Preamble

This post describes the new developments since the release of metafacture-core 7.0.0 in June 2025.

For release notes with downloadable CLI runner, see GitHub release of metafacture-core-8.0.0.

Table of Contents

New Features

• MARC: Optionally escape Unicode in MarcXmlEncoder #710
• Biblio: New SRU opener #682
• Metafix: Add function utf8_normalizer #741
• Metafix: Add function html_to_text #740

Bug fixes

• Metafix: Enforce unique result in list-fix-paths #687
• IO: Fix RecordReader to reset buffer on exception #717
• Runner: Fix logging #733
• Runner: Fix broken runner examples #742

Others

• Breaking: Metafix: Change set_* functions to not create intermediate structures #704 (Replace with add_* versions to repair!)
• Simplify Gradle build logic for making releases #687
• IO: Fix wrong description for StdInOpener #679
• Metafix: Add integration test for #711 #712
• Metafix: Move Fix command enums to individual classes #706
• Runner: Delete heapspace limitiation #718
• Metafix/Runner: Add missing examples #640
• Add how to maintain using Maven Central #727
• Metafix/JSON: Provide Jackson 2.16/2.17 forward compatibility #738
• Breaking: Separate internal and external loggers #737

Full change log