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# Changelog

## 0.10.0 - 25 March 2023

- removed rarely-used `porter_stem` function, better implementations exist

## 0.9.0 - 7 January 2021

- updated documentation available at https://jamesturk.github.io/jellyfish/
- support for Python 3.10+
- handle spaces correctly in MRA algorithm

## 0.8.9 - 26 October 2021

- fix buffer overflow in NYSIIS
- remove unnecessary/undocumented special casing of digits in Jaro-Winkler

## 0.8.8 - 17 August 2021

- release fix to fix Linux wheel issue

## 0.8.7 - 16 August 2021

- safer allocations from CJellyfish
- include aarch64 wheels

## 0.8.4 - 4 August 2021

- fix for jaro winkler (cjellyfish#8)

## 0.8.3 - 11 March 2021

- build changes
- include OSX and Windows wheels

## 0.8.2 - 21 May 2020

- fix jaro_winkler/jaro_winkler_similarity mix-up
- deprecate jaro_distance in favor of jaro_similarity backwards compatible shim left in place, will be removed in 1.0
- (note: 0.8.1 was a broken release without proper C libraries)

## 0.8.0 - 21 May 2020

- rename jaro_winkler to jaro_winkler_similarity to match other functions backwards compatible shim added, but will be removed in 1.0
- fix soundex bug with W/H cases, #83
- fix metaphone bug with WH prefix, #108
- fix C match rating codex bug with duplicate letters, #121
- fix metaphone bug with leading vowels and 'kn' pair, #123
- fix Python jaro_winkler bug #124
- fix Python 3.9 deprecation warning
- add manylinux wheels

## 0.7.2 - 5 June 2019

- fix CJellyfish damerau_levenshtein w/ unicode, thanks to immerrr
- fix final H in NYSIIS
- fix issue w/ trailing W in metaphone

## 0.7.1 - 10 January 2019

- restrict install to Python >= 3.4

## 0.7.0 - 10 January 2019

- drop Python 2 compatibility & legacy code
- add bugfix for NYSIIS for words starting with PF

## 0.6.1 - April 16 2018

- fixed wheel release issue

## 0.6.0 - April 7 2018

- fix quite a few bugs & differences between C/Py implementations
- add wagner-fischer testdata
- uppercase soundex result
- better error handling in nysiis, soundex, and jaro

## 0.5.6 - June 23 2016

- bugfix for metaphone & soundex raising unexpected TypeErrors on Windows (#54)

## 0.5.5 - June 21 2016

- bugfix for metaphone WH case

## 0.5.4 - May 13 2016

- bugfix for C version of damerau_levenshtein thanks to Tyler Sellon

## 0.5.3 - March 15 2016

- style/packaging changes

## 0.5.2 - February 3 2016

- testing fixes for Python 3.5
- bugfix for Metaphone w/ silent H thanks to Jeremy Carbaugh

## 0.5.1 - July 12 2015

- bugfixes for NYSIIS
- bugfixes for metaphone
- bugfix for C version of jaro_winkler

## 0.5.0 - April 23 2015

- consistent unicode behavior, all functions take unicode and reject bytes on Py2 and 3, C and Python
- parametrize tests
- Windows compiler support

## 0.4.0 - March 27 2015

- tons of new tests
- documentation
- split out cjellyfish
- test all w/ unicode and plenty of fixes to accommodate
- 100% test coverage

## 0.3.4 - February 4 2015

- fix segfaults and memory leaks via Danrich Parrol

## 0.3.3 - November 20 2014

- fix bugs in damerau and NYSIIS

## 0.3.2 - August 11 2014

- fix for jaro-winkler from David McKean
- more packaging fixes

## 0.3.1 - July 16 2014

- packaging fix for C/Python alternative

## 0.3.0 - July 15 2014

- python alternatives where C isn't available

## 0.2.2 - March 14 2014

- testing fixes
- assorted bugfixes in NYSIIS

## 0.2.0 - January 26 2012

- incorporate some speed changes from Peter Scott
- segfault bugfixes.

## 0.1.2 - September 16 2010

- initial working release