New graphing options

• New features
  • Chart editing now includes option to set opacity/transparency (alpha) for some elements
  • New chart type: Meta-analytic Rain Cloud Plot
  • New forest plots styles
    • Scale symbol of mean value by study weight
    • Thick forest plots
    • Rainforest plots
    • Forest plots will now show full bootstrap distribution behind means and intervals
• Bug fixes
  • One of the configuration options was not being saved correctly.
  • Some text was not being cycled through the language module correctly.
  • Internal error where certain graphing edit options were assigned to the wrong variable names (had no functional effect on working of program).
  • Trying to draw a forest plot would crash program if there was no valid data.
  • Miscellaneous typos
• Tweaks
  • Packaged versions updated from Python 3.12 to 3.13, including updates to various dependencies

Bugfixes

This release fixes a bug when filtering data based on column values. Cells with missing data were not being accounted for correctly.

Formal release

This is the first formal non-beta release.

Minor changes include

• Formal citation information
• Minor tweaks needed due to deprecated scipy function calls

Publication bias update

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

Bug fixes and tweaks

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

Output Bug Fixes

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

I2 confidence interval fix

Fixing a bug in the calculation of confidence intervals for I2

Orwin failsafe bug fix

Fixed bug where Orwin's failsafe number would not allow the desired threshold to be negative.

Also, not a code change, but all three prebuilt versions are now built with Python 3.11.

Progress Bars

Minor update, primarily adding progress bars to analyses that last longer than a few seconds (i.e., more complex or larger randomizations).
Also fixed a few typos in help file.

Cumulative analysis fix

Primary bug fix for cumulative analysis not sorting by correct column.
A few minor tweaks as well.