== 0.3.3 2010-10-06

* 1 minor enhancement:
  * Rate-limit parallel requests to 20/second. Note that higher rates is acceptable for off hours, as per Clinton Adams, 2010-10-06: "Could you lower that to 20/second if it's occurring between 8AM-8PM EST?  In the off hours 200/second is fine."

== 0.3.2 2010-10-05

* 1 major enhancement
  * Add support for parallel requests via Typhoeus.  Currently only available on Candiate.get_bio and Rating.get_candidate_rating

== 0.3.1 2010-06-19

* 2 major enhancements:
  * Add Candidate.get_by_zip, District.get_by_zip, Election.get_by_zip and Official.get_by_zip (dwillis)
  * Add Official.get_statewide (empact)

== 0.3.0 2010-03-25

* 3 major enhancement:
  * Rename the project/gem to just 'votesmart'
  * Move http access to Patron for performance
  * Add retry logic on HTTP failure, with exponential backoff

* 2 minor enhancements:
  * Add Official#party to reflect the PVS officeParties data
  * Sig descriptions:
    * sometimes included UTF control characters for punctuation, which are now translated to ascii
    * often started and ended in a quote, which is now avoided

* 1 bug fix:
  * Fix that Rating.get_sig_list would blow up on a bad parameter

== 0.0.1 2009-02-10

* 1 major enhancement:
  * Initial release