v3.9.8

What's Changed

• Add Spellchecker by @zslade in #1588
• Stopped repeat installs if already in docs-venv by @zslade in #1590
• Installation docs tweak by @ThomasHepworth in #1617
• Add table deletion functionality to spark delta tables by @ardila1108 in #1526
• Perform spellcheck by @zslade in #1620
• Add roc chart to gallery by @RossKen in #1599
• update ctl docs by @afua-moj in #1624
• fix problem with csv overwriting in spark by @ThomasHepworth in #1635
• Update scala jars and adjust dependencies by @ThomasHepworth in #1622

New Contributors

• @ardila1108 made their first contribution in #1526

Full Changelog: v3.9.7...v3.9.8

v3.9.7

What's Changed

• Confusion matrix chart by @samnlindsay in #1528
• assign comparator score dataframe by @RossKen in #1520
• Update examples to use block on by @ThomasHepworth in #1540
• Add unlinkables chart to gallery by @RossKen in #1547
• Reduce SQLite example notebook size by @RossKen in #1545
• exact_match_rule -> block_on by @ThomasHepworth in #1553
• charts gallery to use block_on by @RossKen in #1546
• lock poetry to v1.5.1 by @ThomasHepworth in #1557
• add troubleshooting section to splink datasets by @RossKen in #1566
• add waterfall chart to gallery by @RossKen in #1550
• Chart Gallery - accuracy chart by @samnlindsay in #1563
• Allowed profile_columns to take 0 arguments by @sama-ds in #1516
• Add summary statistics for blocks[issue 1106] by @sama-ds in #1321
• [REFACTOR] Settings validation refactor by @ThomasHepworth in #1523
• 1535 doc make em speed up parameters more visible in the docs by @RossKen in #1544
• fix cumulative_rows count by @RossKen in #1577
• Cluster studio fixes by @ADBond in #1463
• Comparison viewer - filter with chart labels + render on empty subset by @ADBond in #1462
• Comparison checker - bug fixes and code cleaning by @ThomasHepworth in #1560
• Add model definition charts to gallery by @RossKen in #1551
• Initial comparison level validation by @ThomasHepworth in #1522
• group -> cluster by @ThomasHepworth in #1585
• Comparison dialect validation by @ThomasHepworth in #1579
• run the linter by @ThomasHepworth in #1589
• add charts dev guide by @RossKen in #1586
• SQlite example notebook fix by @ADBond in #1592
• add initial block on docs by @ThomasHepworth in #1591
• match weight tweaks by @RossKen in #1578
• Comparison viewer - handle comparisons with spacey names + fix waterfall tooltip by @ADBond in #1596
• Comparison viewer colour gamma grid on match weight by @ADBond in #1470
• Drop support for py 3.7 by @ThomasHepworth in #1600
• add path arguments to automated tests by @ThomasHepworth in #1595
• Backend installs by @ThomasHepworth in #1554
• 3.9.7 by @RossKen in #1610

Full Changelog: v3.9.6...v3.9.7

v3.9.6

What's Changed

• adjust the output from parse_duration by @ThomasHepworth in #1498
• Reduce EM training warnings by @ADBond in #1491
• 1266 invalid dates to null level by @RossKen in #1267
• fix broken settings editor link by @RossKen in #1506
• add docs pointing to tf chart by @RossKen in #1507
• remove set clause by @ThomasHepworth in #1504
• String comparator charts by @samnlindsay in #1408
• Add further reading to tutorial by @RossKen in #1449
• fix sqlite table registration by @ADBond in #1485
• New link accuracy chart by @samnlindsay in #1478
• adjusted default xlim inmissingness chart json by @aliceoleary0 in #1511
• small tweak to also adjust heatmap scale axis limits by @aliceoleary0 in #1521
• change deprecation warnings to SplinkDeprecated warnings by @ThomasHepworth in #1519
• Make brs json serialisable by @ThomasHepworth in #1530
• change u default in parameters comparison chart by @RossKen in #1532
• refactor: perf: dedupe logic, inf checks in predict.py by @NickCrews in #1495
• Temp br erg push by @ThomasHepworth in #1536
• Add Charts gallery by @RossKen in #1517
• Br ergonomics fix json serialisable err by @ThomasHepworth in #1539
• Add Blocking chart to gallery by @RossKen in #1524
• Blocking rule library ergonomics changes by @ThomasHepworth in #1534
• V3.9.6 by @RossKen in #1541

