1.4.0

microsoft/markitdown1.4.0May 23, 2026by ValueRaider

AI Summary

A minor release introducing Yahoo Finance authentication, region scoping for sectors and industries, a fallback mechanism using curl_cffi, and various bug fixes.

Key Highlights

Login Yahoo account with yf.Auth
Region scoping on Sector and Industry
Support curl_cffi fallback to requests package
Various bug fixes

New Features

Yahoo Finance Authentication support
Region scoping for sectors and industries
curl_cffi fallback mechanism

Full Release Notes

### Minor changes

- Login Yahoo account with `yf.Auth` [link](https://ranaroussi.github.io/yfinance/reference/api/yfinance.Auth.html#yfinance.Auth)
- Region scoping on `Sector` and `Industry` [link](https://ranaroussi.github.io/yfinance/reference/yfinance.sector_industry.html#region-scoping)
- Support `curl_cffi` fallback to `requests` package [link](https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance#installation)

### Patches

- Lots of fixes big and small.

Full changelog #2828

Thanks @etbala @dokson @a-drenaline @gottostartsomewhere @Jaypatel1511