Major Updates
Support for numpy conventions verification has been added (#129, #226).
Support for Python 2.6 has been dropped (#206, #217).
Support for PyPy3 has been temporarily dropped, until it will be equivalent to CPython 3.3+ and supported by pip (#223).
Support for the pep257 console script has been dropped. Only the pydocstyle console script should be used (#216, #218).
Errors are now printed to stdout instead of stderr (#201, #210).
New Features
Decorator-based skipping via --ignore-decorators has been added (#204).
Support for using pycodestyle style wildcards has been added (#72, #209).
Superfluous opening quotes are now reported as part of D300 (#166, #225).
Fixed a false-positive recognition of D410 and added D412 (#230, #233).
Added --config= flag to override the normal config file discovery and choose a specific config file (#117, #247).
Support for specifying error codes with partial prefix has been added, e.g., --select=D101,D2 (#72, #209).
All configuration file can now have the .ini extension (#237).
Added better imperative mood checks using third party stemmer (#235, #68).
Bug Fixes
Made parser more robust to bad source files (#168, #214)
Modules are now considered private if their name starts with a single underscore. This is a bugfix where “public module” (D100) was reported regardless of module name (#199, #222).
Removed error when all is a list (#62, #227).
Fixed a bug where the @ sign was used as a matrix multiplication operator in Python 3.5, but was considered a decorator by the parser (#246, #191).