feedparser v5.1.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2011-03-20 // about 13 years ago
    • โœ… Fix mistakes, typos, and bugs in the unit test code
    • Fix crash in Python 2.4 and 2.5 if the feed has a UTF_32 byte order mark
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Replace the RFC822 date parser for more extensibility
    • Issue 304 (handle RFC822 dates with timezones like GMT+00:00)
    • Issue 309 (itunes:keywords should be split by commas, not whitespace)
    • โšก๏ธ Issue 310 (pubDate should map to published, not updated)
    • โœ… Issue 313 (include the compression test files in MANIFEST.in)
    • Issue 314 (far-flung RFC822 dates don't throw OverflowError on x64)
    • โœ… Issue 315 (HTTP server for unit tests runs on 0.0.0.0)
    • Issue 321 (malformed URIs can cause ValueError to be thrown)
    • ๐Ÿ‘€ Issue 322 (HTTP redirect to HTTP 304 causes SAXParseException)
    • โœ… Issue 323 (installing chardet causes 11 unit test failures)
    • Issue 325 (map description_detail to summary_detail)
    • Issue 326 (Unicode filename causes UnicodeEncodeError if locale is ASCII)
    • Issue 327 (handle RFC822 dates with extraneous commas)
    • โšก๏ธ Issue 328 (temporarily map updated to published due to issue 310)
    • ๐Ÿ Issue 329 (escape backslashes in Windows path in docs/introduction.rst)
    • ๐Ÿ“„ Issue 331 (don't escape backslashes that are in raw strings in the docs)