# Update: Google News Initiative and technical road map

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/update-google-news-initiative-and-technical-road-map/401>\
**Category:** Project announcements\
**Created:** [February 2, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/update-google-news-initiative-and-technical-road-map/401 "2023-02-02T10:24:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/update-google-news-initiative-and-technical-road-map/401/1 "2023-02-02T10:24:03Z")

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The article present progress made following the funding from Google News Initiative.

OpenRefine 3.0 Beta was [released on May 27](https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.0-beta). This is the second release with the support of [Google News Initiative](https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/) (see more details below) and includes several major enhancements including:

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://openrefine.org/blog/2018/06/16/Update](https://openrefine.org/blog/2018/06/16/Update)