compromise uses semver, and pushes to npm and github frequently

- **Major** is a breaking api change - method or response changes that can cause runtime errors.
- **Minor** is a behaviour change - Tagging or grammar changes.
- **Patch** is an obvious, non-controversial bugfix.

While all _Major_ releases should be reviewed, our only _large_ releases are **v6** in 2016 **v12** in 2019 and **v14** in 2022. Others have been mostly incremental.

<!-- #### [planned breaking]
- fix doc.json(0) inconsistency
- fix text() options
- deprecate #Participle for #PastParticiple
- run chunker only when necessary
- cleanup verb+noun metadata in json()
- remove confidence numbers
-->

<!-- #### 14.13.0 [Unreleased]
- **[fix]** - .not() overlap detection
- **[fix]** - .before() .after()
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#### 14.15.1 [May 2026]
- **[fix]** - better textual time parsing - "one thirty am"
- **[fix]** - ignore postinstall scripts 
- **[update]** - github action for publish providence
- **[update]** - dependencies + audit fixes

#### 14.15.0 [Feb 2026]
- **[update]** - support for Typescript 7 #1198
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.14.5 [Dec 2025]
- **[fix]** - update types #1181 
- **[update]** - add nelissa and gert #1180 
- **[fix]** - sentence tokenization issues #1194 and #1193
- **[update]** - prefer const to let
- **[new]** - experimental cmd-k plugin
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.14.4 [Jan 2025]
- **[fix]** - TypeScript & esm resolution #1165

#### 14.14.3 [Dec 2024]
- **[fix]** - another runtime error in punctuation replace #1150
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.14.2 [Oct 2024]
- **[fix]** - runtime error in punctuation replace #1150

#### 14.14.1 [Oct 2024]
- **[update]** - compromise-dates 3.7.0
- **[fix]** - runtime error in number parser #1145
- **[update]** - dependencies


#### 14.14.0 [July 2024]
- **[new]** - .slashes() and .slashes().split() methods #1100
- **[fix]** - multiple contraction issue #1128
- **[fix]** - toNumbers() return values #1113
- **[fix]** - (plugins/wikipedia) - fix hard-coded path for #1116
- **[fix]** - (plugins/dates) - limit values in `mm/dd` format
- **[fix]** - (plugins/dates) params mutation #1109
- **[change]** - split people names by commas #1111
- **[change]** - typescript export update #1104
- **[update]** - eslint config format
- **[update]** - github actions
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.13.0 [Apr 2024]

- **[new]** - .compute('freeze')
- **[new]** - .debug('freeze')
- **[change]** - allow 3-slashes in a word

#### 14.12.0 [Feb 2024]

- **[new]** - .payload() plugin
- **[new]** - `.numbers().isUnit()` method #1089
- **[change]** - update github workflow (thanks FDawgs!)
- **[fix]** - README issues (thanks track0x1!)
- **[fix]** - .has() inconsistency
- **[new]** - support adding debug methods via plugins
- **[change]** - remove deprecated .debug(object) support
- **[fix]** - parentheses() match issue
- **[fix]** - tokenization issue #1085
- **[new]** - `dates().isBefore()`, `dates().isBefore()` methods
- **[new]** - `.debug('dates')` method
- **[fix]** - lazy join() issue
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.11.2 [Jan 2024]

- **[new]** - support for frozen lex in plugin object #1080
- **[fix]** - toggling options in .json()
- **[new]** - .join() and .joinIf() methods
- **[new]** - support freeze in sweep
- **[change]** - internal typescript improvements
- **[fix]** - tagging issues
- **[change]** - @hasEllipses must be following the word
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.11.1 [Jan 2024]

- **[fix]** - missing words in html output (thanks ryan!)
- **[change]** - better #Possessive tagging for #1074
- **[change]** - improved is/has contraction classifier #1074
- **[change]** - fixes to subordinate clause identification #1072
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.11.0 [Dec 2023]

- **[new]** - tagging `.freeze()` and `.unfreeze()` feature
- **[change]** - stronger deferal to internal lexicon
- **[change]** - support any-length phrases in lexicon
- **[fix]** - prevent missed overlapping lexicon phrases
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.10.1 [Nov 2023]

- **[fix]** - abbreviation checks for sentence-tokenizer #1061
- **[change]** - improve person tagger #1059
- **[change]** - add #FutureTense tag
- **[fix]** - .out() runtime error #1056
- **[fix]** - punctuation loss in .not() #1022
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.10.0 [Aug 2023]

