Pywikibot

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*18 August 2020*

* Add support for lldwiki to Pywikibot
* Fix getversion_git subprocess command

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*16 August 2020*

* Enable Pywikibot for Python 3.9
* APISite.loadpageinfo does not discard changes to page content when information was not loaded (:phab:`T260472`)
* tools.UnicodeType and tools.signature are deprecated
* BaseBot.stop() method is deprecated in favour of BaseBot.generator.close()
* Escape bot password correctly (:phab:`T259488`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*4 August 2020*

* Read correct object in SiteLinkCollection.normalizeData (:phab:`T259426`)
* tools.count and tools classes Counter, OrderedDict and ContextManagerWrapper were removed
* Deprecate UnicodeMixin and IteratorNextMixin
* Restrict site module interface
* EventStreams "since" parameter settings has been fixed
* Unsupported debug and uploadByUrl parameters of UploadRobot were removed
* Unported compat decode parameter of Page.title() has been removed
* Wikihow family file was added (:phab:`T249814`)
* Improve performance of CosmeticChangesToolkit.translateMagicWords
* Prohibit positional arguments with Page.title()
* Functions dealing with stars list were removed
* Some pagegenerators functions were deprecated which should be replaced by site generators
* LogEntry became a UserDict; all content can be accessed by its key
* URLs for new toolforge.org domain were updated
* pywikibot.__release__ was deprecated
* Use one central point for framework version (:phab:`T106121`, :phab:`T171886`, :phab:`T197936`, :phab:`T253719`)
* rvtoken parameter of Site.loadrevisions() and Page.revisions() has been dropped (:phab:`T74763`)
* getFilesFromAnHash and getImagesFromAnHash Site methods have been removed
* Site and Page methods deprecated for 10 years or longer have been removed
* Support for Python 2 and 3.4 has been dropped (:phab:`T213287`, :phab:`T239542`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*3 July 2020*

* Page.botMayEdit() method was improved (:phab:`T253709`)
* PageNotFound, SpamfilterError, UserActionRefuse exceptions were removed (:phab:`T253681`)
* tools.ip submodule has been removed (:phab:`T243171`)
* Wait in BaseBot.exit() until asynchronous saving pages are completed
* Solve IndexError when showing an empty diff with a non-zero context (:phab:`T252724`)
* linktrails were added or updated for a lot of sites
* Resolve namespaces with underlines (:phab:`T252940`)
* Fix getversion_svn for Python 3.6+ (:phab:`T253617`, :phab:`T132292`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*9 June 2020*

* Fix page_can_be_edited for MediaWiki < 1.23 (:phab:`T254623`)
* Show global options with pwb.py -help
* Usage of SkipPageError with BaseBot has been removed
* Throttle requests after ratelimits exceeded (:phab:`T253180`)
* Make Pywikibot daemon logs unexecutable (:phab:`T253472`)
* Check for missing generator after BaseBot.setup() call
* Do not change usernames when creating a Site (:phab:`T253127`)
* pagegenerators: handle protocols in -weblink (:phab:`T251308`, :phab:`T251310`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*8 May 2020*

* Unify and extend formats for setting sitelinks (:phab:`T225863`, :phab:`T251512`)
* Do not return a random i18n.translation() result (:phab:`T220099`)
* tools.ip_regexp has been removed (:phab:`T174482`)
* Page.getVersionHistory and Page.fullVersionHistory() methods has been desupported (:phab:`T136513`, :phab:`T151110`)
* Update wikimediachapter_family (:phab:`T250802`)
* Raise SpamblacklistError with spamblacklist APIError (:phab:`T249436`)
* SpamfilterError was renamed to SpamblacklistError (:phab:`T249436`)
* Do not removeUselessSpaces inside source/syntaxhighlight tags (:phab:`T250469`)
* Restrict Pillow to 6.2.2+ (:phab:`T249911`)
* Fix PetScan generator language and project (:phab:`T249704`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates