= 2.0 / ?? (future release changes, like a reminder to self)
  
  - prsnt? and absnt? are now finally banned into oblivion. Wasting vocals for
    the win. 

= 1.7 / ???

  ! Small speed gains from improvements on the hot spots. 

= 1.6 / 1May2014, 13Okt14

  + EXPERIMENTAL: Parslet accelerators permit replacing parts of your parser 
    with optimized atoms using pattern matching. Look at 
    examples/optimized_erb.rb or the introduction to the feature in 
    qed/accelerators.md.

  + infix_expression permits to declare an infix expression parser (think 
    calculator) directly. This will solve many of the problems we have 
    more elegantly. 

  + Rspec 3 syntax, though hideous, should now work. 

  - Drops 1.8.7 compatibility. 

  ! A performance anomaly when parsing multibyte characters has been detected
    and fixed with the help of Zach Moazeni (@zmoazeni).

  ! A few small bug fixes and optimisations have been introduced. API should 
    remain unchanged. 

  + More lenient on the blankslate version.
  + Modernizes the test suite to run with rspec again. (!)
    
= 1.5 / 27Dec2012
    
  + Handles unconsumed input at end of parse completely differently. Instead
    of generating a toplevel error, it now raises an error in every branch
    of the parse. More information in the resulting exception ensues! Thanks
    again to John Mettraux for inspiration & acceptance specs. 
    
    NOTE that this means that the UnconsumedInput exception is gone, since the
    unconsumed input case is nothing special anymore. 
    
  * This history now finally reads like the Changelog of the linux kernel. 
    Meaning that probably no one ever reads this. 
    
  + Captures and parsing subsequent input based on captured values. This has
    been long overdue - finally you can parse HEREdocs with parslet!
    
= 1.4.0 / 25May2012

  + Revised documentation. A few new API features have finally made it into
    the documentation. Examples in the documentation are now curated and
    run against the current code so that they really really work. 
    Also, the website generation tools have been replaced with 2012-style
    tools. Much less pain to update now. 

  + Parslet::Source now doesn't hold a StringIO, it directly holds the 
    buffer to be parsed. The api of Source has changed a tiny bit. This change
    has been made for speed optimisation reasons.

  + :reporter argument to parse, allowing to customize error reporting within
    wide boundaries. See issue #64 for a discussion. 
    Included are two error reporters, one (default) with the existing error
    tree functionality, one reporting deepest errors as defined by the above
    ticket.

  + Optimistic parse: Parsing is two phase, with the first phase assuming 
    there will be no errors. This yields ~ 20% speed improvement in the 
    case where the parse succeeds.
    Also, internal error handling is now using tuples. This and other 
    optimizations have yielded ~ 30% overall improvement. 

  ! #error_tree and #cause removed from all of parslet. The 
    Parslet::ParseFailed exception now contains a #cause field that can
    be asked for an #ascii_tree as before. 
    Cleaner internal error handling, not stateful in atoms anymore. Some 
    parsers will see correct error reporting for the first time. (issue #65)

  + Made it possible to pass a custom Parslet::Source implementor to #parse.
    (see #63)
    
  + #parse has now a second argument that is an options hash. See 
    Parslet::Atoms::Base#parse for documentation.

  - VM engine on the way out. No benefit except for the intellectual
    challenge.
    
= 1.3.0 / 5Mar2012

  ! Parslet::Transform::Context is now much more well-behaved. It has
    #respond_to? and #method_missing; it now looks like a plain old Ruby
    object with instance variables and attribute readers.

  - Grammar transforms turned out to be a dead end and have been removed. 

  ! A few problems in error message generation have been fixed. This will
  	improve diagnostics further.
	
  + A VM driven parser engine: Removes the limitation that parsing needs a 
    lot of stack space, something dearly missing from Ruby 1.9.3 fibers.
    This engine is experimental and might be removed in the future. 

  ! Interaction with mathn fixed - Line number generation will terminate. 
	
  . Internal reorganisation, removing cruft and bit rot.
    
= 1.2.3 / 22Sep2011

  + Transform#apply can now be called with a hash as second argument. This 
    provides bindings and a way to inject context.

