v2.0.0

• Removed the old dicts EMOJI_UNICODE_, UNICODE_EMOJI_
• Removed unused language=None parameters
• Removed use_alias parameter
• Removed the get_regexp method
• Removed emoji_lis
• Removed distinct_emoji_lis
• Made the list of languages public: emoji.LANGUAGES = ['en','es','pt','it','fr','de']
• Updated translations to release-41 (no changes compared to release-40)
• Generate a documentation for the public functions from the docstrings with Sphinx
• Added some more examples to the README: e.g. how to replace/remove emojis
• Total count of emojis: 4702

v1.7.0

• Added emoji_list() and distinct_emoji_list()
• Added deprecation warnings for several functions and variables that will be removed in version 2.0.0. If you don't want to see these warnings, you can stay with 1.6.x. For example in pip/requirements.txt you can pin to 1.6.x with emoji~=1.6.3.

v1.6.3

• Added support for counting unique emojis

v1.6.2

• Improve performance of demojize()
• Added more tests
• Added warning when someone uses any other language than 'en' with use_aliases=True in emojize()

v1.6.1

• Allow multiple aliases
• Restored aliases from 1.5.0

v1.6.0

• Added dict of dict with emoji data, include emoji versions and statuses
• emoji.version(string) method added
• Included 'variant' in the dict of dicts

v1.5.2

• is_emoji function added

v1.5.1

• Fix Unicode of some emoji in the language files

v1.5.0

• The English version of Emojis has been updated to version 14.0 Emoji Charts.
• Current count of emojis - 3633
• Fix matching of non-ASCII emoji names on Python 2

v1.4.2

• Delimiter for German time naming changed from ":" to "."