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This release contains a few new features, packages, and bugfixes.

Release Name: v2.2.4 build 048c632a7ac5 from v2.2 branch

Bug fixes:

• Fix module with optional connected port having the wrong size
• Fix InputPort with ports that have depth>0
• ReproUnzip: actually populate 'stdout' and 'stderr' ports
• Fix ReproUnzip not working in Mac OS binary installation
• Fix tej failing to setup a queue in Mac OS binary installation
• Show full stacktrace in module's "Show Error" popup
• Fix Module Info tab showing wrong module in some cases
• Fix Search Mode (#1149)
  • Visual query did not work without string query
  • Workflow query did not display matching modules
  • Updated Search Mode documentation
  • Upgraded pipelines will now be searched when hideUpgrades is set
• Fix visual diff not using upgraded pipeline
• Hide empty Mashup and Parameter exploration items in workspace
• Fix mashup link in Workflow Info tab
• Fix workspace not updating mashup list
• improvements to upgrades
  • Upgrades are now correctly chained from the latest upgrade (#1164)
  • Fixed multi-step upgrades that replaces modules to other packages (#1165)

Enhancements:

• Add a TensorFlow package
• Allow multiple versions of the same package to be installed, load the latest working one
• If loading a file with an unknown extension, assume .vt format
• API: allow constructing vistrails.Vistrail() without argument
• Added usage stats reporting
• Added news widget

This release contains a few new features, packages, and bugfixes.

Release Name: v2.2.3 build 02ad04a622c4 from v2.2 branch

Bug fixes:

• Fixed showing "invalid pipeline" instead of failure from auto-enabled package
• Fixed responsiveness of suspended module progress bar
• Fixed some GUI issues in the job monitor
• Accept unicode in source configuration widgets (e.g. PythonSource's)
• Fixed using same name for an input & output port in PythonSource
• Fixed the spreadsheet window popping up when exiting VisTrails

Enhancements:

• tej package improved & documented
• Add "close" action in workspace context menu
• Added a MongoDB package
• Added a reprounzip package
• Make FileOutput mode use the 'outputDirectory' config setting
• Allow multiple actions in module palette's context menus by introducing 'context_menu', replacing 'contextMenuName' and 'callContextMenu'
• Add Reshape, DictToTable and ListToTable modules to tabledata
• Only require numpy/xlrd/xlwt when modules get executed; they now always exist
• Added Job Submission support to Parameter Explorations and Mashups
• ModuleSuspended now requires a handle
• Added Job Submission documentation, examples, and tests
• Autosave now only stores the latest save, not a new one every 2 minutes

Behavior change for package developers:

• MplFigure connections now carry the figure number (int)
• ModuleSuspended now must have an associated JobHandle

This is a bug-fix release.

This release addresses issues with parameter explorations, executable documents, and subworkflows.

For problems with updating subworkflows, please see this note.

Release Name: v2.2.2 build 9bd2afa387a4 from v2.2 branch

Bug fixes:

• prevents introducing cycles in pipeline view (#1097)
• Fixes to subworkflows
  • Fixes subworkflows failing to execute (#1065)
  • Fixes not being able to remove local subworkflows (#1101)
  • Fixes upgrading to a newer local subworkflow
• Fixes OPM and PROV export (#1076) (#1075)
• Fixes executable documents (#1088)
• Fixed generating pipeline and version tree graphs

From Release: v2.2.1 build c366dbcb640c from v2.2 branch (internal release)

Bug fixes:

• parameter exploration failed on cells upgraded to output modules (#1063)

This is a major release with many enhancements and bug-fixes.

