MarcEdit MacOS 3.x update prep/notification

I’ve finally been able to recover my MacOS environment after it was bricked during a past security update, and with that — I’ve been spending this week rolling updates into the tool. This is a heads up that the MacOS update planned for this Sunday will be a big one.  I’ve included the list below — of which, all work is completed except the changes related to the XML/JSON profiler, but this is mostly interface work (as the business logic are shared with the Windows/Linux version), so I think I’ll finish this.  However, I’ll post the final list Sunday when I post the update.

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***** Proposed Change list *****

* Enhancement: XML Profiling Wizard: JSON Profiling has been added to the Wizard.
* Enhancement: OAI Harvester: Added the ability to modify the User Agent string to bypass BePress Filtering.

* Linked Data Work
** Enhancement: Thread pool has been expanded to 8
** Enhancement: New collections for dbpedia and ISNI added.
** Enhancement: VIAF process shifted to JSON, and updated to capture forms of names.
** Enhancement: dbpedia collection profiles completed 
** Enhancement: New collection options added to rules file -- regex and headers 
** Enhancement: Updated rules file 
** Enhancement: Atom pub support added to MarcEditor 
** Enhancement: SRU component -- Updated to determine main entry by record type. 
** Enhancement: Options: Added AtomPub option. 

* Task processing 
** Enhancement: Logging has been added so that when a task fails because the format is incorrect (user adds incorrect data) -- the information is logged. In previous versions, these kinds of errors were suppressed and hidden 

* Z3950/SRU 
** Enhancement: Updated the SRU properties window 
** Enhancement: Update Z3950 Properties so batch results are logged (you can set the path -- otherwise they are saved to UserPath\Documents\marcedit\batch_logs\file.txt 

* Enhancement: New File extension (mrcx) for marcxml (apparently this is a real mime-type) 
* Enhancement: Verify URLs: You now have threading options...default threads are set to 3. 
* Enhancement: Verify URLs: Updated the report format. 
* Enhancement: Replace Function: When working with external files, the tool now filters away the BOM. 
* Enhancement: Task Management: Users can now turn off the task broker evaluation and fall back to the old processing method. 
* Enhancement: Regular Expression Store -- function has been enhanced significantly. 
* Enhancement: When closing MarcEdit, if the Editor is open, it flags on close so you don't lose data 
* Bug Fix/Enhancement: Task Broker -- couple changes to how control data is processed to support older formatted tasks. 
* Update: Updated Validator results window so new lines are operating system away so copy and paste work better 

* Dependency Updates 
** Update: Saxon Component Update -- Saxon bug fixes and enhancements 
** Update: RDF Components 
** Update: JSON Components 
** Update: MarcEngine -- Due to the changes around the dependences, the MarcEdit MarcEngine had to be updated as well. 

* Enhancement: Clustering support for non-MARC data 
* Enhancement: Improved file handling when processing global updates in the MarcEditor 
* Install Wizard: Adding Normalization Enforcement to the GUI 
* Enhancement: Updating the unhandled error trapper. Should prevent the program from shutting down on most crashes 
* Bug Fix: Replace All -- using the conditional HAS element may cause the process to match too broadly.

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