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*21 January 2023*
**Improvements**
* Allow copying timezone from timestamp in :class:`pywikibot.WbTime` (:phab:`T325864`)
* Support federated Wikibase (:phab:`T173195`)
* Improve warning if a Non-JSON response was received from server (:phab:`T326046`)
* Allow normalization of :class:`pywikibot.WbTime` objects (:phab:`T123888`)
* Add parser for ``<pages />`` tag to :mod:`proofreadpage`
* ``addOnly`` parameter of :func:`textlib.replaceLanguageLinks` and :func:`textlib.replaceCategoryLinks`
were renamed to ``add_only``
* ``known_codes`` attribute was added to :class:`family.WikimediaFamily` (:phab:`T325426`)
* Unify representation for :class:`time.Timestamp` between CPython and Pypy (:phab:`T325905`)
* Implement comparison for :class:`pywikibot.WbTime` object (:phab:`T148280`, :phab:`T325863`)
* Create a cookie file for each account (:phab:`T324000`)
* Move data.api._login.LoginManager to :class:`login.ClientLoginManager`
* Let user the choice which section to be copied with :mod:`generate_user_files
<pywikibot.scripts.generate_user_files>` (:phab:`T145372`)
* use :func:`roundrobin_generators<tools.itertools.roundrobin_generators>` to combine generators
when limit option is given
* Ignore OSError if API cache cannot be written
* Update tools._unidata._category_cf from Unicodedata version 15.0.0
* :meth:`Timestamp.set_timestamp()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.set_timestamp>` raises TypeError
instead of ValueError if conversion fails
* Python 3.12 is supported
* All parameters of :meth:`APISite.categorymembers()
<pywikibot.site._generators.GeneratorsMixin.categorymembers>` are provided with
:meth:`Category.members()<page.Category.members>`,
:meth:`Category.subcategories()<page.Category.subcategories>` (*member_type* excluded) and
:meth:`Category.articles()<page.Category.articles>` (*member_type* excluded)
(:phab:`T102406`)
* Enable site-package installation from git repository (:phab:`T320851`)
* Enable 2FA login (:phab:`T186274`)
* :meth:`Page.editTime()<page.BasePage.editTime>` was replaced by
:attr:`Page.latest_revision.timestamp<page.BasePage.latest_revision>`
* Raise a generic ServerError if requests response is a ServerError (:phab:`T320590`)
* Add a new variable 'private_folder_permission' to config.py (:phab:`T315045`)
* L10N and i18n updates
* Adjust subprocess args in :mod:`tools.djvu`
* Short site value can be given if site code is equal to family like ``-site:meta`` or ``-site:commons``
**Documentation improvements**
* Add highlighting to targeted code snippet within documentation (:phab:`T323800`)
* Add previous, next, index, and modules links to documentation sidebar (:phab:`T323803`)
* Introduce standard colors (legacy palette) in Furo theme (:phab:`T323802`)
* Improve basic content structure and navigation of documentation (:phab:`T323812`)
* Use ``Furo`` sphinx theme instead of ``Natural`` and improve documentation look and feel (:phab:`T322212`)
* MediaWiki API cross reference was added to the documentation
**Bugfixes**
* Fix representation string for :class:`page.Claim` stub instances (:phab:`T326453`)
* Don't raise StopIteration in :meth:`login.LoginManager.check_user_exists`
if given user is behind the last user (:phab:`T326063`)
* Normalize :class:`WbTimes<pywikibot.WbTime>` sent to Wikidata (:phab:`T325860`)
* Fix :class:`pywikibot.WbTime` precision (:phab:`T324798`)
* Unquote title for red-links in class:`proofreadpage.IndexPage`
* Find month with first letter uppercase or lowercase with :class:`textlib.TimeStripper` (:phab:`T324310`)
* Fix disolving script_paths for site-package (:phab:`T320530`)
* Respect limit argument with Board.topics() (:phab:`T138215`, :phab:`T138307`)
**Breaking changes**
* ``mwparserfromhell`` package is mandatory (:phab:`T326498`)
* Several package dependencies were updated
* All parameters of :meth:`Category.members()<page.Category.members>`,
:meth:`Category.subcategories()<page.Category.subcategories>` and
:meth:`Category.articles()<page.Category.articles>` are keyword only
* The ``parent_id`` and ``content_model`` attributes of :class:`page.Revision` were removed in favour
of ``parentid`` and ``contentmodel``
* Support for MediaWiki < 1.27 was dropped
* ListBoxWindows class of :mod:`userinterfaces.gui` was removed
* Require Python 3.6.1+ with Pywikibot and drop support for Python 3.6.0 (:phab:`T318912`)
* pymysql >= 0.9.3 is required (:phab:`T216741`)
* Python 3.5 support was dropped (:phab:`T301908`)
* *See also Code cleanups below*
**Code cleanups**
* ``maintenance/sorting_order`` script was removed (:phab:`T325426`)
* ``alphabetic_sv`` and ``interwiki_putfirst`` attributes of
:class:`Wiktionary<families.wiktionary_family.Family>` family were removed (:phab:`T325426`)
* ``alphabetic``, ``alphabetic_revised`` and ``fyinterwiki`` attributes of :class:`family.Family`
were removed (:phab:`T325426`)