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@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ = 4.3.0 (Unreleased) = * Instead of converting incoming data to Unicode and feeding it to the - lxml tree builder, Beautiful Soup now makes successive guesses at - the encoding of the incoming data, and tells lxml to parse the data - as that encoding. Giving lxml more control over the parsing process - improves performance and avoids a number of bugs and issues with the - lxml parser which had previously required elaborate workarounds: + lxml tree builder in chunks, Beautiful Soup now makes successive + guesses at the encoding of the incoming data, and tells lxml to + parse the data as that encoding. Giving lxml more control over the + parsing process improves performance and avoids a number of bugs and + issues with the lxml parser which had previously required elaborate + workarounds: - - An issue in which lxml refuses to parse Unicode strings. - [bug=1180527] + - An issue in which lxml refuses to parse Unicode strings on some + systems. [bug=1180527] - A returning bug that truncated documents longer than a (very small) size. [bug=963880] @@ -26,12 +27,15 @@ undocumented features have also been removed. * Beautiful Soup will issue a warning if instead of markup you pass it - a URL or the name of a file on disk (a common beginner mistake). + a URL or the name of a file on disk (a common beginner's mistake). * A number of optimizations improve the performance of the lxml tree builder by about 33%, the html.parser tree builder by about 20%, and the html5lib tree builder by about 15%. +* All find_all calls should now return a ResultSet object. Patch by + Aaron DeVore. [bug=1194034] + = 4.2.1 (20130531) = * The default XML formatter will now replace ampersands even if they |