AboutCode v7.1.0

• Fixed version mismatch (#510)
• Improve check performance (#511)
• Relax the requirement to have the same format for input and output for transform
• Collect and handle the "matched_text" from the --license-text option from the scancode-toolkit

AboutCode v7.0.2

This is a minor release:

* Relax dependency constraints
* Use latest skeleton and settings

AboutCode v7.0.1

• Bump openpyxl to 3.0.9
• Better handling of invalid API URL
• Better formatting for default HTML template

AboutCode v7.0.0

* Add support to collect redistributable sources #22
* Handle trailing spaces in field names during `transform` #456
* Remove restriction of python27 only on windows #453
* Documentation updated
* Code enhancement
* Remove thirdparty/
* Update configuration scripts
* Use readthedocs for documentation
* Add Dockerfile to run aboutcode with docker
* Add new option to choose extract license from ScanCode LicenseDB or DJC License Library
* Add ability to transform XLSX file
* Support XLSX file format for `inventory`, `gen` and `attrib`
* Add 'spdx_license_key' support
* Add option to save error log in `check` command
* New `gen_license` option
* Bump PyYAML to 6.0
* Add '%" as a supported character
* Update default template
* All errors are logged if and only if the `verbose` option is set. Otherwise, ony 'Critical' and 'Warning' errors will be showed/logged
* Ability to generate attribution notice directly from an input inventory
* Remove the restriction of requiring 'about_resource' field in the input if performing `attrib` from an inventory

v6.0.0 - relaxed dependencies and drop Python 2

This new release has no feature changes.
It has relaxed PyYAML dependencies and drop Python 2 support

AboutCode v5.1.0

• Add support for package_url #396
• Fixed #443 and #444 issue with multiple licenses/license_files
• Fixed #442 no special characters allowed for license_key, license_name and license_expression
• Fixed #446 Better error handling

AboutCode v5.0.0

• Enhance the transform to also work with JSON file
• Update transform code (See #427 and #428)
• Fixed #431 - Error handling for empty "_file" fields
• Fixed #432 - Handled UTF-8 variant invented by Microsoft
• Fixed #433 - problem was caused by the different multi-lic file format between json and CSV (CSV with '\n' line break)
• Fixed #436 - issue about copy with the --reference option
• Fixed #396 - support for alternative output for Android

AboutCode v4.0.2

• Upgrade license-expression library to v1.2
• Fix the missing multi_sort filter for Jinja2
• Update help text for --vartext in REFERENCE.rst

AboutCode v4.0.1

• Declare to follow SemVer for versioning schema
• Update REFERENCE.rst and README.rst
• Update license-expression library

AboutCode v4.0.0

• Support filenames/path with special characters #310 #378 #392
• Update ABOUT file format to match the specification
• Log version of which AbcTK was used #397
• Fix the licenses (key, name, file) not in sync issue #406
• Correct invalid msg for boolean fields #403
• Remove the about_file_path key/column from input/output #364
• Use ',' to support multiple files #404
• Fix bugs in transform #408, #412