Changelog archive (1.5.3 and earlier)

Releases before 2.0.0. For 2.0.0 and later, see the current changelog.

1.5.3 (2018-11-20)

  • Reorganised source code to /src

  • Added Python 3.7 support

  • Removed Python 3.3 support due to end-of-life

  • plus minor improvements and bug fixes

1.5.2 (2018-02-06)

  • Fixed association relation in RDF serialisation

  • Fixed compatibility with networkx 2.0+

1.5.1 (2017-07-18)

  • Replaced pydotplus with pydot (see #111)

  • Fixed datetime and bundle error in RDF serialisation

  • Tested against Python 3.6

  • Improved documentation

1.5.0 (2016-10-19)

1.4.0 (2015-08-13)

  • Changed the type of qualified names to prov:QUALIFIED_NAME (fixed #68)

  • Removed XSDQName class and stopped supporting parsing xsd:QName as qualified names

  • Replaced pydot dependency with pydotplus

  • Removed support for Python 2.6

  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

1.3.2 (2015-06-17)

  • Added: prov-compare script to check equivalence of two PROV files (currently supporting JSON and XML)

  • Fixed: deserialising Python 3’s bytes objects (issue #67)

1.3.1 (2015-02-27)

  • Fixed unicode issue with deserialising text contents

  • Set the correct version requirement for six

  • Fixed format selection in prov-convert script

1.3.0 (2015-02-03)

  • Python 3.3 and 3.4 supported

  • Updated prov-convert script to support XML output

  • Added missing test JSON and XML files in distributions

1.2.0 (2014-12-19)

  • Added: prov.graph.prov_to_graph() to convert a ProvDocument to a MultiDiGraph

  • Added: PROV-N serializer

  • Fixed: None values for empty formal attributes in PROV-N output (issue #60)

  • Fixed: PROV-N representation for xsd:dateTime (issue #58)

  • Fixed: Unintended merging of Identifier and QualifiedName values

  • Fixed: Cloning the records when creating a new document from them

  • Fixed: incorrect SoftwareAgent records in XML serialization

1.1.0 (2014-08-21)

1.0.1 (2014-08-18)

  • Added: Default namespace inheritance for bundles

  • Fixed: prov.model.NamespaceManager.valid_qualified_name() did not support XSDQName

  • Added: Convenience prov.read() method with a lazy format detection

  • Added: Convenience plot() method on the ProvBundle class (requiring matplotlib).

  • Changed: The previous add_record() method renamed to new_record()

  • Added: add_record() function which takes one argument, a ProvRecord, has been added

  • Fixed: Document flattening (see flattened())

  • Added: __hash__() function added to ProvRecord (at risk: to be removed as ProvRecord is expected to be mutable)

  • Added: extra_attributes added to mirror existing formal_attributes

1.0.0 (2014-07-15)

  • The underlying data model has been rewritten and is incompatible with pre-1.0 versions.

  • References to PROV elements (i.e. entities, activities, agents) in relation records are now QualifiedName instances.

  • A document or bundle can have multiple records with the same identifier.

  • PROV-JSON serializer and deserializer are now separated from the data model.

  • Many tests added, including round-trip PROV-JSON encoding/decoding.

  • For changes pre-1.0, see the “Pre-1.0 change log” section below.

Pre-1.0 change log

0.5.3 (2013-12-13)

  • Changed: Allowed namespaces at bundle level

  • Fixed: Only check equality of ProvBundles on asserted records

  • Fixed: Some string literals are wrongly converted to QNames

  • Updated test cases from ProvToolbox (v4.1)

  • Added text explanations for some ProvException subclasses

  • Added support for langtag in prov.persistence.LiteralAttribute

  • Fixed: Support for prov:InternationalizedString literals

  • Fixed: Keep timezone information when parsing xsd:dateTime

0.5.2 (2013-10-18)

  • Added South migrations for prov.persistence

  • Fixed: Support for unlimited-length record identifier

  • Fixed: Support for unlimited-length URI in namespace

  • Fixed: Support for long literals (i.e. longer than 255 characters)

  • Fixed: (JSON) Support for membership with multiple members

  • Fixed: UnicodeEncodeError error

  • Fixed: Support for JSON having records sharing the same identifier

  • Fixed: Refactor the flattening code

  • Fixed: Parsing XSD dateTime

  • Fixed: Triple quoted multi-line string literals in PROV-N

  • Added: Support initialising namespaces when creating a ProvBundle

0.5.1 (2013-09-13)

  • Added: JSON membership relation with a single entity (in a list)

  • Fixed: Not generating inferred records in JSON encoding.

