- modules_only_mode parameter of :class:`data.api.ParamInfo`, its paraminfo_keys class attribute and its preloaded_modules property was deprecated, the :meth:`data.api.ParamInfo.normalize_paraminfo` method became a staticmethod (:phab:`T306637`)
- raise ValueError when :class:`pywikibot.FilePage` title doesn't have a valid file extension (:phab:`T345786`)
- :attr:`site.APISite.file_extensions <pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.file_extensions>` property was added (:phab:`T345786`)
- Extract code and family from dbname in :meth:`site.APISite.fromDBName() <pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.fromDBName>` (:phab:`T345036`)
dropdelayandreleasepidattributes of :class:`throttle.Throttle` where deprecated in favour of expiry class attribute- Add https scheme if missing in url asked by :mod:`pywikibot.scripts.generate_family_file`
- i18n updates
- use inline re.IGNORECASE flag in :func:`textlib.case_escape` function (:phab:`T308265`)
- Convert URL-encoded characters also for links outside main namespace with :meth:`cosmetic_changes.CosmeticChangesToolkit.cleanUpLinks` (:phab:`T342470`)
- Implement Flow topic summaries (:phab:`T109443`)
- 8.4.0: modules_only_mode parameter of :class:`data.api.ParamInfo`, its paraminfo_keys class attribute and its preloaded_modules property will be removed
- 8.4.0: dropdelay and releasepid attributes of :class:`throttle.Throttle` will be removed in favour of expiry class attribute
- 8.2.0: :func:`tools.itertools.itergroup` will be removed in favour of :func:`backports.batched`
- 8.2.0: normalize parameter of :meth:`WbTime.toTimestr` and :meth:`WbTime.toWikibase` will be removed
- 8.1.0: Dependency of :exc:`exceptions.NoSiteLinkError` from :exc:`exceptions.NoPageError` will be removed
- 8.1.0:
exceptions.Server414Erroris deprecated in favour of :exc:`exceptions.Client414Error` - 8.0.0: :meth:`Timestamp.clone()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.clone>` method is deprecated
in favour of
Timestamp.replace()method. - 8.0.0: :meth:`family.Family.maximum_GET_length` method is deprecated in favour of :ref:`config.maximum_GET_length<Account Settings>` (:phab:`T325957`)
- 8.0.0:
addOnlyparameter of :func:`textlib.replaceLanguageLinks` and :func:`textlib.replaceCategoryLinks` are deprecated in favour ofadd_only - 8.0.0: :class:`textlib.TimeStripper` regex attributes
ptimeR,ptimeznR,pyearR,pmonthR,pdayRare deprecated in favour ofpatternsattribute which is a :class:`textlib.TimeStripperPatterns`. - 8.0.0: :class:`textlib.TimeStripper`
groupsattribute is deprecated in favour oftextlib.TIMEGROUPS - 8.0.0: :meth:`LoginManager.get_login_token<login.ClientLoginManager.get_login_token>` was
replaced by
login.ClientLoginManager.site.tokens['login'] - 8.0.0:
data.api.LoginManager()is deprecated in favour of :class:`login.ClientLoginManager` - 8.0.0: :meth:`APISite.messages()<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.messages>` method is deprecated in favour of :attr:`userinfo['messages']<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.userinfo>`
- 8.0.0: :meth:`Page.editTime()<page.BasePage.editTime>` method is deprecated and should be replaced by :attr:`Page.latest_revision.timestamp<page.BasePage.latest_revision>`
- 7.7.0: :mod:`tools.threading` classes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
- 7.6.0: :mod:`tools.itertools` datatypes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
- 7.6.0: :mod:`tools.collections` datatypes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
- 7.5.0: :mod:`textlib`.tzoneFixedOffset class will be removed in favour of :class:`time.TZoneFixedOffset`
- 7.4.0:
FilePage.usingPages()was renamed to :meth:`using_pages()<pywikibot.FilePage.using_pages>` - 7.2.0:
tbparameter of :func:`exception()<pywikibot.exception>` function was renamed toexc_info - 7.2.0: XMLDumpOldPageGenerator is deprecated in favour of a
contentparameter of :func:`XMLDumpPageGenerator<pagegenerators.XMLDumpPageGenerator>` (:phab:`T306134`) - 7.2.0: RedirectPageBot and NoRedirectPageBot bot classes are deprecated in favour of :attr:`use_redirects<bot.BaseBot.use_redirects>` attribute
- 7.2.0: :func:`tools.formatter.color_format<tools.formatter.color_format>` is deprecated and will be removed
- 7.1.0: Unused
get_redirectparameter of :meth:`Page.getOldVersion()<page.BasePage.getOldVersion>` will be removed - 7.0.0: User.isBlocked() method is renamed to is_blocked for consistency
- 7.0.0: A boolean watch parameter in Page.save() is deprecated and will be desupported
- 7.0.0: baserevid parameter of editSource(), editQualifier(), removeClaims(), removeSources(), remove_qualifiers() DataSite methods will be removed
- 7.0.0: Values of APISite.allpages() parameter filterredir other than True, False and None are deprecated
- 7.0.0: The i18n identifier 'cosmetic_changes-append' will be removed in favour of 'pywikibot-cosmetic-changes'
- 6.5.0: OutputOption.output() method will be removed in favour of OutputOption.out property
- 6.5.0: Infinite rotating file handler with logfilecount of -1 is deprecated
- 6.4.0: 'allow_duplicates' parameter of :func:`tools.itertools.intersect_generators` as positional argument is deprecated, use keyword argument instead
- 6.4.0: 'iterables' of :func:`tools.itertools.intersect_generators` given as a list or tuple is deprecated, either use consecutive iterables or use '*' to unpack
- 6.2.0: outputter of OutputProxyOption without out property is deprecated
- 6.2.0: ContextOption.output_range() and HighlightContextOption.output_range() are deprecated
- 6.2.0: Error messages with '%' style is deprecated in favour for str.format() style
- 6.2.0: page.url2unicode() function is deprecated in favour of tools.chars.url2string()
- 6.2.0: Throttle.multiplydelay attribute is deprecated
- 6.2.0: SequenceOutputter.format_list() is deprecated in favour of 'out' property
- 6.0.0: config.register_family_file() is deprecated
- 5.5.0: APISite.redirectRegex() will be removed in favour of APISite.redirect_regex()