v3.9.4

What's Changed

• Add dataset table generation script to docs workflow by @ADBond in #1399
• ccl table fix by @RossKen in #1400
• Bump minimum duckdb version to 0.8.0 by @ADBond in #1405
• Postgres docs by @ADBond in #1404
• SL docs edits by @samnlindsay in #1402
• fix docs links to point to master by @ThomasHepworth in #1419
• [FEAT] Detect equi-join conditions in a blocking rule to count the number of comparisons without needing to perform the join by @RobinL in #1388
• fix else_level examples - no parameter needed by @ADBond in #1423
• remove survey in banner by @RossKen in #1432
• FIX: add parens to blocking rules by @NickCrews in #1422
• run actions on _dev branches by @ThomasHepworth in #1433
• [FEAT] Blocking Rule helper functions by @ThomasHepworth in #1370
• Update splink demos by @RossKen in #1407
• Contributing guide by @RossKen in #1394
• ref: Remove pre-check for path when loading file by @NickCrews in #1438
• add blocking rule library to existing functions by @ThomasHepworth in #1436
• Blocking Topic Guides by @RossKen in #1389
• Remove_pkg_resources by @NickCrews in #1425
• String comparisons doc text formatting by @samnlindsay in #1445
• V3.9.4 by @RossKen in #1458

Full Changelog: v3.9.3...v3.9.4

v3.9.3

What's Changed

• Fellegi sunter topic guide by @RossKen in #1318
• [MAINT] Backend agnostic comparison composition tests by @ThomasHepworth in #1341
• 1109 athena datediff by @RossKen in #1338
• Extend CacheDictWithLogging so that it also stores all tables materialises by Splink, not just the named ones (Issue 1059) by @RobinL in #1061
• Issue 1225 - Poor performance of estimate u in a link_only job by @RobinL in #1359
• Add a timer into debug mode by @ThomasHepworth in #1367
• lint for print() statements by @ThomasHepworth in #1374
• Expectation maximisation speedup option by @aymonwuolanne in #1369
• record linkage topic guides by @RossKen in #1297
• add icons to docs and generated tables by @RossKen in #1353
• [FEAT] Splink Labelling tool beta by @RobinL in #1208
• Docs navigation improvements by @RossKen in #1381
• Postgres bug fixes by @ADBond in #1335
• Txt replacement bash script by @ThomasHepworth in #1378
• Basic settings validator by @ThomasHepworth in #1252
• Add summary of each backend to docs by @RossKen in #1385
• [BUG] fix how nulls are registered in pyspark when loading a pandas df by @ThomasHepworth in #1373
• Tweak readme by @RobinL in #1393
• Splink dummy data by @ADBond in #1358
• Release v3.9.3 by @RossKen in #1398

New Contributors

• @aymonwuolanne made their first contribution in #1369

Full Changelog: v3.9.2...v3.9.3

v3.9.2

What's Changed

• Postgres Linker by @hanslemm in #1191
• Fix altair dependency - redo by @RossKen in #1308
• Add Google analytics to docs by @RossKen in #1313
• Add docs on udfs in sqlite and duckdb by @RobinL in #1317
• satisfy the linter by @ThomasHepworth in #1322
• Adjust import paths to remove backend prefixes by @ThomasHepworth in #1320
• Initial commit for email comparison level feature. by @sama-ds in #1277
• migrate duckdbless action to release by @ThomasHepworth in #1323
• fix symlinks action by @ThomasHepworth in #1324
• make datediff tests backend agnostic by @ThomasHepworth in #1294
• Postgres backend by @ADBond in #1251
• Fix calculation of link-only sample size for u-training by @ADBond in #1312
• Sqlite - fix default connect and levenshtein by @ADBond in #1336
• Altair 5: All Splink charts become alt.Chart() objects rather than custom VegaLiteNoValidate by @RobinL in #1315
• Update actions by @zslade in #1342
• Remove redundant headers of PR template by @RossKen in #1347
• add banner pointing to google form by @RossKen in #1349
• updating splink version by @aliceoleary0 in #1351

New Contributors

• @hanslemm made their first contribution in #1191
• @sama-ds made their first contribution in #1277

Full Changelog: v3.9.1...v3.9.2

v3.9.1

What's Changed

• Update releases.md by @zslade in #1273
• Readme formatting by @RobinL in #1274
• Use tmp_path in deterministic link test by @ADBond in #1275
• allow lowercase postcodes by @RossKen in #1263
• update linting bash script by @ThomasHepworth in #1290
• clean datediff code by @ThomasHepworth in #1291
• save_settings_to_json -> save_model_to_json by @RossKen in #1283
• Add PR template by @RossKen in #1253
• Settings Topic Guide by @RossKen in #1292
• Comparison pseudo symlinks by @ThomasHepworth in #1279
• Update parameter_estimate_comparisons.json by @samnlindsay in #1301

