CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v16.7.0 - 2023-02-07

• Add method to generate JSON as bytes. Thanks @browniebroke.

v16.6.1 - 2023-01-24

• Fix siret and siren generation for fr_FR locale company information. Thanks @daamien.

v16.6.0 - 2023-01-17

• Add fr_CA address provider. Thanks @davebulaval.

v16.5.0 - 2023-01-17

• Add zipcode, postcode and postalcode to pl_PL. Thanks @bukowa.

v16.4.0 - 2023-01-12

• Update phone number formats for es_ES locale. Thanks @GuillemCalidae.

v16.3.0 - 2023-01-10

• Add new fr_BE and nl_BE Person providers. Thanks @Dutcho.

v16.2.0 - 2023-01-10

• Add fr_CA date time provider. Thanks @davebulaval/

v16.1.0 - 2023-01-09

• Allow passing optional json encoder in json provider. Thanks @NI1993.

v16.0.1 - 2023-01-09

• Fix missing comma in en_NZ address provider. Thanks @davebulaval.

v16.0.0 - 2023-01-09

• Fix amount and layout of sample data. Thanks @mportesdev.

v15.3.4 - 2022-11-30

• Fix it_IT SSN generation with latin chars in name or surname. Thanks @panicofr.

v15.3.3 - 2022-11-22

• Fix seeding with multiple locales. Thanks @johntmyers.

v15.3.2 - 2022-11-14

• Fix implicit Optional issues. Thanks @palfrey.

v15.3.1 - 2022-11-07

• Update the word_list for pl_PL. Thanks @BeRT2me.

v15.3.0 - 2022-11-07

• Add color provider for id_ID. Thanks @rosdyana.

v15.2.0 - 2022-11-04

• Add banks for en_IN locale. Thanks @ChiragMangukia.

v15.1.5 - 2022-11-04

• Fix type variable inside the ElementsType. Thanks @nils-van-zuijlen.

v15.1.4 - 2022-11-04

• Remove test dependency on random2.

v15.1.3 - 2022-11-01

• Fix pyfloat causing ValueError. Thanks @confuzeus.

v15.1.2 - 2022-11-01

• Fix missing return in en_US state_abbr. Thanks @AssenD.

v15.1.1 - 2022-10-13

• Fix ImportError on python <3.7.2. Thanks @matthewhughes934.

v15.1.0 - 2022-10-11

• Add enum provider. Thanks @NazarioJL.

v15.0.0 - 2022-09-26

• Add support for Python 3.10. Thanks @uri-rodberg.
• Drop support for Python 3.6. Thanks @uri-rodberg.

v14.2.1 - 2022-09-22

• Fix misspelled first name in da_DK locale. Thanks @filson1.

v14.2.0 - 2022-08-31

• Add support for prefix and suffix to pystr provider.Thanks @stefan6419846.

v14.1.2 - 2022-08-31

• Fix uk_UA postcode generation. Thanks @ajinkyac03.

v14.1.1 - 2022-08-30

• Relax minimum version of typing-extensions. Thanks @stefan6419846.

v14.1.0 - 2022-08-17

• Add providers for bn_BD: address, automotive, bank, color, company, currency, date_time, geo, internet, job, person, phone_number and ssn. Thanks @saanpritom.

v14.0.0 - 2022-08-12

• Fix Provider._parse_date_time to support timestamps. Thanks @mochi-moshi.

v13.16.0 - 2022-08-12

• automotive: add de_CH license plates. Thanks @gsilvan.

v13.15.1 - 2022-07-07

• change license_formats pt_BR to match Mercosul. Thanks @augutoraminelli.

v13.15.0 - 2022-07-06

• Upgrade person, company, internet, currency providers for tr_TR. Thanks @keyiflerolsun.

v13.14.0 - 2022-06-22

• Fix vat and police id for el_GR. Thanks @tplessas.
• Add tin and ssn for el_GR. Thanks @tplessas.

v13.13.1 - 2022-06-22

• Fix area codes for fr_FR phone numbers. Thanks @zerbusdetroy.

v13.13.0 - 2022-06-10

• Add support for ISO 8601 timestamp profiles. Thanks @tplessas.

v13.12.1 - 2022-06-06

• Correct RUT range in es_CL. Thanks @nstuardod.

v13.12.0 - 2022-05-25

• Add support for generating relative file paths. Thanks @Lukas0907.

v13.11.1 - 2022-05-13

• Fix firefox ua being nondeterministic with fixed seed. Thanks @jhbuhrman.

v13.11.0 - 2022-05-09

• Add sq-AL automotive provider. Thanks @zerogonal.

v13.10.0 - 2022-05-09

• Improve it_IT ssn provider to match real building rules. Thanks @DamienPirsy.

v13.9.0 - 2022-05-09

• Add part-of-speech functionality for en_US. Thanks @e-panourgia.

v13.8.0 - 2022-05-09

• Add fr-FR datetime provider. Thanks @zerogonal.
• Add no-NO datetime provider. Thanks @zerogonal.
• Add zh-CN datetime provider. Thanks @zerogonal.

v13.7.0 - 2022-05-02

• Add automotive provider for fi_FI, et_EE, lt_LT and vi_VN. Thanks @zerogonal.

v13.6.0 - 2022-04-27

• Add ar_BH automotive provider. Thanks @zerogonal.

v13.5.0 - 2022-04-27

• Add Mexican CLABE bank code for es_MX locale. Thanks @edgarrmondragon.

v13.4.0 - 2022-04-22

• Add it_IT automotive provider. Thanks @Giorgionocera.

v13.3.5 - 2022-04-20

• Fix error in currency provider data. Thanks @zerogonal.

v13.3.4 - 2022-03-28

• Bump actions/cache from 2 to 3 (#1631). Thanks @dependabot[bot].

v13.3.3 - 2022-03-23

• Fix factory selection when Faker has been seeded.

v13.3.2 - 2022-03-14

• Bump actions/stale from 3 to 5 (#1629). Thanks @dependabot[bot].

v13.3.1 - 2022-03-07

• Bump actions/setup-python from 2 to 3 (#1626). Thanks @dependabot[bot].

v13.3.0 - 2022-02-28

• Add lorem provider for fa-ir language code. Thanks @arminshoughi.

v13.2.0 - 2022-02-22

• Add bn_BD Lorem Provider. Thanks @jabertuhin.

v13.1.0 - 2022-02-22

• Add lorem support for de_DE and de_AT. Thanks @@Kalbra.

v13.0.0 - 2022-02-15

• Use os.urandom in binary() if unseeded. Thanks @AlmightyYakob.

v12.3.3 - 2022-02-14

• Arabic improvements for names. Thanks @alfawal.

v12.3.2 - 2022-02-14

• Fix postcode format for es_ES locale. Thanks @mondeja.

v12.3.1 - 2022-02-14

• Prevent "non-integer arguments to randrange()" warnings on Python 3.10. Thanks @jacksmith15.

v12.3.0 - 2022-02-10

• Fix it_IT ssn() validity. Thanks @MarcoMatarazzo.

v12.2.0 - 2022-02-09

• Add cities to de_CH. Thanks @Kalbra.

v12.1.0 - 2022-02-04

• Set correct language on provider when specific locale is requested. Thanks @interDist.

v12.0.1 - 2022-02-04

• Remove empty string in Korean job list. Thanks @georgidimitrov-hs.

