feedparser v5.2.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-04-16 // about 9 years ago
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Support PyPy
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove the HTTP Status 9001 test that caused unit test tracebacks
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove the completely-untested HTML tidy code
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove BeautifulSoup as a dependency
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove the XFN microformat parsing code
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove the rel_enclosure microformat parsing code
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove the rel_hcard microformat parsing code
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove the rel_tag microformat parsing code
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Replace the regex-based RFC 822 date parser with a procedural one
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Replace the Python-licensed W3DTF date parser
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Support HTML5 audio/source/video element relative URL's
    • ๐Ÿšš Remove the unparsed itunes_keywords key from the result dictionary
    • Fix issue 321 just a little more (yet another code path was missed)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Issue 62 (support georss and gml namespaces)
    • Issue 296 (GUID's are always treated like relative URI's)
    • Issue 334 (media:restriction element content is not returned)
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Issue 335 (sub-elements of media:group are not parsed and returned)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Issue 342 (support multiple dc:creator elements)
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Issue 357 (loose parser breaks ampersands in link element URL's)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Issue 374 (support the Podlove Simple Chapters namespace)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Issue 380 (support media:rating element)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Issue 384 (fix chardet support in Python 3)
    • Issue 389 (elements in unknown uppercase namespaces are ignored)
    • Issue 392 (tags element subverts 'tags' key in result dictionary)
    • Issue 396 (Podlove Simple Chapters version 1.0 causes a KeyError)
    • Issue 399 (docs call request_headers parameter extra_headers)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Issue 401 (support additional dcterms and media namespaces elements)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Issue 404 (support asctime datetime strings with timezone information)
    • Issue 407 (decode forward slashes encoded as character entities)
    • Issue 421 (delay chardet invocation as long as possible)
    • ๐Ÿ“„ Issue 422 (add return types docstrings)
    • โšก๏ธ Issue 433 (update the list of allowed MathML elements and attributes)