[Python-announce] RELEASE: Beautiful Soup Beautiful Soup 4.13.0 (and 4.13.1)

Leonard Richardson writes:

"After a beta period lasting nearly a year, I've released the biggest update to Beautiful Soup in many years. For version 4.13.0 I added type hints to the Python code, and in doing so uncovered a large number of very small inconsistencies in the code. I've fixed the inconsistencies, but the result is a larger-than-usual number of deprecations and changes that may break backwards compatibility. "

Blog post https://www.crummy.com/2025/02/02/0 "to highlight *just the most important* changes, specifically the changes most likely to make you need (or want) to change your code."

Full CHANGELOG: https://git.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/tree/CHANGELOG

Bugfix release 4.13.1 is out:  https://groups.google.com/g/beautifulsoup/c/M_vgwfO0RLA

If you have questions, send them to the discussion group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/beautifulsoup

If you find a bug, file it on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/

If it's a security vulnerability, report it confidentially through Tidelift: https://tidelift.com/security

Documentation, guidance for enterprise users, and more at the project homepage: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

best,
Sumana Harihareswara