v12.0.0 - 2022-01-31

• Remove dependency from text-unidecode.

v11.4.0 - 2022-01-31

• Add geonames db of Italian cap-city-province and full match when generating full addresses. Thanks @FrancYescO.

v11.3.0 - 2022-01-05

• Add banks for fa-ir. Thanks @arminshoughi.

v11.2.0 - 2022-01-05

• Improve phone numbers for it_IT. Thanks @FrancYescO.

v11.1.0 - 2021-12-28

• Add providers for az_AZ locale. Thanks @sevdimali.

v11.0.0 - 2021-12-27

• Replace lorempixel.com service with picsum.photos in image_url provider.
• Add placeholder_url argument to image_url.

v10.0.0 - 2021-12-07

• Deprecate positional allowed_types.

v9.9.1 - 2021-12-07

• Revert "deprecate positional allowed_types".

v9.9.0 - 2021-11-29

• deprecate positional allowed_types (#1573). Thanks @fcurella.

v9.8.4 - 2021-11-29

• Fix positional value_types.

v9.8.3 - 2021-11-22

• Shorten IBANs for pl_PL to 28 chars. Fix #1568 (#1569). Thanks @fcurella.

v9.8.2 - 2021-11-15

• Relax ElementsType to admit e.g. Sets. Thanks @OJFord.

v9.8.1 - 2021-11-12

• Fix pydecimal with left_digits=0 not setting the left digit to 0. Thanks @ndrwkim.

v9.8.0 - 2021-11-02

• Add es_CO localized providers. Thank you @healarconr.

v9.7.1 - 2021-10-27

• Take into account area codes for French phone numbers. Thanks @nicarl.

v9.7.0 - 2021-10-27

• Add provider for French SSN. Thanks @nicarl.

v9.6.0 - 2021-10-25

• Add dynamic provider. Thanks @omri374.

v9.5.3 - 2021-10-25

• Improve randomness of pydecimal for different scenarios. Thanks @antonioIrizar.

v9.5.2 - 2021-10-21

• Limit typing_extensions dependency to Python < 3.8. Thanks @mgorny.

v9.5.1 - 2021-10-20

• Add typing-extensions as dependency and pin mypy version. Thanks @nicarl.

v9.5.0 - 2021-10-19

• Add automotive provider for nl_NL. Thanks @MarcelRobeer.

v9.4.0 - 2021-10-19

• Add Typing. Thanks @MarcelRobeer, @nicarl.

v9.3.1 - 2021-10-11

• Change to secondary address format in en_AU locale to reflect the common usage. Thanks @deboraelkin2.

v9.3.0 - 2021-10-11

• Add currency, automotive, company and bank providers for el_GR. Thanks @nikosmichas.

v9.2.0 - 2021-10-07

• Add color and date_time provider for el_GR. Thanks @nikosmichas.

v9.1.0 - 2021-10-07

• Add currency provider for nl_NL. Thanks @MarcelRobeer.

v9.0.1 - 2021-10-07

• Fix pydecimal returning min_value or max_value too frequently. Thanks @zivkovic.

v9.0.0 - 2021-10-06

• Change default email generator to use safe domain names. Thanks @errbufferoverfl.

v8.16.0 - 2021-10-04

• Add date_time provider for nl_NL. Thanks @MarcelRobeer.

v8.15.0 - 2021-10-04

• Add bg_BG color provider. Thanks @iradonov.

v8.14.2 - 2021-10-04

• Fix bug in pydecimal when returning max/min. Thanks @wilbertom.

v8.14.1 - 2021-10-01

• Fix pydecimal precision. Thanks @joidegn.

v8.14.0 - 2021-09-24

• Add datetime provider for bn_BD. Thanks @jabertuhin.

v8.13.1 - 2021-09-15

• Change fi_FI Provinces to Regions. Thanks @LKajan.

v8.13.0 - 2021-09-15

• uk_UA address provider - fix streets and cities names, added regions. Thanks @o-vasyliev.

v8.12.3 - 2021-09-15

• Fix missing underscores in mac_platform_token. Thanks @iamkeyur.

v8.12.2 - 2021-09-15

• Remove period/fullstop from en_GB prefixes. Thanks @stephengruppetta.

v8.12.1 - 2021-08-24

• Add missing diacritics in fr_FR person provider. Thanks @laowantong.

v8.12.0 - 2021-08-20

• Added non-geo numbers and services phones format for pt_BR. Thanks @leogregianin.
• Add datetime formats in pt_BR. Thanks @leogregianin.
• Add currency formats in pt_BR. Thanks @leogregianin.

v8.11.0 - 2021-08-03

• Add nic_handle. Thanks @pishchalnikov.

v8.10.3 - 2021-07-26

• Remove potentially offensive surname in it_IT. Thanks @lordgordon.

v8.10.2 - 2021-07-23

• Return list instead of tuple in choices_distribution. Thanks @svisser.

v8.10.1 - 2021-07-12

• Enable faker instances to be unpickled (#1480). Thanks @fcurella.

v8.10.0 - 2021-07-07

• Add ar_AE (UAE) phone numbers. Thanks @sshishov.

v8.9.1 - 2021-07-02

• Skip UnsupportedFeature's on the command line. Thanks @therefromhere.

v8.9.0 - 2021-06-30

• Add RIPE ID. Thanks @pishchalnikov.

v8.8.2 - 2021-06-23

• Avoid collision for date in datetime provider. Thanks @mattshin.

v8.8.1 - 2021-06-16

• Fix left_digits ignored if min_value is given. Thanks @OJFord.q

v8.8.0 - 2021-06-14

• Add iana_id, IANA Registrar ID. Thanks @pishchalnikov.

v8.7.0 - 2021-06-11

• Add tlds for th_TH internet provider. Thanks @bact.

v8.6.0 - 2021-06-07

• Add aba() method to generate ABA routing numbers. Thanks @mstellon.

v8.5.1 - 2021-06-03

• Fix deepcopy for Faker instances.

v8.5.0 - 2021-06-02

• Add image provider. Thanks @n1ngu.

v8.4.0 - 2021-05-27

• Add license plates and language names for he_IL locale. Thanks @AndreyRub.

v8.3.0 - 2021-05-26

• Add colors for he_IL. Thanks @AndreyRub.

v8.2.1 - 2021-05-21

• Add few more names in en_IN person provider. Thanks @Felix-Raj.

v8.2.0 - 2021-05-18

• Add city_name() and cities to support .city() for th_TH. Thanks @bact.

v8.1.4 - 2021-05-13

• Support distant past dates on Windows. Thanks @prescod.

v8.1.3 - 2021-05-10

• Fixes #1439: Cast Path to a string for pkgutil.iter_modules (#1441). Thanks @fcurella.

v8.1.2 - 2021-04-29

• Fix company suffix typo for th_TH. Thanks @bact.

v8.1.1 - 2021-04-23

• Remove gmail.co.uk from en_GB email Provider. Thanks @bact.

v8.1.0 - 2021-04-05

• Extend pl_PL Pesel To support greater range of dates. Thanks @IlfirinPL.

v8.0.0 - 2021-04-05

• Fix CLI only giving 10 possible outputs. Thanks @andrewdotn.

v7.0.1 - 2021-03-29

• Fix faker module loader to use strings rather than Paths. Thanks @mgorny.

