Major Updates
Support for numpy conventions verification has been added (129, 226).
Support for Python 2.6 has been dropped (206, 217).
Support for PyPy3 has been temporarily dropped, until it will be equivalent to CPython 3.3+ and supported by pip (223).
Support for the pep257 console script has been dropped. Only the pydocstyle console script should be used (216, 218).
Errors are now printed to stdout instead of stderr (201, 210).
New Features
Decorator-based skipping via --ignore-decorators has been added (204).
Support for using pycodestyle style wildcards has been added (72, 209).
Superfluous opening quotes are now reported as part of D300 (166, 225).
Fixed a false-positive recognition of D410 and added D412 (230, 233).
Added --config=<path> flag to override the normal config file discovery and choose a specific config file (117, 247).
Support for specifying error codes with partial prefix has been added, e.g., --select=D101,D2 (72, 209).
All configuration file can now have the .ini extension (237).
Added better imperative mood checks using third party stemmer (235, 68).
Bug Fixes
Made parser more robust to bad source files (168, 214)
Modules are now considered private if their name starts with a single underscore. This is a bugfix where “public module” (D100) was reported regardless of module name (199, 222).
Removed error when __all__ is a list (62, 227).
Fixed a bug where the sign was used as a matrix multiplication operator in Python 3.5, but was considered a decorator by the parser (246, 191).