- Add type hints and expose them to users ([qnighy])([172])
- `load_dotenv` and `dotenv_values` now accept an `encoding` parameter, defaults to `None`
([theskumar])([earlbread])([161])
- Fix `str`/`unicode` inconsistency in Python 2: values are always `str` now. ([bbc2])([121])
- Fix Unicode error in Python 2, introduced in 0.10.0. ([bbc2])([176])