2.27

• Add support for re.Patterns

2.26

• Update type hints file

2.25

• Improve performance for loading objects (attrs/dataclasses/NamedTuple)
• Improve performance for loading dictionary keys that are basic types
• Improve performance for loading dataclasses
• Switch performance tests to test against pydantic2

2.24

• Drop support to Python 3.7 (which has reached EOL)
• Make is_optional slightly faster
• Keep track of the index when loading iterables the first time It makes the normal case slightly slower, and gives massive performance improvements when exceptions are raised.

2.23

• When loading a string into datetime.date/time/datetime, ISO 8601 is used
• When dumping, setting isodates=True dumps an ISO 8601 string instead of a list of ints. The previous behaviour is now deprecated.
• Add support for datetime.timedelta. It is dumped as a float representing seconds
• Deprecate dump handlers without type hints
• Improve performance for dumping, by carrying type hints
• Remove jsons and dataclasses-json from benchmarks. They were too slow to be a useful comparison.

2.22

• Improve loading time for literals
• Support attrs converter

2.21

• Drop support to Python 3.5 and 3.6
• Improve performance for dumping
• Generate pure python wheel

2.20

• Switch to setuptools Since python decided to drop the only installation method available within the stdlib
• Add pyproject.toml

2.19

• Fix minor bug about exception raising from string constructed types
• Simplify type checking functions, defining only the one for the current python version
• Fix type definitions of some private functions for compatibility with cython
• Improved loading speed for dictionaries
• Improved loading speed for iterators
• Improved documentation
• Improved performance testing code

2.18

• Fix bug with loading generators that raise exceptions

2.17

• Support for NotRequired
• Document performance testing
• Improve performances when loading iterables
• Greatly improve performances when loading Union of objects that are Literal annotated

2.16

• Add is_optional function
• Support new style union (A | B)
• Experimental support for PEP563 __future__.annotations. READ ABOUT DEFERRED EVALUATION IN THE DOCUMENTATION.

2.15

• Union fails immediately when a non typedload exception is found
• New make html target to generate the website
• Updated CONTRIBUTING file, with details about new licenses from the FSF
• Handle typing.NewType

2.14

• Fix bug where AttributeError from name mangling caused an AssertionError

2.13

• Separate and simpler handlers for NamedTuple, dataclass, attrs, TypedDict
• Allow duck typing when loading attr (allow any dict-like class to be used)
• Minor performance improvements

2.12

• Add uniondebugconflict flag to detect unions with conflicts.

2.11

• Make newer mypy happy

2.10

• Fix setup.py referring to a non-existing file when installing with pip

2.9

• Use README on pypi.org
• Tiny speed improvement
• Expanded and improved documentation

2.8

• Better report errors for Enum
• Improve support for inheritance with mixed totality of TypedDict (requires Python 3.9)

2.7

• failonextra triggers failure when dropping fields in mangling
• Support for total=False in TypedDict
• Support init=False in dataclass field

2.6

• Handle Any types as passthrough
• Easy way to handle types loaded from and dumped to str
• Improve how exceptions are displayed

2.5

• Fix dump for attr classes with factory
• Let name mangling use arbitrary metadata fields rather than just name

2.4

• Support for ipaddress.IPv4Address, ipaddress.IPv6Address, ipaddress.IPv4Network, ipaddress.IPv6Network, ipaddress.IPv4Interface, ipaddress.IPv6Interface.

2.3

• Better type sorting in Union This helps when using Union[dataclass, str]

2.2

• Add Python3.9 to the supported versions
• Prevent loading dict as List, Tuple, Set This helps when using Union[Dict, List] to take the correct type.

2.1

• Written new usage example
• typechecks internals now pass with more mypy configurations
• Fix import *

2.0

• Breaking API change: handlers can only be modified before the first load
• Breaking API change: plugins removed (attr support is by default)
• Exceptions contain more information
• Greatly improve performances with iterables types
• Support for pathlib.Path

1.20

• Drop support for Python 3.5.2 (3.5 series is still supported)
• Support TypedDict
• More precise type annotation of TypedloadException and Annotation fields
• Deprecate the plugin to handle attr.s and make it always supported. This means that there will be no need for special code.
• Fix datetime loader raising exceptions with the wrong type

1.19

• Add support for Literal.

1.18

• Improved documentation
• Debian builds are now done source only

1.17

• Prefer the same type in union loading

1.16

• New uniontypes() function.
• Make list and dictionary loaders raise the correct exceptions
• Able to load from argparse.Namespace

1.15

• Add support for FrozenSet[T].
• Define __all__ for typechecks.
• Add name mangling support in dataclass, to match attrs.
• Add support for datetime.date, datetime.time, datetime.datetime

1.14

• Add support for Tuple[t, ...]

1.13

• Fix bug in loading attr classes and passing random crap. Now the proper exception is raised.
• New module to expose the internal type checks functions

1.12

• Support fields with factory for dataclass

1.11

• Fixed problem when printing sub-exceptions of failed unions
• Improve documentation

1.10

• Make mypy happy again

1.9

• Support ForwardRef
• Add a new Exception type with more details on the error (no breaking API changes)

1.8

• Make mypy happy again

1.7

• Make mypy happy again

1.6

• Run tests on older python as well
• Support for dataclass (Since python 3.7)
• Added methods to find the appropriate handlers

1.5

• Improve handling of unions
• Better continuous integration
• Support python 3.7

1.4

• Add support for name mangling in attr plugin
• Parameters can be passed as kwargs
• Improved exception message for NamedTuple loading

1.3

• Add support for Python < 3.5.3

1.2

• Ship the plugins in pypy

1.1

• Able to load and dump old style NamedTuple
• Support for Python 3.5
• Target to run mypy in makefile
• Refactor to support plugins. The API is still compatible.
• Plugin for the attr module, seems useful in Python 3.5

1.0

• Has a setting to hide default fields or not, in dumps
• Better error reporting
• Add file for PEP 561

0.9

• Initial release