v7.0.0 - 2021-03-29

• Make sure pyfloat fails when asked to produce more digits than the system supports. Thanks @rossjones.

v6.6.3 - 2021-03-25

• Ensure pytuple returns the correct number of items. Thanks @rossjones.

v6.6.2 - 2021-03-18

• Fix ro_RO phone numbers generation. Thanks @feketemihai.

v6.6.1 - 2021-03-15

• Set uk_UA address street titles to proper language. Thanks @fessua.

v6.6.0 - 2021-03-09

• Add address provider for ro_RO. Thanks @feketemihai.

v6.5.2 - 2021-03-08

• Fix a problem with pyfloat where it can return sys.epsilon when right_digits=N and positive=True. Thanks @tomage.

v6.5.1 - 2021-03-08

• Replace es_MX RFC name initials when they are forbidden words. Thanks @briferz.

v6.5.0 - 2021-02-24

• Add address provider for de_CH. Thanks @andre-dasilva.

v6.4.1 - 2021-02-19

• user_agent: bump platform versions. Thanks @gsilvan.

v6.4.0 - 2021-02-19

• Add cs_CZ lorem - word list. Thanks @jakubno.

v6.3.0 - 2021-02-17

• Add sk_SK automotive provider. Thanks @matusvalo.

v6.2.0 - 2021-02-17

• Add current_country, current_country_code and administrative_unit. Thanks @prescod.

v6.1.1 - 2021-02-09

• Add Taiwanese and Palestinian time zones. Thanks @prescod.

v6.1.0 - 2021-02-09

• Rename fr_QC to fr_CA. Thanks @prescod.

v6.0.0 - 2021-02-03

• Fix pyfloat returning zeros when positive=True. Thanks @sciencectn.

v5.8.0 - 2021-01-26

• Add currency names for th_TH. Thanks @bact.

v5.7.0 - 2021-01-25

• Add new currency provider pricetag(). Thanks @eumiro.

v5.6.5 - 2021-01-20

• Update th_TH Lorem text provider's punctuations, reduce size of word list (#1376). Thanks @bact.

v5.6.4 - 2021-01-20

• Synchronize cs_CZ and sk_SK address provider and split postcodes (#1174). Thanks @eumiro.

v5.6.3 - 2021-01-19

• Enable parallel coveralls builds (#1382). Thanks @fcurella.

v5.6.2 - 2021-01-19

• Fix coveralls (#1374). Thanks @joke2k.

5.6.1 - 2021-01-15

• Fix transliteration for ru_RU person provider. Thanks @valestel.

5.6.0 - 2021-01-13

• Add address, bank, geo and person provider for en_IE. Thanks @NiL.
• Add person provider for ga_IE. Thanks @NiL.

5.5.1 - 2021-01-12

• Fix lorem provider sentence method.

5.5.0 - 2021-01-11

• Add elements caching and other optimizations. Thanks @prescod.
• Add use_weighting parameter for improved performance. Thanks @prescod.

5.4.1 - 2021-01-11

• Remove empty string from ar_AA Person Provider.

5.4.0 - 2021-01-07

• Add da_DK address provider. Thanks @JoseNavy.

5.3.0 - 2020-12-30

• json and fixed_width now allow for strings to be fixed or pinned to a static value by prepending @. Thanks @johnbrandborg.

5.2.0 - 2020-12-30

• Add en_IN address + phone number provider. Thanks @pulkitgupta2k.

5.1.0 - 2020-12-28

• Add en_IN person provider. Thanks @pulkitgupta2k.

5.0.2 - 2020-12-15

• Remove invalid surname in nl_NL. Thanks @TheoSinnige.

5.0.1 - 2020-12-07

• th_TH strftime: normalize output for unsupported directive on musl-based Linux. Thanks @bact.

5.0.0 - 2020-12-03

• Drop support for Python 3.5. Thanks @cclaus.
• Add support for Python 3.9. Thanks @cclaus.

4.18.0 - 2020-11-30

• Add date_time and bank providers for th_TH. Thanks @bact.

4.17.1 - 2020-11-19

• Correct spelling errors in city names for de_DE. Thanks @AnjaGer.

4.17.0 - 2020-11-19

• Add name pairs to get matched representation in ja_JP person provider. Thanks @yu-ichiro.

4.16.0 - 2020-11-17

• Add SSN, company name, address, and license plate providers for th_TH. Thanks @bact.

4.15.0 - 2020-11-16

• Add postcode format, country names, person prefix weights, and update phone number format for th_TH. Thanks @bact.

4.14.2 - 2020-11-04

• Fix generation of names ending with spaces. Thanks @edomora97.

4.14.1 - 2020-11-04

• Add relative frequencies for japanese last names. Thanks @TianyiShi2001.

4.14.0 - 2020-10-13

• Add Swiss bank provider locales. Thanks @mondeja.

4.13.0 - 2020-10-13

• Split first names into male and female on pt_PT provider. Thanks @gplgps.

4.12.0 - 2020-10-13

• Geo provider added for tr_TR locale. Thanks @iamnotagentleman.

4.11.0 - 2020-10-13

• Add sk_SK Job provider. Thanks @pipozzz.

4.10.0 - 2020-10-13

• Add date_time provider for pt_PT. Thanks @gplgps.

4.9.0 - 2020-10-08

• Add .unique() for unique values. Thanks @coiax.

4.8.0 - 2020-10-08

• Add automotive provider for tr_TR. Thanks @molcay.

4.7.0 - 2020-10-08

• Add province list and add 2 new district to ne_NP. Thanks @iamsauravsharma.

4.6.0 - 2020-10-08

• Add Currency provider for sv_SE. Thanks @frangiz.

4.5.0 - 2020-10-06

• Add pt_PT credit card provider. Thanks @rubenandre.

4.4.0 - 2020-10-02

• Added Company Provider for tr_TR locale. Thanks @iamnotagentleman.

4.3.0 - 2020-10-02

• Add job providers for tr_TR. Thanks @molcay.

4.2.0 - 2020-10-02

• Implement color provider for sk_SK locale. Thanks @pipozzz.

4.1.8 - 2020-10-02

• Fix hu_HU color provider inheritance. Thanks @n1ngu.

4.1.7 - 2020-10-02

• Bigger zipcode ranges for VA, TX and MD in en_US. Thanks @Antetokounpo.

4.1.6 - 2020-10-01

• Add new style pt_PT automotive plates. Thanks @gplgps.

4.1.5 - 2020-10-01

• Remove duplicate jobs from the pt_PT provider (#1282). Thanks @gplgps.

4.1.4 - 2020-09-30

• Use "Belarus" instead of "Vitryssland" for sv_SE. Thanks @Majsvaffla.
• Added bank provider for tr_TR locale. Thanks @iamnotagentleman.
• Improve VAT generation for IT provider. Thanks @LordGordonQ.
• Use non-zero number for first digit of Swedish postal codes. Thanks @Majsvaffla.

4.1.3 - 2020-09-14

• Add es_ES autonomous communities (Spanish regions). Thanks @mondeja.
• Add JSON and Fixed Width argument group and parser support. Thanks @johnbrandborg.
• Update zh_CN ssn provider to support gender. Thanks @mapoor.
• Fix typo in de_DE job provider. Thanks @datadominik.
• or_IN Odia person's name added. Thanks @soumendrak.
• Remove datetime_safe shim subclass in favor of native Python datetime.datetime. Thanks @samcrang.

