Merge pull request #37 from scrapinghub/revive-news

Revive NEWS file from GIT history

Author: chekunkov

NEWS

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+python-scrapinghub release notes
+================================
+
+1.9.0 (2016-11-02)
+------------------
+
+- `python-hubstorage`_ merged into python-scrapinghub
+- all tests are improved and rewritten with py.test
+- hubstorage tests use vcrpy cassettes, work faster and don't require any external services to run
+
+`python-hubstorage`_ is going to be considered deprecated,
+its next version will contain a deprecation warning and a proposal
+to use python-scrapinghub >=1.9.0 instead.
+
+1.8.0 (2016-07-29)
+------------------
+
+- python 3 support & unittests
+- add retries on httplib.HTTPException
+- update scrapinghub api endpoint
+
+1.7.0 (2014-07-25)
+------------------
+
+- basic py3.3 compatibility while keeping py2.7 compatibility
+- update setup.py classifiers
+
+1.6.2 (2014-07-01)
+------------------
+
+- fix travis workaround deploying on tags
+
+1.6.1 (2014-07-01)
+------------------
+
+- packaging improvements
+- cleaner implementation of project.job()
+
+1.6.0 (2014-03-14)
+------------------
+
+- support retreiving a fixed amount of items
+
+1.5.0 (2014-01-29)
+------------------
+
+- switch to dash secure endpoint
+
+1.4.4 (2013-12-18)
+------------------
+
+- log download failure as error only if all attempts exhausted
+
+1.4.3 (2013-11-25)
+------------------
+
+- update travis config to match travis-ci (pypy updated to 2.2)
+- update pypi credentials
+
+1.4.2 (2013-11-25)
+------------------
+
+- add python 3 to travis-ci matrix
+
+1.4.1 (2013-11-25)
+------------------
+
+- tox, travis-ci and pypi uploads
+- pypi uploads only on Python 2.7 success
+- run tests under pypy 2.1 in travis-ci
+
+1.4.0 (2013-09-04)
+------------------
+
+- add bindings for autoscraping api
+
+1.3.0 (2013-08-26)
+------------------
+
+- add a way to set starting offset
+- suport requesting meta fields
+
+1.2.1 (2013-08-22)
+------------------
+
+- resume item downloads on network errors
+
+1.2.0 (2013-08-08)
+------------------
+
+- add support for stopping a job
+- project.name is deprecated in favour of project.id
+- use stricter arguments for Connection constructor
+- point to dash.scrapinghub.com api endpoint by default
+- enable streaming with requests >= 1.0
+
+1.1.1 (2012-10-24)
+------------------
+
+- added automatic retry to items download, when the request fails
+
+1.1 (2012-10-19)
+----------------
+
+- report correct version on user-agent string
+- ported to uses Requests library (instead of urllib2)
+- added support for gzip transfer encoding to increase API throughput on low
+  bandwidth connections
+- deprecated first url argument of scrapinghub.Connection object
+- added support for loading API key from SH_APIKEY environment variable
+
+0.1 (2011-08-15)
+----------------
+
+First release of python-scrapinghub.
+
+
+.. _python-hubstorage: https://github.com/scrapinghub/python-hubstorage