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+v1.3
+
+* introduces `prettify/1` and `minify/1`, shortcuts for `format/2`
+* introduce `encode/1,2` and `decode/1,2` as primary interface to built in tokenizers. `to_json/1,2` and `to_term/1,2` remain accessible but not advertised
+* new `parser/3` function exposes syntactic analysis stage for use with user defined tokenizers
+* improved documentation
+
+v1.2.1
+
+* fixes incorrect handling of escaped forward slashes, thanks bob ippolito
+
+v1.2
+
+* rewritten handling of string escaping to improve performance
+* `pre_encode` and `post_decode` hooks, see README
+* `relax` option
+
+v1.1.2
+
+* add `dirty_strings` option
+* more fixes for invalid unicode in strings
+
+v1.1.1
+
+* fixes bug regarding handling of invalid unicode in R14Bxx
+
+v1.1
+
+* improvements to string escaping and json generation performance
+
+v1.0.2
+
+* fixes to function specs
+* rewritten README
+* `comments` option
+
+v1.0.1
+
+* rebar fix
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