ChangeLog

Release 2.0rc4 (15 December 2015)
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Bugfixes (core)
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e42891d Remove dependency on pYsearch
ecc39ce Require google>=0.7
fa431a4 Desupport Python 2.6 for Pywikibot 2.0 release branch
b1f6f39 config: Don't crash on later get_base_dir calls
0925c51 cosmetic_changes: merge similar regexes
4bf39f3 Update revId upon claim change
ea11626 Update WOW hostnames
2a5a4fa Mark site.patrol() as a user write action
4f568c5 Fix interwikiFormat support for Link
7cb6962 Changes are wrongly detected in the last langlink
5c5d658 getLanguageLinks: Skip own site
7ee8ec2 fix intersection of sets of namespaces
94b0c43 Import textlib.TimeStripper
584d7c1 Change "PyWikiBot" to "Pywikibot"
1f8d57e Stop crashing item loads due to support of units
c19dcfa __all__ items must be bytes on Python 2
e6aa6ca Omit includeredirects parameter for allpages generator
687ec9e Performance fix for sites using interwiki_putfirst option
28db3d2 Fix Persian Wikipedia configuration
3944f5e rollback: Use Revision instance properly
860af34 Add must_be to DataSite write actions
f8af8e0 Remove unneeded site argument to AutoFamily
bf49a7d Fix ComparableMixin
1d36e45 Deprecate ParamInfo.query_modules_with_limits
e83c6a3 be-x-old is renamed to be-tarask
19bbe7e Correctly identify qualifier from JSON

Bugfixes (scripts)
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4e78c27 checkimages: Expect NoPage exception
fbb6266 interwiki: Optimize/remove unneeded calls to Page.isEmpty()
428420a interwiki: Allow Subject.originPage to be updated
a305d7b interwiki: Allow titletranslate.translate page to be None
a786226 interwiki: '-ignore' parameter throws exception
ab7abf5 interwiki: check for category before emptiness
0db2e87 interwiki: do not automatically log in
47ed5d5 nowcommons: Query at most one users

Release 2.0rc3 (30 September 2015)
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Bugfixes (core)
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6406479 New Wikipedia site: azb
b503a1e Indexes in str.format
d1854f5 MediaWikiVersion: Accept new wmf style
718e4a1 i18n: always follow master

Release 2.0rc2 (9 July 2015)
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Bugfixes (scripts)
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8d76870 replace.py: remove line endings when reading from file
bfe60b0 archive.py: Don't ignore "DoNotArchiveUntil" timestamps
0df272b redirect.py: Don't break the script for hidden pages.
9806a7a upload.py: allow all formats allowed by commons
1dcbfd8, 0592360 replace.py: fix handling of addedCat

Small new features (scripts)
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a47c0d7 clean_sandbox.py: Use pagegenerators
288b9ce replace.py: Inform about missing user-fixes.py

Configuration updates
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d721249 Changing the sandbox content template on Fa WP

Family file updates
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21d6a8d Remove broken wikis from battlestarwiki family
3c2bcc5 Adding euskara and sicilianu languages to Vikidia family
a3a3d53 WOW Wiki subdomains hr, ro & sr deleted
474c786 Add new Wikipedia languages gom and lrc

Bugfixes (core)
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c7a12b5 fix UnicodeDecodeError on api error
ea00683 pwb.py now correctly passes arguments to generate_family_file
3685a24 Fix Win32 config.editor detection
3333251 open_compressed: Wrap BZ2File in Py 2.7
f2309e5 Skip RC entries without a title
ab9fdfb PatrolEntry: Allow cur/prev id to be str
156bdd0, 0b6fda9 Updates to i18n changes
49fc65f Do not use ParamInfo during action=login
796f273 Let pydot encode labels for Python 3 support
3488a4b Fix and test interwiki_graph
ba6b671 textlib: replaceExcept: Handle empty matches


Release 2.0rc1 (25 May 2015)
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Major improvements include:
- Sphinx documentation at https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/
- Initial ProofreadPage support
- Improved diff output, with context
- Batch upload support
- Compat scripts patrol.py and piper.py ported
- isbn.py now supports wikibase
- RecentChanges stream (rcstream) support

Pywikibot API improvements include:
- Python 3 ipaddress support
- Support for Python warning system
- Wikibase:
  - added ISBN support
  - added redirect support
- Optionally uses external library for improved isbn validation
- Automatically generating user files when -user, -family and -lang are
  provided to a script
- Page.content_model added
- Page.contributors() and Page.revision_count() added
- APISite.compare added
- Site.undelete and Page.undelete added
- DataSite.search_entities support
- FilePage.latest_file_info and FilePage.oldest_file_info added
- ItemClaimFilterPageGenerator added

Low-level changes include:
- Switch to JSON-based i18n data format
- Unicode_literals used throughout source code
- API badtoken recovery
- API client side prevention of anonymous writes
- API layer support for boolean and date datatypes
- Improved MediaWiki version detection

Other changes include:
- Python 3 support fixes
- Daemonize support
- Allow pywikibot to load without i18n data
- Appveyor CI Win32 builds

Release 2.0b3 (30 November 2014)

Major changes include:
- Library initialisation no longer connects to servers
- generate_user_files.py rewritten
- API Version 1.14 support
- Support HTTPS for families with certificate validation errors (Python 2 only)
- API HTTP(S) GET support
- API simplified continuation support
- Upload uses a fake filename to avoid various MIME encoding issues
- API class ParamInfo inspects API modules
- Several QueryGenerator efficiency improvements
- Improved 'same title' detection and 'get redirect target' handling
- Site interwiki methods now use dynamic Interwikimap
- Site methods return Namespace object instead of int
- New WikiStats module
- New PatchManager module used for showDiff
- New pagegenerators, including -intersect support
- Several category_redirect.py improvements
- archivebot: support more languages
- reflinks: changed from GPL to MIT

Release 2.0b2 (7 October 2014)

TODO: add list of major changes

Release 2.0b1 (26 August 2013)

TODO: add high level description of changes from pywikibot 1.0