- **[fix]** - verb conjugation fixes
- **[fix]** - tagger fixes
- **[change]** - align package.json with ESM module #1023
- **[fix]** - .splitBefore() bugfix
- **[fix]** - typescript+docs fixes #1023
- **[fix]** - subtle changes to .text() and .isFull()
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.9.0 [May 2023]

- **[new]** - .verbs().toPastParticiple() method
- **[new]** - `.normalize({ debullet: true })` #1004
- **[change]** - typescript path changes (thanks @rotemdan !)
- **[fix]** - suffix tagging issues
- **[fix]** - match syntax issue #997
- **[change]** - keep possessive in replace #1011
- **[change]** - major improvements to adj.toNoun() conjugator
- **[fix]** - parsematch bug #997
- **[fix]** - "there's been" contraction
- **[new]** - .conjugate() methods on Noun/Adverb/Adjective classes
- **[new]** - add Gerund and PastParticiple to .verbs().conjugate() results
- **[new]** - option to keep possessives in .replace() #1011
- **[fix]** - tagger fix #998
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.8.2 [Feb 2023]

- **[change]** - #Actor tagging - in advance of #565
- **[change]** - .noun() lumping changes - in advance of #565
- **[new]** - support japanese full-stop
- **[fix]** - number tagging #992
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.8.1 [Dec 2022]

- **[fix]** - tagging fixes
- **[change]** - allow #Plural acronyms
- **[fix]** - allow root matches in fastOr
- **[fix]** - more flexible PhrasalVerb tagging

#### 14.8.0 [Dec 2022]

- **[fix]** - tagging fixes
- **[new]** - add Person .presumedMale(), .presumedFemale() methods
- **[new]** - add Pronoun class, .refersTo()
- **[new]** - add Noun.references()
- **[new]** - .nouns('spencer') shorthand as an if-match
- **[change]** - "[do] you .." etc now #QuestionWord
- **[new]** - add #Hyphenated tag
- **[fix]** - improved Auxiliary verb tagging
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.7.1 [Nov 2022]

- **[fix]** - concat fix
- **[change]** - tagging fixes
- **[change]** - `{word/tag/sense}` sense-match syntax

#### 14.7.0 [Nov 2022]

- **[new]** - match term id
- **[change]** - tag text by default on .concat('')
- **[change]** - allow modifying term prePunctuation
- **[new]** - .wrap() method
- **[new]** - .isFull() method
- **[new]** - support full `notIf` matches on sweep
- **[fix]** - text params for #953
- **[fix]** - nouns().isSingular() missing
- **[change]** - one-character w/ dash tokenization #977
- **[change]** - allow setting `model.one.prePunctuation` + `postPunctuation`
- **[fix]** - compromise-paragraphs plugin

#### 14.6.0 [Oct 2022]

- **[change]** - move internal conjugation methods
- **[update]** - github scripts
- **[change]** - fixes to .clauses() parser
- **[change]** - an astrix is not a word
- **[new]** - @hasColon method
- **[new]** - @hasDash supports two dashes
- **[new]** - `#Passive` verb tag
- **[new]** - existential `#There` tag
- **[new]** - add tense info to sentence json
- **[fix]** - verb tokenization issues
- **[fix]** - .replace() issues
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.5.2 [Oct 2022]

- **[fix]** - runtime error #965
- **[fix]** - misc possessive tagging issues
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.5.1 [Oct 2022]

- **[fix]** - .remove() fixes
- **[change]** - support « angle quotes »
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.5.0 [August 2022]

- **[fix]** - possible runtime error in setTag method
- **[change]** - make #Honorific always a #Person #951
- **[new]** - manually change conjugations/inflections from plugin #949
- **[new]** - `.adjectives().conjugate()` method
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.4.5 [August 2022]

- **[fix]** - fix logic for greedy-negative matches - #936
- **[fix]** - fix tagging for 3-digit year iso dates - #868
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.4.4 [August 2022]

- **[fix]** - support {root} matches without compromise/two

#### 14.4.3 [August 2022]

- **[fix]** - guard for toRoot methods in root match
- **[update]** - compromise-stats