Full Changelog: v3.9.5...v3.9.6

v3.9.5

What's Changed

• Splink dataframe docs by @ADBond in #1457
• Fix issue 1414 by @RobinL in #1416
• Fix find_matches test by @ADBond in #1459
• Regex docs by @zslade in #1296
• Rename join conditions method for clarity by @RobinL in #1439
• fix broken links by @RossKen in #1476
• Add Splink Blog to the docs by @RossKen in #1451
• Fix estimate lambda as zero by @ADBond in #1477
• Add all tutorial and example datasets to splink.datasets by @RossKen in #1466
• Demos migration by @RossKen in #1431
• add charts plugin by @RossKen in #1490
• Accessibility improvements by @zslade in #1489

Full Changelog: v3.9.4...v3.9.5

v3.9.4

What's Changed

• Add dataset table generation script to docs workflow by @ADBond in #1399
• ccl table fix by @RossKen in #1400
• Bump minimum duckdb version to 0.8.0 by @ADBond in #1405
• Postgres docs by @ADBond in #1404
• SL docs edits by @samnlindsay in #1402
• fix docs links to point to master by @ThomasHepworth in #1419
• [FEAT] Detect equi-join conditions in a blocking rule to count the number of comparisons without needing to perform the join by @RobinL in #1388
• fix else_level examples - no parameter needed by @ADBond in #1423
• remove survey in banner by @RossKen in #1432
• FIX: add parens to blocking rules by @NickCrews in #1422
• run actions on _dev branches by @ThomasHepworth in #1433
• [FEAT] Blocking Rule helper functions by @ThomasHepworth in #1370
• Update splink demos by @RossKen in #1407
• Contributing guide by @RossKen in #1394
• ref: Remove pre-check for path when loading file by @NickCrews in #1438
• add blocking rule library to existing functions by @ThomasHepworth in #1436
• Blocking Topic Guides by @RossKen in #1389
• Remove_pkg_resources by @NickCrews in #1425
• String comparisons doc text formatting by @samnlindsay in #1445
• V3.9.4 by @RossKen in #1458

Full Changelog: v3.9.3...v3.9.4

v3.9.3

What's Changed

• Fellegi sunter topic guide by @RossKen in #1318
• [MAINT] Backend agnostic comparison composition tests by @ThomasHepworth in #1341
• 1109 athena datediff by @RossKen in #1338
• Extend CacheDictWithLogging so that it also stores all tables materialises by Splink, not just the named ones (Issue 1059) by @RobinL in #1061
• Issue 1225 - Poor performance of estimate u in a link_only job by @RobinL in #1359
• Add a timer into debug mode by @ThomasHepworth in #1367
• lint for print() statements by @ThomasHepworth in #1374
• Expectation maximisation speedup option by @aymonwuolanne in #1369
• record linkage topic guides by @RossKen in #1297
• add icons to docs and generated tables by @RossKen in #1353
• [FEAT] Splink Labelling tool beta by @RobinL in #1208
• Docs navigation improvements by @RossKen in #1381
• Postgres bug fixes by @ADBond in #1335
• Txt replacement bash script by @ThomasHepworth in #1378
• Basic settings validator by @ThomasHepworth in #1252
• Add summary of each backend to docs by @RossKen in #1385
• [BUG] fix how nulls are registered in pyspark when loading a pandas df by @ThomasHepworth in #1373
• Tweak readme by @RobinL in #1393
• Splink dummy data by @ADBond in #1358
• Release v3.9.3 by @RossKen in #1398

