Pywikibot

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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* Outdated Site.recentchanges() parameters has been dropped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

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*19 December 2020*

* Allow using pywikibot as site-package without user-config.py (:phab:`T270474`)
* Python 3.10 is supported
* Fix AutoFamily scriptpath() call (:phab:`T270370`)
* Add support for skrwiki, skrwiktionary, eowikivoyage, wawikisource, madwiki
(:phab:`T268414`, :phab:`T268460`, :phab:`T269429`, :phab:`T269434`, :phab:`T269442`)
* wikistats methods fetch, raw_cached, csv, xml has been removed
* PageRelatedError.getPage() has been removed in favour of PageRelatedError.page
* DataSite.get_item() method has been removed
* global put_throttle option may be given as float (:phab:`T269741`)
* Property.getType() method has been removed
* Family.server_time() method was removed; it is still available from Site object (:phab:`T89451`)
* All HttpRequest parameters except of charset has been dropped (:phab:`T265206`)
* A lot of methods and properties of HttpRequest are deprecated in favour of requests.Resonse attributes
(:phab:`T265206`)
* Method and properties of HttpRequest are delegated to requests.Response object (:phab:`T265206`)
* comms.threadedhttp.HttpRequest.raw was replaced by HttpRequest.content property (:phab:`T265206`)
* Desupported version.getfileversion() has been removed
* site parameter of comms.http.requests() function is mandatory and cannot be omitted
* date.MakeParameter() function has been removed
* api.Request.http_params() method has been removed
* L10N updates

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*10 December 2020*

* Remove deprecated args for Page.protect() (:phab:`T227610`)
* Move BaseSite its own site/_basesite.py file
* Improve toJSON() methods in page.__init__.py
* _is_wikibase_error_retryable rewritten (:phab:`T48535`, 268645)
* Replace FrozenDict with frozenmap
* WikiStats table may be sorted by any key
* Retrieve month names from mediawiki_messages when required
* Move Namespace and NamespacesDict to site/_namespace.py file
* Fix TypeError in api.LoginManager (:phab:`T268445`)
* Add repr() method to BaseDataDict and ClaimCollection
* Define availableOptions as deprecated property
* Do not strip all whitespaces from Link.title (:phab:`T197642`)
* Introduce a common BaseDataDict as parent for LanguageDict and AliasesDict
* Replaced PageNotSaved by PageSaveRelatedError (:phab:`T267821`)
* Add -site option as -family -lang shortcut
* Enable APISite.exturlusage() with default parameters (:phab:`T266989`)
* Update tools._unidata._category_cf from Unicode version 13.0.0
* Move TokenWallet to site/_tokenwallet.py file
* Fix import of httplib after release of requests 2.25 (:phab:`T267762`)
* user keyword parameter can be passed to Site.rollbackpage() (:phab:`T106646`)
* Check for {{bots}}/{{nobots}} templates in Page.text setter (:phab:`T262136`, :phab:`T267770`)
* Remove deprecated UserBlocked exception and Page.contributingUsers()
* Add support for some 'wbset' actions in DataSite
* Fix UploadRobot site attribute (:phab:`T267573`)
* Ignore UnicodeDecodeError on input (:phab:`T258143`)
* Replace 'source' exception regex with 'syntaxhighlight' (:phab:`T257899`)
* Fix get_known_families() for wikipedia_family (:phab:`T267196`)
* Move _InterwikiMap class to site/_interwikimap.py
* instantiate a CosmeticChangesToolkit by passing a page
* Create a Site from sitename
* pywikibot.Site() parameters "interface" and "url" must be keyworded
* Lookup the code parameter in xdict first (:phab:`T255917`)
* Remove interwiki_forwarded_from list from family files (:phab:`T104125`)
* Rewrite Revision class; each data can be accessed either by key or as an attribute (:phab:`T102735`, :phab:`T259428`)
* L10N-Updates