4.1.2 - 2020-08-17

• Extend Person Provider to support non-binary suffixes and prefixes. Thank you @crd.
• Add safe_domain_name generator. Thanks @crd.
• Fix max_value/positive pyfloat interaction. Thanks @coiax.
• Update bban_format for fi_FI locale. Thanks @ALMP-SallaH.
• Fix person.ja_JP kana and roman characters. Thanks @yameholo.
• Add json and fixed_width generators. Thank you @johnbrandborg.
• Add SWIFT code provider methods: swift, swift8 and swift11. Thanks @malefice.
• Add es_ES internet provider. Thanks @mondeja.
• Update bban_format for fr_FR locale. Thanks @r3gis3r.
• Update fr_FR job provider. Thanks @mondeja.
• Add es_ES barcode provider. Thanks @mondeja.
• Add parser argument support. Thanks @johnbrandborg.

4.1.1 - 2020-06-15

• Add date_time providers for cs_CZ, de_AT, es_ES, it_IT, sk_SK, tr_TR. Thanks @eumiro.
• Add prefix support to BarcodeProvider. Thanks @yu-ichiro.
• Fix company format for hy_AM provider. Thanks @mdantonio.
• Add .uk email providers and TLDs for en_GB. Thanks @craiga.
• Add language_name generator. Thanks @ikhomutov and @mondeja.
• Add pytimezone generator returning tzinfo objects. Thanks @OJFord.
• Add es_ES currency provider. Thanks @mondeja.

4.1.0 - 2020-05-12

• Add pytest plugin. Thanks @malefice.
• Fix phone numbers for es_ES. Thanks @pablofm.
• Fix uuid provider to return a uuid4 object when cast_to is set to None. Thanks @rodrigondec.
• Update names for es_ES person provider. Thanks @mondeja.
• Add provider for sk_SK birth_number. Thanks @eumiro.
• Add day_of_week and month_name for de_DE provider. Thanks @eumiro.

4.0.3 - 2020-04-13

• Fixed MSISDN for pt_BR to return only mobile numbers. Thanks @rodrigondec.
• Added Domain Generator Algorithm by date. Thanks @pishchalnikov.
• Fixed issue where pydict provider was not returning the correct number of elements. Thanks @mstellon.
• Added support for Indian Aadhaar numbers. Thanks @curiousElf.
• Added company_vat for it_IT. Thanks @alitaker.
• Improved autodocumentation of providers. Thanks @malefice.
• Added provider for es_ES license plates. Thanks @mondeja.
• Implemented __dir__ method to Faker proxy for better autocompletion. Thanks @douglasfarinelli.
• Uppercased HEX colors for all localized color providers. Thanks @mondeja.
• Added bank provider for es_ES locale. Thanks @mondeja.
• Added support for UK counties. Thanks @neilav.
• Added color provider for no_NO license plates. Thanks @bjorskog.
• Made value_types a keyword argument in python provider. Thanks @slafs.

4.0.2 - 2020-03-11

• Add more data for ko_KR address provider. Thanks @alstn2468.
• Improved pt_PT locale for address and bank. Thanks @mustakarhu.
• Add port_number method to internet provider. Thanks @pishchalnikov.
• Add color provider for fa_IR locale. Thanks @abtinmo.
• Add formatting options for pt_BR postcodes. Thanks @perssonsimon1 and @klaraesr.
• Add country_calling_code to phone_number provider. Thanks @perssonsimon1.
• Fix leap year issue. Thanks @mmcmahon.
• Add AutomotiveProvider for fr_FR locale. Thanks @clarissedescamps and @perssonsimon1.
• Fix cellphone_formats in pt_BR PhoneNumberProvider. Thanks @rodrigondec.

4.0.1 - 2020-02-17

• Provider improvements for Russian locale:

  • added city suffixes, regions and country list
  • regions converted into states for now
  • street address formats and states expanded
  • lists for street titles changed
  • Fixed errors in Automotive Provider
  • Fixed errors in Address Provider
  • Bank Provider expanded:
    • BIC added)
    • Added list of banks
  • Improved Company Provider
  • Credit Card and Person Provider improvements
  • Currency Provider improvements
  • Date-Time Provider improvements
  • translit fix

  Thanks @valestel.

• Add Birth Number to czech locale. Thanks @Jengah.

• Add persons provider for fr_QC. Thanks @Lionesk.

4.0.0 - 2020-01-14

• Breaking change: Remove support for end-of-life Python 2.7.

3.0.1 - 2020-01-14

NOTE: This is the last release to support Python 2.7.x.

• Add provider methods zip and tar for generating zip and tar files. Thanks @malefice.
• Add en-CA postcode_in_province() method. Thanks @oeuftete.
• Update Address and Automotive provider for Russian locale. Thanks @valestel.
• Add provider methods for dsv files: csv, tsv, psv and generic dsv. Thanks @malefice.
• Remove parenthesis from city name in de_DE address provider. Thanks @jerr0328.
• Add NIP generator in pl_PL. Thanks @IlfirinPL.
• Fix Faker.random_number intermittent exceptions. Thanks @Jengah.

3.0.0 - 2019-12-04

• Breaking change: Add support for multiple locale data generation. Thanks @malefice.

2.0.5 - 2019-12-03

• Add Iranian credit card. Thanks @abtinmo.
• Improve color provider. Thanks @malefice.
• Add counties (concelhos) for locale pt_PT. Thanks @tng10.
• Change NY zipcode range. Thanks @arielkaluzhny.
• Fix pyfloat out of min/max range. Thanks @bryan-brancotte.

2.0.4 - 2019-11-12

• Drop python 3.4.
• Fix master card number generator. Thanks @nkthanh98.
• Add provider for Finnish IBAN numbers. Thanks @sitomani.
• Add color in Thai language. Thanks @mesodiar.
• Split first names into male/female for person/de_AT. Thanks @Jayday.
• Extend data for de_AT and it_IT person providers. Thanks @Jayday.
• Add ta_IN support. Thanks @jcopps.
• Add *_PH locales. Thanks @malefice.
• Add Thai lorem. Thanks @mesodiar.
• Add job in ja_JP. Thanks @shmokmt.
• Optimize IPv4 address generation. Thanks @malefice.
• Increase bban_format length for en_GB. Thanks @Necrathex.
• Fix occasional errors in ISBN provider. Thanks @malefice.
• Add more phone numbers to fa_IR locale. Thanks @abtinmo.
• Add support for token-based string generation. Thanks @malefice.
• Improve barcode provider. Thanks @malefice.
• Fix for pyfloat empty randrange. Thanks @jcardali.

2.0.3 - 2019-10-14

• Use the provider's RNG instead of the random module in invalid_ssn. Thanks @luser.
• Fix randomize_nb_elements max argument. Thanks @jorrit-wehelp.
• Add de_DE jobs. Thanks @CodeAndChoke.
• Add pt_PT automotive plates. Thanks @rubenandre.
• Add el_GR jobs. Thanks @athaks.
• Add police id for el_GR. Thanks @athaks.
• Add jobs for for pt_PT. Thanks @rubenandre.

2.0.2 - 2019-09-17

• Fix typos, misspellings. Add locations, names, dates in hi_IN providers. Thanks @kathawala.
• Bump required version text-unidecode to 1.3. Thanks @moggers87.
• Bug fix for pyfloat going over max_value. Thanks @fgs-dbudwin.

