v0.5.0

Summary

• Initial release of cleaned English league-table data covering 1888-2024.
• Added dual-source Wikipedia scraping for pre-Premier League and post-Premier League page formats.
• Added resumable CLI tooling and release automation for publishing the data package.

Breaking Changes

None. This was the initial public release.

Data Changes

• Published all-seasons.json and minified data for merged tier 1+ tables across the Football League and Premier League eras.
• Published wiki_promotion_relegations_by_season outputs for the raw promotion/relegation scraper, described in the original release notes as best for 1888-1990.
• Published wiki_overview_tables_by_season outputs for overview-table scraping, described in the original release notes as reliable from 1991 onward.

Bug Fixes

None recorded in the GitHub release notes.

Validation

• Added CI unit and lint checks on every push.
• Added twice-weekly Wikipedia integration tests.
• Added a release workflow that rebuilds data and publishes the release zip automatically.
• The original release notes recommended running node scripts/verify-football-data.js --fail-on-issues ./data-output after generating new data to catch empty seasons, duplicate teams, or stat mismatches.

Consumer Notes

• This was the first published data package.
• Later releases changed the maintained workflow and validation surface; prefer the latest release for current use.

Known Limitations

• The original notes described the data as cleaned but still early.
• Overview-table scraping was described as reliable from 1991 onward, while promotion/relegation output was described as best for 1888-1990.