#### 14.4.2 [July 2022]

- **[fix]** - hotfix for sentence tokenization issue #935

#### 14.4.1 [July 2022]

- **[change]** - improvements to negative-optional match logic - `!foo?`
- **[change]** - support short sentences embedded in quotes+parentheses
- **[change]** - faster sentence tokenizer
- **[change]** - ° symbol is not punctuation
- **[new]** - implement .swap() for comparative/superlative adjectives
- **[fix]** - sentence.toFuture() conjugation rules
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.4.0 [July 2022]

- **[change]** - support root matches like '{walk}' work without doing .compute('root')
- **[change]** - split numbers+units '12km' as contraction - #919
- **[new]** - `.lazy(txt, match)` fast-scan method [1](https://observablehq.com/@spencermountain/compromise-performance)
- **[fix]** - support apostrophes in lexicon #932
- **[fix]** - support unTag property in sweep
- **[change]** - keep sentence caches, when still valid
- **[change]** - alias nlp.compile() to .buildTrie()
- **[fix]** - tagging fixes
- **[update]** - dependencies
  _plugin-releases_: dates, speed, de-compromise

#### 14.3.1 [June 2022]

- **[fix]** - missed caches in .sweep()
- **[new]** - .out('hash') and `.json({hash:true})`

#### 14.3.0 [June 2022]

- **[fix]** - unwanted logging in compromise/one
- **[fix]** - dependency export path for react-native builds #928
- **[change]** - split hyphenated words in match syntax 'foo-bar'
- **[change]** - support 4-digit number-ranges (when not a phone number)
  _plugin-releases_: dates

#### 14.2.1 [June 2022]

- **[fix]** - double-contraction issue #925
- **[fix]** - .not() memleak #926

#### 14.2.0 [June 2022]

- **[fix]** - speed improvements
- **[fix]** - bug with fast-or possessive matches
- **[fix]** - bug with slow-or end-matches
- **[change]** - no-longer attempt 's contractions in compromise/one
- **[new]** - flag novel tags in world.one.tagSet
- **[new]** - .sweep() and nlp.buildNet() methods
- **[new]** - some typescript support in plugins #918
- **[fix]** - better unicode support with Unicode property escapes
- **[fix]** - problems matching on cached documents
- **[fix]** - typescript fixes
- **[fix]** - suffix tagging issues
- **[fix]** - uncached matches missing in .sweep()
- **[fix]** - non-empty results when pointer is first repaired
- **[fix]** - nouns().toPlural() fix for #921
- **[fix]** - drop deprecated .subst() method internally
- **[new]** - some support for .numbers().units() again #919

#### 14.1.2 [April 2022]

- **[new]** - add .harden() .soften() undocumented methods
- **[fix]** - support pre-parsed matches in .has() .if() and .not()
- **[fix]** - contraction OR match issue
- **[fix]** - match-syntax min-max issue
- **[fix]** - normalized printout of abbreviations
- **[update]** - date plugin release
- **[update]** - dependencies

#### 14.1.1 [April 2022]

- **[fix]** - main property in package.json #911

#### 14.1.0 [April 2022]

- **[fix]** - client-side export format for plugins
- **[new]** - more adjective transformation methods
- **[new]** - emoji + emoticon tagger
- **[new]** - case-sensitive match option - `{caseSensitive:true}`

### 🚨 14.0.0 🚨 &nbsp; [March 2022]

Major release - see [Release Notes](https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise/releases/tag/14.0.0) for full details

