0.20.0-rc.3

perceval 0.20.0-rc.3 - (2022-08-23)

New features:

• [phabricator] Skip a list of items by id
  Perceval will not fetch the items set with the --blacklist-ids
  argument. In the following example, perceval will skip the items
  with ids 123 and 456: perceval phabricator <PHAB_URL> -t <API_TOKEN> --blacklist-ids 123 456

0.20.0-rc.2

perceval 0.20.0-rc.2 - (2022-07-22)

New features:

• [phabricator] Skip a list of items by id
  Perceval will not fetch the items set with the --blacklist-ids
  argument. In the following example, perceval will skip the items
  with ids 123 and 456: perceval phabricator <PHAB_URL> -t <API_TOKEN> --blacklist-ids 123 456

0.20.0-rc.1

perceval 0.20.0-rc.1 - (2022-07-21)

New features:

• [phabricator] Skip a list of items by id
  Perceval will not fetch the items set with the --blacklist-ids
  argument. In the following example, perceval will skip the items
  with ids 123 and 456: perceval phabricator <PHAB_URL> -t <API_TOKEN> --blacklist-ids 123 456

0.19.1

Perceval 0.19.1 - (2022-06-28)

Bug fixes:

• [confluence] KeyError exception when arguments not passed to 'fetch_items'
  Required arguments that weren't passed to 'fetch_items' made the code
  fail with a KeyError exception.

0.19.0

Perceval 0.19.0 - (2022-06-24)

New features:

• [confluence] Option max_contents to limit the number of requested contents
  This parameter sets the maximum number of contents requested per
  query. By default, this number is 200, but this can be changed by
  adding the --max-contents argument. This will help to bypass those
  instances where the maximum limit is lower than Perceval's default
  value.

Bug fixes:

• [bugzillarest] Failback when checking custom instances
  Some Bugzilla instances return a HTTP 400 error when checking if their
  are custom instances or not. On those cases, the backend will capture
  the error and consider the version of that Bugzilla instance as
  custom.
• Slack identifier extraction fixed
  Extract the identifier without user information when the user was
  deleted.

0.18.0

Perceval 0.18.0 - (2022-06-01)

New features:

• [bugzillarest] API Key authentication
  A new authentication is available in the bugzillarest backend using
  an API Key. This can be provided using the parameter --api-key on
  the command line. Note that this parameter will invalidate --backend- user --backend-password, and --api-token parameters. For
  developers, this parameter is also available during the initialization
  of the class BugzillaRESTClient under the name api_key.
• Confluence supports fetch by spaces
  This allows fetching confluence by specific spaces. By default it will
  fetch the entire instance, but adding the --spaces argument will
  fetch only these spaces.

Feature removals:

• Drop Python 3.6 support
  Python 3.6 reached the end of life at the end of 2021. This means it
  won't receive new updates or patches to fix security issues.
  Therefore, this package will only work with Python >= 3.7 from now on.

0.12.0

Perceval 0.12 - (2018-10-02)

New features and improvements:

• So far, the JSON items written to the defined output (standard output by default) were difficult to parse. With the option --json-line, each item will be written in one line, making easier their consumption by other processes.
• New set of backends added:
  • GoogleHits
  • Twitter
• Minor bugs were fixed and test coverage was improved.

Backend improvements:

• gitlab
  • add merge request category
• github
  • increase the number of items retrieved per page
  • add the list of commits hashed included in pull requests
• mediawiki
  • optimize the number of API calls
• pipermail
  • disable SSL verification

0.11.0

Perceval 0.11 - (2018-05-21)

New features improvements:

• Problems with namespaces were fixed. This package was not really using
  Python namespaces. When other packages, such as perceval-mozilla or
  perceval-opnfv, were installed __init__.py (inside perceval)
  were overwritten breaking the structure of the main package and making
  Perceval unusable. This release defines perceval as a namespace. Due
  to it, fetch, find_backends and other symbols are no longer accessible
  from the main package.
• Mattermost backend added.

0.10.0

Perceval 0.10 - (2018-04-11)

New features and improvements:

• Support for Python 3.5, 3.6.
• New set of backends added:
  • GitLab
  • Launchpad
• Cache was removed in favor of Archive. This new feature stores, in
  SQLite databases, each data response received from a remote source. Thus,
  it is possible to retrieve original data again without accessing the remote
  source.
• A new generic HTTP client (HttpClient) is available and shared by those
  backends which require to fetch data using that protocol. This client manages
  rate limits, sleep times and retries in case of error. It is fully extensible
  and configurable.
• With the integration of categories, backends would be able to generate
  different types of items. For instance, GitHub generates issue and
  pull request items. The option --category allows to set which type of
  items will be fetched.
• Gmane site shut down its activity in July 2016. Although there were some
  actions to revamp it, it is still down. For these reasons, Gmane backend
  is no longer maintained and has been removed from the core backends.
• Tests were improved, specially, adding unit tests for Gerrit backend.
• Perceval and GrimoireLab project are now part of CHAOSS community.

Backend improvements:

• askbot
  • add data about accepted answers
• gerrit
  • rename parameter URL to hostname
• git
  • add to-date option to fetch data up to the given date
  • run Git commands setting HOME environment variable
  • clone data into a bare repository instead of a work copy
• github
  • fetch issue comments
  • fetch issue/comments reactions
  • fetch multiple assignees
  • fetch pull request category
  • major refactoring reducing the number of requests sent by the client
• phabricator
  • include project/user information in task transactions

Bugs fixed:

• The process for discovering references in Git repositories failed
  with those repositories which do not have any. (#260)
• When a local Git repository was analyzed by Perceval, the directory where
  it was cloned was created inside the local repository. (#262)
• Sleep times when rate limit is in use were wrongly calculated in some
  cases, generating negative values. (#355)
• Pipermail backend failed on inaccessible archive URLs. Now, it skips
  those URLs generating warning messages. (#358)

Thanks to:

• Anvesh Chaturvedi
• David Pose Fernández
• Prabhat Sharma

0.9.0

Perceval 0.9 - (2017-07-17)

New features and improvements:

• DockerHub added as new backend.
• Fetch the latest commits added in a Git repository using
  the argument latest-items.

Bugs fixed:

• In Slack, comment messages were not processed raising an error
  when their UUIDs were computed. These messages do not include a
  'user' field on the top layer, which made the backed to fail.
  This field can be found inside 'comment' key.
• Some versions of gerrit return number review as an integer.
  This value must be converted to string because UUIDs can only be
  generated using string values. (#144)