We've released a development/snapshot release of DataCleaner 1.4 in order to get early reactions for all the improvements and new features as well as supporting our users with up to date functionality. In my own opinion the development release is just as stable and "safe to use" as 1.3, but of course it lacks a bit of the manual testing that we put into the real releases.

You can download the development release at our sourceforge download site.

Here's a short list of fixes since DataCleaner 1.3:

• Better memory handling and garbage collection
• Reference columns in drill-to-details windows
• Better error handling when loading schemas
• Quoting of string values in visualized tables (in order to distinguish empty strings and white spaces)
• New profile: Value Distribution, which is an improved version of the Repeated Values profile. The Value Distribution profile has an option to configure the top/bottom n values to include in the result.
• Better control of profile result column width.
• Bugfix: Copy to clipboard functions now work properly.
• Bugfix: Scrollbars added to visualized tables.

Take a look at the roadmap for more current developments of DataCleaner.

After a great deal of work we're happy to announce the launch of the new eobjects.dk website at our new server host! Thanks to Copenhagen Business School we now have a much better bandwidth available as well as more powerful hardware. Take a look around - a lot of things have changed, but the important stuff is still the same.

• The most remarkable change is probably what you're looking at right now - the News page! With the News page we'll be sure to keep you updated with all that goes on at eobjects.dk - project releases, roadmap changes, events, visions and goals etc. etc.
• There's a new left-hand side menu to ease navigation. We've created a new Docs page and a Downloads page for quick access to common inquiries. You'll also notice that the projects have been highlighted in the menu to give a better overview of our work.
• For contributors and developers, the Hudson continuous integration is still not migrated yet. So we hope you have patience and discipline to live without CI for a couple of days.

We hope that you like the new website. If there's anything you'd like to comment on or anything that doesn't work as it should, please don't hesitate to go to the discussion forums and point it out for us! We will then make sure that the new website lives up to all the hopes we have for it.