MetaWin Release History

• Release 3.0.17 (October 25, 2024)

  • Bug fixes

    • Cells with blank entries were being filtered properly when column-based value filtering was active. Blank cells can now explicitly be chosen as part of column-value filtering.

  • Tweaks

    • Packaged versions updated from Python 3.11 to 3.12, including updates to various dependencies

• Release 3.0.16 (September 4, 2024)

  • Bug fixes

    • Prevent program from crashing if design matrix in GLM-based analyses is invalid

• Release 3.0.15 (February 8, 2024)

  • New features

    • First official non-beta release
    • Formal publication available for citing MetaWin 3
      • Rosenberg, M.S. (2024) MetaWin 3: Open-source software for meta-analysis Frontiers in Bioinformatics 4:1305969. DOI: 10.3389/fbinf.2024.1305969

• Release 3.0.14 beta (July 5, 2023)

  • New features

    • More sophisticated funnel plots added as part of new publication bias section, including:
      • Pseudo-confidence intervals
      • Contour confidence intervals
      • Power-ehhanced (sunset) plots
    • Egger Regression for testing for publication bias

  • Bug fixes

    • Output text was not spaced properly since the bugfix for PyQt issue in 3.0.12

  • Tweaks

    • Split publication bias analyses into their own dialog
    • Simplified editing of figure styles by internally linking upper and lower limits into single style entries

• Release 3.0.13 beta (June 28, 2023)

  • New features

    • References created in output of program include DOIs, when available, to make finding of original material easier. Hyperlinked DOIs have also been added to help files.
    • For automatic captioning, users can choose between xkcd (default) and X11/CSS4 color name spaces.

  • Bug fixes

    • Column headers were not imported correctly if the first row was being used for column headers and the first column was being used for row headers
    • Graphical output was not being visually refreshed in some cases

  • Tweaks

    • Fixed typos in two references in help file

• Release 3.0.12 beta (May 31, 2023)

  • Bug fixes

    • Pre-packaged versions of MetaWin could not save figures in vector formats
    • In some cases, text output could not be saved to a file without program closing
    • If multiple figures were created in a single session, attempting to save the current figure to a file would cause program to serially try to save all of them, rather than just the current figure
    • A workaround for a bug in Qt that was causing text output saved in HTML or Markdown formats to export all lines as level 1 headers

  • Tweaks

    • The text output tab will now automatically scroll to display newly added text starting at the top of the window

• Release 3.0.11 beta (May 17, 2023)

  • Bug fixes

    • Fixed error in calculation of confidence intervals for I²

• Release 3.0.10 beta (May 15, 2023)

  • Bug fixes

    • Orwin's fails-safe number calcluation did not allow for desired minimal effect sizes which were negative.

• Release 3.0.9 beta (May 12, 2023)

  • New features

    • Progress indicators for resampling tests that take more than a few seconds

  • Tweaks

    • Fixed typo in help file

• Release 3.0.8 beta (November 11, 2022)

  • Bug fixes

    • Cumulative analysis was not using the correct column to establish the cumulative order
    • Fixed length of secondary horizontal lines in tabular output

• Release 3.0.7 beta (September 16, 2022)

  • New features

    • User can now choose between using Normal or Student's t distribution for determining confidence intervals around means
    • Figure captions will update to include customizations made by users, such as color and style.

  • Bug fixes

    • Fixed typo in reference, both internal and in help files

• Release 3.0.6 beta (August 24, 2022)

  • First open release