  ! Fixes a bug thar modified parslet atoms in place, defeating oop chaining. 
    (#50)
    
= 1.2.1 / 6Jun2011

  ! FIX: Input at the end of a parse raises Parslet::UnconsumedInput. (see
    issue 18)

  ! FIX: Unicode parsing should now work as expected. (see issue 38)
  
  ! FIX: Slice#slice returned wrong bits at times (see issue 36).

= 1.2.0 / 4Feb2011
  
  + Parslet::Parser is now also a grammar atom, it can be composed freely with
    other atoms. (str('f') >> MiniLispParser.new >> str('b'))
    
  + No strings, only slices are returned as part of the parser result. 
    Parslet::Slice is almost a string class, but one that remembers the 
    source offset. This has also bought us a slight speedup.
    
  + require 'parslet/convenience' now brings #parse_with_debug to all parslets.
    This is a consequence of the above change. 
  
  + Deprecates prsnt? and absnt? in favor of the more readable absent? and
    prsnt?. Uses 3 bytes more RAM. The old variants will exist until we release
    2.0. 
  
  INTERNALLY
  
  + Visitors now should have methods that all begin with 'visit_*'. #str 
    becomes #visit_str.

  + Parslet::Atoms::Entity now takes only a block argument instead of context
    and block. 

= 1.1.1 / 4Feb2011

  ! FIX: Line counting was broken by performance optimisations. 
  
  + Squeezed out another few drops of performance. 

= 1.1.0 / 2Feb2011
  
  + Uses return (fail/success), cached line counts, memoizing of parse results 
    and other tricks internally for at least an order of magnitude increase 
    in execution speed.
    
  + str('foo').maybe will now return an empty string again. Use .as(...) to 
    name things and get back [] from #repeat and nil from #maybe.
    
  + If you require 'parslet/atoms/visitor', you'll get an accept method on
    all known Parslet::Atoms.
    
  + If you require 'parslet/export', you can call #to_citrus and #to_treetop
    to produce string versions of your grammar in those dialects.
  
  + Requiring 'parslet/convenience' will given you a parse_with_debug on 
    your Parslet::Parser class. This prints some diagnostics on parse failure. 
    (Thanks to Florian Hanke)
        
= 1.0.1 / 17Jan2011

  A happy new year!
  
  ! FIX: Parslet::Transform was wrongly fixed earlier - it now wont mangle 
    hashes anymore. (Blake Sweeney)
    
  + parslet/rig/rspec.rb contains useful rspec matchers. (R. Konstantin Haase)

= 1.0.0 / 29Dez2010

  - #each_match was removed. There was some duplication of code that even 
    confused me - and we should not have 2 methods of achieving the same
    goal. 
    
  + Full documentation. Fixed sdoc. 

= 0.11.0 / 25Nov2010

  ! Bugfixes to tree handling. Let's hope that was the last such significant
    change to the core.

= 0.10.1 / 22Nov2010

  + Allow match['a-z'], shortcut for match('[a-z]')

  ! Fixed output inconsistencies (behaviour in connection to 'maybe')

= 0.10.0 / 22Nov2010

  + Parslet::Transform now takes a block on initialisation, wherein you can
    define all the rules directly.
    
  + Parslet::Transform now only passes a hash to the block during transform
    when its arity is 1. Otherwise all hash contents as bound as local     
    variables.
    
  + Both inline and other documentation have been improved. 
  
  + You can now use 'subtree(:x)' to bind any subtree to x during tree pattern
    matching. 
    
  + Transform classes can now include rules into class definition. This makes
    Parser and Transformer behave the same. 
  
= 0.9.0 / 28Oct2010
  * More of everything: Examples, documentation, etc...

  * Breaking change: Ruby's binary or ('|') is now used for alternatives, 
    instead of the division sign ('/') - this reduces the amount of 
    parenthesis needed for a grammar overall. 

  * parslet.maybe now yields the result or nil in case of parse failure. This
    is probably better than the array it did before; the jury is still out on
    that. 
    
  * parslet.repeat(min, max) is now valid syntax

= 0.1.0 / not released.

  * Initial version. Classes for parsing, matching in the resulting trees
    and transforming the trees into something more useful.  
    
  * Parses and outputs intermediary trees
    
  * Matching of single elements and sequences