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+Version 2.5.0

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+- Updated zoneinfo to 2016a

+- zoneinfo_metadata file version increased to 2.0 - the updated updatezinfo.py

+  script will work with older zoneinfo_metadata.json files, but new metadata

+  files will not work with older updatezinfo.py versions. Additionally, we have

+  started hosting our own mirror of the Olson databases on a github pages

+  site (https://dateutil.github.io/tzdata/) (gh pr #183)

+- dateutil zoneinfo tarballs now contain the full zoneinfo_metadata file used

+  to generate them. (gh issue #27, gh pr #85)

+- relativedelta can now be safely subclassed without derived objects reverting

+  to base relativedelta objects as a result of arithmetic operations.

+  (lp:1010199, gh issue #44, pr #49)

+- relativedelta 'weeks' parameter can now be set and retrieved as a property of

+  relativedelta instances. (lp: 727525, gh issue #45, pr #49)

+- relativedelta now explicitly supports fractional relative weeks, days, hours,

+  minutes and seconds. Fractional values in absolute parameters (year, day, etc)

+  are now deprecated. (gh issue #40, pr #190)

+- relativedelta objects previously did not use microseconds to determine of two

+  relativedelta objects were equal. This oversight has been corrected.

+  Contributed by @elprans (gh pr #113)

+- rrule now has an xafter() method for retrieving multiple recurrences after a

+  specified date. (gh pr #38)

+- str(rrule) now returns an RFC2445-compliant rrule string, contributed by

+  @schinckel and @armicron (lp:1406305, gh issue #47, prs #50, #62 and #160)

+- rrule performance under certain conditions has been significantly improved

+  thanks to a patch contributed by @dekoza, based on an article by Brian Beck

+  (@exogen) (gh pr #136)

+- The use of both the 'until' and 'count' parameters is now deprecated as

+  inconsistent with RFC2445 (gh pr #62, #185)

+- Parsing an empty string will now raise a ValueError, rather than returning the

+  datetime passed to the 'default' parameter. (gh issue #78, pr #187)

+- tzwinlocal objects now have a meaningful repr() and str() implementation

+  (gh issue #148, prs #184 and #186)

+- Added equality logic for tzwin and tzwinlocal objects. (gh issue #151,

+  pr #180, #184)

+- Added some flexibility in subclassing timelex, and switched the default

+  behavior over to using string methods rather than comparing against a fixed

+  list. (gh pr #122, #139)

+- An issue causing tzstr() to crash on Python 2.x was fixed. (lp: 1331576,

+  gh issue #51, pr #55)

+- An issue with string encoding causing exceptions under certain circumstances

+  when tzname() is called was fixed. (gh issue #60, #74, pr #75)

+- Parser issue where calling parse() on dates with no day specified when the

+  day of the month in the default datetime (which is "today" if unspecified) is

+  greater than the number of days in the parsed month was fixed (this issue

+  tended to crop up between the 29th and 31st of the month, for obvious reasons)

+  (canonical gh issue #25, pr #30, #191)

+- Fixed parser issue causing fuzzy_with_tokens to raise an unexpected exception

+  in certain circumstances. Contributed by @MichaelAquilina (gh pr #91)

+- Fixed parser issue where years > 100 AD were incorrectly parsed. Contributed

+  by @Bachmann1234 (gh pr #130)

+- Fixed parser issue where commas were not a valid separator between seconds

+  and microseconds, preventing parsing of ISO 8601 dates. Contributed by

+  @ryanss (gh issue #28, pr #106)

+- Fixed issue with tzwin encoding in locales with non-Latin alphabets

+  (gh issue #92, pr #98)

+- Fixed an issue where tzwin was not being properly imported on Windows.

+  Contributed by @labrys. (gh pr #134)

+- Fixed a problem causing issues importing zoneinfo in certain circumstances.

+  Issue and solution contributed by @alexxv (gh issue #97, pr #99)

+- Fixed an issue where dateutil timezones were not compatible with basic time

+  objects. One of many, many timezone related issues contributed and tested by

+  @labrys. (gh issue #132, pr #181)

+- Fixed issue where tzwinlocal had an invalid utcoffset. (gh issue #135,

+  pr #141, #142)

+- Fixed issue with tzwin and tzwinlocal where DST transitions were incorrectly

+  parsed from the registry. (gh issue #143, pr #178)

+- updatezinfo.py no longer suppresses certain OSErrors. Contributed by @bjamesv

+  (gh pr #164)

+- An issue that arose when timezone locale changes during runtime has been

+  fixed by @carlosxl and @mjschultz (gh issue #100, prs #107, #109)

+- Python 3.5 was added to the supported platforms in the metadata (@tacaswell

+  gh pr #159) and the test suites (@moreati gh pr #117).

+- An issue with tox failing without unittest2 installed in Python 2.6 was fixed

+  by @moreati (gh pr #115)

+- Several deprecated functions were replaced in the tests by @moreati

+  (gh pr #116)

+- Improved the logic in Travis and Appveyor to alleviate issues where builds

+  were failing due to connection issues when downloading the IANA timezone

+  files. In addition to adding our own mirror for the files (gh pr #183), the

+  download is now retried a number of times (with a delay) (gh pr #177)

+- Many failing doctests were fixed by @moreati. (gh pr #120)  

+- Many fixes to the documentation (gh pr #103, gh pr #87 from @radarhere,

+  gh pr #154 from @gpoesia, gh pr #156 from @awsum, gh pr #168 from @ja8zyjits)

+- Added a code coverage tool to the CI to help improve the library. (gh pr #182)

+- We now have a mailing list - dateutil@python.org, graciously hosted by

+  Python.org.

+

+

 Version 2.4.2

 -------------

 - Updated zoneinfo to 2015b.