# selectolax Changelog

# Version 0.4.6


- Fix HTML parsing in fragment parser for `LexborHTMLParser`
- Fix memory leak in fragment parser
- Improve `skip_empty` parameter for text methods
- Add `comment_content` method
- Minor performance optimizations
- Add `create_tag` method to `LexborHTMLParser`
- Fix advanced selector (`.select()`) when attributes are empty.


# Version 0.4.5

  - Broken release. Not published to PyPi.

# Version 0.4.4

- Add `is_fragment` parameter to `LexborHTMLParser` @pygarap

- Add the ability to skip empty text nodes for lexbor backend to `.text`, `.iter`, `.traverse` @pygarap

- Add new properties to lexbor backend: `is_element_node`, `is_text_node`, `is_comment_node`, `is_document_node`.  @pygarap
- Update `lexbor` library


# Version 0.4.3

- Update `lexbor` library
- Fix missing description on PyPi.


# Version 0.4.2

- Broken release. Not published to PyPi.

# Version 0.4.1

- Fix parsing of CSS selectors that contain Unicode characters.

# Version 0.4.0

- Fix incorrect default value in docstrings for strict argument
- Fix incorrect exception handling for `any_css_matches`
- Fix docstring for `css_first` method
- Fix memory leak in `merge_text_nodes` for lexbor backend
- Update lexbor backend
- Add `.inner_html` property. Allows to get and set inner HTML of a node.
- Update various docstrings.
- Optimize performance for`css_first` in lexbor backend
- Fix segfaults when accessing attributes. Resolves #135.
- Add new `.clone` method to lexbor backend. Resolve #117.
- Improve unicode handling for malformed text. Resolves #138.
- Fix segfaults when doing double `.decompose`. Resolves #179.
- Fix sefgaults when doing double `.unwrap`. Resolves #169.
- Fix typo for tag names. Clarify available tag names.

## Version 0.3.34

Released

- Lexbor backend now supports `:lexbor-contains("abc" i)` CSS pseudo-class to match text nodes.

## Version 0.3.33

Released

- Add `merge_text_nodes` to lexbor backend. Fixes #170. @amirshukayev
- Performance improvements in Cython code. @Vizonex

## Version 0.3.32

Released

- Update lexbor. New version of lexbor fixes bugs with CSS selectors.

## Version 0.3.31

Released

- Improve type hints, add docstrings to type hints
- Prevent decomposing of the root node
- Unpin Cython version and make it Optional
- Allow empty attribute values. Fixes #165.

## Version 0.3.30

Released

- Update lexbor
- Expose `SelectolaxError` exception in lexbor.pyi

## Version 0.3.29

Released

- Feat: Add unwrap empty tags functionality. Fixes #159.

## Version 0.3.28

Released

- Fix: Update lexbor and improve HTML serialization speed. Fixes #153.
- Fix: typo in type annotations. Fixes #147.
- Fix: Fix incorrect type annotations for `LexborHTMLParser.__init__`. Fixes #144.

## Version 0.3.27

Released

- Fix: Header detected as head

## Version 0.3.26

Released

- Improve type hints

## Version 0.3.25

Released

- Feat: Add `parse_fragment()` and `create_tag()`
- Add missing typing for `Node.insert_child()`
- Add `Node.parser` to access the `HTMLParser` to which the node belongs

## Version 0.3.24

Released

- Add `Node.insert_child` method to lexbor and modest backends

## Version 0.3.23

Released

- Add Python 3.13 wheels
- Update lexbor

## Version 0.3.21

Released

- ***Breaking change***: `lexbor` backend now includes the root node when querying CSS selectors. Same as `Modest` backend.
- Fix `css_matches` and `any_css_matches` methods for `Modest` backend on some compilers

