The documentation is now available!

http://packages.python.org/feedparser/

It definitely still needs some love, so please report any bugs that you find.

Current release: 5.1 - December 2, 2011

• Extensive, extensive unit test refactoring
• Convert the Docbook documentation to ReST
• Include the documentation in the source distribution
• Consolidate the disparate README files into one
• Support Jython somewhat (almost all unit tests pass)
• Support Python 3.2
• Fix Python 3 issues exposed by improved unit tests
• Fix international domain name issues exposed by improved unit tests
•  Issue 148  (loose parser doesn't always return unicode strings)
•  Issue 204  (FeedParserDict behavior should not be controlled by assert)
•  Issue 247  (mssql date parser uses hardcoded tokyo timezone)
•  Issue 249  (KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit exceptions being caught)
•  Issue 250  (updated can be a 9-tuple or a string, depending on context)
•  Issue 252  (running setup.py in Python 3 fails due to missing sgmllib)
•  Issue 253  (document that text/plain content isn't sanitized)
•  Issue 260  (Python 3 doesn't decompress gzip'ed or deflate'd content)
•  Issue 261  (popping from empty tag list)
•  Issue 262  (docs are missing from distribution files)
•  Issue 264  (vcard parser crashes on non-ascii characters)
•  Issue 265  (http header comparisons are case sensitive)
•  Issue 271  (monkey-patching sgmllib breaks other libraries)
•  Issue 272  (can't pass bytes or str to parse() in Python 3)
•  Issue 275  (_parse_date() doesn't catch OverflowError)
•  Issue 276  (mutable types used as default values in parse())
•  Issue 277  (python3 setup.py install fails)
•  Issue 281  (_parse_date() doesn't catch ValueError)
•  Issue 282  (_parse_date() crashes when passed None)
•  Issue 285  (crash on empty xmlns attribute)
•  Issue 286  ('apos' character entity not handled properly)
•  Issue 289  (add an option to disable microformat parsing)
•  Issue 290  (Blogger's invalid img tags are unparseable)
•  Issue 292  (atom id element not explicitly supported)
•  Issue 294  ('categories' key exists but raises KeyError)
•  Issue 297  (unresolvable external doctype causes crash)
•  Issue 298  (nested nodes clobber actual values)
•  Issue 300  (performance improvements)
•  Issue 303  (unicode characters cause crash during relative uri resolution)
• Remove "Hot RSS" support since the format doesn't actually exist
• Remove the old feedparser.org website files from the source
• Remove the feedparser command line interface
• Remove the Zope interoperability hack
• Remove extraneous whitespace

Previous releases: 5.0.1 - February 20, 2011

• Fix  issue 91  (invalid text in XML declaration causes sanitizer to crash)
• Fix  issue 254  (sanitization can be bypassed by malformed XML comments)
• Fix  issue 255  (sanitizer doesn't strip unsafe URI schemes)

5.0 - January 25, 2011

• Improved MathML support
• Support microformats (rel-tag, rel-enclosure, xfn, hcard)
• Support IRIs
• Allow safe CSS through sanitization
• Allow safe HTML5 through sanitization
• Support SVG
• Support inline XML entity declarations
• Support unescaped quotes and angle brackets in attributes
• Support additional date formats
• Added the request_headers argument to parse()
• Added the response_headers argument to parse()
• Support multiple entry, feed, and source authors
• Officially make Python 2.4 the earliest supported version
• Support Python 3
• Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes