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4.0.0 ​

Too much to list! But let's try anyway... ​

Features: ​

  • Brand new docs site!
  • Support for parallel corpora
  • Support for dependency trees and relation querying
  • Support for highlighting of capture groups, and grouping on those captures
  • Improved groupBy
  • Internationalization (currently natively supported: Dutch, English, Chinese - but you can add your own)
  • Support for mixed-direction text corpora

Improvements: ​

  • Better hit highlighting
  • Simplified handling of authentication
  • Autocomplete and documentation when creating a custom import format
  • Support ENV vars for configuration (docker users rejoice!)
  • Support live reload for central .properties configuration
  • Improved logging and error handling in the backend, particularly around xslt transformations and configs
  • Much less error prone pagination in documents
  • More uniform handling results when grouping, can now click open individual hits and docs within a group

Fixes: ​

  • Navbar layout is much better on smaller screens (still not perfect)
  • Wide view now always works properly and saves between sessions
  • Fix some cases of broken regex and wildcard escaping in simple and advanced search
  • Fix UI customizations not being validated properly, making it easy to break the page

Misc: ​

  • Add explicit licence file (Same Apache 2.0)
  • Project renamed from Corpus Frontend to BlackLab Frontend
  • Update Java dependencies, target Java 17 for parity with BlackLab
  • /config endpoint now shows the current version, commit ID, message and blacklab server URL

Apache license 2.0