- **[breaking]** - remove `.parent()` and `.parents()` chain - (use `.all()` instead)
- **[breaking]** - remove `@titleCase` alias (use @isTitleCase)
- **[breaking]** - remove '.get()' alias - use '.eq()'
- **[breaking]** - remove `.json(0)` shorthand - use `.json()[0]`
- **[breaking]** - remove `.tagger()` - use .compute('tagger')
- **[breaking]** - remove `.export()` -> .load() - use .json() -> nlp(json)
- **[breaking]** - remove `nlp.clone()`
- **[breaking]** - remove `.join()` _deprecated_
- **[breaking]** - remove `.lists()` _deprecated_
- **[breaking]** - remove `.segment()` _deprecated_
- **[breaking]** - remove `.sententences().toParticiple()` & `.verbs().toParticiple()`
- **[breaking]** - remove `.nouns().toPossessive()` & `.nouns().hasPlural()`
- **[breaking]** - remove array support in match methods - (use `.match().match()` instead)
- **[breaking]** - refactor `.out('freq')` output format - (uses `.compute('freq').terms().unique().json()` instead)
- **[breaking]** - change `.json()` result format for subsets
- **[change]** merge re-used capture-group names in one match
- **[change]** drop support for undocumented empty '.split()' methods - which used to split the parent
- **[change]** subtle changes to `.text('fmt')` formats
- **[change]** @hasContraction is no-longer secretly-greedy. use `@hasContraction{2}`
- **[change]** `.and()` now does a set 'union' operation of results (no overlaps)
- **[change]** bestTag is now `.compute('tagRank')`
- **[change]** `.sort()` is no longer in-place (its now immutable)
- **[change]** drop undocumented options param to `.replaceWith()` method
- **[change]** add match-group as 2nd param to split methods
- **[change]** remove #FutureTense tag - which is not really a thing in english
- **[change]** `.unique()` no-longer mutates parent
- **[change]** `.normalize()` inputs cleanup
- **[change]** drop agreement parameters in .numbers() methods
- **[change]** - less-magical money parsing - `nlp('50 cents').money().get()` is no-longer `0.5`
- **[change]** - .find() does not return undefined on an empty result anymore
- **[change]** - fuzzy matches must now be wrapped in tildes, like `~this~`
- **[new]** `.union()`, .intersection(), .difference() and .complement() methods
- **[new]** `.confidence()` method - approximate tagging confidence score for arbitrary selections
- **[new]** `.settle()` - remove overlaps in matches
- **[new]** `.isDoc()` - helper-method for comparing two views
- **[new]** `.none()` - helper-method for returning an empty view of the document
- **[new]** `.toView()` method - drop back to a normal Class instance
- **[new]** `.grow()` `.growLeft()` and `.growRight()` methods
- **[new]** add punctuation match support via pre/post params
- **[new]** add ambiguous empty .map() state as 2nd param

#### 13.11.3 [June 2021]

- **[fix]** - regex backtracing issue \#847 (thanks @srubin)
- misc tagging fixes
  update deps

#### 13.11.2 [May 2021]

- **[fix]** - verbphrase conjugation fixes
- **[fix]** - verbphrase tagger fixes
- **[fix]** - url tagging regex improvements (thanks Axay!)
  update deps
  _plugin-releases_: dates

#### 13.11.1 [April 2021]

- **[fix]** - obscure runtime error in capture-groups
  update deps
  _plugin-releases_: typeahead

#### 13.11.0 [April 2021]

- **[change]** - use babel default build target (drop ie11 polyfill)
- **[change]** - dont compile esm build w/ babel anymore
- **[fix]** - sentence conjugation fixes
- **[fix]** - improvements to phrasal verbs
- **[change]** - keep tokenization for some more dashed suffixes like 'snail-like'
  _plugin-releases_: dates, numbers, sentences

#### 13.10.7 [April 2021]

- **[change]** - tokenize '2 - 5' as NumerRange, like '2-5' is
- **[fix]** - edge-cases for URLs with numbers
- **[fix]** - some sentences.toPastTense() fixes
- **[fix]** - 'n weekends from now' math in plugin-date
  _plugin-releases_: dates, sentences

#### 13.10.6 [April 2021]

- **[fix]** - support more time-ranges
  _plugin-releases_: dates@2.0.2

#### 13.10.5 [March 2021]

- **[new]** - support Time-range like '3pm-4pm'
- **[change]** - cleanup some unicode regexes
  _plugin-releases_: dates

#### 13.10.4 [March 2021]

- **[fix]** - match syntax tokenization fix
- **[change]** - improved performance monitoring

#### 13.10.3 [March 2021]

- **[fix]** - support complicated regular-expressions in match syntax
- improved performance testing

#### 13.10.2 [March 2021]

- **[fix]** - support matching implicit terms in (or|blocks)
- **[change]** - add #Timezone tag (from date-plugin)
- **[change]** - add many more cities and regions

#### 13.10.1 [March 2021]

- **[change]** - #Date terms can still be a #Conjunction
- **[new]** - #Imperative tag and `.verbs().isImperative()` method
- **[fix]** - some tagger issues
- update deps
  _plugin-releases_: dates

