This release is long overdue, but still mostly serves as a placeholder for the impending 4.0.0 release, which will have retrained models for better accuracy. For now, this release will get the following improvements up on PyPI:
- Added support for Turkish ISO-8859-9 detection (PR 41, thanks queeup)
- Commented out large unused sections of Big5 and EUC-KR tables to save memory (8bc4b89)
- Removed Python 3.2 from testing, but add 3.4 - 3.6
- Ensure that stdin is open with mode `'rb'` for `chardetect` CLI. (PR 38, thanks lpsinger)
- Fixed `chardetect` crash with non-ascii file names (PR 39, thanks nkanaev)
- Made naming conventions more Pythonic throughout (no more `mTypicalPositiveRatio`, and instead `typical_positive_ratio`)
- Modernized test scripts and infrastructure so we've got Travis testing and all that stuff
- Rename `filter_without_english_words` to `filter_international_words` and make it match current Mozilla implementation (PR 44, thanks rsnair2)
- Updated `filter_english_letters` to match C implementation (c6654595)
- Temporarily disabled Hungarian ISO-8859-2 and Windows-1250 detection because it is very inaccurate (da6c0a079)
- Allow CLI sub-package to be importable (PR 55)
- Add a `hypotheis`-based test (PR 66, thanks DRMacIver)
- Strip endianness from UTF with BOM predictions so that the encoding can be passed directly to `bytes.decode()` (PR 73, thanks snoack)
- Fixed broken links in docs (PR 90, thanks roskakori)
- Added early exit to `chardetect` when encoding is detected instead of looping through entire file (PR 103, thanks jpz)
- Use `bytearray` objects internally instead of `wrap_ord` calls, which provides a nice performance boost across the board (PR 106)
- Add `language` property to probers and `UniversalDetector` results (PR 180)
- Mark the 5 known test failures as such so we can have more useful Travis build results in the meantime (d588407)