Changelog

This is the list of changes to this fork of wordcloud between each release. For full details, see the commit logs at the official repository.

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Release Date 2026/07/25

Created a docs group in uv to capture all the Python requirements related to documentation. uv sync --group docs will load the dependencies for building the documentation
Added documentation for tokenising changes that support lemmatised plurals
Published my version of the documentation on my own site

Release Date 4/27/2023

Release Date 11/11/2020

Add support for building wheels for Python 3.8 for all platforms and 32-bit wheels for windows only. See #547 and #549. Contributed by @amueller and @jcfr.

Update CircleCI configuration to use dockcross/manylinux1-x64 image instead of obsolete dockcross/manylinux-x64 one. See #548. Contributed by @jcfr.

Add support to render numbers and single letters using the include_numbers and min_word_length arguments.

Add phx_glr_auto_examples_parrot.py example showing another example of image-based coloring and masks.

Add Using frequency example for understanding how to generate a wordcloud using a dictionary of word frequency. Contributed by @yoonsubKim.
Add create wordcloud with chinese example. Contributed by @FontTian and improved by @duohappy.

Add support for mask contour. Contributed by @jsmedmar.
- Improve Command Line Interface adding support for --contour_width and --contour_color named arguments.
- Improve wordcloud.WordCloud API adding support for contour_width and contour_color keyword arguments.
- Update Masked wordcloud example.
Update wordcloud.WordCloud to support repeat keyword argument. If set to True, indicates whether to repeat words and phrases until max_words or min_font_size is reached. Contributed by @amueller.

Support installation on Linux, macOS and Windows for Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 by updating the Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure and support the automatic creation and upload of wheels to PyPI. Contributed by @jcfr.
- Use scikit-ci to simplify and centralize the CI configuration. By having appveyor.yml, .circleci/config.yml and .travis.yml calling the scikit-ci command-line executable, all the CI steps for all service are described in one scikit-ci.yml configuration file.
- Use scikit-ci-addons to provide a set of scripts useful to help drive CI.
- Simplify release process using versioneer. Release process is now as simple as tagging a release, there is no need to manually update version in __init__.py.
- Remove use of miniconda and instead use manylinux docker images.
Fix installation of the cli on all platforms leveraging entry_points. See #420. Contributed by @jcfr.

wordcloud.WordCloud API
- Fix coloring with black image. Contributed by @amueller.
- Improve error message when there is no space on canvas. Contributed by @amueller.
Command Line Interface
- Fix handling of invalid regexp parameter. Contributed by @jcfr.

Update wordcloud.WordCloud color_func keyword argument documentation explaining how to create single color word cloud. Fix #185. Contributed by @maifeng.
Simplify and improve README. Contributed by @amueller.
Add Command Line Interface document. Contributed by @amueller.
Add Making a release and Changelog documents. Contributed by @jcfr.
Improve sphinx gallery integration. Contributed by @jcfr.

Setup automatic deployment of the website each time the master branch is updated. Contributed by @jcfr.
Update website to use Read the Docs Sphinx Theme. Contributed by @amueller.

Update testing infrastructure. Contributed by @jcfr.
- Switch testing framework from nose to pytest.
- Enforce coding style by running flake8 each time a Pull Request is proposed or the master branch updated.
- Support generating html coverage report locally running pytest, coverage html and opening htmlcov/index.html document.