PyTerrier 0.8.0 Release Notes

Released on 18/01/2022

What's Changed - Major

Require Python 3.7 by @cmacdonald in #255
Deprecate automatic coercion of transformers by @cmacdonald in #258
introduce pt.Transformer as public API; * pt.transformer.TransformerBase will be deprecated in 0.9; by @cmacdonald in #258
introduce query biased summarisation - addresses #205 by @cmacdonald in #223, suggested by @adambaker
provide re-ranking runs from datasets by @seanmacavaney in #262

faster testing in Github Actions: focus on requested jnius, rather than changing jnius version 3 times by @cmacdonald in #256
Faster tests by @cmacdonald in #257
Use Flake to identify bugs, reduce imports etc by @cmacdonald in #259
pyterrier loaded message to stderr by @seanmacavaney in #260
Fix code block in ltr.rst in section Working with Features by @bart-kosmala in #261
get_dataset() for non-existant irds dataset by @seanmacavaney in #263
Filter out non-indexed/metadata fields when indexing by @seanmacavaney in #267, reported by @bjoernengelmann in #266
mirroring of Vaswani dataset files by @seanmacavaney in #268
pt.io.read_results() can merge topics by @seanmacavaney in #265
addresses #264, text.scorer() will default to takes='docs' by @cmacdonald in #269
change paths and exercise names by @cmacdonald in #270

Full Changelog: 0.7.2...0.8.0