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Python-Markdown Changelog
=========================

Feb 16, 2014: Released version 2.4.0 ([Notes](release-2.4.html))

Mar 22, 2013: Released version 2.3.1 (a bugfix release).

Mar 14, 2013: Released version 2.3.0 ([Notes](release-2.3.html))

Nov 4, 2012: Released version 2.2.1 ([Notes](release-2.2.1.html)).

Jul 5, 2012: Released version 2.2.0 ([Notes](release-2.2.0.html)).

Jan 22, 2012: Released version 2.1.1 ([Notes](release-2.1.1.html)).

Nov 24, 2011: Released version 2.1.0 ([Notes](release-2.1.0.html)).

Oct 7, 2009: Released version 2.0.3.

Sept 28, 2009: Released version 2.0.2 ([Notes](release-2.0.2.html)).

May 20, 2009: Released version 2.0.1 ([Notes](release-2.0.1.html)).

Mar 30, 2009: Released version 2.0 ([Notes](release-2.0.html)).

Mar 8, 2009: Release Candidate 2.0-rc-1.

Feb 2009: Added support for multi-level lists to new Blockprocessors.

Jan 2009: Added HTML 4 output as an option (thanks Eric Abrahamsen)

Nov 2008: Added Definistion List ext. Replaced old core with BlockProcessors.
Broken up into multiple files.

Oct 2008: Changed logging behavior to work better with other systems.
Refactored tree tarversing. Added treap implementation, then replaced with
OrderedDEict. Renamed various processors to better reflect what they actually
do. Refactored footnote ext to match php Extra's output.

Sept 2008: Moved prettifyTree to a Postprocessor, replaced wikilink ext
with wikilinks (note the s) ext (uses bracketed links instead of CamelCase)
and various bug fixes.

August 18 2008: Reorganized directory structure. Added a 'docs' dir
and moved all extensions into a 'markdown-extensions' package.
Added additional documentation and a few bug fixes. (v2.0-beta)

August 4 2008: Updated included extensions to ElementTree. Added a
seperate commanline script. (v2.0-alpha)

July 2008: Switched from home-grown NanoDOM to ElementTree and
various related bugs (thanks Artem Yunusov).

June 2008: Fixed issues with nested inline patterns and cleaned
up testing framework (thanks Artem Yunusov).

May 2008: Added a number of additional extensions to the
distribution and other minor changes. Moved repo to git from svn.

Mar 2008: Refactored extension api to accept either an
extension name (as a string) or an instance of an extension
(Thanks David Wolever). Fixed various bugs and added doc strings.

Feb 2008: Various bugfixes mostly regarding extensions.

Feb 18, 2008: Version 1.7.

Feb 13, 2008: A little code cleanup and better documentation
and inheritance for pre/post proccessors.

Feb 9, 2008: Doublequotes no longer html escaped and rawhtml
honors `<?foo>`, `<@foo>`, and `<%foo>` for those who run markdown on
template syntax.

Dec 12, 2007: Updated docs. Removed encoding arg from Markdown
and markdown as per list discussion. Clean up in prep for 1.7.

Nov 29, 2007: Added support for images inside links. Also fixed
a few bugs in the footnote extension.

Nov 19, 2007: `message` now uses python's logging module. Also removed
limit imposed by recursion in `_process_section()`. You can now parse as
long of a document as your memory can handle.

Nov 5, 2007: Moved safe_mode code to a textPostprocessor and added
escaping option.

Nov 3, 2007: Fixed convert method to accept empty strings.

Oct 30, 2007: Fixed BOM removal (thanks Malcolm Tredinnick). Fixed
infinite loop in bracket regex for inline links.

Oct 11, 2007: LineBreaks is now an inlinePattern. Fixed HR in
blockquotes. Refactored _processSection method (see tracker #1793419).

Oct 9, 2007: Added textPreprocessor (from 1.6b).

Oct 8, 2008: Fixed Lazy Blockquote. Fixed code block on first line.
Fixed empty inline image link.

