Performance
- use faster bitparallel implementations for distance and ratio
- avoid string copies in distance, ratio and hamming
Fixed
- Fix usage of deprecated Unicode APIs in distance, ratio and hamming
- Fixed incorrect window size inside Jaro and Jaro-Winkler implementation
- Fixed incorrect exception messages
- Fixed multiple bugs which prevented the use as C library, since some functions
only got defined when compiling for Python - Fixed incorrect allocation size in lev_editops_matching_blocks and
lev_opcodes_matching_blocks
Changed
- Maintainership passed to Max Bachmann
- Removed unused functions and compiler specific hacks
- Split the Python and C implementations to simplify building of
the C library - Build and deliver python wheels for the library