What's New

New Scorers

• Added token_set_ratio, qratio, and wratio scorers

Custom Python Scorers

• Support for passing custom Python scorer functions with proper GIL management for thread safety

Performance

• Levenshtein distance rewritten using Myers' bit-parallel algorithm for significantly faster matching
• batch_match optimized with pre-normalization and caching to avoid redundant work

Platform Support

• OpenMP support on macOS via Homebrew libomp for parallel batch operations

Type Hints

• Improved type annotations across the public API and .pyi stub file for better IDE support and autocomplete

Normalization

• Simplified and more robust Unicode normalization with expanded test coverage

Documentation

• Full documentation site built with MkDocs and mkdocstrings, including API reference, installation guide, and performance notes
• Improved docstrings throughout the codebase with syntax highlighting and usage examples