Added Serbia and Argentina

The v7.2.0 was released on 2019-12-06

New calendars

• Added Serbia calendar, by @apelloni (#435).
• Added Argentina calendar, by @ftatarli (#419).

Other changes

• Update China's public holidays for 2020, thx @nut-free (#429).
• Update Malaysia and Singapore for 2021 (Deepavali + Thaipusam) by @jack-pace (#432).
• Small refactorings on the Gevena (Switzerland) holiday class, thx to @cw-intellineers (#420).

USA Thanksgiving Hotfix

The v7.1.1 has been released on 2019-11-22.

It embeds a very important hotfix for USA Thanksgiving day, which was wrongfully calculated for the year 2019. We're advising Workalendar users using USA calendars to upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes

• Bugfix for USA: Fixed incorrect implementation for Thanksgiving Friday, thx @deveshvar (#422).
• Fix Advanced usage documentation about Thanksgiving Day (#426).

New calendar

• Added Geneva calendar by @cw-intellineers (#420).

Brazil revamp and Denmark fix (happy 50th)

The 7.1.0 version was released on 2019-11-15

New calendars

• Added 27 Brazil calendars -- thanks a lot to @luismalta & @mileo, (#409 & #415)

Enhancements

• Added compatibility with Python 3.8 (#406).
• Added an IBGE_REGISTER to reference IBGE (brazilian) calendars with related tests (#415).
• Improve ISO registry interface by raising an error when trying to register a non-Calendar class (#412).

Other changes

• Fixes and additions to some Brazil calendars ; again, thanks to @luismalta & @mileo, (#409 & #415)
• Fix Denmark, re-add Christmas Eve, which is widely treated as public holiday ; thx to @KidkArolis, (#414).
• Increase Malaysia coverage by adding tests for missing Deepavali & Thaipusam.
• Increase China coverage by adding tests for special extra-holidays & extra-working days cases.

Hello Skyfielder!

version 7.0.0 has been released on 2019-09-20

Only one changelog entry, and not a small one:

• Drop ephem astronomical calculation library, in favor of skyfield and skyfield-data for providing minimal data files to enable computation (#302, #348). Many thanks to @GammaSagittarii for the tremendous help on finding the right way to compute Chinese Solar Terms. Also thanks to @antvig and @DainDwarf for testing the beta version (#398).

A new era for workalendar.

Turkey hotfix

v6.0.1 has been released on 2019-09-17

Fixes

• Fix Turkey Republic Day (#399, thx to @mhmtozc & @Natim).

Plain'ol dicts in the registry

v6.0.0 was released on 2019-08-02

Deprecation Notice: The global ISO registry now returns plain dict objects from its various methods.

• Global registry now returns plain built-in dicts (#375).
• Removed EphemMixin in favor of astronomical functions (#302).
• Added first day counting when computing working_days delta (#393), thx @Querdos.

Fixing Romania Mixins

v5.2.3 was released on 2019-07-11

Deprecation Warning: Currently the registry returns OrderedDict objects when you're querying for regions or subregions. Expect that the next major release will preferrably return plain'ol' dict objects. If your scripts rely on the order of the objects returned, you'll have to sort them yourself.

• Fix Romania, make sure Easter and related holidays are calculated using the Orthodox calendar, thx to @KidkArolis (#389).

Something was buggy in the Kingdom of Denmark

v5.2.2 was released on 2019-07-07

• Fix Denmark, remove observances (remove Palm Sunday, Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve) (#387, #386)

Deprecation Warning: Currently the registry returns OrderedDict objects when you're querying for regions or subregions. Expect that the next major release will preferrably return plain'ol' dict objects. If your scripts rely on the order of the objects returned, you'll have to sort them yourself.

United Kingdom May Holidays 2020

v5.2.1 was released on 2019-07-05

• Refactored the package building procedure, now linked to make package ; added a note about this target in the PR template (#366).
• Fixed United Kingom's 2020 holidays ; The Early May Bank Holiday has been moved to May 8th to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII (#381).

Deprecation Warning: Currently the registry returns OrderedDict objects when you're querying for regions or subregions. Expect that the next major release will preferrably return plain'ol' dict objects. If your scripts rely on the order of the objects returned, you'll have to sort them yourself.

Japan improvements

v5.2.0 was released on 2019-07-04

New Calendar

• Added JapanBank by @raybuhr (#379, #369).

Other changes

• Added adjustments to 2019-2020 Japan calendar due to the coronation of a new emperor (#379).
• Add a note about the fact that contributors should not change the version number in the changelog and/or the setup.py file (#380).

Deprecation Warning: Currently the registry returns OrderedDict objects when you're querying for regions or subregions. Expect that the next major release will preferrably return plain'ol' dict objects. If your scripts rely on the order of the objects returned, you'll have to sort them yourself.