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• New features:

  • introduced support for Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitric Dioxide (NO2): new methods owm25.no2index_around_coords and owm25.so2index_around_coords
  • implemented wind speed units specification (imperial/metric)

• Bugfixes:

  • updated weather history endpoint (was broken)
  • fix bug about data parsing at station_at_coords and weather_at_station methods
  • now the deg attribute is correctly parsed from 16 day forecast weather data items
  • fix bug on printing Unicode upon library exceptions
  • fix handling of Weather objects parsing (it was failing whenever some data wasn't provided by OWM)

• Enhancements:

  • shrinked city ID files size by 60% (via compression)
  • reported in the Wiki a list of known projects that use PyOWM
  • integrated the Say Thanks! hook
  • introduced CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md files, thus welcoming GitHub's suggested best practices for building better open source communities
  • introduced installation tests
  • improved integrations tests organization and running

• Breaking changes:

  • OWM decided to change the syntax of API endpoint for fetching UV data and its format in a non-retrocompatible manner. This results into UVIndex object entity fields changing, as well as the corresponding OWM25 method signature (owm25.uvindex_around_coords).

• Bugfixes:
  • 2.6.0 was not packaging resource files (eg. city IDs text files)

• New features:
  • new method owm25.weather_at_zip_code
  • new methods CityIDRegistry.ids_for and CityIDRegistry.locations_for
  • introduced deprecation decorators to mark methods that will be removed/modified in future versions
  • Python 3.6 support
• Bugfixes:
  • reverted a breaking interface change wrongly released on 2.5.0
  • fixed CityIDRegistry.id_for and CityIDRegistry.location_for methods -> oh man, they were so buggy!
  • fixed a bug on Unicode input handling
• Enhancements:
  • reorganized project Wiki
  • embedded PyOWM usage examples as markdown file into the distribution package
• Deprecations introduced:
  • will be removed on 3.0.0: webapi25.cityidregistry.id_for and webapi25.cityidregistry.location_for
  • will be modified on 3.0.0: webapi25.owm25.get_version and webapi25.owm25.get_API_version

• New features:
  • Air Pollution data API endpoints: OWM25.coindex_around_coords, OWM25.ozone_around_coords
  • UV data endpoint: OWM25.uvindex_around_coords
• Bugfixes:
  • fixed OWM25.is_API_online method (was not working)
  • more robust support for querying data on Unicode place names
  • Enhancements: now datetime objects across all library are timezone-aware
  • PyOWM Slack team is live!

• New features:
  • weather_at_ids
  • weather_history_at_coords
  • introduced support for Python 3.4 and 3.5
• Bugfixes: full support for Unicode place names
• Enhancements:
  • datetime representation of reception/reference times in Weather, Forecast, History objects
  • better exception hierarchy
• Updated city ID registry files

Bugfix: no crashes when data about wind, snow and rain in JSON API responses are null

• Fix API_key issue with OWM API (was getting HTTP 401 on any API call)

• New feature: can now specify whether to use the pro OWM API version or not:

    owm = OWM(subscription_type='pro', API_key='my-pro-api-key')

• Better support for Python 3 on CityIDRegistry
• Bug fixes on parsing of humidity, wind and visibility

Fixed bug on visibility distance parsing

• New entity Station: represents a meteostation recording weather data
• New feature: search for meteostations around a lat/lon couple
• New feature: retrieve weather currently measured by a meteostation
• New feature: retrieve weathers currently measured by meteostations within a bounding box
• Can now query for weather forecasts based on geographical coordinates
• Can now query for weather forecasts based on city ID
• Support querying of extreme weather conditions in Forecaster convenience methods
• Enriched Weather class with methods to support data fields retrieved from meteostations
• Now supporting Unicode strings as parameters for all PyOWM public methods
• Increased test coverage