To install the latest version of python-dotenv simply run:

pip install python-dotenv

OR

poetry add python-dotenv

OR

pipenv install python-dotenv

• ...

• Improve interactive mode detection (@andrewsmith)(#183).
• Refactor parser to fix parsing inconsistencies (@bbc2)(#170).
  • Interpret escapes as control characters only in double-quoted strings.
  • Interpret # as start of comment only if preceded by whitespace.

• Add type hints and expose them to users (@qnighy)(#172)
• load_dotenv and dotenv_values now accept an encoding parameter, defaults to None (@theskumar)(@earlbread)(#161)
• Fix str/unicode inconsistency in Python 2: values are always str now. (@bbc2)(#121)
• Fix Unicode error in Python 2, introduced in 0.10.0. (@bbc2)(#176)

• Fix parsing of variable without a value (@asyncee)(@bbc2)(#158)

• Add support for UTF-8 in unquoted values (@bbc2)(#148)
• Add support for trailing comments (@bbc2)(#148)
• Add backslashes support in values (@bbc2)(#148)
• Add support for newlines in values (@bbc2)(#148)
• Force environment variables to str with Python2 on Windows (@greyli)
• Drop Python 3.3 support (@greyli)
• Fix stderr/-out/-in redirection (@venthur)

• Add --version parameter to cli (@venthur)
• Enable loading from current directory (@cjauvin)
• Add 'dotenv run' command for calling arbitrary shell script with .env (@venthur)

• Add tests for docs (@Flimm)
• Make 'cli' support optional. Use pip install python-dotenv[cli]. (@theskumar)

• set_key and unset_key only modified the affected file instead of parsing and re-writing file, this causes comments and other file entact as it is.
• Add support for export prefix in the line.
• Internal refractoring (@theskumar)
• Allow load_dotenv and dotenv_values to work with StringIO()) (@alanjds)(@theskumar)(#78)

• Remove hard dependency on iPython (@theskumar)

• Add support to override system environment variable via .env. (@milonimrod) (#63)
• Disable ".env not found" warning by default (@maxkoryukov) (#57)

• Add support for special characters \. (@pjona) (#60)

• Fix issue with single quotes (@Flimm) (#52)

• Handle unicode exception in setup.py (#46)

• Fix dotenv list command (@ticosax)
• Add iPython Suport (@tillahoffmann)

• Drop support for Python 2.6
• Handle escaped charaters and newlines in quoted values. (Thanks @iameugenejo)
• Remove any spaces around unquoted key/value. (Thanks @paulochf)
• Added POSIX variable expansion. (Thanks @hugochinchilla)

• Fix find_dotenv - it now start search from the file where this function is called from.

• Add find_dotenv method that will try to find a .env file. (Thanks @isms)

• cli: Added -q/--quote option to control the behaviour of quotes around values in .env. (Thanks @hugochinchilla).
• Improved test coverage.