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NEWS of the world
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5.2.1 (2025-09-10)
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* Minor documentation improvements.

5.2 (2025-09-10)
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* Drop Python 3.8.
* Modernize type hinting.
* Convert to ``hatch``.
* Fix a link ISO 3166 (thanks Brett Cannon).

5.1.1 (2023-07-25)
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* No significant changes.

5.1 (2023-07-22)
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* Add support for Python 3.11.
* Update dependencies.
* Update packaging.

5.0.1 (2022-05-03)
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* Fix a typo in the README.

5.0 (2022-05-03)
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* Change license from GPLv3 to APL2.
* Various housekeeping changes:

  * Adopt the ``pdm`` package manager.
  * Adopt ``pytest``.
  * Reorganize the source tree.
  * Update ``.gitlab-ci.yml`` for current convention.
* Python 3.8 is now the minimum supported version.
* Add a ``py.typed`` file to satisfy type checkers.
* Rename the library to ``world``.
* Add some API docs.

4.1 (2019-11-26)
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* Use ``importlib.resources`` instead of ``pkg_resources``
* Add support for Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.
* Drop support for Python 3.4.
* Modernize the packaging.

4.0 (2016-08-24)
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* Add support for Python 3.5.
* Drop support for Python 2.
* With no arguments `world` prints help and exits.
* ISO 3166 database updated.

3.1.1 (2015-03-25)
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* Fix missing ``install_requires`` in ``setup.py``.

3.1 (2015-01-08)
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* Convert repository to git and modernize the code.
* Remove the use of `distribute`.
* Python 2.7 and 3.4 is supported.
* ISO has pulled the free XML version of the two letter country codes.  Thus
  ``--refresh`` now prints a minor rant and is effectively deprecated.
  ``--source`` and ``--cache`` are no-ops and will be removed in a future
  version.

3.0 (2013-07-01)
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* Initial standalone release.