Version History
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Version 1.0.0 - Production Ready
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Date: 2025-01-XX

**🎉 Major Release - Enterprise Grade**

This is a transformative release that elevates FFIEC Data Connect to enterprise-grade with comprehensive security, performance, and reliability improvements.

**🚀 New Features**

* **AsyncCompatibleClient**: Full async/await support with rate limiting and concurrency control
* **Parallel Processing**: Collect data from multiple banks simultaneously
* **Direct Polars Conversion**: XBRL → Polars pipeline preserves maximum numerical precision
* **Advanced Error Handling**: Custom exception types with rich context
* **Memory Management**: Proper cleanup, context managers, SOAP client caching
* **Thread Safety**: Race condition resolution and concurrent access support
* **New Collection Methods**: 
  - ``collect_filers_on_reporting_period()``
  - ``collect_filers_since_date()``
  - ``collect_filers_submission_date_time()``

**🔒 Security Improvements**

* Comprehensive input validation for all method parameters
* Credential security with password masking
* XXE prevention with XML parser hardening
* Immutable credentials after initialization
* Secure session management

**🧠 Performance & Reliability**

* Memory leak prevention with proper resource cleanup
* SOAP client caching to prevent expensive recreation
* Thread-safe operations throughout
* Up to 5x performance improvement with async operations
* Comprehensive test suite with 253 tests

**📊 Data Processing Enhancements**

* Type-specific columns (int_data, float_data, bool_data, str_data)
* NumPy dtype consistency throughout data pipeline
* Support for list, pandas DataFrame, and Polars DataFrame outputs
* Maximum precision preservation in XBRL processing

**📚 Documentation & Developer Experience**

* Comprehensive Jupyter notebook demonstration
* Technical analysis documents for security, memory, and performance
* Complete API documentation with examples
* Migration guides and backward compatibility

**🔧 Breaking Changes**

While backward compatibility is maintained, some advanced usage patterns may need updates. See CHANGELOG.md for detailed migration guidance.

Version 0.3.0
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Date: 2024-XX-XX

**What's new?**

* Direct XBRL to Polars conversion implementation
* NumPy dtype consistency improvements
* Enhanced notebook demonstrations
* Memory management improvements
* Thread safety enhancements
* Connection stability improvements

Version 0.2.0
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Date: 2020-07-28

**What's new?**

* Fixed issues where credentials provided as environment variables were triggering an exception when used
* Improved error handling and validation
* Enhanced session management

Version 0.1.0
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Date: 2020-07-27

* Initial release (beta)
* Basic FFIEC webservice integration
* Core data collection functionality