v2.2.0

• Dropped Python 3.7 support (#214).
• Added Python 3.12 and PyPy 3.10 support (#218).
• Added the description to the package metadata (#227).
• Improved type hints (#226).
• Added .readthedocs.yml (#219).
• Updated the intersphinx URLs (#224).
• Added the pre-commit configuration, code reformatted with black (#220).
• Updated CI configuration (#217, #227).

v2.1.2

• Fix test failures on Python 3.11.4+ (#212, #213).
• Fix an incorrect type hint (#211).
• Add project URLs to setup.py (#215).

v2.1.1

What's Changed

• safe_url_string, canonicalize_url: apply stripping from the URL living standard by @Gallaecio in #207
• Changelog by @kmike in #208
• fix tox 4 compatibility by @kmike in #209

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.1.1

2.1.0

What's Changed

• update type annotation of auto_detect_fun param in html_to_unicode() by @BurnzZ in #190
• update html_to_unicode() so that the BOM is used first to check the e… by @BurnzZ in #191
• changing basic_auth_header flavor to b64encode instead of urlsafe_b64encode by @gsweiz in #192
• Add support for Python 3.11. by @wRAR in #195
• Use latest version of Ubuntu by @Laerte in #197
• 187 safe url string already encoded user pass by @felipeboffnunes in #196
• Strip spaces in canonicalize_url by @Gallaecio in #136
• unit test Issue 91 is fixed by @felipeboffnunes in #198
• Drop Python 3.6 support by @Laerte in #200
• [MRG+1] Added: Removing comments before extracting base URLs. Not a solution to #70, but does help in some cases. by @starrify in #77
• Handle OverflowError exception on convert_entity by @Laerte in #202
• safe_url_string: escape additional characters by @Gallaecio in #203
• I have added contributing.md file and code_of_conduct.md file along with some very minor changes in the Readme.rst file by @VanshajPoonia in #194
• Full typing by @wRAR in #206
• Add release notes for version 2.1.0 by @Gallaecio in #205

New Contributors

• @BurnzZ made their first contribution in #190
• @gsweiz made their first contribution in #192
• @felipeboffnunes made their first contribution in #196
• @starrify made their first contribution in #77
• @VanshajPoonia made their first contribution in #194

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.1.0

2.0.1

Backwards incompatible changes:

• Python 2 is no longer supported; Python 3.6+ is required now (#168, #175).
• w3lib.url.safe_url_string and w3lib.url.canonicalize_url
  no longer convert "%23" to "#" when it appears in the URL path. This is a bug
  fix. It's listed as a backward-incomatible change because in some cases the
  output of w3lib.url.canonicalize_url is going to change, and so, if
  this output is used to generate URL fingerprints, new fingerprints might be
  incompatible with those created with the previous w3lib versions
  (#141).

Deprecation removals (#169):

• The w3lib.form module is removed.
• The w3lib.html.remove_entities function is removed.
• The w3lib.url.urljoin_rfc function is removed.

The following functions are deprecated, and will be removed in future releases
(#170):

• w3lib.util.str_to_unicode
• w3lib.util.unicode_to_str
• w3lib.util.to_native_str

Other improvements and bug fixes:

• Type annotations are added (#172, #184).
• Added support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 (#168, #176).
• Fixed w3lib.html.get_meta_refresh for <meta> tags where
  http-equiv is written after content (#179).
• Fixed w3lib.url.safe_url_string for IDNA domains with ports (#174).
• w3lib.url.url_query_cleaner no longer adds an unneeded # when
  keep_fragments=True is passed, and the URL doesn't have a fragment
  (#159).
• Removed a workaround for an ancient pathname2url bug (#142)
• CI is migrated to GitHub Actions (#166, #177); other CI improvements (#160,
  #182).
• The code is formatted using black (#173).

v1.22.0

• Python 3.4 is no longer supported (issue #156)
• w3lib.url.safe_url_string now supports an optional quote_path
  parameter to disable the percent-encoding of the URL path (issue #119)
• w3lib.url.add_or_replace_parameter and
  w3lib.url.add_or_replace_parameters no longer remove duplicate
  parameters from the original query string that are not being added or
  replaced (issue #126)
• w3lib.html.remove_tags now raises a ValueError exception
  instead of AssertionError when using both the which_ones and the
  keep parameters (issue #154)
• Test improvements (issues #143, #146, #148, #149)
• Documentation improvements (issues #140, #144, #145, #151, #152, #153)
• Code cleanup (issue #139)

v1.15.0

• Add canonicalize_url() to w3lib.url

v1.14.3

Bugfix release:

• Handle IDNA encoding failures in safe_url_string() (issue #62)

v1.14.2

Bugfix release:

• fix function import for (deprecated) urljoin_rfc (issue #51)
• only expose wanted functions from w3lib.url, via __all__
  (see issue #54, scrapy/scrapy#1917)

v1.14.1

Bugfix release:

• For bytes URLs, when supplied encoding (or default UTF8) is wrong,
  safe_url_string falls back to percent-encoding offending bytes.