#### 13.10.0 [Feb 2021]

- **[new]** - #Fraction tag and improved fraction support (thanks Jakeii!)
- **[fix]** - edge-case match issues with `!` syntax
- **[change]** - update deps
- updates for `compromise-dates@1.4.0`, `compromise-numbers@1.2.0`

#### 13.9.3 [Feb 2021]

- **[fix]** - fix weird ordering issue with named exports #815

#### 13.9.2 [Feb 2021]

- **[fix]** - typescript issue

#### 13.9.1 [Feb 2021]

- **[fix]** - matches over a contraction
- **[new]** - add 'implicit' text output

#### 13.9.0 [Feb 2021]

- **[new]** - World.addConjugations() method
- **[new]** - World.addPlurals() method
- **[new]** - start compromise-penn-tags plugin
- **[new]** - add fuzzy option to match commands
- **[new]** - support multiple-word matches in OR matches (a|b|foo bar|c)
- **[change] (internal)** - rename 'oneOf' match syntax to 'fastOr'
- **[change]** - use new export maps format
- **[fix]** - conjugations fixes #800
- **[fix]** - tokenization fixes #801

#### 13.8.0 [Dec 2020]

- **[change]** improved support for fractions in numbers-plugin #793
- **[change]** remove zero-width characters in normalized output #759
- **[change]** improved Person tagging with particles #794
- **[change]** improved i18n Person names
- **[change]** tagger+tokenization fixes
- **[change]** remove empty results from .out('array') #795
- **[change]** `.tokenize()` runs any postProcess() scripts from plugins
- **[change]** improved support for lowercase acronyms
- **[change]** - support years like '97
- **[change]** - change tokenizer for '20-aug'
- **[change]** - update deps of all plugins
- **[fix]** - NumberRange tagging issue #795
- **[fix]** - improved support for ordinal number ranges
- **[fix]** - improved regex support in match-syntax
- **[fix]** - improved support for ~soft~ match syntax #797
- **[fix]** - better handling of `{0,n}` match syntax
- **[new]** - new plugin `strict-match`
- **[new]** - set NounPhrase, VerbPhrase tags in nlp-sentences plugin
- **[new]** - `.phrases()` method in nlp-sentences plugin
- **[new]** - support `.apppend(doc)` and `.prepend(doc)`
- **[new]** - `values.normalize()` method

#### 13.7.0 [Oct 2020]

- **[change]** many misc tagging fixes
  - 'if' is now a #Preposition
  - possessive pronouns are #Pronoun and #Possessive
  - more phrasal verbs
  - make #Participle tag #PastTense
  - favor #PastTense over #Participle interpretation in tagger
- **[change]** `@hasHyphen` returns false for sentence dashes
- a lot more testing

#### 13.6.0 [Oct 2020]

- **[new]** first-attempt at `verbs().subject()` method
- **[change]** avoid conjugating imperative tense - 'please close the door'
- **[change]** misc tagging fixes #786
- **[change]** .nouns() results split on quotations #783
- **[change]** NumberRange must be < 4 digits #735
- **[change]** reduction in #Person tag false-positives

#### 13.5.0 [Sep 2020]

- **[new]** add `.parseMatch()` method for pre-parsing match statements

#### 13.4.0 [Sep 2020]

- **[change]** stop including adverbs and some auxiliaries in `.conjugate()` results
- **[change]** .append() and .prepend() on an empty doc now creates a new doc
- **[new]** add `verbs().toParticiple()` method (add to observables/verb)
- **[new]** add `sentences().toParticiple()` method (add to observables/verb)
- **[fix]** some verb-tagging issues
- **[fix]** contractions issue in `.clone()`
- **[fix]** try harder to retain modal-verbs in conjugation - 'i should drive' no-longer becomes 'i will drive'

#### 13.3.2 [Aug 2020]

- fix for offset issue #771
- fix for `{min,max}` syntax #767
- typescript fixes
- update deps

#### 13.3.1 [June 2020]

-support unicode spaces for #759

- major improvements to `compromise-plugin-dates` (1.0.0)

#### 13.3.0 [June 2020]

- bugfixes (conjugation and tagging) 752, 737, 725, 751, 743 748, 755, 758, 706, 761
- support tokenized array as input
- update deps
- bugfix updates to `plugin-sentences`, and `plugin-dates`

