1.8.3

• Improve S3 read performance by not copying buffer (PR #284, @aperiodic)
• accept bytearray and memoryview as input to write in s3 submodule (PR #293, @bmizhen-exos)
• Fix two S3 bugs (PR #307, @mpenkov)
• Minor fixes: bz2file dependency, paramiko warning handling (PR #309, @mpenkov)
• improve unit tests (PR #310, @mpenkov)

1.8.2

1.8.2, 17 April 2019

• Removed dependency on lzma (PR #262, @tdhopper)
• Backward compatibility fixes (PR #294, @mpenkov)
• Minor fixes (PR #291, @mpenkov)
  • Fix #289: the smart_open package now correctly exposes a __version__ attribute
  • Fix #285: handled edge case in S3 URLs containing a question mark (?)
  • Fix #288: switched from logging to warnings at import time
  • Fix #47: added unit tests to cover absence of multiprocessing

This release rolls back support for transparently decompressing .xz files,
previously introduced in 1.8.1. This is a useful feature, but it requires a
tricky dependency. It's still possible to handle .xz files with relatively
little effort. Please see README.rst for details.

1.8.1

• 1.8.1, 6 April 2019

  • Added support for .xz / lzma (PR #262, @vmarkovtsev)
  • Added streaming HTTP support (PR #236, @handsomezebra)
  • Fix handling of "+" mode, refactor tests (PR #263, @vmarkovtsev)
  • Added support for SSH/SCP/SFTP (PR #58, @val314159 & @mpenkov)
  • Added new feature: compressor registry (PR #266, @mpenkov)
  • Implemented new smart_open.open function (PR #268, @mpenkov)

1.8.0

• 1.8.0, 17th January 2019

  • Add python3.7 support (PR #240, @menshikh-iv)
  • Add http/https schema correctly (PR #242, @gliv)
  • Fix url parsing for S3 (PR #235, @rileypeterson)
  • Clean up _parse_uri_s3x, resolve edge cases (PR #237, @mpenkov)
  • Handle leading slash in local path edge case (PR #238, @mpenkov)
  • Roll back README changes (PR #239, @mpenkov)
  • Add example how to work with Digital Ocean spaces and boto profile (PR #248, @navado & @mpenkov)
  • Fix boto fail to load gce plugin (PR #255, @menshikh-iv)
  • Drop deprecated sudo from travis config (PR #256, @cclauss)
  • Raise ValueError if s3 key does not exist (PR #245, @adrpar)
  • Ensure _list_bucket uses continuation token for subsequent pages (PR #246, @tcsavage)

1.7.1

• 1.7.1, 18th September 2018

  • Unpin boto/botocore for regular installation. Fix #227 (PR #232, @menshikh-iv)

1.7.0

• 1.7.0, 18th September 2018

  • Drop support for Python 3.3 and 3.4: smart_open now requires either 2.7 or 3.5+.
  • Workaround for broken moto testing library (PR #225, @menshikh-iv)
  • Add s3a:// support for S3. Fix #210 (PR #229, @mpenkov)
  • Allow use @ in object (key) names for S3. Fix #94 (PRs #204 & #224, @dkasyanov & @mpenkov)
  • Make close idempotent & add dummy flush for S3 (PR #212, @mpenkov)
  • Use built-in open whenever possible. Fix #207 (PR #208, @mpenkov)
  • Fix undefined name uri in smart_open_lib.py. Fix #213 (PR #214, @cclauss)
  • Fix new unittests from #212 (PR #219, @mpenkov)
  • Reorganize README & make examples py2/py3 compatible (PR #211, @piskvorky)

1.6.0

• 1.6.0, 29th June 2018

  • Migrate to boto3. Fix #43 (PR #164, @mpenkov)
  • Refactoring smart_open to share compression and encoding functionality (PR #185, @mpenkov)
  • Drop python2.6 compatibility. Fix #156 (PR #192, @mpenkov)
  • Accept a custom boto3.Session instance (support STS AssumeRole). Fix #130, #149, #199 (PR #201, @eschwartz)
  • Accept multipart_upload parameters (supports ServerSideEncryption) for S3. Fix (PR #202, @eschwartz)
  • Add support for pathlib.Path. Fix #170 (PR #175, @clintval)
  • Fix performance regression using local file-system. Fix #184 (PR #190, @mpenkov)
  • Replace ParsedUri class with functions, cleanup internal argument parsing (PR #191, @mpenkov)
  • Handle edge case (read 0 bytes) in read function. Fix #171 (PR #193, @mpenkov)
  • Fix bug with changing f._current_pos when call f.readline() (PR #182, @inksink)
  • Сlose the old body explicitly after seek for S3. Fix #187 (PR #188, @inksink)

1.5.7

1.5.7, 18th March 2018

Fix author/maintainer fields in setup.py, avoid bug from setuptools==39.0.0 and add workaround for botocore and python==3.3. Fix #176 (PR #178 & #177, @menshikh-iv & @baldwindc)

1.5.6

• 1.5.6, 28th December 2017

  • Create separate compression-specific layer & add seek support for S3. Fix #91, #42 (PR #131, @mpenkov)
  • Improve S3 read performance. Fix #152 (PR #157, @mpenkov)
  • Add integration testing + benchmark with real S3. Partial fix #151, #156 (PR #158, @menshikh-iv & @mpenkov)
  • Disable integration testing if secure vars aren't defined in Travis (PR #157, @menshikh-iv)

1.5.5

• 1.5.5, 6th December 2017

  • Fix problems from 1.5.4 release. Fix #153, #154 , partial fix #152 (PR #155, @mpenkov)