Release notes from w3lib

v2.3.1

2025-01-27T14:23:06Z

2025-01-27T14:12:57Z

Dropped Python 3.8 support (#232).
Removed the following functions, deprecated in 2.0.0:
- w3lib.util.str_to_unicode
- w3lib.util.to_native_str
- w3lib.util.unicode_to_str
(#235).
Added Python 3.13 support (#232).
Fixed running tests with newer point releases of Python 3.10 and 3.11 (#233).
Cleanup and CI improvements (#232, #234).

2025-01-27T14:11:58Z

canonicalize_url() no longer applies lowercase to the userinfo URL component. (#229, #230)

2024-06-05T07:24:45Z

2023-08-03T08:49:53Z

2022-12-09T11:11:47Z

safe_url_string, canonicalize_url: apply stripping from the URL living standard by @Gallaecio in #207
Changelog by @kmike in #208
fix tox 4 compatibility by @kmike in #209

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.1.1

2022-12-09T11:11:07Z

update type annotation of auto_detect_fun param in html_to_unicode() by @BurnzZ in #190
update html_to_unicode() so that the BOM is used first to check the e… by @BurnzZ in #191
changing basic_auth_header flavor to b64encode instead of urlsafe_b64encode by @gsweiz in #192
Add support for Python 3.11. by @wRAR in #195
Use latest version of Ubuntu by @Laerte in #197
187 safe url string already encoded user pass by @felipeboffnunes in #196
Strip spaces in canonicalize_url by @Gallaecio in #136
unit test Issue 91 is fixed by @felipeboffnunes in #198
Drop Python 3.6 support by @Laerte in #200
[MRG+1] Added: Removing comments before extracting base URLs. Not a solution to #70, but does help in some cases. by @starrify in #77
Handle OverflowError exception on convert_entity by @Laerte in #202
safe_url_string: escape additional characters by @Gallaecio in #203
I have added contributing.md file and code_of_conduct.md file along with some very minor changes in the Readme.rst file by @VanshajPoonia in #194
Full typing by @wRAR in #206
Add release notes for version 2.1.0 by @Gallaecio in #205

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.1.0

2022-10-21T08:31:10Z

Backwards incompatible changes:

Deprecation removals (#169):

The following functions are deprecated, and will be removed in future releases
(#170):

Other improvements and bug fixes:

Type annotations are added (#172, #184).
Added support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 (#168, #176).
Fixed w3lib.html.get_meta_refresh for <meta> tags where
http-equiv is written after content (#179).
Fixed w3lib.url.safe_url_string for IDNA domains with ports (#174).
w3lib.url.url_query_cleaner no longer adds an unneeded # when
keep_fragments=True is passed, and the URL doesn't have a fragment
(#159).
Removed a workaround for an ancient pathname2url bug (#142)
CI is migrated to GitHub Actions (#166, #177); other CI improvements (#160,
#182).
The code is formatted using black (#173).

2022-08-11T13:44:48Z

Bump version: 1.22.0 → 2.0.0

2020-05-13T19:36:00Z

Python 3.4 is no longer supported (issue #156)
w3lib.url.safe_url_string now supports an optional quote_path
parameter to disable the percent-encoding of the URL path (issue #119)
w3lib.url.add_or_replace_parameter and
w3lib.url.add_or_replace_parameters no longer remove duplicate
parameters from the original query string that are not being added or
replaced (issue #126)
w3lib.html.remove_tags now raises a ValueError exception
instead of AssertionError when using both the which_ones and the
keep parameters (issue #154)
Test improvements (issues #143, #146, #148, #149)
Documentation improvements (issues #140, #144, #145, #151, #152, #153)
Code cleanup (issue #139)