#### 13.2.0 [May 2020]

- deprecate `.money()` and favour overloaded method in compromise-numbers plugin
- add `.percentages()` and `.fractions()` to compromise-numbers plugin
- add `.hasAfter()` and `.hasBefore()` methods
- change handling of slashes
- add `.world()` method to constructor
- add more abbreviations
- fix regex backtracking #739
- tokenize build:
- - remove conjugation and inflection data
- - remove conjugation and inflection functions
- remove sourcemap from build process (too big)
- improvements to `.numbers().units()`
- fix for linked-list runtime error #744 with contractions

#### 13.1.1

- fix `verbs.json()` runtime-error
- improve empty `.lists()` methods
- allow custom tag colors
- test new github action workflow

#### 13.1.0

- significant (~30%) speed up of parsing
- change sensitivity of input in `.lookup()` for major speed improvements.
- improved typescript types
- subtle changes to internal caching
- adds 'oneOf' match syntax param
- fixes `[word?]` syntax parsing

### 13.0.0 [Feb 2020]

_major changes to `.export()` and `[capture] group` match-syntax._

- **[breaking]** move .export() and .load() methods to plugin (compromise-export)
- - change .export() format - this hasn't worked properly since v12. (mis-parsed contractions) see #669
- **[breaking]** split `compromise-output` into `compromise-html` and `compromise-hash` plugins
- **[breaking]** `.match('foo [bar]')` no-longer returns 'bar'. (use `.match('foo [bar]', 0)`)
- **[breaking]** capture groups are no longer merged. `.match('[foo] [bar]')` returns two groups accessible with the new `.groups()` function
- **[breaking]** change `.sentences()` method to return only full-sentences of matches (use `.all()` instead)

modifications:

- **[fix]** - nlp.clone() - hasn't worked properly, since v12. (@Drache93)
- **[fix]** - issues with greedy capture [*] and [.+] -(@Drache93) 💛
- add whitespace properties (pre+post) to default json output (suppress with `.json({ whitespace: false })`)
- `.lookup({ key: val })` with an object now returns an object back ({val: Doc})
- add nlp constructor as a third param to `.extend()`
- support lexicon object param in tokenize - `.tokenize('my word', { word: 'tag' })`
- clean-up of scripts and tooling
- improved typescript types
- add support for some french contractions like `j'aime -> je aime`
- allow null results in `.map()` function
- better typescript support
- allow longer acronyms
- **[fix]** - offset length issue
- **[new]** - add new named-match syntax, with .groups() method (@Drache93)
- **[new]** - add `nlp.fromJSON()` method
- **[new]** - add a new `compromise-tokenize.js` build, without the tagger, or data included.

#### 12.3.0 [Jan 2020]

- prefer `@titleCase` instead of `#TitleCase` tag
- update dependencies
- fix case-sensitive paths
- fix greedy-start match condition regression #651
- fix single period sentence runtime error
- fix potentially-unsafe regexes
- improved tagging for '-ed' verbs (#616)
- improve support for auxilary-pastTense ('was lifted') verb-phrases
- more robust number-tagging regexes
- setup typescript types for plugins #661 (thanks @Drache93!)
- verb conjugation and tagger bugfixes
- disambiguate between acronyms & yelling

##### 12.2.1 [Dec 2019]

- fix 'aint' contraction
- make Doc.world writable
- update deps
- more tests
- fix shared period with acronym at end of sentence
- fix some mis-classification of contraction
- fix over-active emoji regex
- tag 'cookin', 'hootin' as `Gerund`
- support unicode single-quote symbols in contractions

#### 12.2.0 [Dec 2019]

- improved splitting in .nouns()
- add `.nouns().adjectives()` method
- add `concat` param to `.pre()` and `.post()`
- allow ellipses at start of term _"....so"_ in `@hasEllipses`
- fix matches with optional-end `foo?$` match syntax
- add typescript types for subsets

#### 12.1.0 [Nov 2019]

- add 'sideEffect:false' flag to build
- considerable speedup (20%) in tagger
- ensure trimming of whitespace for root/clean/reduced text formats
- fix client-side logging
- more flexible params to `replace()` and `replaceWith()`

### 12.0.0 &nbsp; :postal_horn: [Nov 2019]

- see **[Release Notes](https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise/wiki/v12-Release-Notes)**

#### 11.13.0

- support singular units in `.value()`

#### 11.11.0

- `.quotations()` no-longer return repeated results for nested quotes
- simplify quotation tagset
- `.out('normal')` no longer includes quotes or trailing-possessives
- improve `.debug()` on client-side

