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@mmistroni and @nnsW3

Summary 🎉

This release provides bug fixes, example notebook updates, security updates, additional screener presets, as well as new public data provider extensions for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

What's changed 🚀

🚨 OpenBB Platform Breaking Changes

• [Feature] Flatten Revenue By Geography and Business Line @deeleeramone (#6624)
  • In, obb.equity.fundamental.revenue_per_geography and revenue_per_segment:
    • The breakdown of revenue is now a flat response instead of a nested dictionary, formatted more favorably for Excel, SQL, and pivot tables.

🦋 OpenBB Platform Enhancements

• [Feature] Add CFTC Provider and Replace Nasdaq Datalink For COT Reports @deeleeramone (#6643)

  • The openbb-cftc extension provides public access to the complete, and current, Commitments of Traders Reports
  • Endpoints:
    • obb.regulators.cftc.cot
    • obb.regulators.cftc.cot_search
  • Optionally, register for a CFTC app token by creating an account here then generating a token here

• [Feature] Add BLS Provider Extension With Endpoints For Search and Time Series @deeleeramone (#6630)

  • The openbb-bls extension provides public access to the BLS V2 series API with multi-series output and metadata.
  • Requires simple email registration and each key is limited to 500 calls per day, where calls are bucketed into groups of 50 symbols in 20 year historical windows. Register here
  • The extension comes with an assets folder containing series IDS and applied metadata maps representing millions of unique time series.
  • Endpoints:
    • obb.economy.survey.bls_search - no registration or key is required for this endpoint.
    • obb.economy.survey.bls_series - built-in chart when chart=True and openbb-charting is installed.

• [Feature] Add Top Export Destinations By Country From UN Comtrade International Trade Statistics Database (EconDB) @deeleeramone (#6644)

  • Extends the openbb-econdb provider with a new function.
  • New endpoint:
    • obb.economy.export_destinations

• [Feature] adding extra presets @mmistroni (#6623)

  • Adds to the library of openbb-finviz screener presets.
  • The new presets will populate in: ~/OpenBBUserData/presets/finviz
  • Added to obb.equity.screener(preset=%s, provider="finviz"):
    • canslim
    • fastgrowths
    • newhigh
  • All presets can be modified by the user in any text editor, with changes applied to the next function call.

🐛 OpenBB Platform Bug Fixes

• [BugFix] VIX Curve - fixes reset_index erasing the name of the field. @deeleeramone (#6619)

  • Fixes the error when using: obb.derivatives.futures.curve("VX", provider="cboe")
  • [BugFix] Fix Pandas FutureWarning In derivatives.futures.curve Chart @deeleeramone (#6626)

• [Release] Patch: openbb-yfinance-1.3.2 @deeleeramone (#6647)

  • [BugFix] Fix Date In Output Of yfinance.download For Google Colab @deeleeramone (#6645)

• [BugFix] Add trust_env to AIOHTTP ClientSession Initialization to Read .env for Proxy Mapping @deeleeramone (#6640)

  • Applies the setting to enable environment variable proxy mapping in aiohttp async requests.
  • [BugFix] Update aiohttp for Dependabot @deeleeramone (#6621)

• [BugFix] Allow lowercase symbol for EconDB EconomicIndicators @deeleeramone (#6642)

  • Fixes a UX issue where the symbol - GDP - must be entered as uppercase.
  • EconDB symbols are not case-sensitive, converted to upper.

• [BugFix] Fix Tests & Related Bugs @deeleeramone (#6657)

  • Fixes interactive tables (CLI) outputting only white window from obb.news, and similar.
  • Fixes unreliable connection/output with openbb-seeking-alpha to obb.equity.estimates.forward_sales and forward_eps.
  • Updates some unit and integration tests.

General

• [BugFix] obb.news.world Add Validators To Providers Where Symbol Is Mandatory @deeleeramone (#6625)
• [BugFix] Improve Warning For Invalid Defaults Key In user_settings.json @deeleeramone (#6651)
• [BugFix] Replace Optional[bool] with bool as type in Equity Search @deeleeramone (#6633)
• [BugFix] __fields__ is deprecated, use model_fields instead @deeleeramone (#6629)

📚 OpenBB Documentation Changes

• [BugFix] Example Notebook Syntax Updates @deeleeramone (#6639)

  • Outdated syntax in the example notebooks has been updated to reflect recent modifications.

• [BugFix] Docs fix spelling issues @nnsW3 (#6634)

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