History

2.0.0 (2020-11-01)

• Removed support for EOL Python 2

• Testing against Python 3.6+ and Pypy3

1.5.3 (2018-11-20)

• Reorganised source code to /src

• Added Python 3.7 support

• Removed Python 3.3 support due to end-of-life

• plus minor improvements and bug fixes

1.5.2 (2018-02-06)

• Fixed association relation in RDF serialisation

• Fixed compatibility with networkx 2.0+

1.5.1 (2017-07-18)

• Replaced pydotplus with pydot (see #111)

• Fixed datetime and bundle error in RDF serialisation

• Tested against Python 3.6

• Improved documentation

1.5.0 (2016-10-19)

• Added: Support for PROV-O (RDF) serialization and deserialization

• Added: direction option for prov.dot.prov_to_dot()

• Added: prov.graph.graph_to_prov() to convert a MultiDiGraph back to a ProvDocument

• Testing with Python 3.5

• Various minor bug fixes and improvements

1.4.0 (2015-08-13)

• Changed the type of qualified names to prov:QUALIFIED_NAME (fixed #68)

• Removed XSDQName class and stopped supporting parsing xsd:QName as qualified names

• Replaced pydot dependency with pydotplus

• Removed support for Python 2.6

• Various minor bug fixes and improvements

1.3.2 (2015-06-17)

• Added: prov-compare script to check equivalence of two PROV files (currently supporting JSON and XML)

• Fixed: deserialising Python 3’s bytes objects (issue #67)

1.3.1 (2015-02-27)

• Fixed unicode issue with deserialising text contents

• Set the correct version requirement for six

• Fixed format selection in prov-convert script

1.3.0 (2015-02-03)

• Python 3.3 and 3.4 supported

• Updated prov-convert script to support XML output

• Added missing test JSON and XML files in distributions

1.2.0 (2014-12-19)

• Added: prov.graph.prov_to_graph() to convert a ProvDocument to a MultiDiGraph

• Added: PROV-N serializer

• Fixed: None values for empty formal attributes in PROV-N output (issue #60)

• Fixed: PROV-N representation for xsd:dateTime (issue #58)

• Fixed: Unintended merging of Identifier and QualifiedName values

• Fixed: Cloning the records when creating a new document from them

• Fixed: incorrect SoftwareAgent records in XML serialization

1.1.0 (2014-08-21)

• Added: Support for PROV-XML serialization and deserialization

• A ProvRecord instance can now be used as the value of an attributes

• Added: convenient assertions methods for ProvEntity, ProvActivity, and ProvAgent

• Added: prov.model.ProvDocument.update() and prov.model.ProvBundle.update()

• Fixed: Handling default namespaces of bundles when flattened

1.0.1 (2014-08-18)

• Added: Default namespace inheritance for bundles

• Fixed: prov.model.NamespaceManager.valid_qualified_name() did not support XSDQName

• Added: Convenience prov.read() method with a lazy format detection

• Added: Convenience plot() method on the ProvBundle class (requiring matplotlib).

• Changed: The previous add_record() method renamed to new_record()

• Added: add_record() function which takes one argument, a ProvRecord, has been added

• Fixed: Document flattening (see flattened())

• Added: __hash__() function added to ProvRecord (at risk: to be removed as ProvRecord is expected to be mutable)

• Added: extra_attributes added to mirror existing formal_attributes

1.0.0 (2014-07-15)

• The underlying data model has been rewritten and is incompatible with pre-1.0 versions.

• References to PROV elements (i.e. entities, activities, agents) in relation records are now QualifiedName instances.

• A document or bundle can have multiple records with the same identifier.

• PROV-JSON serializer and deserializer are now separated from the data model.

• Many tests added, including round-trip PROV-JSON encoding/decoding.

• For changes pre-1.0, see CHANGES.txt.