Changes

0.9.1 (2016-12-19)

This is a release without changes in functionality.

Repository is moved to https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-crfsuite;
We're now providing Windows wheels for Python 2.7, 3.3. and 3.4.

0.9 (2016-12-08)

Python 2.6 support is dropped;
CRFSuite C++ library is updated to a more recent commit;
improved Windows support (thanks @fgregg);
fixed building with gcc < 5.0.0 (thanks @kantan2015);
extension is rebuilt with Cython 0.25.1; this improves PyPy compatibility (but we're not quite there yet).
docs: trainer.logparser example is added to the notebook (thanks @samgalen).

0.8.4 (2015-11-25)

the wrapper is rebuilt with Cython 0.23.4;
declared Python 3.5 compatibility;
fixed an issue with feature names ending with white spaces.

0.8.3 (2015-04-24)

fix build on Windows. (thanks @fgregg)

0.8.2 (2015-02-04)

memory leak is fixed by updating the bundled CRFsuite C++ library;
the wrapper is rebuilt with Cython 0.21.2.

0.8.1 (2014-10-10)

fix packaging issues with 0.8 release.

0.8 (2014-10-10)

:class:`~ItemSequence` wrapper is added;
tox tests are fixed.

0.7 (2014-08-11)

More data formats for xseq: {"prefix": {feature_dict}} and {"key": set(["key1",...])} feature dicts are now accepted by :class:`pycrfsuite.Trainer` and :class:`pycrfsuite.Tagger`;
feature separator changed from "=" to ":" (it looks better in case of multi-level features);
small doc and README fixes.

0.6.1 (2014-06-06)

Switch to setuptools;
wheels are uploaded to pypi for faster installation.

0.6 (2014-05-29)

More data formats for xseq: {"key": "value"} and {"key": bool_value} feature dicts are now accepted by :class:`pycrfsuite.Trainer` and :class:`pycrfsuite.Tagger`.

0.5 (2014-05-27)

Exceptions in logging message handlers are now propogated and raised. This allows, for example, to stop training earlier by pressing Ctrl-C.
It is now possible to customize :class:`pycrfsuite.Trainer` logging more easily by overriding the following methods: :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_start`, :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_featgen_progress`, :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_featgen_end`, :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_prepared`, :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_prepare_error`, :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_iteration`, :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_optimization_end` :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.on_end`. The feature is implemented by parsing CRFsuite log. There is :class:`pycrfsuite.BaseTrainer` that is not doing this.

0.4.1 (2014-05-18)

:meth:`pycrfsuite.Tagger.info()` is fixed.

0.4 (2014-05-16)

(backwards-incompatible) training parameters are now passed using params argument of :class:`pycrfsuite.Trainer` constructor instead of **kwargs;
(backwards-incompatible) logging support is dropped;
verbose argument for :class:`pycrfsuite.Trainer` constructor;
:meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.get_params` and :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.set_params` for getting/setting multiple training parameters at once;
string handling in Python 3.x is fixed by rebuilding the wrapper with Cython 0.21dev;
algorithm names are normalized to support names used by crfsuite console utility and documented in crfsuite manual;
type conversion for training parameters is fixed: feature.minfreq now works, and boolean arguments become boolean.

0.3 (2014-05-14)

python-crfsuite now detects the featue format (dict vs list of strings) automatically - it turns out the performance overhead is negligible.

Trainer.append_stringslists and Trainer.append_dicts methods are replaced with a single :meth:`pycrfsuite.Trainer.append` method;
Tagger.set_stringlists and Tagger.set_dicts methods are removed in favor of :meth:`pycrfsuite.Tagger.set` method;
feature_format arguments in :class:`pycrfsuite.Tagger` methods and constructor are dropped.

0.2 (2014-05-14)

:meth:`pycrfsuite.Tagger.dump()` and :meth:`pycrfsuite.Tagger.info()` methods for model debugging;
a memory leak in Trainer is fixed (trainer instances were never garbage collected);
documentation and testing improvements.

0.1 (2014-04-30)

Many changes; python-crfsuite is almost rewritten.

0.0.1 (2014-04-24)

Initial release.