OpenRefine/OpenRefine 3.4-beta

OpenRefine v3.4 beta

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This is the first beta release of OpenRefine 3.4. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter.

New features

• We now offer a Windows package with embedded Java runtime engine (no need to install Java with this one) (#2272)
• Importing data from SQLite is now possible (#1951)
• Modal dialogs can now be closed with the ESC key (#1018)
• A cell.errorMessage field has been added, to fetch the error message stored in a cell (#525)
• A new menu item was created to extract entity identifiers from a reconciled column (#1975)
• It is now possible to quote all cell values in the custom tabular exporter (#1869)
• An option was added in the CSV/TSV importer to strip whitespace in cell values (#791)
• The Google Sheets and Google Drive export have been added to the main "Export" menu (#2453)
• The cross function is no longer restricted to source values from the column where it is invoked (#1950)
• The cross function now works for any type of cell value (#2461)
• It is now possible to configure the maxlag value used by the Wikidata extension by setting wikibase:upload:maxLag to some integer in the preferences (#2304)
• Facets can be minimized (#2553)

See the full list of changes.