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1.0.3 - 17 November 2023

  • match_rating_codex now raises a ValueError when passed non-alpha characters (#200)
  • adds prebuilt wheels for Python 3.12

1.0.1 - 18 September 2023

  • fully remove deprecated names
  • add armv7 linux builds
  • fully drop Python 3.7 support

1.0.0 - 21 June 2023

  • bump to 1.0 (no notable changes from 0.11.2)

0.11.2 - 2 April 2023

  • fix to Rust build process to build more wheels, thanks @MartinoMensio!
  • switch to using ahash for Damerau-Levenshtein for speed gains

0.11.1 - 30 March 2023

  • fix missing testdata in packages

0.11.0 - 27 March 2023

  • switched to using Rust implementation for all algorithms

0.10.0 - 25 March 2023

  • removed rarely-used porter_stem function, better implementations exist

0.9.0 - 7 January 2021

  • updated documentation available at https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/
  • support for Python 3.10+
  • handle spaces correctly in MRA algorithm

0.8.9 - 26 October 2021

  • fix buffer overflow in NYSIIS
  • remove unnecessary/undocumented special casing of digits in Jaro-Winkler

0.8.8 - 17 August 2021

  • release fix to fix Linux wheel issue

0.8.7 - 16 August 2021

  • safer allocations from CJellyfish
  • include aarch64 wheels

0.8.4 - 4 August 2021

  • fix for jaro winkler (cjellyfish#8)

0.8.3 - 11 March 2021

  • build changes
  • include OSX and Windows wheels

0.8.2 - 21 May 2020

  • fix jaro_winkler/jaro_winkler_similarity mix-up
  • deprecate jaro_distance in favor of jaro_similarity backwards compatible shim left in place, will be removed in 1.0
  • (note: 0.8.1 was a broken release without proper C libraries)

0.8.0 - 21 May 2020

  • rename jaro_winkler to jaro_winkler_similarity to match other functions backwards compatible shim added, but will be removed in 1.0
  • fix soundex bug with W/H cases, #83
  • fix metaphone bug with WH prefix, #108
  • fix C match rating codex bug with duplicate letters, #121
  • fix metaphone bug with leading vowels and 'kn' pair, #123
  • fix Python jaro_winkler bug #124
  • fix Python 3.9 deprecation warning
  • add manylinux wheels

0.7.2 - 5 June 2019

  • fix CJellyfish damerau_levenshtein w/ unicode, thanks to immerrr
  • fix final H in NYSIIS
  • fix issue w/ trailing W in metaphone

0.7.1 - 10 January 2019

  • restrict install to Python >= 3.4

0.7.0 - 10 January 2019

  • drop Python 2 compatibility & legacy code
  • add bugfix for NYSIIS for words starting with PF

0.6.1 - April 16 2018

  • fixed wheel release issue

0.6.0 - April 7 2018

  • fix quite a few bugs & differences between C/Py implementations
  • add wagner-fischer testdata
  • uppercase soundex result
  • better error handling in nysiis, soundex, and jaro

0.5.6 - June 23 2016

  • bugfix for metaphone & soundex raising unexpected TypeErrors on Windows (#54)

0.5.5 - June 21 2016

  • bugfix for metaphone WH case

0.5.4 - May 13 2016

  • bugfix for C version of damerau_levenshtein thanks to Tyler Sellon

0.5.3 - March 15 2016

  • style/packaging changes

0.5.2 - February 3 2016

  • testing fixes for Python 3.5
  • bugfix for Metaphone w/ silent H thanks to Jeremy Carbaugh

0.5.1 - July 12 2015

  • bugfixes for NYSIIS
  • bugfixes for metaphone
  • bugfix for C version of jaro_winkler

0.5.0 - April 23 2015

  • consistent unicode behavior, all functions take unicode and reject bytes on Py2 and 3, C and Python
  • parametrize tests
  • Windows compiler support

0.4.0 - March 27 2015

  • tons of new tests
  • documentation
  • split out cjellyfish
  • test all w/ unicode and plenty of fixes to accommodate
  • 100% test coverage

0.3.4 - February 4 2015

  • fix segfaults and memory leaks via Danrich Parrol

0.3.3 - November 20 2014

  • fix bugs in damerau and NYSIIS

0.3.2 - August 11 2014

  • fix for jaro-winkler from David McKean
  • more packaging fixes

0.3.1 - July 16 2014

  • packaging fix for C/Python alternative

0.3.0 - July 15 2014

  • python alternatives where C isn't available

0.2.2 - March 14 2014

  • testing fixes
  • assorted bugfixes in NYSIIS

0.2.0 - January 26 2012

  • incorporate some speed changes from Peter Scott
  • segfault bugfixes.

0.1.2 - September 16 2010

  • initial working release