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 w3lib release notes
 ===================
 
+TBD (TBA)
+---------
+
+Changes to safe_url_string:
+
+- proper handling of non-ASCII characters in Python2 and Python3
+- support IDNs
+- new `path_encoding` to override default UTF-8 when serializing non-ASCII
+  characters before percent-encoding
+
+Package is now properly marked as ``zip_safe``.
+
 1.13.0 (2015-11-05)
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