Hi,

I'm happy to announce v0.2.0 of pandas-datareader.

This is a major release from v0.1.1 and includes new features and a number of 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 (conda install coming soon) 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*

- Added latitude and longitude to output of wb.get_countries #47 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/47 - Extended DataReader to fetch dividends and stock splits from Yahoo #45 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/45. - Added get_available_datasets to famafrench #56 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/56. - DataReader now supports OECD data sources #101 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/101.

*Backwards incompatible API changes*

- Fama French indexes are now pandas.PeriodIndex for annual and monthly data, and pandas.DatetimeIndex otherwise #56 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/56.

*Bug Fixes*

- Update Fama-French URL #53 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/53 - Fixed bug where get_quote_yahoo would fail if a company name had a comma #85 https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/pull/85

*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:*

- 0x0L - bashtage - brotchie - briancappello - davidastephens - evanpw - femtotrader - hayd - jorisvandenbossche - jreback - Kevin Sheppard - sinhrks - stared - terrytangyuan