2025.7.5.1

Small patch release here! I don't know if many users import xword_dl as a library, but yesterday's release accidentally changed the way it exposes its core functions. This patch release restores the ability to use xword_dl.by_keyword() and xword_dl.by_url() functions at the top level, and does nothing else.

2025.7.5

Big code quality release! The MVP here is @afontenot, who walked me through a pretty comprehensive review, adding type hinting and a bunch of other fixes that have improved the maintainability of the code base and reduced the risk of weird bugs. More on that to come. I've also run everything through ruff formatting and will be aiming to standardize and automate that in the near future.

• Fixed Puzzmo downloaders, Washington Post downloader, Der Standard downloader, LA Times downloader
• Dropped Support for Python 3.9. This one's a little more aggressive than usual because it's not quite EOL, but with the new typing stuff the union type pipe syntax helped a lot so we're rolling with it.

2025.5.8

Another focused release while we await my promised Big Review release, but some good stuff in here.

• Fixed Washington Post downloader to accommodate some changes on their end
• Added support for Puzzmo Big, as well as general Puzzmo search-by-date. Puzzmo is one of my favorite outlets these days, with a great online solver and other games, and I encourage you to subscribe!. Also I have to give a combination shout-out/apology to @afontenot who suggested a great approach to search-by-date in #203 that I should have just merged then, but I waited too long, and it ended up getting scooped by some changes on Puzzmo's end that simplified things.
• Dropped support for Python 3.8, which has been EOL for 6 months or so. In this case it was to use the fancy native time zone support, but in general it's nice that the language keeps maturing and improving!