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*1 November 2020*

* Avoid conflicts between site and possible site keyword in api.Request.create_simple() (:phab:`T262926`)
* Remove wrong param of rvision() call in Page.latest_revision_id
* Do not raise Exception in Page.get_best_claim() but follow redirect (:phab:`T265839`)
* xml-support of wikistats will be dropped
* Remove deprecated mime_params in api.Request()
* cleanup interwiki_graph.py and replace deprecated originPage by origin in Subjects
* Upload a file that ends with the '\r' byte (:phab:`T132676`)
* Fix incorrect server time (:phab:`T266084`)
* L10N-Updates
* Support Namespace packages in version.py (:phab:`T265946`)
* Server414Error was added to pywikibot (:phab:`T266000`)
* Deprecated editor.command() method was removed
* comms.PywikibotCookieJar and comms.mode_check_decorator were deleted
* Remove deprecated tools classes Stringtypes and UnicodeType
* Remove deprecated tools function open_compressed and signature and UnicodeType class
* HttpRequest properties were renamed to request.Response identifiers (:phab:`T265206`)

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*19 October 2020*

* Add support for smn-wiki (:phab:`T264962`)
* callback parameter of comms.http.fetch() is desupported
* Fix api.APIError() calls for Flow and Thanks extension
* edit, move, create, upload, unprotect and prompt parameters of Page.protect() are deprecated (:phab:`T227610`)
* Accept only valid names in generate_family_file.py (:phab:`T265328`, :phab:`T265353`)
* New plural.plural_rule() function returns a rule for a given language
* Replace deprecated urllib.request.URLopener with http.fetch (:phab:`T255575`)
* OptionHandler/BaseBot options are accessable as OptionHandler.opt attributes or keyword item
(see also :phab:`T264721`)
* pywikibot.setAction() function was removed
* A namedtuple is the result of textlib.extract_sections()
* Prevent circular imports in config2.py and http.py (:phab:`T264500`)
* version.get_module_version() is deprecated and gives no meaningfull result
* Fix version.get_module_filename() and update log lines (:phab:`T264235`)
* Re-enable printing log header (:phab:`T264235`)
* Fix result of :func:`tools.itertools.intersect_generators` (:phab:`T263947`)
* Only show _GLOBAL_HELP options if explicitly wanted
* Deprecated Family.version() methods were removed
* Unused parameters of page methods like forceReload, insite, throttle, step was removed
* Raise RuntimeError instead of AttributeError for old wikis (:phab:`T263951`)
* Deprecated script options were removed
* lyricwiki_family was removed (:phab:`T245439`)
* RecentChangesPageGenerator parameters has been synced with APISite.recentchanges
* APISite.recentchanges accepts keyword parameters only
* LoginStatus enum class was moved from site to login.py
* WbRepresentation derives from abstract base class abc.ABC
* Update characters in the Cf category to Unicode version 12.1.0
* Update __all__ variable in pywikibot (:phab:`T122879`)
* Use api.APIGenerator through site._generator (:phab:`T129013`)
* Support of MediaWiki releases below 1.19 has been dropped (:phab:`T245350`)
* Page.get_best_claim () retrieves preferred Claim of a property referring to the given page (:phab:`T175207`)
* Check whether _putthead is current_thread() to join() (:phab:`T263331`)
* Add BasePage.has_deleted_revisions() method
* Allow querying deleted revs without the deletedhistory right
* Use ignore_discard for login cookie container (:phab:`T261066`)
* Siteinfo.get() loads data via API instead from cache if expiry parameter is True (:phab:`T260490`)
* Move latest revision id handling to WikibaseEntity (:phab:`T233406`)
* Load wikibase entities when necessary (:phab:`T245809`)
* Fix path for stable release in version.getversion() (:phab:`T262558`)
* "since" parameter in EventStreams given as Timestamp or MediaWiki timestamp string has been fixed
* Methods deprecated for 6 years or longer were removed
* Page.getVersionHistory and Page.fullVersionHistory() methods were removed (:phab:`T136513`, :phab:`T151110`)
* Allow multiple types of contributors parameter given for Page.revision_count()
* Deprecated tools.UnicodeMixin and tools.IteratorNextMixin has been removed
* Localisation updates