History

0.5.1 (2016-12-18)

New features:

  • Added support for Hebrew

Improvements:

  • Safer loading of YAML. See #251
  • Better timezone parsing for freshness dates. See #256
  • Pinned dependencies’ versions in requirements. See #265
  • Improved support for zh, fi languages. See #249, #250, #248, #244

0.5.0 (2016-09-26)

New features:

  • DateDataParser now also returns detected language in the result dictionary.
  • Explicit and lucid timezone conversion for a given datestring using TIMEZONE, TO_TIMEZONE settings.
  • Added Hungarian langauge.
  • Added setting, STRICT_PARSING to ignore imcomplete dates.

Improvements:

  • Fixed quite a few parser bugs reported in issues #219, #222, #207, #224.
  • Improved support for chinese language.
  • Consistent interface for both Jalali and Hijri parsers.

0.4.0 (2016-06-17)

New features:

  • Support for Language based date order preference while parsing ambiguous dates.
  • Support for parsing dates with no spaces in between components.
  • Support for custom date order preference using settings.
  • Support for parsing generic relative dates in future.e.g. tomorrow, in two weeks, etc.
  • Added RELATIVE_BASE settings to set date context to any datetime in past or future.
  • Replaced dateutil.parser.parse with dateparser’s own parser.

Improvements:

  • Added simplifications for 12 noon and 12 midnight.
  • Fixed several bugs
  • Replaced PyYAML library by its active fork ruamel.yaml which also fixed the issues with installation on windows using python35.
  • More predictable date_formats handling.

0.3.5 (2016-04-27)

New features:

  • Danish language support.
  • Japanese language support.
  • Support for parsing date strings with accents.

Improvements:

  • Transformed languages.yaml into base file and separate files for each language.
  • Fixed vietnamese language simplifications.
  • No more version restrictions for python-dateutil.
  • Timezone parsing improvements.
  • Fixed test environments.
  • Cleaned language codes. Now we strictly follow codes as in ISO 639-1.
  • Improved chinese dates parsing.

0.3.4 (2016-03-03)

Improvements:

  • Fixed broken version 0.3.3 by excluding latest python-dateutil version.

0.3.3 (2016-02-29)

New features:

  • Finnish language support.

Improvements:

  • Faster parsing with switching to regex module.
  • RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE setting to return tz aware date object.
  • Fixed conflicts with month/weekday names similarity across languages.

0.3.2 (2016-01-25)

New features:

  • Added Hijri Calendar support.
  • Added settings for better control over parsing dates.
  • Support to convert parsed time to the given timezone for both complete and relative dates.

Improvements:

  • Fixed problem with caching datetime.now() in FreshnessDateDataParser.
  • Added month names and week day names abbreviations to several languages.
  • More simplifications for Russian and Ukranian languages.
  • Fixed problem with parsing time component of date strings with several kinds of apostrophes.

0.3.1 (2015-10-28)

New features:

  • Support for Jalali Calendar.
  • Belarusian language support.
  • Indonesian language support.

Improvements:

  • Extended support for Russian and Polish.
  • Fixed bug with time zone recognition.
  • Fixed bug with incorrect translation of “second” for Portuguese.

0.3.0 (2015-07-29)

New features:

  • Compatibility with Python 3 and PyPy.

Improvements:

  • languages.yaml data cleaned up to make it human-readable.
  • Improved Spanish date parsing.

0.2.1 (2015-07-13)

  • Support for generic parsing of dates with UTC offset.
  • Support for Tagalog/Filipino dates.
  • Improved support for French and Spanish dates.

0.2.0 (2015-06-17)

  • Easy to use parse function
  • Languages definitions using YAML.
  • Using translation based approach for parsing non-english languages. Previously, dateutil.parserinfo was used for language definitions.
  • Better period extraction.
  • Improved tests.
  • Added a number of new simplifications for more comprehensive generic parsing.
  • Improved validation for dates.
  • Support for Polish, Thai and Arabic dates.
  • Support for pytz timezones.
  • Fixed building and packaging issues.

0.1.0 (2014-11-24)

  • First release on PyPI.