title: Change Log Python-Markdown Change Log ========================= March 23, 2023: version 3.4.3 (a bug-fix release). * Restore console script (#1327). March 22, 2023: version 3.4.2 (a bug-fix release). * Improve standalone * and _ parsing (#1300). * Consider `` HTML tag a block-level element (#1309). * Officially support Python 3.11. * Switch from `setup.py` to `pyproject.toml`. July 15, 2022: version 3.4.1 (a bug-fix release). * Fix an import issue with `importlib.util` (#1274). July 15, 2022: version 3.4 ([Notes](release-3.4.md)). May 5, 2022: version 3.3.7 (a bug-fix release). * Disallow square brackets in reference link ids (#1209). * Retain configured `pygments_style` after first code block (#1240). * Ensure fenced code attributes are properly escaped (#1247). Nov 17, 2021: version 3.3.6 (a bug-fix release). * Fix a dependency issue (#1195, #1196). Nov 16, 2021: version 3.3.5 (a bug-fix release). * Make the `slugify_unicode` function not remove diacritical marks (#1118). * Fix `[toc]` detection when used with `nl2br` extension (#1160). * Re-use compiled regex for block level checks (#1169). * Don't process shebangs in fenced code blocks when using CodeHilite (#1156). * Improve email address validation for Automatic Links (#1165). * Ensure `

` tags are parsed correctly (#1079). * Support Python 3.10 (#1124). Feb 24, 2021: version 3.3.4 (a bug-fix release). * Properly parse unclosed tags in code spans (#1066). * Properly parse processing instructions in md_in_html (#1070). * Properly parse code spans in md_in_html (#1069). * Preserve text immediately before an admonition (#1092). * Simplified regex for HTML placeholders (#928) addressing (#932). * Ensure `permalinks` and `anchorlinks` are not restricted by `toc_depth` (#1107). * Fix corner cases with lists under admonitions (#1102). Oct 25, 2020: version 3.3.3 (a bug-fix release). * Unify all block-level tags (#1047). * Fix issue where some empty elements would have text rendered as `None` when using `md_in_html` (#1049). * Avoid catastrophic backtracking in `hr` regex (#1055). * Fix `hr` HTML handling (#1053). Oct 19, 2020: version 3.3.2 (a bug-fix release). * Properly parse inline HTML in md_in_html (#1040 & #1045). * Avoid crashing when md_in_html fails (#1040). Oct 12, 2020: version 3.3.1 (a bug-fix release). * Correctly parse raw `script` and `style` tags (#1036). * Ensure consistent class handling by `fenced_code` and `codehilite` (#1032). Oct 6, 2020: version 3.3 ([Notes](release-3.3.md)). May 8, 2020: version 3.2.2 (a bug-fix release). * Add `checklinks` tox environment to ensure all links in documentation are good. * Refactor extension API documentation (#729). * Load entry_points (for extensions) only once using `importlib.metadata`. * Do not double escape entities in TOC. * Correctly report if an extension raises a `TypeError` (#939). * Raise a `KeyError` when attempting to delete a nonexistent key from the extension registry (#939). * Remove import of `packaging` (or `pkg_resources` fallback) entirely. * Remove `setuptools` as a run-time dependency (`install_required`). Feb 12, 2020: Released version 3.2.1 (a bug-fix release). * The `name` property in `toc_tokens` from the TOC extension now escapes HTML special characters (`<`, `>`, and `&`). Feb 7, 2020: Released version 3.2 ([Notes](release-3.2.md)). May 20, 2019: Released version 3.1.1 (a bug-fix release). * Fixed import failure in `setup.py` when the source directory is not on `sys.path` (#823). * Prefer public `packaging` module to pkg_resources' private copy of it (#825). Mar 25, 2019: Released version 3.1 ([Notes](release-3.1.md)). Sept 28, 2018: Released version 3.0.1 (a bug-fix release). * Brought back the `version` and `version_info` variables (#709). * Added support for hexadecimal HTML entities (#712). Sept 21, 2018: Released version 3.0 ([Notes](release-3.0.md)). Jan 4, 2018: Released version 2.6.11 (a bug-fix release). Added a new `BACKLINK-TITLE` option to the footnote extension so that non-English users can provide a custom title to back links (see #610). Dec 7, 2017: Released version 2.6.10 (a documentation update). Aug 17, 2017: Released version 2.6.9 (a bug-fix release). Jan 25, 2017: Released version 2.6.8 (a bug-fix release). Sept 23, 2016: Released version 2.6.7 (a bug-fix release). Mar 20, 2016: Released version 2.6.6 (a bug-fix release). Nov 24, 2015: Released version 2.6.5 (a bug-fix release). Nov 6, 2015: Released version 2.6.4 (a bug-fix release). Oct 26, 2015: Released version 2.6.3 (a bug-fix release). Apr 20, 2015: Released version 2.6.2 (a bug-fix release). Mar 8, 2015: Released version 2.6.1 (a bug-fix release). The (new) `yaml` option