Changes for 2.1

Changes for v2.1 release

Google Refine 2.1

Google Refine 2.1 is a maintenance release primarily focused on bug fixes.

New Features

• JSoup-based HTML parsing ([issue 220](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/220) & [issue 338](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/338)) - new functions: parseHtml, select, htmlAttr, htmlText, innerHtml, ownText
• New codec & clustering options: Metaphone3 (American English) and Cologne Phonetic (German - [issue 399](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/399))
• Google Fusion Table import support
• new facet for exact duplicates ([issue 398](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/398))
• save favorite (starred) transforms ([issue 222](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/222))
• new math functions ([issue 224](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/224)) - acos, asin, atan, atan2, cos, cosh, sin, sinh, tan, tanh, even, odd, abs, fact, factn, combin, degrees, radian, gcd (greatest common denominator), lcm (least common mulitple), multinomial, quotient
• new operator: modulo (%)
• new constant: PI
• update to Apache POI 3.7 (Excel library)
• update to Apache Commons Codec 1.5

Bug Fixes

• [issue 415](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/415) - Operand evaluation order wrong for + and - operators
• [issue 404](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/404) - Character set incorrectly detected during project create
• [issue 401](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/401) - Export error reporting masks real error
• [issue 374](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/374) - INC function doesn't work for dates
• [issue 351](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/351) - unable to export to Excel for projects with more than 256 columns
• [issue 334](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/334) - Fusion Table CSV import causes NPE
• [issue 294](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/294) - Export date value in CSV/TSV
• [issue 263](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/263) - & character parsed incorrectly in XML import
• [issue 358](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/358) - attempts to compare two values with all stop words returns NaN
• [issue 276](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/276) - Character encoding issue with project create
• [issue 228](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/228) - partial fix?
• [issue 202](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/202) - sort text with accents
• [issue 197](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/197) - date wraparound at year boundary
• [issue 196](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/196) - removing columns causes error and disables undo
• [issue 185](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/185) - Same reconciliation candidate for multiple cells causes problems
• [issue 184](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/184) - date.toString() doesn't work
• [issue 107](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues#issue/107) - non-ASCII characters don't display correctly during reconciliation
• issue 61 - multi-line text literals don't work in XML importer

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