2.0.1 - 2019-08-20

• Add nationalities for locale pt_PT. Thanks @tng10.
• Add ios() and android() to user_agent provider. Thanks @gsilvan.
• Update zh_CN provinces. Thanks @casen27.

2.0.0 - 2019-07-15

• Breaking change: Only allow providers to use OrderedDict s, to avoid any more PYTHONHASHSEED problems. Thanks @adamchainz.

1.0.8 - 2019-06-15

• Rename pyint min and max to min_value and max_value. Thanks @francoisfreitag.
• Remove some validations from Faker and delegate it to an external library, validators. Thanks @kingbuzzman.
• Add an "Invalid SSN" generator to the en_US SSN Provider. Thanks @darrylwhiting.
• Include "Praia" as street_prefix in pr_BR address Provider. Thanks @G5Olivieri.
• Loosen version restrictions on freezegun and random2. Thanks @timokau.
• Add SSN provider for es_MX. Thanks @mrfunnyshoes.
• Add pwz generator for pl_PL. Thanks @torm89.
• Add date_of_birth and sex argument to pesel Provider (pl_PL). Thanks @torm89.
• Fix datetime parsing on environments with negative offsets. Thanks @bluesheeptoken.

1.0.7 - 2019-05-14

• Remove dead url from image_placeholder_services. Thanks @Monstrofil.
• Fix missing first_names in Romanian person provider. Thanks @xlotlu.
• Add Catalan, adds doi/nie/nif/cif to Spain ssn. Thanks @kingbuzzman.
• Add texts to generate list of texts. Thanks @pishchalnikov.
• Add provider for pl_PL automotive and Polish pesel number. Thanks @adwojak.
• Corrected behavior for pyfloat. Thanks @ariksu.

1.0.6 - 2019-04-26

• Add missing commas to company/nl_NL provider. Thanks @francoisfreitag.
• Add bounds to pyint. Thanks @francoisfreitag.
• Accept step argument in random_int(). Thanks @francoisfreitag.

1.0.5 - 2019-04-12

• Add min and max values for pyfloat and pydecimal. Thanks @Lrcezimbra.
• Add months and M to the syntax for start_date and end_date. Thanks @anneclairebrld.
• Add support for PyInstaller. Thanks @arossert.
• Add Dutch company names. Thanks @MathynS.
• Fix some invalid French phone numbers starting with +33 8x. Thanks @stephane.
• Add Armenian locale hy_AM. Thanks @hovikman.

1.0.4 - 12-March-2019 <https://github.com/joke2k/faker/compare/v1.0.3...v1.0.4>_

• Fix erratic test.

1.0.3 - 2019-03-12

• Fix AttributeError in user_Agent provider. Thanks @Mattwmaster58 for the report.
• Update zh_TW person provider. Thanks @TimeFinger.
• Add street data & remove street_prefixes from id_ID address provider. Thanks @codenoid.
• Fix parsing of timedeltas in date_time provider. Thanks @riconnon for the report.
• Split name formats into formats_male and formats_female for de_DE provider. Thanks @petro-zdebskyi.
• Pin more-itertools to a version compatible with Python 2.7. Thanks @canarduck.
• Fix fr_FR postcodes_format. Thanks @canarduck.
• Fix hex code for yellowgreen color. Thanks @hovikman.
• Add Brazilian RG (identity card). Thanks @davizucon.
• Allow overriding of random generator class.

1.0.2 - 2019-01-22

• Fix state abbreviations for id_ID to be 2-letters. Thanks @dt-ap.
• Fix format for city_with_postcode on de_DE locale. Thanks @TZanke.
• Update person providers for zh_CN. Thanks @TimeFinger.
• Implement zipcode_in_state and aliases in en_US locale for generating a zipcode for a specified state. Thanks @mattyg.
• Group first names by gender on zh_CN provider. Thanks @TimeFinger.

1.0.1 - 2018-12-12

• Fix number of digits in phone_number provider for no_NO. Thanks @aleksanb.
• Add categories to jp_JP company provider. Thanks @shirakia.
• Add trunk prefix for ru_RU phone numbers. thanks @pishchalnikov.

1.0.0 - 2018-11-13

• Breaking change: latlng, latitude and longitude no longer return coordinates that are close the locale's country. Use the local_latlng, local_latitude and local_longitude instead.
• Add location_on_land provider. Thanks @shacker.

0.9.3 - 2018-11-13

• Add cellphone_number method for pt_BR. Thanks @Newman101.
• Fix urls generated by from image_url. Thanks @tsiaGeorge.
• Add job provider for th_TH. Thanks @mesodiar.
• Add phone number provider for th_TH. Thanks @zkan.
• Add bank provider for pl_PL locale. Thanks @andrzej3393.
• Add lorem provider for pl_PL locale. Thanks @andrzej3393.
• Add Postcode and City format for de_DE provider. Thanks @Newman101.
• Add vat_id to ssn providers for bg_BG, cs_CZ, de_AT, de_CH, de_de, dk_DK, el_CY, el_GR, en_GB, en_IE, es_ES, et_EE, fi_FI, fr_CH, fr_FR, hr_HR, hu_HU, it_IT, lb_LU, lt_LT, lv_LV, mt_MT, nl_BE, nl_NL, no_NO, pl_PL, pt_PT, ro_RO, sk_SK, sl_SI and sv_SE. Thanks @mastacheata.
• Add postcode and city_with_postcode for cs_CZ. Thanks @Newman101.
• Add postcode and city_with_postcode for de_AT. Thanks @Newman101.
• Add license_plate for ru_RU. Thanks @codaver.
• Remove incorrect phone number formats from en_US. Thanks @stephenross.
• Add job provider for bs_BA. Thanks @elahmo.
• Add hostname provider. Thanks @ediblesushi.
• Add license plates for sv_SE. Thanks @vilhelmmelkstam.
• Allow uuid4 to return a UUID object. Thanks @ediblesushi.

0.9.2 - 2018-10-12

• Add company names to pl_PL provider. Thanks @@twkrol.
• Add replacements for non-ascii characters in pt_BR. Thanks @clarmso.
• Add some more placeholder image services. Thanks @clarmso.
• Separate male name and female name formats in cs_CZ provider. Thanks @clarmso.
• Add second level domains (mostly provinces) for cn top level domain. Thanks @clarmso.
• Add fr_FR localization to lorem provider. Thanks @tristandeborde.
• Lots of work on internal cleanup and optimizing the CI. Thanks @jdufresne.
• Add flake8 to the CI. Thanks @andrzej3393.

0.9.1 - 2018-09-13

• Fix missing and misplaced comma's in many providers. Thanks @153957.
• Refactor IPv4 address generation to leverage ipaddress module. Thanks @maticomp.
• An en_NZ provider for addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. Thanks @doctorlard.
• Add unique argument to words() for returning unique words. Thanks @micahstrube.
• Allow US territories to be excluded from state_abbr() for en_US provider. Thanks @micahstrube.
• Add support for Python 3.7. Thanks @michael-k.

0.9.0 - 2018-08-13

• .random_sample() now returns a list of unique elements instead of a set.
• .random_sample_unique() is removed in favor of .random_sample().
• Added random_choices(), random_elements() and random_letters().
• Added faker.utils.distribution.choices_distribution_unique().
• words(), password(), uri_path and pystr() now use the new the random_choices() method.