Oct 7, 2007: Limit recursion on inlinePatterns. Added a 'safe' tag
to htmlStash.

March 18, 2007: Fixed or merged a bunch of minor bugs, including
multi-line comments and markup inside links. (Tracker #s: 1683066,
1671153, 1661751, 1627935, 1544371, 1458139.) -> v. 1.6b

Oct 10, 2006: Fixed a bug that caused some text to be lost after
comments.  Added "safe mode" (user's html tags are removed).

Sept 6, 2006: Added exception for PHP tags when handling html blocks.

August 7, 2006: Incorporated Sergej Chodarev's patch to fix a problem
with ampersand normalization and html blocks.

July 10, 2006: Switched to using optparse.  Added proper support for
unicode.

July 9, 2006: Fixed the `<!--@address.com>` problem (Tracker #1501354).

May 18, 2006: Stopped catching unquoted titles in reference links.
Stopped creating blank headers.

May 15, 2006: A bug with lists, recursion on block-level elements,
run-in headers, spaces before headers, unicode input (thanks to Aaron
Swartz). Sourceforge tracker #s: 1489313, 1489312, 1489311, 1488370,
1485178, 1485176. (v. 1.5)

Mar. 24, 2006: Switched to a not-so-recursive algorithm with
_handleInline.  (Version 1.4)

Mar. 15, 2006: Replaced some instance variables with class variables
(a patch from Stelios Xanthakis).  Chris Clark's new regexps that do
not trigger midword underlining.

Feb. 28, 2006: Clean-up and command-line handling by Stewart
Midwinter. (Version 1.3)

Feb. 24, 2006: Fixed a bug with the last line of the list appearing
again as a separate paragraph.  Incorporated Chris Clark's "mailto"
patch.  Added support for `<br />` at the end of lines ending in two or
more spaces.  Fixed a crashing bug when using ImageReferencePattern.
Added several utility methods to Nanodom.  (Version 1.2)

Jan. 31, 2006: Added `hr` and `hr/` to BLOCK_LEVEL_ELEMENTS and
changed `<hr/>` to `<hr />`.  (Thanks to Sergej Chodarev.)

Nov. 26, 2005: Fixed a bug with certain tabbed lines inside lists
getting wrapped in `<pre><code>`.  (v. 1.1)

Nov. 19, 2005: Made `<!...`, `<?...`, etc. behave like block-level
HTML tags.

Nov. 14, 2005: Added entity code and email autolink fix by Tiago
Cogumbreiro.  Fixed some small issues with backticks to get 100%
compliance with John's test suite.  (v. 1.0)

Nov. 7, 2005: Added an unlink method for documents to aid with memory
collection (per Doug Sauder's suggestion).

Oct. 29, 2005: Restricted a set of html tags that get treated as
block-level elements.

Sept. 18, 2005: Refactored the whole script to make it easier to
customize it and made footnote functionality into an extension.
(v. 0.9)

Sept. 5, 2005: Fixed a bug with multi-paragraph footnotes.  Added
attribute support.

Sept. 1, 2005: Changed the way headers are handled to allow inline
syntax in headers (e.g. links) and got the lists to use p-tags
correctly (v. 0.8)

Aug. 29, 2005: Added flexible tabs, fixed a few small issues, added
basic support for footnotes.  Got rid of xml.dom.minidom and added
pretty-printing. (v. 0.7)

Aug. 13, 2005: Fixed a number of small bugs in order to conform to the
test suite.  (v. 0.6)

Aug. 11, 2005: Added support for inline html and entities, inline
images, autolinks, underscore emphasis. Cleaned up and refactored the
code, added some more comments.

Feb. 19, 2005: Rewrote the handling of high-level elements to allow
multi-line list items and all sorts of nesting.

Feb. 3, 2005: Reference-style links, single-line lists, backticks,
escape, emphasis in the beginning of the paragraph.

Nov. 2004: Added links, blockquotes, html blocks to Manfred
Stienstra's code

Apr. 2004: Manfred's version at <http://www.dwerg.net/projects/markdown/>

