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+title:      Change Log
+prev_title: Test Suite
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+next_title: Release Notes for v2.1.1
+next_url:   release-2.1.1.html
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+Python-Markdown Changelog
+=========================
+
+Jan 22, 2012: Released version 2.1.1 ([Notes](release-2.1.1.html)).
+
+Nov 24, 2011: Released version 2.1.0 ([Notes](release-2.1.0.html)).
+
+Oct 7, 2009: Released version 2.0.3.
+
+Sept 28, 2009: Released version 2.0.2 ([Notes](release-2.0.2.html)).
+
+May 20, 2009: Released version 2.0.1 ([Notes](release-2.0.1.html)).
+
+Mar 30, 2009: Released version 2.0 ([Notes](release-2.0.html)).
+
+Mar 8, 2009: Release Candidate 2.0-rc-1.
+
+Feb 2009: Added support for multi-level lists to new Blockprocessors.
+
+Jan 2009: Added HTML 4 output as an option (thanks Eric Abrahamsen)
+
+Nov 2008: Added Definistion List ext. Replaced old core with BlockProcessors.
+Broken up into multiple files.
+
+Oct 2008: Changed logging behavior to work better with other systems. 
+Refactored tree tarversing. Added treap implementation, then replaced with 
+OrderedDEict. Renamed various processors to better reflect what they actually
+do. Refactored footnote ext to match php Extra's output.
+
+Sept 2008: Moved prettifyTree to a Postprocessor, replaced wikilink ext
+with wikilinks (note the s) ext (uses bracketed links instead of CamelCase)
+and various bug fixes.
+
+August 18 2008: Reorganized directory structure. Added a 'docs' dir
+and moved all extensions into a 'markdown-extensions' package.
+Added additional documentation and a few bug fixes. (v2.0-beta)
+
+August 4 2008: Updated included extensions to ElementTree. Added a 
+seperate commanline script. (v2.0-alpha)
+
+July 2008: Switched from home-grown NanoDOM to ElementTree and
+various related bugs (thanks Artem Yunusov).
+
+June 2008: Fixed issues with nested inline patterns and cleaned 
+up testing framework (thanks Artem Yunusov).
+
+May 2008: Added a number of additional extensions to the
+distribution and other minor changes. Moved repo to git from svn.
+
+Mar 2008: Refactored extension api to accept either an 
+extension name (as a string) or an instance of an extension
+(Thanks David Wolever). Fixed various bugs and added doc strings.
+
+Feb 2008: Various bugfixes mostly regarding extensions.
+
+Feb 18, 2008: Version 1.7.
+
+Feb 13, 2008: A little code cleanup and better documentation
+and inheritance for pre/post proccessors.
+
+Feb 9, 2008: Doublequotes no longer html escaped and rawhtml
+honors `<?foo>`, `<@foo>`, and `<%foo>` for those who run markdown on
+template syntax.
+
+Dec 12, 2007: Updated docs. Removed encoding arg from Markdown
+and markdown as per list discussion. Clean up in prep for 1.7.
+
+Nov 29, 2007: Added support for images inside links. Also fixed
+a few bugs in the footnote extension.
+
+Nov 19, 2007: `message` now uses python's logging module. Also removed 
+limit imposed by recursion in `_process_section()`. You can now parse as 
+long of a document as your memory can handle.
+
+Nov 5, 2007: Moved safe_mode code to a textPostprocessor and added 
+escaping option.
+
+Nov 3, 2007: Fixed convert method to accept empty strings.
+
+Oct 30, 2007: Fixed BOM removal (thanks Malcolm Tredinnick). Fixed 
+infinite loop in bracket regex for inline links.
+
+Oct 11, 2007: LineBreaks is now an inlinePattern. Fixed HR in 
+blockquotes. Refactored _processSection method (see tracker #1793419).
+
+Oct 9, 2007: Added textPreprocessor (from 1.6b).
+
+Oct 8, 2008: Fixed Lazy Blockquote. Fixed code block on first line. 
+Fixed empty inline image link.
+
+Oct 7, 2007: Limit recursion on inlinePatterns. Added a 'safe' tag 
+to htmlStash.
