v0.6.0

• Added wheel distributions for Python 3.14.

• Officially supports the free-threading mode (also known as No-GIL mode), which was introduced experimentally in Python 3.13 and stabilized in Python 3.14 (still opt-in).

Caveat: Using habachen with a free-threaded build does not automatically make it faster. However, you can safely call the library’s functions from multiple threads, which can improve efficiency with minimal effort.

Of course, you can continue to use this module with normal (GIL-enabled) builds as before.

v0.5.2

• Added wheel support for Python 3.13.

• Updated setup.py to include version information directly, instead of dynamically retrieving it from a file.

Note that this update does not affect the functionality or logic of the library's features.

v0.5.1

Minor updates

• The __text_signature__ attribute (used by the inspect module, for example) for the habachen functions is now available.

• Improved portability.

v0.5.0

• Added pyproject.toml, following PEP 517/518.

• Slight performance improvement: now use the stack memory for fixed-size temporary buffers in hiragana_to_katakana() and katakana_to_hiragana().

• More consistent and precise error handling: assure that hiragana_to_katakana() raises a ValueError when hankaku option is set to True and the ignore optional string contains characters that are not convertible to hankaku katakana. Previously, even though neither 'ゐ' (U+3090) nor 'ゟ' (U+309F) has a corresponding hankaku katakana, only the latter triggered an error.

v0.4.0

• Added wheels for major platforms on PyPI, by using cibuildwheel.

• Speed up katakana_to_hiragana() function with gcc on x86-64.

v0.3.1

First public release

v0.3.0

Update _version.py