Full Changelog: v3.9.0...v3.9.1

v3.9.0

What's Changed

• Docs upgrades by @RossKen in #1222
• Adjust table registration by @ThomasHepworth in #1219
• Add regex extract functionality to comparisons by @zslade in #1203
• Issue 1227 - Allow materialisation of df_representatives with no _ suffix by @RobinL in #1228
• 1189 tf topic guide by @RossKen in #1214
• Write splinkdf to csv parquet by @ThomasHepworth in #1194
• pretty print erroneous sql by @ThomasHepworth in #1238
• Cleaned up comparison levels documentation to be a multi-line code bl… by @mastratton3 in #1236
• Postcode comparison template by @zslade in #1230
• Forename Surname ctl by @RossKen in #1174
• 430 Term frequency adjustment chart by @samnlindsay in #1226
• 1111 add damerau levenshtein by @RossKen in #1181
• Duckdbless splink by @ThomasHepworth in #1244
• term_frequency_adjustments_names -> term_frequency_adjustments by @ThomasHepworth in #1254
• 1175 deterministric clusters by @RossKen in #1213
• Update citations by @RossKen in #1255
• update benchmarking action to run on PR merge by @ThomasHepworth in #1262
• Backend-agnostic testing by @ADBond in #1205
• Adjust cl imports by @ThomasHepworth in #1248
• Add Topic guide for choosing comparisons & thresholds by @RossKen in #1198
• tweak duckdbless action by @ThomasHepworth in #1270
• fix duckdbless reqs url by @ThomasHepworth in #1271
• New release v3.9.0 by @zslade in #1272

New Contributors

• @mastratton3 made their first contribution in #1236

Full Changelog: v3.8.1...v3.9.0

v3.8.1

What's Changed

• Releases dev guide by @RossKen in #1202
• Fix link only cartesian calc by @ThomasHepworth in #1204

Full Changelog: v3.8.0...v3.8.1

v3.8.0

What's Changed

• Make the example notebooks run faster by @RobinL in #1160
• Add tags by @RossKen in #1165
• Benchmark timeseries commit workflow to run only in upstream repo by @ADBond in #1152
• Create _register_input_tables method in our main linker class by @ThomasHepworth in #1172
• Documentation examples by @RossKen in #1159
• Fix autoblack checkout step by @ADBond in #1169
• Add emojis rather than bullets by @RobinL in #1180
• Add option to pass seed into estimate_u_using_random_sampling by @RossKen in #1161
• Adjust the outputs of truth_space_table_from_labels_with_predictions_sqls to be lowercase by @ThomasHepworth in #1183
• Improve Logging by @NickCrews in #1084
• Improve logging by @ThomasHepworth in #1186
• Add docs for Feature Engineering by @RossKen in #1178
• Add UDFs dev guide by @RossKen in #1182
• [BUG] Fix source dataset issue when running link jobs by @ThomasHepworth in #1193
• 1107 add jaro similarity by @RossKen in #1167
• migrate ComparisonProperties by @ThomasHepworth in #1195
• revert to old comparison script structure by @RossKen in #1197
• 1030 option for auto typecasting datediff by @aliceoleary0 in #1162
• Athena updates by @ThomasHepworth in #1187
• Release 3.8.0 by @RossKen in #1201

New Contributors

• @aliceoleary0 made their first contribution in #1162

Full Changelog: v3.7.3...v3.8.0

v3.7.3

What's Changed

• Linting update by @ADBond in #1131
• Fix autoblack workflow for forks by @ADBond in #1133
• remove invalid comma by @wilko77 in #1143
• Improve readme what does splink do by @RobinL in #1129
• Improve copy writing on readme by @RobinL in #1144
• Improve readme images for clarity by @RobinL in #1145
• Attempt to make examples notebooks action faster by @RobinL in #1147
• ComparisonLevel composition v2 by @NickCrews in #1114
• Update run_demos_examples.yml by @RobinL in #1154
• 1151 fix term frequencies for cols reversed by @afua-moj in #1156
• Add previously breaking tf case to tests by @RossKen in #1157
• Version 3.7.3 by @RossKen in #1158

New Contributors

• @wilko77 made their first contribution in #1143
• @afua-moj made their first contribution in #1156

Full Changelog: v3.7.2...v3.7.3

v3.7.2

What's Changed

• Add comparison template library functions for simple name column by @RossKen in #1125
• Modify defaults for repartitioning by @RobinL in #1138

Full Changelog: v3.7.1...v3.7.2

v3.7.1

What's Changed

• Fix a couple of typos by @ADBond in #1123
• Fix athena linker invalid reference by @davidschrooten in #1135
• Fix clustering in issue 1136 by @RobinL in #1137

New Contributors

• @davidschrooten made their first contribution in #1135

Full Changelog: v3.7.0...v3.7.1