Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file

v6.1 (Sep 25, 2023)

Added

-v / --version flag for cowsay cli (#26)
Tested for Python 3.12

v6.0 (Sep 08, 2023)

Added

Added CONTRIBUTING.md guide on how to add new characters
Exposed cowsay.draw method to draw custom characters
New character: Octopus (Added by druhi)

Changed

Dropped support for Python 3.6 and 3.7
Updated to use pytest and added more tests!
Simplified the entire codebase and removed unnecessary files

v5.0 (Jun 21, 2022)

Added

New command line argument "--character" to optionally select character on the CLI (Added by Justin Flannery)
Github Workflow for automated testing (Added by Scott Haleen)
New character: Fox (Added by Scott Haleen)
New character: Miki (Added by Stefan Matić)

Changed

Bug fixes in test cases (Added by Marcus Sá)

v4.0 (Apr 19, 2021)

Added

New function get_output_string() to get console output as string
New character: Trex (Added by Oscar de Felice)

Changed

Code optimizations and test cases (Added by sparrow242)
cowsay.chars from list to dict

v3.0 (Dec 08, 2020)

Added

New character: Pig (Added by Gerald Sornsen)
Command line compatibility (Added by Chad Smith)

v1.0 (May 08, 2017)

Initial release with 14 characters