I'm happy to announce v0.2.1 of pandas-datareader. This is a minor release from v0.2.0 and includes new features and bug fixes. *What is it:* *pandas-datareader* is a Python package that provides remote data access to financial data. *pandas-datareader* replaces pandas.io.data and pandas.io.wb in pandas versions v0.17.0+. *How to get it:* Install via pip pip install pandas-datareader *How to use it:* from pandas.io import data, wb # becomes from pandas_datareader import data, wb More information available in the documentation here https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. *Release highlights include:* *New features* - DataReader now supports Eurostat data sources, see here https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.org/en/latest/remote_data.html#remote-... (GH101 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/101). - Options downloading is approximately 4x faster as a result of a rewrite of the parsing function. - DataReader and Options now support caching, see here https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cache.html#cache ( GH110 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/110),(GH116 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/116),(GH121 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/121), (GH122 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/122) *Backwards incompatible API changes* - Options columns PctChg and IV (Implied Volatility) are now type float rather than string. *Issues:* Please report any issues on our issue tracker https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues. Thanks to all who made this release happen. Dave *Thanks to all of the contributors:* - bashtage - davidastephens - femtotrader - hayd - jreback - sinhrks