On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 15:26, Matthew Peveler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We are happy to announce the general release of asciidoc 9.0.0. This release 
> completes the porting of the original asciidoc.py from Python2 to Python 3, 
> as well as a handful of new features and bug fixes. Highlights for the 
> release are that asciidoc now runs on python 3.5+, adds support for docbook5, 
> and uses lru_cache for macros.match method giving a 10-15% speed-up on 
> documents with large numbers of repeated macros. Thanks to all the 
> contributors who have made this long overdue release a reality. Beyond that, 
> using asciidoc 9.0.0 should be similar to previous releases in terms of 
> toolchains.
>

Great, well done!

Cheers
Lex

> Note, the next major release, 10.x, will be a much more major refactoring of 
> the code, with an aim of modernizing it to follow Python best practices, such 
> as breaking apart asciidoc.py into a proper package, get rid of globals (so 
> that subprocess is not used as heavily which should give a nice speed-up), 
> and to make installable via pip through pypi or setup.py. As I expect a 
> potential for some thrashing on tooling with the changes, I will support the 
> 9.x line for a number of years following the release of 10.0.
>
> Please see https://asciidoc.org/CHANGELOG.html#_version_9_0_0_2020_06_02 for 
> the full changelog. Tarball and zip files are available at 
> https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-py3/releases/tag/9.0.0.
>
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