0.3.0

Perceval 0.3.0 - (2016-09-19)

New features and improvements:

• New set of backends added:
  • Phabricator
  • Redmine
• Add support for creating PyPi packages

Backend improvements:

• jira
  • fetch additional information about custom fields
• mediawiki
  • add a flag which ignores the MAX_RECENT_DAYS constraint when the
    backend is tested

Bugs fixed:

• Cache tests for Redmine backend checked the values retrieved from the
  repository but not from the cache.
• Timestamps generated to fetch data from a given date included invalid
  timezone information for Mediawiki API (>=1.27). It only works with Zulu
  dates. (#54)
• Date strings that included information after the timezone were not parsed:
  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:07:59 +0200 CEST. (#57)

0.2.0

Perceval 0.2.0 - (2016-07-20)

New features and improvements:

• New set of backends added:
  • Bugzilla (REST API)
  • Confluence
  • Discourse
  • Gmane
  • Jenkins
  • Kitsune (Mozilla)
  • Mediawiki
  • Pipermail
  • ReMo (Mozilla)
  • Supybot
  • Telegram
• The origin of the fetched data is configurable.
• Unit tests for GitHub, Jira and Stack Exchange were added. Other tests
  were added and improved. Now, the unit tests framework covers a 83% of
  the source code.

Backend improvements:

• gerrit
  • support server version 2.8
• git
  • filtering by branches
  • so far, the full log was read before parsing it; now, it is parsed and processed
    while is being read
• github
  • full control of GitHub API rate limit
  • the program can be sent to sleep until the rate limit is reset again
• mbox
  • fetches messages since a given date
• pipermail
  • fetches messages from a mod_mbox interface (i.e: Apache)

Bugs fixed:

• Dates that included parentheses sections were not parsed:
  2005 15:20:32 -0100 (GMT+1).
• An encoding error was raised when version.py module was imported. (#32)
• The call in chain of functions utcnow() and timestamp() from the
  module time, produced wrong timezones on the GitHub backend.
• Action IRC messages (leading with a single *) were ignored. (#48)
• The backoff field received in a Stack Exchange API response was
  ignored. When this field is set, any client must wait the number of
  seconds specified on it before sending any new request.
• The query used in Gerrit to retrieve the reviews was badly formed when
  the blacklist filter contained two or more reviews. (#50)

0.1.0

Perceval 0.1.0 - (2016-03-30)

New features and improvements:

• Supports Python 3.4 and newer versions.
• Fetches and caches information from several software repositories:
  • Bugzilla
  • Gerrit
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Jira
  • MBox
  • Stack Exchange
• Metadata fields are added to fetched items.
• Dates and times used to request data are always converted to UTC.
• Unit testing framework is available. Currently, these
  unit tests cover the 62% of the source code.

Bugs fixed:

• Some Git commit log entries may not contain information about files.
  Before this was fixed, Perceval raised an exception with a "Unexpected
  end of log stream" message. (#8)
• Empty Git commit logs raised erros when were parsed. (#17)
• Character ^M) produced some parsing errors in the Git backend. (#21)