Features:
- Uses Python 3
- C extension modules have been replaced, now uses Beautiful Soup
- Documentation converted to reStructuredText and generated with Sphinx
Changes:
- cmdline: Remove options replaced by plugins and made ineffective in 9.0
- configuration: Update proxy settings support for GNOME 3 and KDE 5
- configuration: login entries must now match the case of form element names
- logging: blacklist has been renamed to failures
- checking: Handle HTTP status code 429: Too Many Requests with
a new warning: WARN_URL_RATE_LIMITED, instead of an error - checking: Use timeout when fetching login forms and robots.txt
- checking: login forms with only one field are supported
- checking: slack and whatsapp added to the list of ignored schemes
- tests: Test coverage has been increased
- biplist is no longer used because plistlib now supports binary files
- dnspython and miniboa are no longer included
- Custom MANIFEST check replaced with check-manifest
- Code now passes flake8 checks
Fixes:
- configuration: status=0 is no longer ignored
- logging: Fix CSV logger not recognising base part setting
- logging: Fix CSV output containing increasing number of null byte characters.
- checking: Fix treating data: URIs in srcset values as links
- checking: Fix critical exception if srcset value ends with a comma
- checking: Fix critical exception when parsing a URL with a ]
- plugins: The AnchorCheck plugin is working again
- plugins: The W3C validation API has changed, CssSyntaxCheck has been updated,
HtmlSyntaxCheck plugin is disabled - doc: Multiple man page and other documentation updates