Release v1.2.0: Markdown & DateTime Enhancements

Release v1.2.0: Markdown & DateTime Enhancements

This minor release adds powerful markdown processing capabilities and comprehensive datetime formatting/parsing tools.

🆕 New Features

Markdown Enhancements

Enhanced HTML Conversion (Issue #29)

• Blockquotes: > text → <blockquote>
• Horizontal rules: --- and *** → <hr>
• Task lists: - [ ] and - [x] → HTML checkboxes
• Tables: Full markdown table support with proper structure
• HTML entity escaping throughout

Advanced Parsing (Issue #30)

• parse_reference_links(): Extract reference-style links
• parse_footnotes(): Parse footnote definitions
• parse_definition_lists(): Extract term/definition pairs
• parse_task_lists(): Identify checked/unchecked tasks
• extract_image_references(): Find inline and reference images

DateTime Enhancements

Formatting & Parsing (Issues #17-20)

• parse_date_string(): Parse custom formats → ISO
• format_date(): Convert between date formats
• format_date_human_readable(): ISO → "January 15, 2025"
• format_time_human_readable(): 24h → "2:30 PM"
• format_duration(): Seconds → human-readable (verbose/short/compact)
• parse_duration_string(): "2h 30m" → seconds

Helper Function

• load_datetime_essential(): 13 essential datetime tools for agents
  • Current values, date math, validation, formatting, parsing, timezone

📊 Statistics

• New Functions: 11 (5 markdown + 6 datetime)
• Total Tools: 337+ agent-compatible functions
• Test Coverage: 299/300 tests passing
• Google ADK Compliance: 100% (JSON-serializable types, no defaults)

🔧 Quality

• ✅ Ruff: All checks passed
• ✅ MyPy: New code fully typed
• ✅ Tests: 299/300 passing
• ✅ Documentation: Comprehensive docstrings

📦 Installation

pip install basic-open-agent-tools==1.2.0

🙏 Credits

All enhancements follow Google ADK standards for seamless agent framework integration.