1.9.0 (unreleased)
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Major changes
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* This is last release that will support Python 3.2
* Significant speed up when reading files
* Merged immutable styles
* Type inference is disabled by default
* RawCell renamed ReadOnlyCell
* ReadOnlyCell.internal_value and ReadOnlyCell.value now behave the same as Cell
* Provide no size information on unsized worksheets


Minor changes
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* All tests converted to pytest
* Pyflakes used for static code analysis
* Sample code in the documentation is automatically run
* Support GradientFills
* BaseColWidth set


Pull requests
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#70 Add filterColumn, sortCondition support to AutoFilter
#82 Update API for conditional formatting
#87 Add support for writing Protection styles, others
#89 Better handling of content types when preserving macros


Bug fixes
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#46  - ColumnDimension style error
#137 - Workbooks with chartsheets
#269 - Handling unsized worksheets in IterableWorksheet
#275 - Handling auto filters where there are only custom filters


1.8.6 (2014-05-05)
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Minor changes
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Fixed typo for import Elementtree

Bugfixes
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#279 Incorrect path for comments files on Windows


1.8.5 (2014-03-25)
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Minor changes
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* The '=' string is no longer interpreted as a formula
* When a client writes empty xml tags for cells (e.g. <c r='A1'></c>), reader will not crash


1.8.4 (2014-02-25)
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Bugfixes
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#260 better handling of undimensioned worksheets
#268 non-ascii in formualae
#282 correct implementation of register_namepsace for Python 2.6


1.8.3 (2014-02-09)
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Major changes
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Always parse using cElementTree

Minor changes
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Slight improvements in memory use when parsing

Bugfix #256 - error when trying to read comments with optimised reader
Bugfix #260 - unsized worksheets
Bugfix #264 - only numeric cells can be dates


1.8.2 (2014-01-17)
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Bugfix #247 - iterable worksheets open too many files
Bugfix #252 - improved handling of lxml
Bugfix #253 - better handling of unique sheetnames


1.8.1 (2014-01-14)
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Bugfix #246


1.8.0 (2014-01-08)
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Compatibility
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Support for Python 2.5 dropped.

Major changes
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* Support conditional formatting
* Support lxml as backend
* Support reading and writing comments
* pytest as testrunner now required
* Improvements in charts: new types, more reliable


Minor changes
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* load_workbook now accepts data_only to allow extracting values only from
formulae. Default is false.
* Images can now be anchored to cells
* Docs updated
* Provisional benchmarking
* Added convenience methods for accessing worksheets and cells by key


1.7.0 (2013-10-31)
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Major changes
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Drops support for Python < 2.5 and last version to support Python 2.5


Compatibility
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Tests run on Python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3


Merged pull requests
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#27 Include more metadata
#41 Able to read files with chart sheets
#45 Configurable Worksheet classes
#3 Correct serialisation of Decimal
#36 Preserve VBA macros when reading files
#44 Handle empty oddheader and oddFooter tags
#43 Fixed issue that the reader never set the active sheet
#33 Reader set value and type explicitly and TYPE_ERROR checking
#22 added page breaks, fixed formula serialization
#39 Fix Python 2.6 compatibility
#47 Improvements in styling


Known bugfixes
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#109
#165
#179
#209
#112
#166
#109
#223
#124
#157


Miscellaneous
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Performance improvements in optimised writer

Docs updated
