2.5.0

What's Changed

• Added a new function called year_length(), which calculates the total number of days in a Hijri year.
• Changed the validate argument when instantiating Hijri objects to be a keyword-only argument.
• Changed the padding argument for dmyformat() functions to be a keyword-only argument.
• Improved exception messages to display the values provided by the user.
• Improved type hints for supported natural languages.
• Improved readability and documentation of several functions.
• Improved reliability of some tests.
• Fixed typos in English Hijri month names.
• Fixed miscellaneous formatting and linting issues.
• Published the package on Zenodo to become citable by researchers.
• Updated development tools, workflows, and documentation.

2.4.1

• Fixed some typos.

2.4.0

• Dropped support for Python 3.7 and added support for Python 3.12.
• Fixed a typo in the Bangla translation. (By @nokibsarkar in #18)
• Changed documentation theme along with other enhancements.

2.3.0

IMPORTANT

The hijri-converter package has been renamed to hijridate in preparation
for the upcoming major update.

Please use a version specifier e.g. hijridate~=2.3.0 to avoid any breaking
changes in the future.

What's Changed

• Renamed the package to hijridate and deprecated the old name.
• Dropped support for Python 3.6 and added support for Python 3.11.
• Updated documentation and removed badges from the package description.
• Updated development configurations and GitHub actions.
• Changed GitHub username back to @dralshehri and updated related links.

2.2.4

• Added more classifiers to package configuration.
• Fixed location of type-checking marker file. (By @dimbleby in #10)
• Updated development and build requirements.

2.2.3

• Changed GitHub username to @mhalshehri and updated related links.
• Changed package docstrings to Google style and updated documentation.
• Updated development workflows and configurations.
• Other minor fixes and enhancements.

2.2.2

• Added some missing variable annotations to ummalqura module.
• Fixed an issue when generating documentation.
• Fixed some typos in docstrings and improved documentation.
• Other minor fixes and enhancements.

2.2.1

• Fixed calculation of month 12 of the year 1354 AH.
• Fixed an issue when generating documentation without the package being installed. (#7)
• Refactored internal helper functions.
• Updated and improved tests and documentation.
• Fixed some typos.

2.2.0

• Added today() classmethod to Hijri class to get the Hijri object of today's date.
• Added separator and padding parameters to dmyformat() method to have more control on formatting.
• Removed deprecated method slashformat() from Hijri and Gregorian classes.
• Refactored locales for better management and testing. (Inspired by Arrow localization)
• Updated main classes to be conveniently imported into the package level e.g. from hijri_converter import Hijri, Gregorian.
• Updated tests and documentation.
• Other minor fixes and internal enhancements.

2.1.3

• Minor fixes and enhancements for docstrings and documentation.