v0.952 2008-08-28

• Export C symbols via PL_modglobal.

v0.951 2008-08-21

• Fix Perl 5.6.2 compatibility.
• Specify Perl 5.6.2 as a minimum version.

v0.95 2008-08-17

• Add Hungarian, Romanian, and Turkish.
• Export Snowball C symbols via DynaLoader.

v0.941 2006-08-18

• Add ExtUtils::CBuilder and ExtUtils::ParseXS as dependencies now that Module::Build doesn't do it's own C handling.

v0.94 2006-02-14

• new maintainer Marvin Humphrey
• improved speed
• new method stem_in_place() added
• UTF-8 stemmers added
• encoding parameter, plus new method encoding() added
• updated to latest version of libstemmer_c from snowball.tartarus.org
• many internal changes
• change from EUMM to Module::Build
• apostrophe stripping is now always on and handled natively for English
• strip_apostrophes() method deprecated; now has no impact on stemming behavior (and no longer triggers segfaults)
• locale() method and constructor parameter deprecated; locale never had any effect except to influence the automatic lowercasing performed by stem(), and that was only theoretical (none of the test vocab was affected by it).
• removed bin/add_stemmer.pl
• added bin/benchmark_stemmers.plx
• added bin/generate_tests.plx
• updated documentation

v0.93 2005-07-28

• fix ticket #13900 : cease stripping of empty array elements be careful that this fix may break your scripts
• fix ticket #13898 : apostrophe s in English stemmer
• new method strip_apostrophes() added

v0.92 2005-05-22

• removed deprecated 'snowball' function
• added tests for Pod and Pod coverage
• moved add_stemmer.pl in bin subdirectory
• renamed private function (added _)

v0.91 2005-05-10

• don't stem empty words

v0.9 2005-02-07

• fix doc ticket #11286 : Error in documentation use of 'english' as valid language descriptor
• fix directory mode in CPAN distribution
• added 3-subclass.t test file
• updated ppport.h

v0.8 2004-08-29

• fix ticket #7909 : typo in getlang
• fix ticket #7910 : Lingua::Stem::Snowball::stem does not allow subclassing

v0.7 2004-07-09

• fix ticket #6884 : cp is not portable

v0.6 2004-05-06

• fix a bug in the test suite if there is no locale available
• fix version numbering due a problem in 0.04 release (0.4 !)

v0.05 2004-04-30

• fix a little bug in the test suite

v0.04 2004-04-30

• new maintainer fabpot@cpan.org
• now include all stemmers from snowball
• more tests
• fix various bugs and docs
• add a benchmark with Lingua::Stem
• ...

v0.03.1 2002-09-11

• Change URL of snowball site (http://snowball.tartarus.org)
• Fix some wordings
• Modify testsnowball.pl script

v0.03 2002-03-04

• add locale support

v0.02 2002-02-14

• little documentation fixes, added test script

v0.01 2002-02-14

• Initial release