  • Fixed: Generating JSON arrays for multi-value attributes

  • Fixed: Comparing unicode literal values (fixed #12)

  • Fixed: Returning the identifier of a record if the required attribute type is Identifier

  • Fixed: No longer trying to find the actual generalEntity record when creating a Mention record

  • Added informative arguments to ProvException classes

  • Fixed: Attribute validation does not fail if the attribute is already a ProvRecord

0.5.0 (2013-09-02)

  • Allow inferred records to be retyped when flattening

  • prov.model.graph: check if a node of a relation already drawn

  • Add get_flattened() function to ProvBundle

  • Added: hash functions for Literal and Namespace

  • Changed: Add new bundle’s namespaces to parent document

  • Fixed: prov.persistence only saves namespaces at document level

  • Added: is_document() and is_bundle() for ProvBundle

  • Fixed: Stop outputting prefix in an bundle’s PROV-JSON

  • Changed: Removed namespace declarations in example bundles

  • Better handling of ids when generating PROV-JSON

  • Changed: Bundles cannot have their own namespace prefixes

  • When exporting a bundle as a document add namespaces from parent

  • Return pdbundle when calling add_prov_bundle

  • Fixed support for the default namespace

  • Fixed minor bugs.

0.4.9 (2013-08-09)

  • Fixed: Cannot get_label() when self._extra_attributes is None

0.4.8 (2013-08-06)

  • Added: Option to show attributes of relations in DOT graph generation

  • Added: option to show attributes of nodes in DOT graph representation

  • Added: Convenient methods for (de)serialising PROV-JSON (closes #17)

  • Fixed: No longer output inferred records in PROV-N and PROV-JSON

  • Fixed: Bundles now can have own namespaces

  • Fixed: missing return Literal(…)

  • Fixed: Error getting the value and datatype of Literal

0.4.7 (2013-07-10)

  • Changed: Removed out-dated example_graph()

  • Changed: Improved mappings between default Python and XSD data types

  • Changed: Removed ProvElement as the inferred record for influence

  • Changed: Updated examples (primer, bundles1, bundles2)

  • Fixed: Removed the duplicated Bundle definition in PROV_RECORD_TYPES

  • Added JSON test files from ProvToolbox and a test for loading these

  • Changed: Improved Literal equality test

  • Added langtag getter to Literal

0.4.6 (2013-04-24)

  • Fixed: Removed the ‘activity’ attribute from Influence expression

  • Fixed: Inferred records couldn’t be created when the expected types provided as a list

0.4.5 (2013-03-13)

  • Changed: ProvActivity.set_time() can now accept just one argument. It previously sets the time of the missing argument to None.

  • Changed: ProvAgent is now eligible for entity arguments and ProvEntity for agent ones

  • Fixed: Producing the right PROV-N representation for float values

0.4.4

  • Added float data type support for prov.persistence

  • Removed ProvCollection class since collections should be instantiated as entities

  • Added get_attribute() and get_value() to ProvRecord

  • Changed: Check if an attribute’s value is a valid QName and return the QName

  • Fixed exception rendering graphs with empty records

0.4.3

  • Fixed: PROV-N export - top-level bundle -> document

  • Fixed: Bug when renaming prefixes

0.4.2

  • Updated graph colors to the PROV style

0.4.1

  • Restructured package folder

  • Moved to a new repo.

  • Fixed: ‘memberof’ -> ‘hadMember’

0.4.0 (2012-10-31)

  • Initial release.