NEWS.rst

User-visible changes

1.3.0 - 2020-02-14

• httplib2 certificate support is gone, pin to <=1.3.0 if you need it
• Python 3.8 is now supported
• pypy3 is provisionally supported, report any bugs you find!

1.2.0 - 2020-01-23

• httplib2 certificate handling is deprecated, as it has become untenable to support the various httplib2 releases
• Python 3.5 is no longer supported

1.1.0 - 2018-11-21

• Click 7.0, or newer, is now required for [colour] extra
• gettext support for the command line module has been removed¹
• sphinx 1.8 and sphinx-click are now required to build docs

1.0.0 - 2018-09-05

• API is now frozen; changes will follow semver

0.11.0 - 2018-07-01

• This release is the final release before 1.0.0; shake it and report what falls out!
• Python 3.7 is now supported

0.10.0 - 2018-01-18

• This is the last planned release before 1.0.0, report problems and ask questions now
• Type hints, see 483, have been add throughout the library
• sphinx_autodoc_typehints is required to build documentation

0.9.0 - 2017-11-24

• As advertised, pager's default value for $LESS has been removed
• timedelta objects are now supported by json_datetime
• Functionality that may be useful from the command line is now available via jnrbase command

0.8.0 - 2017-11-20

• As advertised, debug's enter and exit have been removed
• context.env wrapper to temporarily alter environment variables
• graphviz is no longer required to build docs

0.7.0 - 2017-10-25

• As advertised, support for naïve datetimes has been removed from iso_8601
• Timing now uses a datetime.timedelta for its elapsed attribute
• Timing now uses human_timestamp for its verbose output
• debug’s enter and exit have been renamed to on_enter and on_exit respectively
• The deprecated debug.enter and debug.exit names will be removed in v0.8.0.
• httplib2 v0.10, or newer, is required for jnrbase[net]
• click is now required for jnrbase[template]
• jnrbase[template] requires html2text 2016.5.29 or newer and Pygments v2.1 or newer
• Tests now require pytest-randomly

0.6.0 - 2017-10-18

• This package is no longer considered an alpha, but given its new beta status large changes may still be made
• jnrbase.config now uses Python’s configparser for loading config files
• jnrbase.config exposes jnrbase’s parse_{datetime,{time,}delta} functions for value conversions
• Support for naïve datetimes will be removed in v0.7.0
• Tests now require pytest
• configobj is no longer required

0.5.0 - 2017-09-24

• Python 2 support has been removed… but, if you really need it file an issue or peg the jnrbase dependency to <0.5
• Python 3.5 is the minimum supported version… but, if you desperately need support for 3.{2..4} file an issue

• Many functions now use keyword-only arguments for option setting arguments, as defined in PEP 3102

  Class/function	Option
  config.read_configs	local
  git.find_tag	strict and git_dir
  iso_8601.parse_datetime	naive
  pager.pager	pager
  template.highlight	lexer and formatter
  template.html2text	width and ascii_replacements
  template.regexp	count and flags
  timer.Timing	verbose

• iso_8601’s UTC class has been removed in favour of the standard library’s datetime.timezone
• Jinja2 v2.9, or newer, is required for jnrbase[template]

0.4.0 - 2017-04-03

• New safe_hasattr to workaround Python 2 oddness
• parse_datetime can generate naïve timestamps
• Python 3.6 is now supported

0.3.0 - 2016-12-21

• debug.{enter,exit} output now includes the function name
• Timer has been renamed to Timing to match PEP 343 naming
• contextlib2 is required with Python v3.4, or earlier
• Python 3.5 is now supported
• Python 2.6 support has been removed… but, if you need it file an issue

0.2.0 - 2016-12-14

• First public release, start of a maintained package release process

0.1.0 - 2014-01-28

• Initial release

Footnotes

Pygments config datetimes

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