+
+March 18, 2007: Fixed or merged a bunch of minor bugs, including
+multi-line comments and markup inside links. (Tracker #s: 1683066,
+1671153, 1661751, 1627935, 1544371, 1458139.) -> v. 1.6b
+
+Oct 10, 2006: Fixed a bug that caused some text to be lost after
+comments.  Added "safe mode" (user's html tags are removed).
+
+Sept 6, 2006: Added exception for PHP tags when handling html blocks.
+
+August 7, 2006: Incorporated Sergej Chodarev's patch to fix a problem
+with ampersand normalization and html blocks.
+
+July 10, 2006: Switched to using optparse.  Added proper support for
+unicode.
+
+July 9, 2006: Fixed the `<!--@address.com>` problem (Tracker #1501354).  
+
+May 18, 2006: Stopped catching unquoted titles in reference links.
+Stopped creating blank headers.
+
+May 15, 2006: A bug with lists, recursion on block-level elements,
+run-in headers, spaces before headers, unicode input (thanks to Aaron
+Swartz). Sourceforge tracker #s: 1489313, 1489312, 1489311, 1488370,
+1485178, 1485176. (v. 1.5)
+
+Mar. 24, 2006: Switched to a not-so-recursive algorithm with
+_handleInline.  (Version 1.4)
+
+Mar. 15, 2006: Replaced some instance variables with class variables
+(a patch from Stelios Xanthakis).  Chris Clark's new regexps that do
+not trigger midword underlining.
+
+Feb. 28, 2006: Clean-up and command-line handling by Stewart
+Midwinter. (Version 1.3)
+
+Feb. 24, 2006: Fixed a bug with the last line of the list appearing
+again as a separate paragraph.  Incorporated Chris Clark's "mailto"
+patch.  Added support for `<br />` at the end of lines ending in two or
+more spaces.  Fixed a crashing bug when using ImageReferencePattern.
+Added several utility methods to Nanodom.  (Version 1.2)
+
+Jan. 31, 2006: Added `hr` and `hr/` to BLOCK_LEVEL_ELEMENTS and
+changed `<hr/>` to `<hr />`.  (Thanks to Sergej Chodarev.)
+
+Nov. 26, 2005: Fixed a bug with certain tabbed lines inside lists
+getting wrapped in `<pre><code>`.  (v. 1.1)
+
+Nov. 19, 2005: Made `<!...`, `<?...`, etc. behave like block-level
+HTML tags.
+
+Nov. 14, 2005: Added entity code and email autolink fix by Tiago
+Cogumbreiro.  Fixed some small issues with backticks to get 100%
+compliance with John's test suite.  (v. 1.0)
+
+Nov. 7, 2005: Added an unlink method for documents to aid with memory
+collection (per Doug Sauder's suggestion).
+
+Oct. 29, 2005: Restricted a set of html tags that get treated as
+block-level elements.
+
+Sept. 18, 2005: Refactored the whole script to make it easier to
+customize it and made footnote functionality into an extension.
+(v. 0.9)
+
+Sept. 5, 2005: Fixed a bug with multi-paragraph footnotes.  Added
+attribute support.
+
+Sept. 1, 2005: Changed the way headers are handled to allow inline
+syntax in headers (e.g. links) and got the lists to use p-tags
+correctly (v. 0.8)
+
+Aug. 29, 2005: Added flexible tabs, fixed a few small issues, added
+basic support for footnotes.  Got rid of xml.dom.minidom and added
+pretty-printing. (v. 0.7)
+
+Aug. 13, 2005: Fixed a number of small bugs in order to conform to the
+test suite.  (v. 0.6)
+
+Aug. 11, 2005: Added support for inline html and entities, inline
+images, autolinks, underscore emphasis. Cleaned up and refactored the
+code, added some more comments.
+
+Feb. 19, 2005: Rewrote the handling of high-level elements to allow
+multi-line list items and all sorts of nesting.
+
+Feb. 3, 2005: Reference-style links, single-line lists, backticks,
+escape, emphasis in the beginning of the paragraph.
+
+Nov. 2004: Added links, blockquotes, html blocks to Manfred
+Stienstra's code
+
+Apr. 2004: Manfred's version at <http://www.dwerg.net/projects/markdown/>
+