Release history
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Current release
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* New rule 'startcolon' was introduced in textlib
* BaseBot has new methods setup and teardown
* UploadBot got a filename prefix parameter (T170123)
* cosmetic_changes is able to remove empty sections (T140570)
* Pywikibot is following PEP 396 versioning
* pagegenerators AllpagesPageGenerator, CombinedPageGenerator, UnconnectedPageGenerator are deprecated
* Some DayPageGenerator parameters has been renamed
* unicodedata2, httpbin and Flask dependency was removed (T102461, T108068, T178864, T193383)
* new projects where provided
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Documentation updates
* Localisation updates (T194893)
* Translation updates

3.0.20180505
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* Enable makepath and datafilepath not to create the directory
* Use API's retry-after value (T144023)
* Provide startprefix parameter for Category.articles() (T74101, T143120)
* Page.put_async() is marked as deprecated (T193494)
* pagegenerators.RepeatingGenerator is marked as deprecated (T192229)
* Deprecate requests-requirements.txt (T193476)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* new mediawiki projects where provided
* Localisation updates

3.0.20180403
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* Deprecation warning: support for Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3 will be dropped (T191192)
* Dropped support for Python 2.6 (T154771)
* Dropped support for Python 3.3 (T184508)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20180304
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* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20180302
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* Changed requirements for requests and sseclient
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20180204
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* Deprecation warning: support for py2.6 and py3.3 will be dropped
* Changed requirements for cryprography, Pillow and pyOpenSSL
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20180108
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* Maintenance script to download Wikimedia database dump
* Option to auto-create accounts when logging in
* Ship wikimania family file
* Drop battlestarwiki family file
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20171212
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* Introduce userscripts directory
* Generator settings inside (user-)fixes.py
* BaseUnlinkBot has become part of the framework in specialbots.py
* Decommission of rcstream
* Script files added to https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/
* Other documentation updates
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20170801
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* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20170713
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* Implement server side event client EventStreams
* Add thanks log support
* new ndashredir.py script to create hyphenated redirects
* new followlive.py script to flag new articles
* new WbUnknown data type for Wikibase
* Deprecate APISite.newfiles()
* new pagegenerators filter option -titleregexnot
* Inverse of pagegenerators -namespace option
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates
* Remove panoramiopicker.py script
* Remove anarchopedia family out of the framework
* CODE_OF_CONDUCT included

3.0.20170521
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* Replaced the word 'async' with 'asynchronous' due to python 3.7
* Support for Python 2.6 but higher releases are strictly recommended
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

3.0.20170403
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* First major release from master branch
* requests package is mandatory
* Deprecate previous 2.0 branches

2.0rc5
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* Last stable 2.0 branch

2.0rc4
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* Remove dependency on pYsearch
* Desupport Python 2.6 for Pywikibot 2.0 release branch

2.0rc3
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* Bugfixes
* Localisation updates
* i18n: always follow master branch

2.0rc2
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* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates


2.0rc1
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* New scripts patrol.py and piper.py ported from old compat branch
* isbn.py now supports wikibase
* RecentChanges stream (rcstream) support
* Sphinx documentation at https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

2.0b3
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* Bugfixes and improvements

2.0b2
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* Bugfixes and improvements

2.0b1
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* First stable release branch

1.0 rv 2007-06-19
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* BeautifulSoup becomes mandatory
* new scripts where added
* new family files where supported
* some scripts where archived

1.0
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*Sep 26, 2005*

* First PyWikipediaBot framework release
* scripts and libraries for standardizing content
* tools for making minor modifications
* script making interwiki links