#### 11.10.0

- better honorific support, add `honorifics` feature to .normalize()
- elipses bugfixes
- replace unicode chars in `.normalize()` now by default
- `acronyms().stripPeriods()` and `acronyms().addPeriods()`

#### 11.9.0

- tag professions as `#Actor`
- add more behaviours to `.normalize()`
- support match-results as inputs to .match() and .not()
- support some us-state abbreviations like 'Phoeniz AZ'

#### 11.8.0

- add `nouns().toPossessive()`
- ngrams now remove empty-terms in contractions - fixes counting issue [#476](https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise/issues/476)

#### 11.7.0

- expose internal `sentences().isQuestion()` method
- `.join()` as an alias for `.flatten()`
- slightly different behavior for wildcards in capture-groups [pull/472](https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise/pull/472)
- `.possessives()` subset + `#Possessive` tagging fixes
- hide massive `world` output for console.log of a term

#### 11.6.0

- improve quotations() method
- add .parentheses() method
- add 'nickname' support to .people()
- 'will be #Adjective' now tagged as Copula
- include adverbs in verb conjugation (more) consistently
- `sentences().toContinuous()` and `verbs().toGerund()`
- some more aliases for jquery-like methods api
- move `getPunctuation`, `setPunctuation` from .sentence to main Text method
- rename internal `endPunctuation` to `getPunctuation`
- more consistent `cardinal/ordinal` tagging for values

#### 11.5.0

- add #Abbreviation tag
- add #ProperNoun tag
- fixes for noun inflection

##### 11.4.1

- include old ending punctuation in a `.replace()` cmd

##### 11.3.1

- almost-double the support for first-names
- changes to bestTag method

##### 11.2.1

- rolls-back some aggressive JustesonKatz stuff
- better support for emdash numberRange
- 'can\'t' contraction bugfix
- fix for dates().toShortForm()

#### 11.1.0

- add `#Multiple` Values tag, and changes to how invalid numbers like 'sixty fifteen hundred' are understood
- better em-dash/en-dash support
- better conjugate implicit verbs inside contractions - "i'm", "we've"
- nouns().articles() method
- neighborhoods as #Place
- support more complex noun-phrases with JustesonKatz in `.nouns()`

### v11

- support for persistent lexicon/tagset changes
- `addTags, addWords, addRegs, addPlurals, addConjugations` methods to extend native data
- - `.plugin()` method to wrap all of these into one
- - (removal of `.packWords()` method)
- more `.organizations()` matches
- regex-support in .match() - `nlp('it is waaaay cool').match('/aaa/').out()//'waaaay'`
- improved apostrophe-s disambiguation
- support whitespace before sentence boundary
- improved QuestionWord tagging, some `.questions()` without a question-mark
- phrasalVerb conjugation
- new #Activity tag for Gerunds as nouns 'walking is fun'
- change ngram params to an object `{size:int, max:int}`
- implement '[]' capture-group syntax in .match()
- bring-back `map, filter, foreach and reduce` methods
- set `.words()` as alias for .terms()
- `people().firstNames()`, `people().lastNames()`
- split-out comma-separated adverbs

##### 10.7.2

- fix for '.watch' reserved word in efrt

#### 10.7.0

- improved `places()` parsing
- improved `{min,max}` match syntax
- new `.out('match')` method
- quiet addition of .pack() and .unpack() for owen

#### 10.6.0

- move internal lexicon around, to support new format in v11
- added states & provinces as #Region
- added #Comparable tag for adjectives that conjugate

#### 10.5.0

- add increment/decrement/add/subtract methods to .values()
- add units(), noUnits() methods to .values()
- 'uncountable' nouns are no longer assumed to be singular
- money tag is no longer always a value

#### 10.4.0

- improved tagging of `VerbPhrase` and `Condition`
- fixes to contractions in sentence-changes - "i'm going -> i went"
- several verb conjugation fixes
- accept Terms & Result objects in .match() and .replace()

#### 10.3.0

- new `Percent` tag
- lump more units in with `.values()`

#### 10.2.0

- .trim() method,
- adjective tagging fixes
- some new .out() methods

#### 10.1.0

- fix return format of .isPlural(), so it acts like a match filter
- less-greedy date tagging & ambiguous month fixes

