Release 3.5.1

Fixed

• fix compilation failure on macOS

Release 3.5.0

Changed

• skip pandas pd.NA similar to None
• add score_multiplier argument to process.cdist which allows multiplying the end result scores
  with a constant factor.
• drop support for Python 3.7

Performance

• improve performance of simd implementation for LCS / Indel / Jaro / JaroWinkler
• improve performance of Jaro and Jaro Winkler for long sequences
• implement process.extract with limit=1 using process.extractOne which can be faster

Fixed

• the preprocessing function was always called through Python due to a broken C-API version check
• fix wraparound issue in simd implementation of Jaro and Jaro Winkler

Release 3.4.0

Changed

• upgrade to Cython==3.0.3
• add simd implementation for Jaro and Jaro Winkler

Release 2.15.2

Since rapidfuzz v2.x is still widely used, Python 3.12 support is backported to rapidfuzz v2.x.

Added

• add python 3.12 support

Release 3.3.1

Added

• add missing tag for python 3.12 support

Release 3.3.0

Changed

• upgrade to Cython==3.0.2
• implement the remaining missing features from the C++ implementation in the pure Python implementation

Added

• added support for Python 3.12

Release 3.2.0

Changed

• build x86 with sse2/avx2 runtime detection

Release 3.1.2

Changed

• upgrade to Cython==3.0.0

Release 3.1.1

Changed

• upgrade to taskflow==3.6

Fixed

• replace usage of isnan with std::isnan which fixes the build on NetBSD

Release 3.1.0

Changed

• added keyword argument pad to Hamming distance. This controls whether sequences of different
  length should be padded or lead to a ValueError
• improve consistency of exception messages between the C++ and pure Python implementation
• upgrade required Cython version to Cython==3.0.0b3

Fixed

• fix missing GIL restore when an exception is thrown inside process.cdist
• fix incorrect type hints for the process module