This release is the first alpha release of the new version 3.0. Please
be aware that the API will still change until v3.0 is released.

changes
^^^^^^^
- change the project's license to MIT in accordance with the contributors (see python-escpos/python-escpos#171)
- feature: add "capabilities" which are shared with escpos-php, capabilities are stored in
  `escpos-printer-db <https://github.com/receipt-print-hq/escpos-printer-db>`_
- feature: the driver tries now to guess the appropriate codepage and sets it automatically (called "magic encode")
- as an alternative you can force the codepage with the old API
- updated and improved documentation
- changed constructor of main class due to introduction of capablities
- changed interface of method `blocktext`, changed behavior of multiple methods, for details refer to the documentation
  on `python-escpos.readthedocs.io <https://python-escpos.readthedocs.io>`_
- add support for custom cash drawer sequence
- enforce flake8 on the src-files, test py36 and py37 on travis

contributors
^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Michael Billington
- Michael Elsdörfer
- Patrick Kanzler (with code by Frédéric Van der Essen)
- Asuki Kono
- Benito López
- Curtis // mashedkeyboard
- Thijs Triemstra
- ysuolmai