2018-05-15 - Version 3.0a4 - "Kakistocrat"

This release is the fifth alpha release of the new version 3.0. Please
be aware that the API will still change until v3.0 is released.

changes
^^^^^^^
- raise exception when TypeError occurs in cashdraw (python-escpos#268)
- Feature/clear content in dummy printer (python-escpos#271)
- fix is_online() (python-escpos#282)
- improve documentation
- Modified submodule to always pull from master branch (python-escpos#283)
- parameter for implementation of nonnative qrcode (python-escpos#289)
- improve platform independence (python-escpos#296)

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Christoph Heuel
- Patrick Kanzler
- kennedy
- primax79
- reck31
- Thijs Triemstra

2017-10-08 - Version 3.0a3 - "Just Testing"

This release is the fourth alpha release of the new version 3.0. Please
be aware that the API will still change until v3.0 is released.

changes
^^^^^^^
- minor changes in documentation, tests and examples
- pickle capabilities for faster startup
- first implementation of centering images and QR
- check barcodes based on regex

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Patrick Kanzler
- Lucy Linder
- Romain Porte
- Sergio Pulgarin

v3.0a2: alpha of major release Version 3.0a2

This release is the third alpha release of the new version 3.0. Please
be aware that the API will still change until v3.0 is released.

changes
^^^^^^^
- refactor of the set-method
- preliminary support of POS "line display" printing
- improvement of tests
- added ImageWidthError
- list authors in repository
- add support for software-based barcode-rendering
- fix SerialException when trying to close device on __del__
- added the DLE EOT querying command for USB and Serial
- ensure QR codes have a large enough border
- make feed for cut optional
- fix the behavior of horizontal tabs
- added test script for hard an soft barcodes
- implemented paper sensor querying command
- added weather forecast example script
- added a method for simpler newlines

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- csoft2k
- Patrick Kanzler
- mrwunderbar666
- Romain Porte
- Ahmed Tahri

alpha of mayjor release version 3.0a1

This release is the second alpha release of the new version 3.0. Please
be aware that the API will still change until v3.0 is released.

changes
^^^^^^^
- automatically upload releases to GitHub
- add environment variable ESCPOS_CAPABILITIES_FILE
- automatically handle cases where full cut or partial cut is not available
- add print_and_feed

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Sam Cheng
- Patrick Kanzler
- Dmytro Katyukha

alpha of major release Version 3.0a

This release is the first alpha release of the new version 3.0. Please
be aware that the API will still change until v3.0 is released.

changes
^^^^^^^
- change the project's license to MIT in accordance with the contributors (see python-escpos#171)
- feature: add "capabilities" which are shared with escpos-php, capabilities are stored in
  `escpos-printer-db <https://github.com/receipt-print-hq/escpos-printer-db>`_
- feature: the driver tries now to guess the appropriate codepage and sets it automatically (called "magic encode")
- as an alternative you can force the codepage with the old API
- updated and improved documentation
- changed constructor of main class due to introduction of capablities
- changed interface of method `blocktext`, changed behavior of multiple methods, for details refer to the documentation
  on `python-escpos.readthedocs.io <https://python-escpos.readthedocs.io>`_
- add support for custom cash drawer sequence
- enforce flake8 on the src-files, test py36 and py37 on travis

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Michael Billington
- Michael Elsdörfer
- Patrick Kanzler (with code by Frédéric Van der Essen)
- Asuki Kono
- Benito López
- Curtis // mashedkeyboard
- Thijs Triemstra
- ysuolmai

minor release v2.2.0

changes
^^^^^^^
- fix improper API-use in qrcode()
- change setup.py shebang to make it compatible with virtualenvs.
- add constants for sheet mode and colors
- support changing the linespacing

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Michael Elsdörfer
- Patrick Kanzler

bugfix release v2.1.3

changes
^^^^^^^
- configure readthedocs and travis
- update doc with hint on image preprocessing
- add fix for printing large images (by splitting them into multiple images)

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Patrick Kanzler

bugfix release v2.1.2

changes:
- fix File-printer: flush after every call of _raw()
- fix lists in documentation
- fix CODE128: by adding the control character to the barcode-selection-sequence the barcode became unusable

contributors:
- Patrick Kanzler

bugfix release v2.1.1

changes
^^^^^^^
- rename variable interface in USB-class to timeout
- add support for hypothesis and move pypy3 to the allowed failures (pypy3 is not supported by hypothesis)

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Patrick Kanzler
- Renato Lorenzi

release version 2.1.0

changes
 * packaging: configured the coverage-analysis codecov.io
 * GitHub: improved issues-template
 * documentation: add troubleshooting tip to network-interface
 * the module, cli and documentation is now aware of the version of python-escpos
 * the cli does now support basic tabcompletion

contributors
 * Patrick Kanzler