soda4LCA 5.8.0 release

Dear soda4LCA community,

the 5.8.0 release of soda4LCA has just been published. It introduces a new feature that indicates in the dataset detail and overview views that when a newer version of this dataset exists or if a superseded dataset exists. Furthermore, it comes with a number of bugfixes.

5.8.0

Features:

  • Add a warning to the dataset detail and overview views that indicate that a newer version of this dataset exists or if a superseded dataset exists.
  • Add a new feature to clean all caches manually.
  • Add a new feature that allows regular automatic removal of outdated upload and export ZIPs. See the configuration guide for details.

Bug fixes:

  • Process dataset detail view: fix the caption of “Model description”.
  • Process dataset detail view: fix broken exchanges sorting.
  • Make sure external files are included in an export even if they have special characters in their file name (which they shouldn’t).
  • Assign/remove to/from data stock by XLS list: gracefully handle malformed XLS lists by checking for empty rows.
  • Jobs list: fix the order in which entries would be displayed when filling multiple pages.
  • Eliminate AnnotationScanner warnings/errors on console startup.
  • Fix duplicate flows in ZIP export in LATEST_ONLY mode.

Documentation:

  • Add documentation for new assign/remove to/from data stock by XLS list feature.

The complete release notes can be found at

https://bitbucket.org/okusche/soda4lca/src/5.8.0/Doc/src/RELEASE_NOTES.md

As always, you can download the complete package with sources, binaries and documentation at

https://bitbucket.org/okusche/soda4lca/downloads

Please submit any issues using Bitbucket’s issue tracker.

Code contributions are always very welcome! If you’d like to do so, please submit a pull request that’s based on the latest code to ensure quick processing without merge conflicts.