Release history

Current release

Maintenance script to download Wikimedia database dump
Option to auto-create accounts when logging in
Ship wikimania family file
Drop battlestarwiki family file
Bugfixes and improvements
Localisation updates

3.0.20171212

Introduce userscripts directory
Generator settings inside (user-)fixes.py
BaseUnlinkBot has become part of the framework in specialbots.py
Decommission of rcstream
Script files added to https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/
Other documentation updates
Bugfixes and improvements
Localisation updates

3.0.20170801

Bugfixes and improvements
Localisation updates

3.0.20170713

Implement server side event client EventStreams
Add thanks log support
new ndashredir.py script to create hyphenated redirects
new followlive.py script to flag new articles
new WbUnknown data type for Wikibase
Deprecate APISite.newfiles()
new pagegenerators filter option -titleregexnot
Inverse of pagegenerators -namespace option
Bugfixes and improvements
Localisation updates
Remove panoramiopicker.py script
Remove anarchopedia family out of the framework
CODE_OF_CONDUCT included

3.0.20170521

Replaced the word 'async' with 'asynchronous' due to python 3.7
Support for Python 2.6 but higher releases are strictly recommended
Bugfixes and improvements
Localisation updates

3.0.20170403

First major release from master branch
requests package is mandatory
Deprecate previous 2.0 branches

2.0rc5

Last stable 2.0 branch

2.0rc4

Remove dependency on pYsearch
Desupport Python 2.6 for Pywikibot 2.0 release branch

2.0rc3

Bugfixes
Localisation updates
i18n: always follow master branch

2.0rc2

Bugfixes and improvements
Localisation updates

2.0rc1

New scripts patrol.py and piper.py ported from old compat branch
isbn.py now supports wikibase
RecentChanges stream (rcstream) support
Sphinx documentation at https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/
Bugfixes and improvements
Localisation updates

2.0b3

Bugfixes and improvements

2.0b2

Bugfixes and improvements

2.0b1

First stable release branch