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w3lib release notes
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2.5.0 (unreleased)
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- Significantly improved performance of URL-processing functions, including
:func:`~w3lib.url.safe_url_string`, :func:`~w3lib.url.canonicalize_url`,
:func:`~w3lib.url.url_query_cleaner`, :func:`~w3lib.url.add_or_replace_parameter`,
and others (#256, #257).

- Improved performance of :func:`~w3lib.html.remove_tags`,
:func:`~w3lib.html.remove_tags_with_content`,
:func:`~w3lib.html.unquote_markup`, and
:func:`~w3lib.html.get_meta_refresh` (#256).

- :func:`~w3lib.html.get_meta_refresh` no longer prints HTML content to
stdout when a :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError` is raised (#256).

- Added benchmarks for URL, HTML, and encoding functions (#247).

2.4.1 (2026-03-20)
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