## Version 0.3.20

Released

- Fixup for 0.3.19 release
- Fix tag order for `lexbor` backend

## Version 0.3.19

Released

- Increase maximum HTML size to 2.4GB

## Version 0.3.18

Released

- Fix memory leak when using CSS selectors, `lexbor` backend

## Version 0.3.17

Released

- Update lexbor
- Add Python 3.12 wheels

## Version 0.3.16

Released

- Make HTML nodes hashable
- Pin Cython version

## Version 0.3.15

Released

- Improve typing. Thanks to @nesb1

## Version 0.3.14

Released

- Fix memory leak for `lexbor` backend

## Version 0.3.13

Released

- Update `lexbor`

## Version 0.3.12

Released

- Update `lexbor`
- Add Python 3.11 wheels

## Version 0.3.11

Released

- Fix out-of-bounds bug for `merge_text_nodes` method.

## Version 0.3.10

Released

This release does not contain any changes.
Due to a typo in the version number ([#70](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/70)), we need to make a new release.

## Version 0.3.9

Released

- Remove trailing separator when using `text(deep=True, separator='x')`.
- Add a new `merge_text_nodes` method for Modest backend.

## Version 0.3.8

Released

- Fix incorrect text handling when using `text(deep=True)` on a text node.

## Version 0.3.7

Released

- Fix return type of HTMLParser.tags

## Version 0.3.6

Released

- Improve text handling
- Add binary builds for Python 3.10 and ARM on MacOS and Linux

## Version 0.3.5

Released

- Add type annotations

## Version 0.3.4

Released

- Fix `HTMLParser.html`

## Version 0.3.3

Released

- Use `document` for the `HTMLParser.html`, `LexborHTMLParser.html` root properties

## Version 0.3.2

Released

- Fix `selector` method for lexbor
- Improve text extraction for lexbor

## Version 0.3.1

Released

- Fix `setup.py` for Windows

## Version 0.3.0

Released

- Added `lexbor` backend
- Fix cloning for `Modest` backend

## Version 0.2.14

Released

- Added advanced Selector (the `select` method)
- Improved speed of `strip_tags`
- Added `clone` method for the `HtmlParser` object
- Exposed `detect_encoding`, `decode_errors`, `use_meta_tags`, `raw_html` attributes for `HtmlParser`
- Added `sget` method to the `attrs` property

## Version 0.2.13

Released

- Don't throw exception when encoding text as UTF-8 bytes fails ([#40](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/40)).
- Fix Node.attrs.items() causes ([#39](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/39)).

## Version 0.2.12

Released

- Build wheels Apple Silicon

## Version 0.2.11

Released

- Fix strip argument is ignored for the root node ([#35](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/35)).
- Fix CSS parser hangs on a bad CSS selector ([#36](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/36)).

## Version 0.2.10

Released

- Fix root node property ([#32](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/32)). The `root` property now points to the html tag.

## Version 0.2.9

Released

- Fix README for PyPI

## Version 0.2.8

Released

- Add wheels for Python 3.9

## Version 0.2.7

Released

- Add `raw_value` attribute for `Node` objects ([#22](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/22))
- Improve node modification operations

## Version 0.2.6

Released

- Fix dependency on the source `Node` when inserting to or modifying destination `Node`

## Version 0.2.5

Released

- Allow to pass Node instances to `replace_with`, `insert_before` and `insert_after` methods
- Added `insert_before` and `insert_after` methods

## Version 0.2.4

Released

- Set maximum input size to 80MB
- Update modest

## Version 0.2.3

Released

- Rebuild PyPi wheels to support Python 3.8 and manylinux2010

## Version 0.2.2

Released

- Fix node comparison

## Version 0.2.1

Released

- Add optional `include_text` parameter for the `iter` and `traverse` methods

## Version 0.2.0

Released

- Fix `iter()` does not yield text nodes
- Switch from TravisCI to Github Actions
- Build and ship wheels for Windows, MacOS and Linux using Azure Pipelines
- Add `unwrap` and `unwrap_tags` method ([#7](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/7))
- Add `replace_with` method ([#13](https://github.com/rushter/selectolax/issues/13))
- Add `attrs` property
- Add `traverse` method