Security fixes:

• Remove import-time loading of timezone offset data from pickle to prevent
  unsafe deserialization from packaged data
• Replace eval() use when parsing no_word_spacing with strict boolean
  parsing to prevent code execution from locale metadata (#1056)

New features:

• Add support for expressions like "N {interval} from now" in English (#1271)
• Add support for the en-US locale (#1222)

Fixes:

• Honor REQUIRE_PARTS for ambiguous month-number inputs by retrying with a
  year-biased DATE_ORDER (#1298)
• Fix parsing word-number relative phrases such as "two days later" (#1316)
• Allow md5hash to work in FIPS environments (#1267)

Improvements:

• Add Bosnian Cyrillic (ijekavica) date translations (#1293)
• Add a new browser-based demo to the project documentation (#1306)
• Update installation documentation to replace setup.py install guidance
  (#1310)
• Add a project security policy (#1318)

Dropped Python 3.9 support. (#1296)

New features:

• search_dates() can now detect time spans from expressions like “past
  month”, “last week”, etc. For details, see the “Time Span Detection” section
  and the RETURN_TIME_SPAN, DEFAULT_START_OF_WEEK and
  DEFAULT_DAYS_IN_MONTH settings in the documentation. (#1284)

Fixes:

• Assume the current year if not specified (#1288)
• Support expressions like “yesterday +1h” (#1303)
• English: Support most 2-letter day-of-the-week names (#1214)
• English: Support “in N weeks' time” (#1283)
• Finnish: Support dates with “klo” (#1301)
• Russian: Support compound ordinals (#1280)

Cleanups and internal improvements:

• Fixed year expectation issues in tests. (#1294)

Fixes:

• Handle the Russian preposition “с” (#1261)
• Fix weekday search (#1274)

Improvements:

• Add Python 3.14 support (#1273)
• Cache timezone offsets to improve import time (#1250)

1.2.1

Fixes:

• Fix PytzUsageWarning (#1109)
• Fix date_parser with prefer_month_of_year wrong results (#1224)
• Fix skipped day when UTC and tz are different days (#1183)

Improvements:

• Avoid repeated loop over timezones (#1238)
• Proofread README.rst (#1234)
• Check for derived types for configuration (#1223)
• Parse some abbreviated strings as relative dates (#1219)
• Migrate from hijri-converter to hijridate (#1211)
• Fixed ClusterFuzz build error by adding dateparser.data as a binary (#1208)
• Fix an issue detected by OSSFuzz (#1203)
• Support two-digit years in non-Gregorian calendars (#1187)
• Refactored CI to run extras separately and test minimum versions of dependencies, replaced flake8 with ruff, fixed tests (#1248)
• Set minimum versions for dependencies (#1248)
• Limited numpy to 1.x when installing dateparser[fasttext] (#1248)

New features:

• New PREFER_MONTH_OF_YEAR setting (#1146)

Fixes:

• Absolute years in Russian are no longer being treated as a number of years in
  the past (#1129)

Cleanups and internal improvements:

• Removed the use of datetime.utcnow, deprecated on Python 3.12 (#1179)
• Applied Black formatting to the code base (#1158)
• Initial integration with OSSFuzz (#1198)
• Extended test cases (#1191)

Improvements:

• Improved date parsing for Chinese (#1148)
• Improved date parsing for Czech (#1151)
• Reorder language by popularity (#1152)
• Fix leak of memory in cache (#1140)
• Add support for "\d units later" (#1154)
• Move modification in CLDR data to yaml (#1153)
• Add support to use timezone via settings to get PREFER_DATES_FROM result (#1155)

Improvements:

• Add an “ago” synonym for Arabic (#1128)
• Improved date parsing for Czech (#1131)
• Improved date parsing for Indonesian (#1134)

Improvements:

• Fix the bug where Monday is parsed as a month (#1121)
• Prevent ReDoS in Spanish sentence splitting regex (#1084)

Improvements:

• Parse short versions of day, month, and year (#1103)
• Add a test for “in 1d” (#1104)
• Update languages_info (#1107)
• Add a workaround for zipimporter not having exec_module before Python 3.10 (#1069)
• Stabilize tests at midnight (#1111)
• Add a test case for French (#1110)

Cleanups:

• Remove the requirements-build file (#1113)

Improvements:

• Improved support for languages such as Slovak, Indonesian, Hindi, German, and Japanese (#1064, #1094, #986, #1071, #1068)
• Recursively create a model home (#996)
• Replace regex sub with simple string replace (#1095)
• Add Python 3.10, 3.11 support (#1096)
• Drop support for Python 3.5, 3.6 versions (#1097)