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@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ -= 4.12.1 (Unreleased) += 4.12.1 (20230405) -This is the last version of Beautiful Soup known to support Python -3.6. Future versions might work under 3.6, but it's not officially -supported. +NOTE: the following things are likely to be dropped in the next +release of Beautiful Soup: -* The main improvement in this version is a nonrecursive technique + Official support for Python 3.6. + Inclusion of unit tests and test data in the wheel file. + Two scripts: demonstrate_parser_differences.py and test-all-versions. + +Changes: + +* This version of Beautiful Soup replaces setup.py and setup.cfg + with pyproject.toml. Beautiful Soup now uses tox as its test backend + and hatch to do builds. + +* The main functional improvement in this version is a nonrecursive technique for regenerating a tree. This technique is used to avoid situations where, in previous versions, doing something to a very deeply nested tree would overflow the Python interpreter stack: @@ -18,14 +27,6 @@ supported. 3. Pickling a BeautifulSoup object. (Note that pickling a Tag object can still cause an overflow.) -* Replaced setup.py and setup.cfg with pyproject.toml. Beautiful Soup - packages now uses hatch as its build backend. This results in some - minor changes to the build artifacts, e.g. wheels no longer include - the unit tests. - -* Added a tox.ini file to make it easier to run the test suite against all - supported versions of Python. - * Making a copy of a BeautifulSoup object no longer parses the document again, which should improve performance significantly. @@ -44,9 +45,9 @@ supported. a bug, but it shouldn't be an issue in normal use.) [bug=2007895] * The demonstrate_parser_differences.py script was still written in - Python 2. I've converted it to Python 3, but since no one noticed this - problem, it's a sign that no one uses this script and it's not - serving its purpose. I may rework or remove it in a later version. + Python 2. I've converted it to Python 3, but since no one has + mentioned this over the years, it's a sign that no one uses this + script and it's not serving its purpose. = 4.12.0 (20230320) |