Changelog

Unreleased

Drop support for EOL Python 2.6 and 3.3
Add support for Python 3.7

Release 5.1.0

Unified modules into the 'configobj' package (#72, #31, #32)
Added validate v1.1.0 shim to allow a gradual migration, rewrite your imports as from configobj.validate import … to get rid of it
Alternative line comment markers for more INI compatibility (#79)
More detailed multi-error reports (#73)
Added 'decoupled' mode to merge() (#115)
fix: mixed_list accepts type name variants (#110)
fix: Don't quote git-style section titles (#74)
docs: Explicit mention of force_list and its pitfalls (#112)

Older Releases

Release 5.0.6 improves error messages in certain edge cases
Release 5.0.5 corrects a unicode-bug that still existed in writing files
Release 5.0.4 corrects a unicode-bug that still existed in reading files after fixing lists of string in 5.0.3
Release 5.0.3 corrects errors related to the incorrectly handling unicode encoding and writing out files
Release 5.0.2 adds a specific error message when trying to install on Python versions older than 2.5
Release 5.0.1 fixes a regression with unicode conversion not happening in certain cases PY2
Release 5.0.0 updates the supported Python versions to 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and is otherwise unchanged
Release 4.7.2 fixes several bugs in 4.7.1
Release 4.7.1 fixes a bug with the deprecated options keyword in 4.7.0.
Release 4.7.0 improves performance adds features for validation and fixes some bugs.