* Maintainership passed to Max Bachmann
* use faster bitparallel implementations for distance and ratio
* avoid string copies in distance, ratio and hamming
* Fix usage of deprecated Unicode APIs in distance, ratio and hamming
* Fixed incorrect window size inside Jaro and Jaro-Winkler implementation
* Fixed incorrect exception messages
* Removed unused functions and compiler specific hacks
* Split the Python and C implementations to simplify building of
the C library
* Fixed multiple bugs which prevented the use as C library, since some functions
only got defined when compiling for Python
* Build and deliver python wheels for the library
* Fixed incorrect allocation size in lev_editops_matching_blocks and
lev_opcodes_matching_blocks