0.8.18 - 2018-08-13

• Change blood group from 0 (zero) to O (capital letter O). Some locales do use 'zero', but O is more common and it is the medical standard. Thanks @mohi7solanki.
• Fix alpha-2 country code for Haiti. Thanks @sevens-ef for the report.
• Fix abbreviation for Nunavut. Thanks @straz for the report.
• Standardized postcode in address providers. Now all locales are guaranteed to have a postcode method and may have a localized alias for it (eg: zipcode). Thanks @straz for the report.
• Fix typo in pt_BR Person perovider. Thanks @Nichlas.
• Fix timezone handling. Thanks @Fraterius.
• Use tzinfo when provided in date_of_birth. Thanks @Kelledin.

0.8.17 - 2018-07-12

• Add ein, itin and refactored ssn Provider for en_US. Thanks @crd.
• Add job provider for zh_CN. Thanks @ramwin.
• Add date_of_birth provider. Thanks @cdr.
• Add alpha-3 representation option for country-code provider. Thanks @cdr.

0.8.16 - 2018-06-15

• Fix test for CPF (Brazilian SSN). Thanks Rubens Takiguti Ribeiro.
• Fix Canadian SIN generation. Thanks @crd.
• Fix Norwegian SSN date portion. Thanks @frangiz.
• Add start_datetime argument for unix_time(). Thanks @crd.

0.8.15 - 2018-05-14

• Change logging level to DEBUG.

0.8.14 - 2018-05-11

• Add possibility to make artificial ssn numbers for FI_fi. Thanks @kivipe.
• Update ko_KR person data based on statistics. Thanks @unace.
• Improved logging. Thanks @confirmationbias616.

0.8.13 - 2018-04-12

• Add no_NO bank provider. Thanks @cloveras.
• Add ipv4_network_class, ipv4_private, ipv4_public providers. Thanks @ZuluPro.
• Add address_class and private arguments to ipv4 provider. Thanks @ZuluPro.
• Add currency, currency_name, cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency_code and cryptocurrency_name to currency provider. Thanks @ZuluPro.
• Add automotive provider for de_DE. Thanks @gsilvan.
• Fix edgecases for Finnish ssn provider. Thanks @sanga.
• Add job provider for pt_BR. Thanks @paladini.
• Add unix_device and unix_partition to file provider. Thanks @ZuluPro.
• Add random_lowercase_letter and random_uppercase_letter to the base provider. Thanks @ZuluPro.
• Clarify CLI help. Thanks @confirmationbias616.

0.8.12 - 2018-03-12

• Fix issue with cx_Freeze. Thanks @sedominik.
• Add dutch nl_NL bank provider. Thanks @PatSousa.
• Add distrito and freguesia to pt_PT address provider. Thanks @ZuluPro.
• Fix unicode issues with the person provider. Thanks @karthikarul20.
• Add en_SG person provider. Thanks @karthikarul20.
• Add street names to the Ukrainian address provider. Thanks @cadmi.
• Add de_AT address provider. Thanks @bessl.
• Fix credit card prefixes. Thanks @jphalip.
• Fix capitalization in no_NO address provider. Thanks @cloveras.
• Fix deprecated syntax for raw strings. Thanks @dchudz.
• Add latitude and longitude to de_AT address provider. Thanks @bessl.
• Fix incorrect value in list of middle name for locale ru_RU. Thanks @damirazo.

0.8.11 - 2018-02-12

• Add scheme selection for internet url provider. Thanks @ProvoK.
• Increase lower bound on AD date generation. Thanks @prophile.
• Add the ability to specify the min and max age for some ssn locales. Thanks @frangiz.

0.8.10 - 2018-01-16

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• Pass python_requires argument to setuptools. Thanks @jdufresne.
• Remove some words from en_US lorem ipsum provider. Thanks @Pomax.

0.8.9 - 2018-01-12

• Remove support for Python 3.3. Thanks @jdufresne.
• Allow past dates within a second. Thanks @DanEEstar.
• Added phone number formatting to en_GB localisation to ensure no genuine phone numbers are generated. Thanks @TheSapper.
• Added en_GB localisation for SSN (UK National Insurance Number). Thanks @TheSapper.
• Added ro_RO person Provider. Thanks @vasilesmartup.
• Added domain argument to email provider. Thanks @lcd1232.

0.8.8 - 2017-12-19

• made seed_instance return self for chainability.
• Add en_US locale for lorem. Thanks @shacker.
• fi_FI gender specific data added. Thanks @mikkhola.
• fi_FI address and job lists updated. Thanks @mikkhola.
• Add iban provider. Thanks @cdaller.

0.8.7 - 2017-11-14

• Corrected some issues with the Hungarian (hu_HU) providers, such as incorrectly capitalized company suffixes, street/road type names and place names. Thanks @chrisvoncsefalvay.
• The Hungarian locale's providers.job.job provider now returns Hungarian job names, taken from the Hungarian National Statistical Office (KSH)'s 2008 survey nomenclature of employment (FEOR '08). Thanks @chrisvoncsefalvay.
• Added he_IL locale. Thanks @bjesus.
• Fix possible infinite loop in random_sample_unique. Thanks @153957.
• Add aliases to make pt_BR address provider compatible with en_US. Thanks @diegoholiveira.
• Fix ResourceWarning in setup.py. Thanks @jdufresne.
• Update test requirements.

0.8.6 - 2017-10-16

• Replace unidecode dependency in favor of text-unidecode. Faker now requires text-unidecode.

0.8.5 - 2017-10-13

• Add ASCII emails. Thanks @barseghyanartur.
• Add id_ID Providers. Thanks Sidi Ahmad.
• Fix date_time.time_series() to ensure start and end bounds are inclusive. Thanks @bijanvakili.
• Create a provider to Brazilian license plates. Thanks @diegoholiveira.
• Use a proper international format for Ukrainian phone numbers. Thanks @illia-v.
• Faker now requires Unidecode.

0.8.4 - 2017-09-22

• Move email_validator to test_requires and unpinned the version number.
• Date feature parity with datetime. Thanks @noirbizarre.
• Add MSISDN in the phone_number provider. Thanks @patrickporto.
• Add Arabic locales. Thanks @ahmedaljazzar.
• Fix datetime issue on Windows. Thanks @kungfu71186.

0.8.3 - 2017-09-05

• Fix release build.

0.8.2 - 2017-09-05

• Revert name change of faker.generator.random. Thanks @adamchainz.
• Document the global shared random.Random and seed_instance(). Thanks @adamchainz.

0.8.1 - 2017-08-28

• Rolled back breaking change in randomize_nb_elements.

0.8.0 - 2017-08-28

• Add identity_card_number for pl_PL person provider. Thanks @pdaw.
• More descriptive error message when a formatter is not found. Thanks @fcurella.
• Add time_series provider. Thanks @fcurella.
• Add per-instance seeding via .seed_instance method. Thanks @reverbc.
• Fix tz_TW address provider. Thanks @clarmso.