Enhancements:

• zip/unzip binaries no longer needed (#862)
• new version of tabledata package (also backported to v2.1.5)
• new version of parallelflow package
• adds developer debugger (enable "developerDebugger" in expert settings)
• improves logging
• reloading a disabled package (if you changed init; #714)
• ungrouping materializes InputPort and OutputPort modules for unconnected Group ports
• CLTools path and directory types
• CLTools module fails if command doesn't return 0 (#957)
• adds an icon for 'port not visible' (instead of blank)
• sql package with SQLAlchemy
• auto-enabling package with unmet dependencies (4a1b200b)
• Enhancements to job submission/monitor
• controlflow caches looped modules
• menu to export a single spreadsheet cell
• custom colors for version in tree
• export version tree to graphviz dot graph
• adds ReadFile module
• HTTP package is now URL, validates HTTPS certificates, handles ssh://
• fixes spreadsheet cells size resetting when resizing window
• loads packages from pkg_resources entry points "vistrails.packages"
• new persistent_archive package (#755)
• new sklearn package for machine learning; http://scikit-learn.org/
• highlight unset required ports in input ports list
• new user API with IPython notebook integration (#24)
• StandardOutput module can print a File's content
• output module system: same module can output to spreadsheet, file, stdout, IPython, ...
• output port drawn from left to right (#1006)
• Warn when parameters have invalid values
• New parameter widgets for editing parameters directly on modules
• New list handling (deprecating the controlflow package):
  • Typed lists (Ports can now have 'list depth')
  • Automatic looping: Modules taking single items processes each item in a list and returns a list of results
  • Streaming support for processing one list item at a time through the pipeline
  • New control parameters for controlling looping behaviour
• Switching views are now faster
• New VTK package supporting up to VTK 6.2 (#998)
  • Installers now contains VTK 6.2
• No longer show upgrade actions in version tree (optional; #1046)
• Associate with .vt and .vtl files on Linux
• Added min_conns and max_conns attribute to ports

Bug fixes:

• fixes strptime on system with non-English locale
• fixes returning numpy arrays from PythonSource modules (3468998b)
• pressing ctrl+s after loading a pipeline no longer replace it with a vistrail
• fixed losing notes when clicking "execute" immediately from version view

Behavior change for package developers:

• made Module methods python_style; updateUpstream won't work, others will work but trigger warning
• don't use Module instances as data; pass new objects on connections
• module upgrades can be chained (#805)
• use output modules instead of cell/writer modules
• output port drawn from left to right; change your sort_keys
• constant widget use eventfilter; call installEventFilter for child widgets
• Improved module/parameter/widget configuration APIs

This is a minor bug-fix release.

This release updates the tabledata package and adds a google maps cell package. It also fixes issues with parameter explorations.

Enhancements:

• Tabledata package updated to version 0.1.5
• New google maps cell package
• New distribution packaging

Bug fixes:

• Fixed problems with parameter explorations:
  • Using more than one unset function now works
  • Fixed update logic when switching views

This is a minor bug-fix release.

This release addresses issues with saved parameter explorations. Also, the OSX binary now contains the correct users guide.

Other fixes:

• Pinch gesture was broken (2d5494ed1d10)
• Ticket 893: "Create Version" button on the spreadsheet does not work (d3db65418fad)
• New Parameter Exploration was created for each execution (c324acad38f9)
• Could not load saved Parameter Explorations (c324acad38f9)
• Ticket 762: Package.import_override.is_sys_pkg logic incorrect (bf5e20c923f7)
• Usersguide: Fixed parameter exploration vtl links (79c3021a50b3)
• Forces the use of PyQt4 (avoid PySide) (2460948327cc)
• Guess whether to use su/sudo with pip (18698fa909b3)

This is a bugfix release.

The major fix is that Qt has been upgraded to 4.8.6 in the pre-built binaries, to avoid crashes related to drag/drop and QScintilla on OSX Mavericks.

Other fixes:

• Fixes scripting examples (8dd634391b71)
• Fixes Map and Filter modules outputting Variant instead of List (d597dcd6027f)
• Makes StringFormat handle {!r} or {:.2f} correctly (5f99a90fdc87)
• Displays exactly what we are going to install (214f98f478be)
• Fixes issue with missing PyQt4 (fbfada66f67e)
• Hide splashscreen when asking for file association (069c52f90130)

This is a bugfix release. The main fixes are:

• Autosaving did not work.
• No workflow output printed in the vistrails console.
• Different date languages no longer crashes vistrails.
• Vistrail Variables widget now works correctly.