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*08 March 2024*
**Improvements**
* Python 3.13 is supported
* Update :mod:`tools`._unidata._category_cf from Unicodedata version 15.1.0
* :meth:`Timestamp.nowutc()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.nowutc>` and
:meth:`Timestamp.utcnow()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.utcnow>` were added (:phab:`T337748`)
* Remove content parameter of :meth:`proofreadpage.IndexPage.page_gen` method. (:phab:`T358635`)
* Backport ``itertools.batched`` from Python 3.13 to :func:`backports.batched`
* A copy button was added to the sphinx documentation.
* Make :attr:`languages_by_size<family.WikimediaFamily.languages_by_size>` dynamic (:phab:`T78396`). The property is
only available for :class:`family.WikimediaFamily` families. The ``wikimedia_sites.py`` maintenance script was
removed.
* Add :func:`config.base_dir<config.get_base_dir>` to scripts search path with :mod:`pwb` wrapper (:phab:`T324287`)
* :meth:`pywikibot.WbTime.equal_instant` was added (:phab:`T325248`)
* ``revisions`` parameter of :class:`xmlreader.XmlDump` was introduced to specify parsing method
(:phab:`T340804`)
* Pass global -nolog argument into bot script from wrapper (:phab:`T328900`)
* Add :meth:`site.APISite.ratelimit()<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.ratelimit>` method
and :class:`tools.collections.RateLimit` NamedTuple (:phab:`T304808`)
* L10N and i18n updates
* Add :class:`pagegenerators.PagePilePageGenerator` (:phab:`T353086`)
**Bugfixes**
* :meth:`Timestamp.now()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.now>` and
:meth:`Timestamp.fromtimestamp()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.fromtimestamp>` also returns a
:class:`Timestamp<pywikibot.time.Timestamp>` object with Python 3.7
* Populate :class:`pywikibot.MediaInfo`._content with expected attributes when loaded (:phab:`T357608`)
* Raise :exc:`exceptions.APIError` if the same error comes twice within :meth:`data.api.Request.submit` loop
(:phab:`T357870`)
* Only delegate :mod:`site` methods to public :class:`family.Family` methods which have *code* as first parameter.
* Use ``str`` instead of ``repr`` for several messages with :class:`family.Family` objects (:phab:`T356782`)
* Add ``hy`` to special languages in :class:`textlib.TimeStripper` (:phab:`T356175`)
* Pass login token when using ``action=login`` (:phab:`T309898`)
* Detect range blocks with :meth:`pywikibot.User.is_blocked` (:phab:`T301282`)
* Use only ``end`` tags in ElementTree.iterparse in :mod:`xmlreader` module (:phab:`T354095`)
* Suppress error in :meth:`cosmetic_changes.CosmeticChangesToolkit.cleanUpLinks` (:phab:`T337045`)
* :func:`pywikibot.input_choice` validates *default* parameter (:phab:`T353097`)
* Remove typing imports from user-config.py file (:phab:`T352965`)
**Breaking changes and code cleanups**
* Cache directory was renamed from ``apicache-py3`` to ``apicache`` due to timestamp changes. (:phab:`T337748`)
**Warning:** Do not use Pywikibot 9+ together with Pywikibot 3.0.20181203 and below.
* Raise ``TypeError`` instead of ``AttributeError`` in :meth:`Site.randompages()
<pywikibot.site._generators.GeneratorsMixin.randompages>` if *redirects* parameter is invalid.
* A RuntimeError will be raised if a :class:`family.Family` subclass has an ``__init__`` initializer method.
:meth:`family.Family.__post_init__` classmethod can be used instead.
* :class:`InteractiveReplace<bot_choice.InteractiveReplace>` was moved from :mod:`bot` to :mod:`bot_choice` module
* ``userinterfaces.transliteration.transliterator`` was renamed to :class:`Transliterator
<userinterfaces.transliteration.Transliterator>`
* ``pywikibot.BaseSite`` and ``pywikibotAPISite`` were dropped. :func:`pywikibot.Site` has to be used to create a
:mod:`site` object.
* ``next`` parameter of :meth:`userinterfaces.transliteration.Transliterator.transliterate` was renamed to ``succ``
* ``type`` parameter of :meth:`site.APISite.protectedpages()<pywikibot.site._generators.GeneratorsMixin.protectedpages>`
was renamed to ``protect_type``
* ``all`` parameter of :meth:`site.APISite.namespace()<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.namespace>` was renamed to
``all_ns``
* ``filter`` parameter of :func:`date.dh` was renamed to ``filter_func``
* ``dict`` parameter of :class:`data.api.OptionSet` was renamed to ``data``
* ``setuptools`` package is no longer mandatory but required for tests
(:phab:`T340640`, :phab:`T347052`, :phab:`T354515`)
* ``root`` attribute of :class:`xmlreader.XmlDump` was removed
* ``tools.Version`` class was removed; use classes from ``packaging.version`` instead (:phab:`T340640`)
* ``packaging`` package is mandatory; ``importlib_metadata`` package is required for Python 3.7 (:phab:`T340640`)
* ``SelfCallMixin``, ``SelfCallDict`` and ``SelfCallString`` of :mod:`tools` module were removed
* Calling :attr:`site.BaseSite.sitename<pywikibot.site._basesite.BaseSite.sitename>` as a function
is no longer supported
* ``config.register_family_file()`` function was removed
* require ``PyMySQL >= 1.0.0`` if necessary
* ``keys()`` and ``items()`` methods of :class:`data.api.Request` gives a view instead a list (:phab:`T310953`)
* ``SequenceOutputter.format_list()`` was removed in favour of :attr:`tools.formatter.SequenceOutputter.out` property
* *output* parameter of :class:`bot_choice.OutputProxyOption` (i.e. ``OutputOption`` instance) without *out* property is
no longer supported
* ``OutputOption.output()`` method was removed
* ``ContextOption.output_range()`` and ``HighlightContextOption.output_range()`` methods were removed
* ``page.url2unicode()`` function was removed in favour of :func:`tools.chars.url2string`
* *iterables* of :func:`tools.itertools.intersect_generators` must not be given as a single list or tuple;
either consecutive iterables must be used or '*' to unpack
* *allow_duplicates* parameter of :func:`tools.itertools.intersect_generators` must be given as keyword argument
* Infinite rotating file handler with ``config.logfilesize`` of -1 is no longer supported
* ``Throttle.multiplydelay`` attribute was removed
* Python 3.6 support was dropped (:phab:`T347026`)