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New features:

• New PREFER_MONTH_OF_YEAR setting (#1146)

Fixes:

• Absolute years in Russian are no longer being treated as a number of years in the past (#1129)

Cleanups and internal improvements:

• Removed the use of datetime.utcnow, deprecated on Python 3.12 (#1179)
• Applied Black formatting to the code base (#1158)
• Initial integration with OSSFuzz (#1198)
• Extended test cases (#1191)

Improvements:

• Improved date parsing for Chinese (#1148)
• Improved date parsing for Czech (#1151)
• Reorder language by popularity (#1152)
• Fix leak of memory in cache (#1140)
• Add support for "\d units later" (#1154)
• Move modification in CLDR data to yaml (#1153)
• Add support to use timezone via settings to get PREFER_DATES_FROM result (#1155)

Improvements:

• Add an “ago” synonym for Arabic (#1128)
• Improved date parsing for Czech (#1131)
• Improved date parsing for Indonesian (#1134)

Improvements:

• Fix the bug where Monday is parsed as a month (#1121)
• Prevent ReDoS in Spanish sentence splitting regex (#1084)

Improvements:

• Parse short versions of day, month, and year (#1103)
• Add a test for “in 1d” (#1104)
• Update languages_info (#1107)
• Add a workaround for zipimporter not having exec_module before Python 3.10 (#1069)
• Stabilize tests at midnight (#1111)
• Add a test case for French (#1110)

Cleanups:

• Remove the requirements-build file (#1113)

Improvements:

• Improved support for languages such as Slovak, Indonesian, Hindi, German, and Japanese (#1064, #1094, #986, #1071, #1068)
• Recursively create a model home (#996)
• Replace regex sub with simple string replace (#1095)
• Add Python 3.10, 3.11 support (#1096)
• Drop support for Python 3.5, 3.6 versions (#1097)

New features:

• Add support for fractional units (#876)

Improvements:

• Fix the returned datetime skipping a day with time+timezone input and PREFER_DATES_FROM = 'future' (#1002)
• Fix input translation breaking keep_formatting (#720)
• English: support "till date" (#1005)
• English: support “after” and “before” in relative dates (#1008)

Cleanups:

• Reorganize internal data (#1090)
• CI updates (#1088)

Improvements:

• Added support for negative timestamp (#1060)
• Fixed PytzUsageWarning for Python versions >= 3.6 (#1062)
• Added support for dates with dots and spaces (#1028)
• Improved support for Ukrainian, Croatian and Russian (#1072, #1074, #1079, #1082, #1073, #1083)
• Added support for parsing Unix timestamps consistently regardless of timezones (#954)
• Improved tests (#1086)

Improvements:

• Fixed issue with regex library by pinning dependencies to an earlier version (< 2022.3.15, https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/1046).
• Extended support for Russian language dates starting with lowercase (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/999).
• Allowed to use_given_order for languages too (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/997).
• Fixed link to settings section (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/1018).
• Defined UTF-8 encoding for Windows (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/998).
• Fixed directories creation error in CLI utils (https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser/pull/1022).

New features:

• Support language detection based on langdetect, fastText, or a custom implementation (see #932)
• Add support for 'by ' (see #839)
• Sort default language list by internet usage (see #805)

Improvements:

• Improved support of Chinese (#910), Czech (#977)
• Improvements in search_dates (see #953)
• Make order of previous locales deterministic (see #851)
• Fix parsing with trailing space (see #841)
• Consider RETURN_TIME_AS_PERIOD for timestamp times (see #922)
• Exclude failing regex version (see #974)
• Ongoing work multithreading support (see #881, #885)
• Add demo URL (see #883)

QA:

• Migrate pipelines from Travis CI to Github Actions (see #859, #879, #884, #886, #911, #966)
• Use versioned CLDR data (see #825)
• Add a script to update table of supported languages and locales (see #601)
• Sort 'skip' keys in yaml files (see #844)
• Improve test coverage (see #827)
• Code cleanup (see #888, #907, #951, #958, #957)