### v10

- cleanup & rename some `.value()` methods
- change lumping behaviour of lexicon terms with multiple words
- keep more former tags after a term replace method
- new `.random()` method
- new `.lessThan()`, `.greaterThan()`, `.equalTo()` methods
- new prefix/suffix/infix matches with `_ffix` syntax
- `tag()` supports a sequence of tags for a sequence of terms
- .match 'range' queries now use a real match - `#Adverb{2,4}`
- new `.before()` and `.after()` match methods
- removes `.lexicon()` method for many-lexicons concept
- changes params of `.replaceWith()` method to a 'keyTags' boolean
- improved .debug() and logging on client-side

#### 9.1.0

- pretty-real filesize reduction by swapping es6 classes for es5 inheritance

### v9.0.0

- rename `Term.tag` object to `Term.tags` so the `.tag()` method can work throughout more-consistently
- fix 'Auxillary' tag typo to 'Auxiliary'
- optimisation of .match(), and tagset - significant speedup!
- adds `.tagger()` method and cleanup extra params
- adds `wordStart` and `wordEnd` offsets to `.out('offset')` for whitespace+punctuation
- new `.has()` method for faster lookups

#### 8.2.0

- add `nlp.out('index')` method, 12 bugs

#### 8.1.0

- add `nlp.tokenize()` method for disabling pos-tagging of input

### v8.0.0

- less-ambitious date-parsing of nl-date forms
- filesize reduction using [efrt](https://github.com/nlp-compromise/efrt) data structure (254k -> 214k)

##### 7.0.15

- fix for IE9

### v7 &nbsp; :postal_horn:

- weee! [big change!](https://github.com/nlp-compromise/compromise/wiki/v7-Upgrade,-welcome) _npm package rename_

#### 6.5.0

- builds now using browserify + derequire()

#### 6.4.0

- re-written term-lumper logic

#### 6.3.0

- new nlp.lexicon({word:'POS'}) flow

### v6

- be consistent with `text.normal()`, `term.all_forms()`, `text.word_count()`. `text.normal()` includes sentence-terminators, like periods etc.

#### 5.2.0

- airport codes support, helper methods for specific POS

#### 5.1.0

- newlines split sentences

### v5

- Text methods now return this, instead of array of sentences

#### 4.12.0

- more-sensible responses for invalid, non-string inputs

#### 4.11.0

- 14 PRs, with fixes for currencies, pluralization, conjugation

#### 4.10.0

- Value.to_text() new method, fix "Posessive" POS typo

#### 4.9.0

- return of the text.spot() method (Re:#107)

#### 4.8.0

- more aggressive lumping of dates, like 'last week of february'

#### 4.7.0

- whitespace reproduction in .text() methods

#### 4.6.0

- move negate from sentence to verb & statement

#### 4.2.0

- rename 'implicit' to 'expansion' for smarter contractions

##### 4.1.3

- added readable-compression to adj, verbs (121kb -> 117kb)

#### 4.1.0

- hyphenated words are normalized into spaces

### v4.0.0

- grammar-aware match & replace functions

##### 3.0.2

- Statement & Question classes

### v3.0.0 Feb 2016

- split ngram, locale, and syllables into plugins in seperate repo

### 2.0.0 - Nov 2015

- es6 classes, babel building
- better test coverage
- ngram uses term tokenization, so that 'Tony Hawk' us one term, and not two
- more organized pos rules
- Pos tagging is done implicitly now once nlp.Text is run
- Entity spotting is split into .people(), .place(), .organisations()
- unicode normalisation is killed
- opaque two-letter tags are gone
- plugin support
- passive tense detection
- lexicon can be augmented third-party
- date parsing results are different

##### 1.1.0 - May 2015

- smarter handling of ambiguous contractions ("he's" -> ["he is", "he has"])

### v1.0.0 - May 2015

- added name genders and beginning of co-reference resolution ('Tony' -> 'he') API.
- small breaking change on `Noun.is_plural` and `Noun.is_entity`, affording significant pos() speedup. Bumped Major version for these changes.

##### 0.5.2 - May 2015

- Phrasal verbs ('step up'), firstnames and .people()

##### 0.4.0 - May 2015

- Major file-size reduction through refactoring

##### 0.3.0 - Jan 2015

- New NER choosing algorithm, better capitalisation logic, consolidated tests

##### 0.2.0 - Nov 2014

- Sentence class methods, client-side demos