This is the first wide release of 2.6 is for testing purposes only and is not intended for production work. Please backup your workspace directory before testing and report any problems that you encounter.
New features:
- shiny new OpenRefine branding
- internationalized UI available in both Italian and English
(if you'd like to help translating for your language, contact us) - better data fidelity for import - it's now possible to turn off all automatic conversions
- improved CSV support, including support for multi-character field separators
- support for the new Freebase v1 APIs released by Google as well as the latest Freebase Suggest
- better feedback on memory usage and low memory situations when creating projects
- shorter more friendly column names for JSON imports #524
- sorting of large data sets is orders of magnitude faster #738
- almost one hundred bug fixes including fixes for some of the persistently annoying ones like cross() failueres #432
Things to keep an eye out for:
- missing UI strings displayed as "undefined" or strings with HTML code in them
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE WITH GOOGLE REFINE 2.5:
- data directory has been renamed from ./Google/Refine to ./OpenRefine #777
If you run both versions, add a property a definition for refine.data_dir using a line like this in the refine.ini for your Google Refine 2.5 installation
JAVA_OPTIONS=-Drefine.data_dir=/path/to/data/dir
Other changes since alpha1:
- browser window is opened automatically on all platforms #773
- bundled extensions now work on all operating systems #781
- various missing internationalization cleanups #766, #775, #767
- updated to Freebase Suggest 4.3 #762
- more robust (hopefully) workspace saving code #528
- support for multi-character separators in CSV files #658
- support for locale in toDate() #729