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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -= 4.0.0b7 () = += 4.0.0b7 (20110223) = * Upon decoding to string, any characters that can't be represented in your chosen encoding will be converted into numeric XML entity @@ -14,6 +14,19 @@ * It's now possible to deepcopy a BeautifulSoup object created with Python's built-in HTML parser. +* About 100 unit tests that "test" the behavior of various parsers on + invalid markup have been removed. Legitimate changes to those + parsers caused these tests to fail, indicating that perhaps + Beautiful Soup should not test the behavior of foreign + libraries. + + The problematic unit tests have been reformulated as informational + comparisons generated by the script + scripts/demonstrate_parser_differences.py. + + This makes Beautiful Soup compatible with html5lib version 0.95 and + future versions of HTMLParser. + = 4.0.0b6 (20110216) = * Multi-valued attributes like "class" always have a list of values, |