.. _changelog_2.1:

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2.1 Changelog
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2.1.6
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- Fix for issue with ignore_case flag not being respected
- Fixed a hang in speaker diarization
- Fixed an error related to paths ending in trailing slashes which caused MFA to try to connect to a database named after the local user
- Partial migration to using :class:`pathlib.Path` instead of :mod:`os.path`

2.1.5
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- Fix for improperly reset databases

2.1.4
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- Change how database connections are made to remove pooling

2.1.3
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- Fixed a bug with intervals after the end of the sound file having negative duration (they are now not parsed)
- Fixed an issue where utterances were not properly assigned to the correct channels
- Modified the logic for connections to attempt to solve error with too many clients

2.1.2
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- Fixed a crash in training when the debug flag was not set
- Set default postgresql port to 5433 to avoid conflicts with any system installations
- Fixed a crash in textgrid export

2.1.1
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- Fixed a bug with `mfa` command not working from the command line
- Updated to be compatible with PraatIO 6.0

2.1.0
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- Drop support for SQLite as a database backend
- Fixed a bug where TextGrid parsing errors would cause MFA to crash rather than ignore those files
- Updated CLI to use :xref:`click` rather than argparse
- Added :code:`--use_phone_model` flag for :code:`mfa align` and :code:`mfa validate` commands.  See :ref:`phone_models` for more details.
- Added :code:`--phone_confidence` flag for :code:`mfa validate` commands.  See :ref:`phone_models` for more details.
- Added modeling of :code:`cutoff` phones via :code:`--use_cutoff_model` which adds progressive truncations of the next word, if it's not unknown or a non-speech word (silence, laughter, etc). See :ref:`cutoff_modeling` for more details.
- Added support for using :xref:`speechbrain`'s VAD model in :ref:`create_segments`
- Overhaul and update :ref:`train_ivector`
- Overhaul and update :ref:`diarize_speakers`
- Added support for using :xref:`speechbrain`'s SpeakerRecognition model in :ref:`diarize_speakers`