CHANGELOG

0.5.0

📅 Date 2025-10-11

• 🌞 Highlights:

  • Update to Emoji version 17.0

• 🆕 New:

  • Add is_basic_emoji_character function to determine basic emoji characters

  • Add is_emoji_combining_sequence function to determine emoji combining sequences

• 📚 Documentation:

  • Fix docstring format issues to comply with Sphinx standards

• ⚠️ Breaking Changes:

  • Drop support for Python 3.8

• 🧪 Testing:

  • Add Python 3.14 support in CI and test scripts

0.4.1

📅 Date 2025-09-23

• 🌞 Highlights:

  • Update to Emoji version 17.0

• 🏗️ Build:

  • Optimize pyproject.toml

0.4

📅 Date 2024-12-06

• 🌞 Highlights:

  • Update to Emoji version 16.0

• ❎ Removed:

  • sequence module no longer initialized when importing.

• 🖊️ Changes:

  • Since sequence module no longer initialized when importing, users should manually load emoji data into memory by calling helper.load_emoji_data, and can optionally release it by calling helper.unload_emoji_data.

  • In helper module, rename make_emoji_regex_dict to initial_emoji_patterns, clear_emoji_regex_dict to release_emoji_patterns, get_emoji_regex_dict to get_emoji_patterns

• Misc: Add python 3.13 support in CD/CI

0.3.1

📅 Date 2024-4-28

• 🆕 New:

  • version property for EmojiCharacter and EmojiSequence class, it records in which Emoji version the character or sequence was defined.

  • variation property for EmojiSequence class

0.3

📅 Date 2024-4-21

• 🌞 Highlights:

  • Update to Emoji version 15.1

• 🆕 New Features:

  • #44: Add py.typed file, make the package PEP-561 friendly

• Misc:

  • Add lots of typeshed code

  • Add pre-commit

  • Update Sphinx-docs

  • Other modifications

0.2

• Update:

  • Emoji version 15.0

• Changes:

  • New pyproject.toml setup

  • Iterator of EmojiCharacter and EmojiSequence now return only keys, no more key-value pairs

• Add:

  • release method for EmojiCharacter and EmojiSequence

  • values() and items() method for EmojiCharacter and EmojiSequence

0.1.6

• Date: 2020-01-10

• Add

  • EmojiSequence.__len__

• Misc

  • remove invalid value for classifiers

0.1.5

• Change:

  • Rename module defines to definitions

• Misc

  • Replace Codacy with CodeClimate

  • Fix Circle CI deployment problem

• Unit test:

  • Drop pytest, now use unittest in stdlib

0.1.4

• New

  • Load emojis from emoji-test.txt

  • Include emoji-variations-sequences.txt

  • defines module: many regular expresses according to http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Definitions

• Change

  • Many renamings

  • Some modifications of test-case

0.1.3

• Date: 2019-01-12

• New

  • Importing Emoji Sequence data and new EmojiSequence class

• Change:

  • Re-structure the project

  • Rename EmojiData class to EmojiCharacter

  • Many other changes

• Upgrade:

  • Update emoji data files to 12.0

0.1.2

• Date: 2019-01-10

• New

  • Sphinx documentations

0.1.1

• Date: 2019-01-02

• Fix bugs.

• Add Circle-CI config

0.1.0

• Date: 2018-12-20

First version.