Nocasedict

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Released: not yet

**Incompatible changes:**

**Deprecations:**

**Bug fixes:**

**Enhancements:**

**Cleanup:**

**Known issues:**

* See `list of open issues`_.

.. _`list of open issues`: https://github.com/pywbem/nocasedict/issues

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Released: 2023-05-01

**Bug fixes:**

* Fixed coveralls issues with KeyError and HTTP 422 Unprocessable Entity.

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This version also contains all changes from 1.1.1.

Released: 2023-02-26

**Incompatible changes:**

* Removed support for Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5. The minimum required Python version
is now 3.6. This was needed in order to add Python type hints (issue 123).

**Bug fixes:**

* Enabled Github Actions for stable branches.

* Addressed new issues of Pylint 2.16.

**Enhancements:**

* Added type hints and type checking with MyPy (issue 123).

* Resurrected support for byte string keys that was removed in version 1.1.0.
(issue 139)

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Released: 2023-01-21

**Incompatible changes:**

* The default casefolding method on Python 3 was changed from `str.lower()`
to `str.casefold()`. This changes the matching of the case-insensitive keys.
This shold normally be an improvement, but in case you find that you are
negatively affected by this change, you can go back to the `str.lower()`
method by overriding the `NocaseDict.__casefold__()` method with a method
that calls `str.lower()`. (issue 122)

**Enhancements:**

* Added support for Python 3.11.

* Changed the default casefolding method on Python 3 to be `str.casefold()`
in order to improve Unicode support. On Python 2, it remains `str.lower()`.
Added support for user-defined casefolding. (issue 122)

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Released: 2022-08-04

**Bug fixes:**

* Various bug fixes in dependencies and test environment

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Released: 2022-03-27

**Bug fixes:**

* Mitigated the coveralls HTTP status 422 by pinning coveralls-python to
<3.0.0 (issue 55).

* Fixed issues raised by new Pylint 2.9 and 2.10.

* Fixed a dependency error that caused importlib-metadata to be installed on
Python 3.8, while it is included in the Python base.

* Disabled new Pylint issue 'consider-using-f-string', since f-strings were
introduced only in Python 3.6.

* Fixed install error of wrapt 1.13.0 on Python 2.7 on Windows due to lack of
MS Visual C++ 9.0 on GitHub Actions, by pinning it to <1.13.

* Fixed potential issue with Sphinx/docutils versions on Python 2.7.

* Fixed error when installing virtualenv in install test on Python 2.7.

* Fixed that the added setup.py commands (test, leaktest, installtest) were not
displayed. They are now displayed at verbosity level 1 (using '-v').

**Enhancements:**

* Enhanced test matrix on GitHub Actions to always include Python 2.7 and
Python 3.4 on Ubuntu and Windows, and Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 on macOS.

* Support for Python 3.10: Added Python 3.10 in GitHub Actions tests, and in
package metadata.

**Cleanup:**

* Removed old tools that were needed for travis and Appveyor but no longer
on GitHub Actions: remove_duplicate_setuptools.py, retry.bat