0.7.18 - 2017-07-19

• Generate proper dates before 1970. Thanks @kungfu71186.
• Made it possible to seed .binary(). Thanks @kungfu71186.
• Add color names for hr_HR. Thanks @mislavcimpersak.
• Add implementation of ssn provider for the pl_PL locale. Thanks @pdaw.
• Add pt_BR colors localization. Thanks @ppcmiranda.
• Create a method for codes of cryptocurrencies in the currency provider. Thanks @illia-v.
• Fix female name format typo in hu_HU person provider. Thanks @swilcox.
• Fix deprecated usage of print statement in README. Thanks @cclauss.
• Add gender-specific names for sv_SE person provider. Thanks @swilcox.
• Add an implementation of regon for pl_PL company provider. Thanks @pdaw.
• Addi an implementation of local_regon for pl_PL company provider. Thanks @pdaw.
• Replace deprecated getargspec on py3. Thanks @fcurella.
• Add new automotive provider. Thanks @zafarali.
• Add an implementation of company_vat for pl_PL company provider. Thanks @pdaw.
• Add Taiwan/Traditional character support for internet and lorem providers. Thanks @bearnun.
• Use random.choices when available for better performance. Thanks @catleeball.
• Refactor RGB color methods. Thanks @catleeball.

0.7.17 - 2017-06-12

• Fix a timezone issue with the date_time_between_dates provider.

0.7.16 - 2017-06-09

• Fix timezone issues with date_time_between provider.
• Add ext_word_list parameter to methods in the Lorem generator. Thanks @guinslym.

0.7.15 - 2017-06-02

• Fix start and end date for datetime provider methods.

0.7.14 - 2017-06-02

• Fix future_date, `and past_date bounds.

0.7.13 - 2017-06-02

• Remove capitalisation from hu_HU addresses. Thanks @Newman101.
• Add et_EE (Estonian) provider: names and ssn. Thanks @trtd.
• Proper prefix for gender in pl_PL names. Thanks @zgoda.
• Add DateTime provider for pl_PL. Thanks @zgoda.
• Add pl_PL internet data provider. Thanks @zgoda.
• Fix diacritics in pl_PL street names. Thanks @zgoda.
• Add future_date, future_datetime, past_date and past_datetime to DateTime Provider

0.7.12 - 2017-05-10

• Add Japanese lorem provider. Thanks @richmondwang.
• Add hr_HR names of month and names of days. Thanks @mislavcimpersak.
• Add sl_SI names of month and names of days. Thanks @mislavcimpersak.
• Update the provider user_agent. Thanks @illia-v.
• Add russian words for date_time. Thanks @iskhomutov.
• Add Georgian (ka_GE) person and address providers. Thanks @GeorgeLubaretsi.
• Add company provider to hu_HU locale. Thanks @Newman101.
• Allow subdomains for domain_name provider. Thanks @hiagofigueiro.
• Implement hu_HU months + days. Thanks @Newman101.
• Replacement rules for emails à->a, è->e in de_DE internet provider. Thanks @Bergil32.

0.7.11 - 2017-04-09

• Added french words for days and months. Thanks @sblondon.
• Reorganized tests. Thanks @grantbachman.
• Added file path provider. Thanks @diegommarino.
• Fixed packaging issue with tests module. Thanks @eukreign for the report.

0.7.10 - 2017-03-13

• Add ISBN-10 and ISBN-13. Thanks @grantbachman.
• Add colors for fr_FR. Thanks @sblondon.

0.7.9 - 2017-02-24

• Fix packaging issue. Thanks @jorti.

0.7.8 - 2017-02-24

• Add a Russian language to color provider. Thanks @kotyara1005.
• Correct UnboundLocalError in Finnish SSN generator. Thanks @lamby.
• Create internet IT provider. Thanks @GlassGruber.
• Add fix_len parameter to random_number. Thanks @vlad-ki.
• Support zh_CN lorem. Thanks @yihuang.
• Customize chinese word connector. Thanks @yihuang.
• Add more company data to fa_IR. Thanks @aminalaee.
• Python 3.6 support. Thanks @stephane.
• Add hu_HU providers. Thanks @chrisvoncsefalvay.
• Fix tests failures.

0.7.7 - 2016-12-20

• Fix no_NO postcodes. Thanks @kdeldycke.
• Fix fa_IR city generator. Thanks @kdeldycke.

0.7.6 - 2016-12-19

• Fix packaging issue with docs directory. Thanks @wyattanderson.

0.7.5 - 2016-12-16

• Deprecate fake-factory package on PyPI.

0.7.4 - 2016-12-16

• Add Ukrainian address provider. Thanks @illia-v.
• Add Ukrainian internet provider. Thanks @illia-v.
• Middle name support for person.ru_RU provider. Thanks @zeal18.
• Add address, company, internet and SSN provider for ru_RU. Thanks @zeal18.
• Improved address.pl_PL provider. Thanks @pkisztelinski.
• Add date and time object providers. Thanks @jtojnar.
• Refactor Korean address methods. Thanks @item4.
• Add provider for locale nl_BE (address, phone, ssn). Thanks @vema.
• Add additional job titles. Thanks @wontonst.
• Add Ukrainian color provider. Thanks @illia-v.
• Add support to brazilian company IDs (CNPJ). Thanks @lamenezes.
• Improve the Internet provider. Thanks@illia-v.
• Improve the Ukrainian person provider. Thanks @illia-v.
• Improve some SSN providers. Thanks @illia-v.
• Improve code samples in README.rst and docs/index.rst. Thanks @illia-v.
• Improve the method locale. Thanks @illia-v.
• Fix pyfloat. Thanks @illia-v.
• Allow left/right_digits=0 for pyfloat. Thanks @mnalt.
• update fa_IR person names and phone numbers. Thanks @aminalaee.

0.7.3 - 2016-09-16

• date_time_this_century now returns datetime s outside the current decade. Thanks @JarUrb.
• Add support for localized jobs for hr_HR. Thanks @mislavcimpersak.
• Adding support for Croatian hr_HR ssn (oib). Thanks @mislavcimpersak.
• Rename PyPI package to Faker.

0.6.0 - 2016-08-09

• Dropped Python 2.6 support

0.5.11 - 2016-08-09

• Add optional parameter sex to profile and simple_profile. Thanks @navyad.
• Fix whitespace in dk_DK provider last_names/last_name. Thanks @iAndriy.
• Fix utf8 coding issue with address/fi_FI provider. Thanks @delneg.
• ! Latest version to support Python 2.6

0.5.10 - 2016-08-01

• Fix random_sample_unique. Thanks @cecedille1.

0.5.9 - 2016-06-08

• Add more pt_BR names. Thanks @cuducos.
• Added en_GB names. Thanks @jonny5532.
• Add romanized internet provider for zh_CN.
• Add fr_CH providers. Thanks @gfavre.

0.5.8 - 2016-06-28

• Improve CLI output and help. Thanks @cbaines.
• Update en_US anmes to be more realistic. Thanks @dethpickle.
• Modify pystr provider to accept a minimum number of characters. Thanks @tamarbuta.
• Add job Provider for zh_TW. Thanks @weihanglo.
• Modify zh_TW phone number for a more valid format. Thanks @weihanglo.
• Reduce the maximum value of start timestamps. Thanks @cbaines.
• Add random_sample and random_sample_unique. Thanks @bengolder.

0.5.7 - 2016-03-07

• Repackage to resolve PyPI issue.

0.5.6 - 2016-03-07

• Add date handling for datetime functions. Thanks @rpkilby.
• Discern male and female first names in pt_BR. Thanks @gabrielusvicente.

0.5.5 - 2016-02-29

• Specify help text for command line. Thanks @cbaines.