has been removed from the Meta-Data Extension as it was buggy (see [#390](https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown/issues/390)). Feb 19, 2015: Released version 2.6 ([Notes](release-2.6.md)). Nov 19, 2014: Released version 2.5.2 (a bug-fix release). Sept 26, 2014: Released version 2.5.1 (a bug-fix release). Sept 12, 2014: Released version 2.5.0 ([Notes](release-2.5.md)). Feb 16, 2014: Released version 2.4.0 ([Notes](release-2.4.md)). Mar 22, 2013: Released version 2.3.1 (a bug-fix release). Mar 14, 2013: Released version 2.3.0 ([Notes](release-2.3.md)) Nov 4, 2012: Released version 2.2.1 (a bug-fix release). Jul 5, 2012: Released version 2.2.0 ([Notes](release-2.2.md)). Jan 22, 2012: Released version 2.1.1 (a bug-fix release). Nov 24, 2011: Released version 2.1.0 ([Notes](release-2.1.md)). Oct 7, 2009: Released version 2.0.3. (a bug-fix release). Sept 28, 2009: Released version 2.0.2 (a bug-fix release). May 20, 2009: Released version 2.0.1 (a bug-fix release). Mar 30, 2009: Released version 2.0 ([Notes](release-2.0.md)). Mar 8, 2009: Release Candidate 2.0-rc-1. Feb 2009: Added support for multi-level lists to new Blockprocessors. Jan 2009: Added HTML 4 output as an option (thanks Eric Abrahamsen) Nov 2008: Added Definition List ext. Replaced old core with Blockprocessors. Broken up into multiple files. Oct 2008: Changed logging behavior to work better with other systems. Refactored tree traversing. Added `treap` implementation, then replaced with OrderedDict. Renamed various processors to better reflect what they actually do. Refactored footnote ext to match PHP Extra's output. Sept 2008: Moved `prettifyTree` to a Postprocessor, replaced WikiLink ext with WikiLinks (note the s) ext (uses bracketed links instead of CamelCase) and various bug fixes. August 18 2008: Reorganized directory structure. Added a 'docs' directory and moved all extensions into a 'markdown-extensions' package. Added additional documentation and a few bug fixes. (v2.0-beta) August 4 2008: Updated included extensions to ElementTree. Added a separate command line script. (v2.0-alpha) July 2008: Switched from home-grown NanoDOM to ElementTree and various related bugs (thanks Artem Yunusov). June 2008: Fixed issues with nested inline patterns and cleaned up testing framework (thanks Artem Yunusov). May 2008: Added a number of additional extensions to the distribution and other minor changes. Moved repository to git from svn. Mar 2008: Refactored extension API to accept either an extension name (as a string) or an instance of an extension (Thanks David Wolever). Fixed various bugs and added doc strings. Feb 2008: Various bug-fixes mostly regarding extensions. Feb 18, 2008: Version 1.7. Feb 13, 2008: A little code cleanup and better documentation and inheritance for Preprocessors/Postprocessors. Feb 9, 2008: Double-quotes no longer HTML escaped and raw HTML honors ``, `<@foo>`, and `<%foo>` for those who run markdown on template syntax. Dec 12, 2007: Updated docs. Removed encoding argument from Markdown and markdown as per list discussion. Clean up in prep for 1.7. Nov 29, 2007: Added support for images inside links. Also fixed a few bugs in the footnote extension. Nov 19, 2007: `message` now uses python's logging module. Also removed limit imposed by recursion in `_process_section()`. You can now parse as long of a document as your memory can handle. Nov 5, 2007: Moved `safe_mode` code to a `textPostprocessor` and added escaping option. Nov 3, 2007: Fixed convert method to accept empty strings. Oct 30, 2007: Fixed `BOM` removal (thanks Malcolm Tredinnick). Fixed infinite loop in bracket regular expression for inline links. Oct 11, 2007: `LineBreaks` is now an `inlinePattern`. Fixed `HR` in blockquotes. Refactored `_processSection` method (see tracker #1793419). Oct 9, 2007: Added `textPreprocessor` (from 1.6b). Oct 8, 2008: Fixed Lazy Blockquote. Fixed code block on first line. Fixed empty inline image link. Oct 7, 2007: Limit recursion on inline patterns. Added a 'safe' tag to `htmlStash`. March 18, 2007: Fixed or merged a bunch of minor bugs, including multi-line comments and markup inside links. (Tracker #s: 1683066, 1671153, 1661751, 1627935, 1544371, 1458139.) -> v. 1.6b Oct 10, 2006: Fixed a bug that caused some text to be lost after comments. Added "safe mode" (user's HTML tags are removed). Sept 6, 2006: Added exception for PHP tags when handling HTML blocks. August 7, 2006: Incorporated Sergej Chodarev's patch to fix a problem with ampersand normalization and HTML blocks. July 10, 2006: Switched to using `optparse`. Added proper support for Unicode. July 9, 2006: Fixed the `