Pywikibot

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*17 April 2021*

**Improvements and Bugfixes**

* interwiki_graph module was restored (:phab:`T223826`)
* proofreadpage: search for "new" class after purge (:phab:`T280357`)
* Enable different types with BaseBot.treat()
* Context manager depends on pymysql version, not Python release (:phab:`T279753`)
* Bugfix for Site.interwiki_prefix() (:phab:`T188179`)
* Exclude expressions from parsed template in mwparserfromhell (:phab:`T71384`)
* Provide an object representation for DequeGenerator
* Allow deleting any subclass of BasePage by title (:phab:`T278659`)
* Add support for API:Revisiondelete with Site.deleterevs() method (:phab:`T276726`)
* L10N updates
* Family files can be collected from a zip folder (:phab:`T278076`)

**Dependencies**

* **mwparserfromhell** or **wikitextparser** are strictly recommended (:phab:`T106763`)
* Require **Pillow**>=8.1.1 due to vulnerability found (:phab:`T278743`)
* TkDialog of GUI userinterface requires **Python 3.6+** (:phab:`T278743`)
* Enable textlib.extract_templates_and_params with **wikitextparser** package
* Add support for **PyMySQL** 1.0.0+

**Code cleanups**

* APISite.resolvemagicwords(), BaseSite.ns_index() and remove BaseSite.getNamespaceIndex() were removed
* Deprecated MoveEntry.new_ns() and new_title() methods were removed
* Unused NoSuchSite and PageNotSaved exception were removed
* Unused BadTitle exception was removed (:phab:`T267768`)
* getSite() function was removed in favour of Site() constructor
* Page.fileUrl() was removed in favour of Page.get_file_url()
* Deprecated getuserinfo and getglobaluserinfo Site methods were removed

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*20 March 2021*

* Add support for taywiki, trvwiki and mnwwiktionary (:phab:`T275838`, :phab:`T276128`, :phab:`T276250`)

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*16 March 2021*

**Breaking changes**

* interwiki_graph module was removed (:phab:`T223826`)
* Require setuptools >= 20.2 due to :pep:`440`
* Support of MediaWiki < 1.23 has been dropped (:phab:`T268979`)
* APISite.loadimageinfo will no longer return any content
* Return requests.Response with http.request() instead of plain text (:phab:`T265206`)
* config.db_hostname has been renamed to db_hostname_format

**Code cleanups**

* tools.PY2 was removed (:phab:`T213287`)
* Site.language() method was removed in favour of Site.lang property
* Deprecated Page.getMovedTarget() method was removed in favour of moved_target()
* Remove deprecated Wikibase.lastrevid attribute
* config settings of archived scripts were removed (:phab:`T223826`)
* Drop startsort/endsort parameter for site.categorymembers method (:phab:`T74101`)
* Deprecated data attribute of http.fetch() result has been dropped (:phab:`T265206`)
* toStdout parameter of pywikibot.output() has been dropped
* Deprecated Site.getToken() and Site.case was removed
* Deprecated Family.known_families dict was removed (:phab:`T89451`)
* Deprecated DataSite.get_* methods was removed
* Deprecated LogEntryFactory.logtypes classproperty was removed
* Unused comms.threadedhttp module was removed; threadedhttp.HttpRequest was already replaced with requests.Response
(:phab:`T265206`)

**Other changes**

* Raise a SiteDefinitionError if api request response is Non-JSON and site is AutoFamily (:phab:`T272911`)
* Support deleting and undeleting specific file versions (:phab:`T276725`)
* Only add bot option generator if the bot class have it already
* Raise a RuntimeError if pagegenerators -namespace option is provided too late (:phab:`T276916`)
* Check for LookupError exception in http._decide_encoding (:phab:`T276715`)
* Re-enable setting private family files (:phab:`T270949`)
* Move the hardcoded namespace identifiers to an IntEnum
* Buffer 'pageprops' in api.QueryGenerator
* Ensure that BaseBot.generator is a Generator
* Add additional info into log if 'messagecode' is missing during login (:phab:`T261061`, :phab:`T269503`)
* Use hardcoded messages if i18n system is not available (:phab:`T275981`)
* Move wikibase data structures to page/_collections.py
* L10N updates
* Add support for altwiki (:phab:`T271984`)
* Add support for mniwiki and mniwiktionary (:phab:`T273467`, :phab:`T273462`)
* Don't use mime parameter as boolean in api.Request (:phab:`T274723`)
* textlib.removeDisabledPart is able to remove templates (:phab:`T274138`)
* Create a SiteLink with __getitem__ method and implement lazy load
(:phab:`T273386`, :phab:`T245809`, :phab:`T238471`, :phab:`T226157`)
* Fix date.formats['MonthName'] behaviour (:phab:`T273573`)
* Implement pagegenerators.handle_args() to process all options at once
* Add enabled_options, disabled_options to GeneratorFactory (:phab:`T271320`)
* Move interwiki() interwiki_prefix() and local_interwiki() methods from BaseSite to APISite
* Add requests.Response.headers to log when an API error occurs (:phab:`T272325`)

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*24 January 2021*

* Use string instead of Path-like object with "open" function in UploadRobot for Python 3.5 compatibility
(:phab:`T272345`)
* Add support for trwikivoyage (:phab:`T271263`)
* UI.input_list_choice() has been improved (:phab:`T272237`)
* Global handleArgs() function was removed in favour of handle_args
* Deprecated originPage and foundIn property has been removed in interwiki_graph.py
* ParamInfo modules, prefixes, query_modules_with_limits properties and module_attribute_map() method was removed
* Allow querying alldeletedrevisions with APISite.alldeletedrevisions() and User.deleted_contributions()
* data attribute of http.fetch() response is deprecated (:phab:`T265206`)
* Positional arguments of page.Revision aren't supported any longer (:phab:`T259428`)
* pagenenerators.handleArg() method was renamed to handle_arg() (:phab:`T271437`)
* Page methods deprecated for 6 years were removed
* Create a Site with AutoFamily if a family isn't predefined (:phab:`T249087`)
* L10N updates

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*12 January 2021*

* Add support for niawiki, bclwikt, diqwikt, niawikt
(:phab:`T270416`, :phab:`T270282`, :phab:`T270278`, :phab:`T270412`)
* Delete page using pageid instead of title (:phab:`T57072`)
* version.getversion_svn_setuptools function was removed (:phab:`T270393`)
* Add support for "musical notation" data type to wikibase
* -grepnot filter option was added to pagegenerators module (:phab:`T219281`)
* L10N updates

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*2 January 2021*

* Re-enable reading user-config.py from site package (:phab:`T270941`)
* LoginManager.getCookie() was renamed to login_to_site()
* Deprecation warning for MediaWiki < 1.23 (:phab:`T268979`)
* Add backports to support some Python 3.9 changes
* Desupported shared_image_repository() and nocapitalize() methods were removed (:phab:`T89451`)
* pywikibot.cookie_jar was removed in favour of pywikibot.comms.http.cookie_jar
* Align http.fetch() params with requests and rename 'disable_ssl_certificate_validation' to 'verify' (:phab:`T265206`)
* Deprecated compat BasePage.getRestrictions() method was removed
* Outdated Site.recentchanges() parameters has been dropped
* site.LoginStatus has been removed in favour of login.LoginStatus
* L10N Updates