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RELEASE NOTES FOR MWCLIENT

This is mwclient 0.6.6. The following are the release notes for this version.

Changes in version 0.6.6

  • Allow setting both the upload description and the page content separately

Changes in version 0.6.5

  • Explicitly convert the Content-Length header to str, avoiding a TypeError on some versions of Python.
  • Fix for upload by URL
  • Handle readapidenied error in site init
  • Fix version parsing for almost any sane version string

Changes in version 0.6.4

  • Added support for upload API
  • Added prop=duplicatefiles
  • Properly fix detection of alpha versions
  • Added support for built-in JSON library
  • Handle badtoken once
  • Bug 2690034: Fix revision iteration
  • Fix module conflict with simplejson-1.x by inserting mwclient path at the beginning of sys.path instead of the end
  • Supply token on login if necessary

Changes in version 0.6.3

  • Added domain parameter to login.
  • Applied edit fix to page_nowriteapi
  • Allow arbitrary data to be passed to page.save
  • Fix mwclient on WMF wikis

Changes in version 0.6.2

Mwclient was released on 2 May 2009.

  • Compatibility fixes for MediaWiki 1.13
  • Download fix for images
  • Full support for editing pages via write API and split of compatibility to another file.
  • Added expandtemplates API call
  • Added and fixed moving via API
  • Raise an ApiDisabledError if the API is disabled
  • Added support for HTTPS
  • Fixed email code
  • Mark edits as bots by default.
  • Added action=parse. Modified patch by Brian Mingus.
  • Improved general HTTP and upload handling.

Changes in version 0.6.1 and 0.6.0

Mwclient 0.6.1 was released in May 2008. No release notes were kept for that version.

Mwclient 0.6.0 was released in February 2008. It was the first official release via Sourceforge. This version removed some Pywikipedia influences added in 0.4.

Mwclient 0.5

Mwclient 0.5 was an architectural redesign which accomplished easy extendability and added proper support for continuations.

Mwclient 0.4

Mwclient 0.4 was somewhat the basis for future releases and shows the current module architecture. It was influenced by Pywikipedia, which was discovered by the author at the time.

Mwclient 0.2 and 0.3

Mwclient 0.2 and 0.3 were probably a bit of a generalization, and maybe already used the API for some part, but details are unknown.

Mwclient 0.1

Mwclient 0.1 was a non-API module for accessing Wikipedia using an XML parser.