• Added official support for the upcoming Python 3.13
• Removed w3lib from direct dependencies (it's not used directly but is an indirect dependency via parsel)
• Improved CI

• Fixed an error when using nested loaders with empty matches that was introduced in 1.3.0

• Added support for method chaining to the add_* and replace_* methods
• Added type hints and py.typed
• Made the docs builds reproducible

• Added official support for Python 3.12 and PyPy 3.10
• Removed official support for Python 3.7
• Improved performance of itemloaders.utils.arg_to_iter
• Fixed test expectations on recent Python versions
• Improved CI

• Added JMESPath support (ItemLoader.add_jmes etc.), requiring Parsel 1.8.1
• Added official support for Python 3.11
• Removed official support for Python 3.6
• Internal code cleanup
• Added pre-commit support and applied changes from black and flake8
• Improved CI

Fixes a regression introduced in 1.0.5 that would cause the re parameter of ItemLoader.add_xpath and similar methods to be passed to lxml, which would trigger an exception when the value of re was a compiled pattern and not a string (#56).

• Allow additional args to be passed when calling ItemLoader.add_xpath (#48)
• Fixed missing space in an exception message (#47)
• Updated company name in author and copyright sections (#42)
• Added official support for Python 3.9 and improved PyPy compatibility (#44)
• Added official support for Python 3.10 (#53)