New Contributors

• @aymonwuolanne made their first contribution in #1369

Full Changelog: v3.9.2...v3.9.3

v3.9.2

What's Changed

• Postgres Linker by @hanslemm in #1191
• Fix altair dependency - redo by @RossKen in #1308
• Add Google analytics to docs by @RossKen in #1313
• Add docs on udfs in sqlite and duckdb by @RobinL in #1317
• satisfy the linter by @ThomasHepworth in #1322
• Adjust import paths to remove backend prefixes by @ThomasHepworth in #1320
• Initial commit for email comparison level feature. by @sama-ds in #1277
• migrate duckdbless action to release by @ThomasHepworth in #1323
• fix symlinks action by @ThomasHepworth in #1324
• make datediff tests backend agnostic by @ThomasHepworth in #1294
• Postgres backend by @ADBond in #1251
• Fix calculation of link-only sample size for u-training by @ADBond in #1312
• Sqlite - fix default connect and levenshtein by @ADBond in #1336
• Altair 5: All Splink charts become alt.Chart() objects rather than custom VegaLiteNoValidate by @RobinL in #1315
• Update actions by @zslade in #1342
• Remove redundant headers of PR template by @RossKen in #1347
• add banner pointing to google form by @RossKen in #1349
• updating splink version by @aliceoleary0 in #1351

New Contributors

• @hanslemm made their first contribution in #1191
• @sama-ds made their first contribution in #1277

Full Changelog: v3.9.1...v3.9.2

v3.9.1

What's Changed

• Update releases.md by @zslade in #1273
• Readme formatting by @RobinL in #1274
• Use tmp_path in deterministic link test by @ADBond in #1275
• allow lowercase postcodes by @RossKen in #1263
• update linting bash script by @ThomasHepworth in #1290
• clean datediff code by @ThomasHepworth in #1291
• save_settings_to_json -> save_model_to_json by @RossKen in #1283
• Add PR template by @RossKen in #1253
• Settings Topic Guide by @RossKen in #1292
• Comparison pseudo symlinks by @ThomasHepworth in #1279
• Update parameter_estimate_comparisons.json by @samnlindsay in #1301

Full Changelog: v3.9.0...v3.9.1

v3.9.0

What's Changed

• Docs upgrades by @RossKen in #1222
• Adjust table registration by @ThomasHepworth in #1219
• Add regex extract functionality to comparisons by @zslade in #1203
• Issue 1227 - Allow materialisation of df_representatives with no _ suffix by @RobinL in #1228
• 1189 tf topic guide by @RossKen in #1214
• Write splinkdf to csv parquet by @ThomasHepworth in #1194
• pretty print erroneous sql by @ThomasHepworth in #1238
• Cleaned up comparison levels documentation to be a multi-line code bl… by @mastratton3 in #1236
• Postcode comparison template by @zslade in #1230
• Forename Surname ctl by @RossKen in #1174
• 430 Term frequency adjustment chart by @samnlindsay in #1226
• 1111 add damerau levenshtein by @RossKen in #1181
• Duckdbless splink by @ThomasHepworth in #1244
• term_frequency_adjustments_names -> term_frequency_adjustments by @ThomasHepworth in #1254
• 1175 deterministric clusters by @RossKen in #1213
• Update citations by @RossKen in #1255
• update benchmarking action to run on PR merge by @ThomasHepworth in #1262
• Backend-agnostic testing by @ADBond in #1205
• Adjust cl imports by @ThomasHepworth in #1248
• Add Topic guide for choosing comparisons & thresholds by @RossKen in #1198
• tweak duckdbless action by @ThomasHepworth in #1270
• fix duckdbless reqs url by @ThomasHepworth in #1271
• New release v3.9.0 by @zslade in #1272

New Contributors

• @mastratton3 made their first contribution in #1236

Full Changelog: v3.8.1...v3.9.0

v3.8.1

What's Changed

• Releases dev guide by @RossKen in #1202
• Fix link only cartesian calc by @ThomasHepworth in #1204

Full Changelog: v3.8.0...v3.8.1