Release 0.5.0

New features:

• DateDataParser now also returns detected language in the result dictionary.
• Explicit and lucid timezone conversion for a given datestring using TIMEZONE, TO_TIMEZONE settings.
• Added Hungarian langauge.
• Added setting, STRICT_PARSING to ignore imcomplete dates.

Improvements:

• Fixed quite a few parser bugs reported in issues #219, #222, #207, #224.
• Improved support for chinese language.
• Consistent interface for both Jalali and Hijri parsers.

Release 0.4.0

New features:

• Support for Language based date order preference while parsing ambiguous dates.
• Support for parsing dates with no spaces in between components.
• Support for custom date order preference using settings.
• Support for parsing generic relative dates in future.e.g. tomorrow, in two weeks, etc.
• Added RELATIVE_BASE settings to set date context to any datetime in past or future.
• Replaced dateutil.parser.parse with dateparser's own parser.
• Little/no tolerance for invalid dates

Improvements:

• Added simplifications for 12 noon and 12 midnight.
• Fixed several bugs
• Replaced PyYAML library by its active fork ruamel.yaml which also fixed the issues with installation on windows using python35.
• More predictable date_formats handling.

Release 0.3.5

New features:

• Danish language support.
• Japanese language support.
• Support for parsing date strings with accents.

Improvements:

• Transformed languages.yaml into base file and separate files for each language.
• Fixed vietnamese language simplifications.
• No more version restrictions for python-dateutil.
• Timezone parsing improvements.
• Fixed test environments.
• Cleaned language codes. Now we strictly follow codes as in ISO 639-1.
• Improved Chinese dates parsing.

Release 0.3.4

Improvements:

• Fixed broken version 0.3.3 by excluding latest python-dateutil version.

Release 0.3.3

New features:

• Finnish language support.

Improvements:

• Faster parsing with switching to regex module.
• RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE setting to return tz aware date object.
• Fixed conflicts with month/weekday names similarity across languages.

v0.3.2

New features:

• Added Hijri Calendar support.
• Added settings for better control over parsing dates.
• Support to convert parsed time to the given timezone for both complete and relative dates.

Improvements:

• Fixed problem with caching :func:datetime.now in :class:FreshnessDateDataParser.
• Added month names and week day names abbreviations to several languages.
• More simplifications for Russian and Ukranian languages.
• Fixed problem with parsing time component of date strings with several kinds of apostrophes.

v0.3.1

New features:

• Support for Jalali Calendar.
• Belarusian language support.
• Indonesian language support.

Improvements:

• Extended support for Russian and Polish.
• Fixed bug with time zone recognition.
• Fixed bug with incorrect translation of "second" for Portuguese.

v0.3.0

New features:

• Compatibility with Python 3 and PyPy.

Improvements:

• languages.yaml data cleaned up to make it human-readable.
• Improved Spanish date parsing.

v0.2.1

• Support for generic parsing of dates with UTC offset.
• Support for Filipino dates.
• Improved support for French and Spanish dates.