v2.0.6: Persian tokenization, Turkish and Norwegian lookup lemmatizer, improved Matcher and lots of bug fixes

✨ New features and improvements

• Alpha tokenization support for Persian.
• Add lookup lemmatizer for Turkish.
• Add lookup lemmatizer and tag map for Norwegian and improve tokenizer exceptions.
• Improve model downloading and linking and use proper exit codes in CLI commands.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #1503: Fix Matcher bugs and behaviour of * and + operators.
• Fix issue #1539: Fix Vectors.resize on Python 3.
• Fix issue #1591: Fix compiler flags and remove march=native.
• Fix issue #1606, #1698: Ensure LIKE_URL doesn't return True for email addresses.
• Fix issue #1622: Use nlp.to_disk in spacy train command.
• Fix issue #1633: Add missing Span.vocab property.
• Fix issue #1640: Fix infinite recursion in token.sent_start.
• Fix issue #1663, #1721, #1761, #1780: Download models with --no-deps to avoid conda errors.
• Fix issue #1712, #1813: Don't raise deprecation warning in property.
• Fix issue #1714: Make sure download and validate commands exit correctly.
• Fix issue #1727: Dont overwrite pretrained_dims setting from cfg.
• Fix issue #1728: Correct TextCategorizer documentation.
• Fix issue #1750: Remove non-breaking spaces from Hindi examples.
• Fix issue #1757: Fix rich comparison against None objects.
• Fix issue #1758: Add English tokenizer exception for "would've".
• Fix issue #1769: Make LIKE_NUM case-insensitive.
• Fix issue #1774: Allow pickling of Chinese language class.
• Fix issue #1781: Add missing dev dependency.
• Fix issue #1799: Set l_edge and r_edge correctly for non-projective parses.
• Fix issue #1807: Make set_vector add word to vocab.
• Fix issue #1820: Correct documentation of Matcher operators.
• Fix issue #1831: Allow vector loading to work on 1d data files.
• Fix issue #1834: Fix sentence boundaries serialization.
• Fix issue #1838: Clarify hyperparameters and alias usage in spacy train.
• Fix issue #1851: Fix typo and use better serialization example.
• Fix issue #1868: Make Vocab.__contains__ work with ints.
• Fix issue #1883: Fix unpickling of Matcher.
• Fix issue #1911: Improve error handling if pipeline component is not callable.
• Fix issues with spacy init_model command.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Update list of community plugins and extensions.
• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @cbilgili, @melanuria, @mpuels, @IsaacHaze, @sorenlind, @Bri-Will, @d99kris, @mdda, @kimfalk, @benjaminp, @zqhZY, @avinashrubird, @nirdesh37, @kwhumphreys, @fucking-signup, @wrathagom, @pbnsilva, @savkov, @matatusko, @GregDubbin, @avadhpatel, @azarezade, @ohenrik, @azarezade, @thomasopsomer, @Kimahriman and @hassanshamim for the pull requests and contributions.