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