v4.0.0.dev4

What's Changed

• Simple extension to term frequency adjustments for inexact matches by @samkodes in #2020
• Update bug report template by @ADBond in #2073
• update colab links by @RobinL in #2080
• Fix mkdocs rendering symbols in notebook code by @ADBond in #2033
• Enqueue and compute methods by @RobinL in #2086
• rm deprecated action and bash scripts by @ThomasHepworth in #2094
• Fix sqlglot>=23.0.0 issue by @RobinL in #2079
• 3.9.14 release by @RobinL in #2095
• Document first-time developer setup, add conda option by @zmbc in #2083
• fix links by @RobinL in #2097
• Add dirty reload for much faster updates by @RobinL in #2096
• Remove _pipeline from linker and refactor CTE pipeline by @RobinL in #2069
• Splink 4 blocking rule/blocking rule creator fixes by @RobinL in #2103
• remove deprecated and outdated code by @RobinL in #2107
• Further br fixes by @RobinL in #2106
• Fix find matches input column by @RobinL in #2109
• tf_logic_simplify by @RobinL in #2110
• Add documentation for spellchecker and spellcheck docs by @zslade in #2025
• Add graph definition to docs by @zslade in #1979
• Minor fixes to spellchecker by @zslade in #2113
• Changing args as kwargs by @jlb52 in #2116
• Update threshold_selection_tool.json by @aalexandersson in #2120
• Fix broken link by @samnlindsay in #2098
• added tf_minimum_u_value to as_dict method by @aymonwuolanne in #2122
• Stricter mypy checks by @ADBond in #2108
• Merge 3 4 2123 by @RobinL in #2124
• Fix a bug in conda script and make minor improvements to quickstart by @zmbc in #2125
• Refactor and simplify how TF adjustments are made in _find_new_matches_mode and _compare_two_records_mode by @RobinL in #2111
• Faster tests: Split out tests into separate backends and use altair 5.3.0 by @RobinL in #2117
• Fix documentation Github Action for forks by @zmbc in #2126
• Add better check for whether conda is already installed by @zmbc in #2130
• Restore Settings Validation (Splink 4) by @ADBond in #2127
• Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md with spellchecker tick box by @zslade in #2128
• Clusters topic guide by @zslade in #1883
• Splink blog March 2024: Splink 3 update and Splink 4 development announcement by @RobinL in #2081
• Merge/splink 3 to 4 by @RobinL in #2134
• Fix link to linter by @RobinL in #2121
• add probabilistic section to graphs definitions by @RossKen in #2137
• Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md by @zslade in #2138
• Remove flags from block_using_rules_sqls logic ( _find_new_matches_mode and _compare_two_records_mode etc.) by @RobinL in #2129
• Merge/splink 3 to 4 by @RobinL in #2148
• Process input tables simplification by @RobinL in #2143
• Type decorator by @ADBond in #2151
• Allow df_concat to be created without a linker by @RobinL in #2144
• Specify generic types by @ADBond in #2153
• switch to ruff by @RobinL in #2156
• Mark spark tests by @ADBond in #2161
• Fix bugs in calculations for true negatives when using accuracy _from_column functions by @RobinL in #2150
• Move missingness chart out of linker and move profile_columns to splink.exploratory by @RobinL in #2157
• Test pythons > 3.9 in CI by @ADBond in #2164
• Adding type-hints, part 1 by @ADBond in #2169
• More type hints - remaining incomplete definitions by @ADBond in #2171
• Estimate u - default value warning by @ADBond in #2181
• Refactor blocking to not need linker by @RobinL in #2180

New Contributors

• @samkodes made their first contribution in #2020
• @jlb52 made their first contribution in #2116
• @aalexandersson made their first contribution in #2120

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.dev3...v4.0.0.dev4