Release v1.2.1

1.2.1

Fixes:

• Fix PytzUsageWarning (#1109)
• Fix date_parser with prefer_month_of_year wrong results (#1224)
• Fix skipped day when UTC and tz are different days (#1183)

Improvements:

• Avoid repeated loop over timezones (#1238)
• Proofread README.rst (#1234)
• Check for derived types for configuration (#1223)
• Parse some abbreviated strings as relative dates (#1219)
• Migrate from hijri-converter to hijridate (#1211)
• Fixed ClusterFuzz build error by adding dateparser.data as a binary (#1208)
• Fix an issue detected by OSSFuzz (#1203)
• Support two-digit years in non-Gregorian calendars (#1187)
• Refactored CI to run extras separately and test minimum versions of dependencies, replaced flake8 with ruff, fixed tests (#1248)
• Set minimum versions for dependencies (#1248)
• Limited numpy to 1.x when installing dateparser[fasttext] (#1248)

1.2.0

New features:

• New PREFER_MONTH_OF_YEAR setting (#1146)

Fixes:

• Absolute years in Russian are no longer being treated as a number of years in
  the past (#1129)

Cleanups and internal improvements:

• Removed the use of datetime.utcnow, deprecated on Python 3.12 (#1179)
• Applied Black formatting to the code base (#1158)
• Initial integration with OSSFuzz (#1198)
• Extended test cases (#1191)

Release 1.1.8

Improvements:

• Improved date parsing for Chinese (#1148)
• Improved date parsing for Czech (#1151)
• Reorder language by popularity (#1152)
• Fix leak of memory in cache (#1140)
• Add support for "\d units later" (#1154)
• Move modification in CLDR data to yaml (#1153)
• Add support to use timezone via settings to get PREFER_DATES_FROM result (#1155)

Release 1.1.7

Improvements:

• Add an “ago” synonym for Arabic (#1128)
• Improved date parsing for Czech (#1131)
• Improved date parsing for Indonesian (#1134)

Release 1.1.6

Improvements:

• Fix the bug where Monday is parsed as a month (#1121)
• Prevent ReDoS in Spanish sentence splitting regex (#1084)

Release 1.1.5

Improvements:

• Parse short versions of day, month, and year (#1103)
• Add a test for “in 1d” (#1104)
• Update languages_info (#1107)
• Add a workaround for zipimporter not having exec_module before Python 3.10 (#1069)
• Stabilize tests at midnight (#1111)
• Add a test case for French (#1110)

Cleanups:

• Remove the requirements-build file (#1113)

Release 1.1.4

Improvements:

• Improved support for languages such as Slovak, Indonesian, Hindi, German, and Japanese (#1064, #1094, #986, #1071, #1068)
• Recursively create a model home (#996)
• Replace regex sub with simple string replace (#1095)
• Add Python 3.10, 3.11 support (#1096)
• Drop support for Python 3.5, 3.6 versions (#1097)

Release 1.1.3

New features:

• Add support for fractional units (#876)

Improvements:

• Fix the returned datetime skipping a day with time+timezone input and PREFER_DATES_FROM = 'future' (#1002)
• Fix input translation breaking keep_formatting (#720)
• English: support "till date" (#1005)
• English: support “after” and “before” in relative dates (#1008)

Cleanups:

• Reorganize internal data (#1090)
• CI updates (#1088)

Release 1.1.2

Improvements:

• Added support for negative timestamp (#1060)
• Fixed PytzUsageWarning for Python versions >= 3.6 (#1062)
• Added support for dates with dots and spaces (#1028)
• Improved support for Ukrainian, Croatian and Russian (#1072, #1074, #1079, #1082, #1073, #1083)
• Added support for parsing Unix timestamps consistently regardless of timezones (#954)
• Improved tests (#1086)

Release 1.1.1

Improvements:

• Fixed issue with regex library by pinning dependencies to an earlier version (< 2022.3.15, #1046).
• Extended support for Russian language dates starting with lowercase (#999).
• Allowed to use_given_order for languages too (#997).
• Fixed link to settings section (#1018).
• Defined UTF-8 encoding for Windows (#998).
• Fixed directories creation error in CLI utils (#1022).