Pywikibot

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*2 September 2020*

* Don't check for valid Family/Site if running generate_user_files.py (:phab:`T261771`)
* Remove socket_timeout fix in config2.py introduced with :phab:`T103069`
* Prevent huge traceback from underlying python libraries (:phab:`T253236`)
* Localisation updates

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*28 August 2020*

* Add support for ja.wikivoyage (:phab:`T261450`)
* Only run cosmetic changes on wikitext pages (:phab:`T260489`)
* Leave a script gracefully for wrong -lang and -family option (:phab:`T259756`)
* Change meaning of BasePage.text (:phab:`T260472`)
* site/family methods code2encodings() and code2encoding() has been removed in favour of encoding()/encodings() methods
* Site.getExpandedString() method was removed in favour of expand_text
* Site.Family() function was removed in favour of Family.load() method
* Add wikispore family (:phab:`T260049`)

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*18 August 2020*

* Add support for lldwiki to Pywikibot
* Fix getversion_git subprocess command

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*16 August 2020*

* Enable Pywikibot for Python 3.9
* APISite.loadpageinfo does not discard changes to page content when information was not loaded (:phab:`T260472`)
* tools.UnicodeType and tools.signature are deprecated
* BaseBot.stop() method is deprecated in favour of BaseBot.generator.close()
* Escape bot password correctly (:phab:`T259488`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*4 August 2020*

* Read correct object in SiteLinkCollection.normalizeData (:phab:`T259426`)
* tools.count and tools classes Counter, OrderedDict and ContextManagerWrapper were removed
* Deprecate UnicodeMixin and IteratorNextMixin
* Restrict site module interface
* EventStreams "since" parameter settings has been fixed
* Unsupported debug and uploadByUrl parameters of UploadRobot were removed
* Unported compat decode parameter of Page.title() has been removed
* Wikihow family file was added (:phab:`T249814`)
* Improve performance of CosmeticChangesToolkit.translateMagicWords
* Prohibit positional arguments with Page.title()
* Functions dealing with stars list were removed
* Some pagegenerators functions were deprecated which should be replaced by site generators
* LogEntry became a UserDict; all content can be accessed by its key
* URLs for new toolforge.org domain were updated
* pywikibot.__release__ was deprecated
* Use one central point for framework version (:phab:`T106121`, :phab:`T171886`, :phab:`T197936`, :phab:`T253719`)
* rvtoken parameter of Site.loadrevisions() and Page.revisions() has been dropped (:phab:`T74763`)
* getFilesFromAnHash and getImagesFromAnHash Site methods have been removed
* Site and Page methods deprecated for 10 years or longer have been removed
* Support for Python 2 and 3.4 has been dropped (:phab:`T213287`, :phab:`T239542`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*3 July 2020*

* Page.botMayEdit() method was improved (:phab:`T253709`)
* PageNotFound, SpamfilterError, UserActionRefuse exceptions were removed (:phab:`T253681`)
* tools.ip submodule has been removed (:phab:`T243171`)
* Wait in BaseBot.exit() until asynchronous saving pages are completed
* Solve IndexError when showing an empty diff with a non-zero context (:phab:`T252724`)
* linktrails were added or updated for a lot of sites
* Resolve namespaces with underlines (:phab:`T252940`)
* Fix getversion_svn for Python 3.6+ (:phab:`T253617`, :phab:`T132292`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates