Release 2.12.0

Changed

• drop support for Python 3.6

Added

• added Prefix/Suffix similarity

Fixed

• fixed packaging with pyinstaller

Release 2.11.1

Fixed

• Fix segmentation fault in process.cdist when used with an empty query sequence

Release 2.11.0

Changes

• move jarowinkler dependency into rapidfuzz to simplify maintenance

Performance

• add SIMD implementation for fuzz.ratio/fuzz.QRatio/Levenshtein/Indel/LCSseq/OSA to improve
  performance for short strings in cdist

Release 2.10.3

Fixed

• use scikit-build=0.14.1 on Linux, since scikit-build=0.15.0 fails to find the Python Interpreter
• workaround gcc bug in template type deduction

Release 2.10.2

Fixed

• fix support for cmake versions below 3.17

Release 2.10.1

Changed

• modernize cmake build to fix most conda-forge builds

Release 2.10.0

Added

• add editops to hamming distance

Performance

• strip common affix in osa distance

Fixed

• ignore missing pandas in Python3.11 tests

Release 2.9.0

Added

• add optimal string alignment (OSA)

Release 2.8.0

Fixed

• fuzz.partial_ratio did not find the optimal alignment in some edge cases (#219)

Performance

• improve performance of fuzz.partial_ratio

Changed

• increased minimum C++ version to C++17 (see #255)

Release 2.7.0

Performance

• improve performance of Levenshtein.distance/Levenshtein.editops for
  long sequences.

Added

• add score_hint parameter to Levenshtein.editops which allows the use of a
  faster implementation

Changed

• all functions in the string_metric module do now raise a deprecation warning.
  They are now only wrappers for their replacement functions, which makes them slower
  when used with the process module