The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms.
⚠️ Docker 4CAT releases v1.30 to v1.33 have a bug where upgrading 4CAT would never complete due to issues fetching the latest version. Please follow these instructions for upgrading if you are running one of these versions. You can find your 4CAT version by going to the Control Panel and clicking the 'Restart or Upgrade' button. ⚠️
We also recommend reading the instructions above if you are running 4CAT via Docker and have in any way deviated from the default set-up.
Otherwise, you can upgrade 4CAT via the 'Restart or upgrade' button in the Control Panel. This release of 4CAT incorporates the following new features and fixes:
--branch
command line argument to migrate.py to allow migrating to a specific git repository branchThis hotfix release fixes the following bug in the previously released v1.32:
Instructions for upgrading can be found on the wiki.
This release of 4CAT incorporates the following new features and fixes:
Processors
Data sources
Interface & management
Other
This hotfix release fixes the following bugs in the previously released v1.30:
Instructions for upgrading can be found on the wiki.
Snapshot of 4CAT as of January 2023. Many changes and fixes since the last official release, including:
4cat_backend
container now logs directly to the container entrypoint's output stream so it can be viewed with docker logs
.And many smaller fixes & updates. If you are running at least 4CAT 1.29, you can update your 4CAT instance via the 'Restart & upgrade' button in the Control Panel.
Snapshot of 4CAT as of October 2022. Many changes and fixes since the last official release, including:
From this release onwards, 4CAT can be upgraded to the latest release via the Control Panel in the web interface.
Many updates:
alert()
Snapshot of 4CAT as of 24 February 2022. Many changes and fixes since the last official release, including:
Snapshot of 4CAT as of 28 September 2021. Many changes and fixes since the last official release, including:
A release to trigger publication on Zenodo.