0.5.4 - 2016-02-29

• Expose Provider's random instance. Thank @gsingers for the suggestion.
• Make sure required characters are in the password. Thanks @craig552uk.
• Add internet and job Providers for fa_IR. Thanks @hamidfzm.
• Correct Poland phone numbers. Thanks @fizista.
• Fix brittly tests due to seconds elapsed in-between comparison
• Allow unicode in emails and domains. Thanks @zdelagrange for the report.
• Use dateutil for computing next_month. Thanks @mark-love, @rshk.
• Fix tests module import. Thanks @jorti for the report.
• Handle unexpected length in ean(). Thanks @michaelcho.
• Add internet provider for ja_JP. Thanks @massa142.
• Add Romanized Japanese person name. Thanks @massa142.
• Add tzinfo support to datetime methods. Thanks @j0hnsmith.
• Add an 'office' file extensions category. Thanks @j0hnsmith.
• Generate name according to profile's sex. Thanks @Dutcho for the report.
• Add bs_BA phone number and internet provider. Thanks @elahmo.
• Add a SSN provider for zh_CN. Thanks @felixonmars.
• Differentiate male and female first names in fr_FR locale. Thanks @GregoryVds
• Add Maestro credit card. Thanks @anthonylauzon.
• Add hr_HR localization. Thanks @mislavcimpersak.
• Update de_DE first names. Thanks @WarrenFaith and @mschoebel.
• Allow generation of IPv4 and IPv6 network address with valid CIDR. Thanks @kdeldycke.
• Unittest IPv4 and IPv6 address and network generation. Thanks @kdeldycke.
• Add a new provider to generate random binary blob. Thanks @kdeldycke.
• Check that randomly produced language codes are parseable as locale by the factory constructor. Thanks @kdeldycke.
• Fix chinese random language code. Thanks @kdeldycke.
• Remove duplicate words from Lorem provider. Thanks @jeffwidman.

0.5.3 - 2015-09-21

• Added company_vat to company fi_FI provider. Thanks @kivipe.
• Seed a Random instance instead of the module. Thanks Amy Hanlon.
• Fixed en_GB postcodes to be more realistic. Thanks @mapleoin for the report.
• Fixed support for Python 3 in the python provider. Thanks @derekjamescurtis.
• Fixed U.S. SSN generation. Thanks @jschaf.
• Use environment markers for wheels. Thanks @RonnyPfannschmidt
• Fixed Python3 issue in pyiterable and pystruct providers. Thanks @derekjamescurtis.
• Fixed en_GB postcodes to be more realistic. Thanks @mapleoin.
• Fixed and improved performance of credit card number provider. Thanks @0x000.
• Added Brazilian SSN, aka CPF. Thanks @ericchaves.
• Added female and male names for fa_IR. Thanks @afshinrodgar.
• Fixed issues with Decimal objects as input to geo_coordinate. Thanks @davy.
• Fixed bug for center set to None in geo_coordinate. Thanks @davy.
• Fixed deprecated image URL placeholder services.
• Fixed provider's example formatting in documentation.
• Added en_AU provider. Thanks @xfxf.

0.5.2 - 2015-06-11

• Added uuid4 to misc provider. Thanks Jared Culp.
• Fixed jcb15 and jcb16 in credit_card provider. Thanks Rodrigo Braz.
• Fixed CVV and CID code generation in credit_card provider. Thanks Kevin Stone.
• Added --include flag to command line tool. Thanks Flavio Curella.
• Added country_code to `address`` provider. Thanks @elad101 and Tobin Brown.

0.5.1 - 2015-05-21

• Fixed egg installation. Thanks David R. MacIver, @kecaps
• Updated person names for ru_RU. Thanks @mousebaiker.
• Updated ko_KR locale. Thanks Lee Yeonjae.
• Fixed installation to install importlib on Python 2.6. Thanks Guillaume Thomas.
• Improved tests. Thanks Aarni Koskela, @kecaps, @kaushal.
• Made Person prefixes/suffixes always return strings. Thanks Aarni Koskela.
• pl_PL jobs added. Thanks Dariusz Choruży.
• Added ja_JP provider. Thanks Tatsuji Tsuchiya, Masato Ohba.
• Localized remaining providers for consistency. Thanks Flavio Curella.
• List of providers in compiled on runtime and is not hardcoded anymore. Thanks Flavio Curella.
• Fixed State names in en_US. Thanks Greg Meece.
• Added time_delta method to date_time provider. Thanks Tobin Brown.
• Added filename and file extension methods to file provider. Thanks Tobin Brown.
• Added Finnish ssn (HETU) provider. Thanks @kivipe.
• Fixed person names for pl_PL. Thanks Marek Bleschke.
• Added sv_SE locale providers. Thanks Tome Cvitan.
• pt_BR Provider: Added catch_phrase to Company provider and fixed names in Person Provider. Thanks Marcelo Fonseca Tambalo.
• Added sk_SK localized providers. Thanks @viktormaruna.
• Removed miscelleneous provider. It is superseded by the misc provider.

0.5.0 - 2015-02-16

• Localized providers
• Updated ko_KR provider. Thanks Lee Yeonjae.
• Added pt_PT provider. Thanks João Delgado.
• Fixed mispellings for en_US company provider. Thanks Greg Meece.
• Added currency provider. Thanks Wiktor Ślęczka
• Ensure choice_distribution always uses floats. Thanks Katy Lavallee.
• Added uk_UA provider. Thanks Cyril Tarasenko.
• Fixed encoding issues with README, CHANGELOG and setup.py. Thanks Sven-Hendrik Haase.
• Added Turkish person names and phone number patterns. Thanks Murat Çorlu.
• Added ne_NP provider. Thanks Sudip Kafle.
• Added provider for Austrian de_AT. Thanks Bernhard Essl.

0.4.2 - 2014-08-20

• Fixed setup

0.4.1 - 2014-08-20

• Added MAC address provider. Thanks Sébastien Béal.
• Added lt_LT and lv_LV localized providers. Thanks Edgar Gavrik.
• Added nl_NL localized providers. Thanks @LolkeAB, @mdxs.
• Added bg_BG localized providers. Thanks Bret B.
• Added sl_SI. Thanks to @janezkranjc
• Added distribution feature. Thanks to @fcurella
• Relative date time. Thanks to @soobrosa
• Fixed date_time_ad on 32bit Linux. Thanks @mdxs.
• Fixed domain_word to output slugified strings.

0.4 - 2014-03-30

• Modified en_US person.py to output female and male names. Thanks Adrian Klaver.
• Added SSN provider for en_US and en_CA. Thanks Scott (@milliquet).
• Added hi_IN localized provider. Thanks Pratik Kabra.
• Refactoring of command line

0.3.2 - 2013-11-11

• New provider: Credit card generator
• Improved Documentor

0.3.1 - 2013-10-18

• FIX setup.py

0.3 - 2013-10-18

• PEP8 style conversion (old camelCased methods are deprecated!)
• New language: pt_BR (thanks to @rvnovaes)
• all localized provider now uses from __future__ import unicode_literals
• documentor prints localized provider after all defaults
• FIX tests for python 2.6

0.2 - 2010-12-01

• New providers: Python, File
• Providers imported with __import__
• Module is runnable with python -m faker [name] [*args]
• Rewrite fake generator system (allow autocompletation)
• New language: French
• Rewrite module __main__ and new Documentor class

0.1 - 2012-11-13

• First release