v0.9.0

• Schemas updated to include minVersion and maxVersion metadata to define which Mapfile keywords are valid
  for different versions of MapServer
• A new schema command line tool to export Mapfile schemas for different versions of MapServer
• Allow Mapfile validation based on a specific version of MapServer
• Add better error message when incorrect dicts are passed to printer
• Add py38 to continuous integration testing
• Add command line scripts to continuous integration testing
• Fix CONNECTIONOPTIONS formatted output
• Update to lark-parser 0.9.0
• #109 - Add validation based on MapServer version
• #96 - Unquoted Unicode strings cause parsing errors
• #102 - Added support for accented-latin in unquoted strings (Issue #96) - thanks @erezsh
• #97 - Allow for negative expressions
• #101 - Fix for issue #97 (unary negation) - thanks @erezsh
• #85 - Coding of NOT logical expression
• #100 - Allowing non-bracketed NOT expression (Issue #85) - thanks @erezsh

v0.8.4

• Update to lark-parser 0.7.8
• #95 - Allow Mapfile input from io.StringIO as well
  as from a file - thanks @ianturton for pull request
• #93 - fix to ensure Mapfiles are closed after reading
• #89 - List expressions with spaces in the attributes fail to
  parse - thanks @ianturton for fix

v0.8.3

• Update to lark-parser 0.7.7
• Update to jsonref 0.2
• Add automated releases to GitHub using Appveyor
• Add automated releases to PyPI using Appveyor
• Add missing CLASS properties to JSON schema
• Additional tests for CaseInsensitiveOrderedDict and EXPRESSIONs
• #37 LIKE not recognised in FILTER - thanks @ianturton for fix
• #87 JSON schema add join tag- thanks @hugbe8 for fix

v0.8.2

• #74 - Map files containing Unicode can fail in mappyfile.load with
  python2.7 thanks @ianturton
• #73 - Deepcopy not working (Python3 >=3.5) - thanks @guardeivid
• Add support for CLUSTER keyword along with schema changes and tests

v0.8.1

• Fix comments on root objects in a MapFile
• Fix issues with duplicated METADATA keys and comments
• Fix ReadTheDocs build
• Add more sample MapFiles for testing to the project

v0.8.0

• Update code to work with Lark 0.6.6 (see #71)
• New end_comment option for pprint - Add a comment with the block type at each closing END statement e.g. END # MAP (see request #69)
• Add **kwargs to main API to allow greater flexibility with plugins
• Fix DeprecationWarnings relating to Python 3.7.2 (thanks @tigerfoot for the #72 report)
• Tested use with new jsonschema 3.0.0 release

v0.7.6

• Deprecated write function removed from the API and codebase
• Update OFFSET validation to allow attribute bindings - see MapServer/MapServer-documentation#256
• #68 Support pickling of DefaultOrderedDict in Python3
• #67 Fix deprecation warnings for grammar regular expressions in Python 3.6
• #65 Handle hexadecimal color translucence

v0.7.5

• Save tokens for value lists
• Update README and fix example code

v0.7.4

• Support for modulus operator
• Allow custom transformers to be used with kwargs

v0.7.1

• Breaking Change utils.dictfind renamed utils.findkey
• new dictionary update function - allowing for easier creation of Mapfiles using YAML
• allow any custom hidden metadata tags of the form __property__ to be used in dicts for custom processing
• Schema validation updates including RANGEITEM and CLUSTER
• Appveyor builds added
• #56 Can't parse expressions with a : in them
• #54 Fix windows cwd name issue in includes - thanks @ianturton