v2.13.0

• Use JSON files to store the database of emoji
• Load a language into emoji.EMOJI_DATA with emoji.config.load_language("zh")

v2.12.1

• typing-extensions requires at least version 4.7.0

v2.12.0

• Move type annotations inline
• Use functools.lru_cache for looking up emoji by name with get_emoji_by_name()
• Move internal functions get_emoji_unicode_dict(), get_aliases_unicode_dict(), _EMOJI_UNICODE and _ALIASES_UNICODE to testutils
• Add type hints to tests
• Remove obsolete dev dependency coveralls

v2.11.1

• Add missing stubs for purely_emoji

v2.11.0

• Update to Unicode v15.1

v2.10.1

• Fix slow import when debugging in Python 3.12

v2.10.0

• Added Arabic and Turkish translations

v2.9.0

• Added Russian translation

v2.8.0

• Update translations to unicode release-43-1
• Include "derived annotations"-translations from unicode CLDR
• Fix translations for emoji that have multiple forms with/out \uFE0F (Fixes Partially missing languages #272 )
• Remove multiple underscore __, ___, ____ and - from translations

v2.7.0

• Extract aliases from cheat sheet and youtube
• Fix extracting translations from emojiterra
• Update EMOJI_DATA with new aliases and translations