks are removed by CSV importer"
  • Issue 19: "CSV import is too basic"
  • Issue 15: "Ability to rename projects"
  • Issue 16: "Column name collision when adding data from Freebase"
  • Issue 28: "mql-like preview is not properly unquoting numbers"
  • Issue 45: "Renaming Cells with Ctrl-Enter produced ERROR" Tentative fix for a concurrent bug.
  • Issue 46: "Array literals in GEL"
  • Issue 55: "Use stable sorting for text facets sorted by count"
  • Issue 53: "Moving the cursor inside the Text Filter box by clicking"
  • Issue 58: "Meta facet". Supported by the function facetCount()
  • Issue 14: "Limiting Freebase load to starred records". We load whatever rows that are filtered through, not particularly starred rows.
  • Issue 49: "Add Edit Cells / Set Null"
  • Issue 30: "Transform dialog should remember preferred language."
  • Issue 62: "It'd be nice if URIs were hyperlinked in the data cells"
  • Other Changes:
  • Moved unit tests from JUnit to TestNG

May 12th, 2010

Freebase Gridworks 1.0.1 is released.

  • Fixes:
  • Issue 2: "Undo History bug" - bulk row starring and flagging operations could not be undone.
  • Issue 5: "Localized Windows cause save problems for Gridworks" -
  • Windows user IDs that contain unicode characters were not retrieved correctly.
  • Issue 10: "OAuth fails on sign in" - due to clock offset.
  • Issue 11: "missing "lang" attribute in MQL generated in schema alignment"
  • Issue 13: "float rejected from sandbox upload as Json object" - everything was sent as a string.
  • Issue 17: "Conflated triples - all rows are producing triple with "s" :" $Name_0"" The Create A New Topic for Each Cell command created shared recon objects.
  • Issue 18: "Error converting russian characters during edit of single cell"
  • {partial fix} Issue 19: "CSV import is too basic" - fixed for CSV, not for TSV

May 5th, 2010

Freebase Gridworks 1.0 is released.

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