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Changes

Version v1.7.0 (released 2026-07-16)

  • chore(workflows): use the centralized publish workflow
  • chore(setup): migrate from setuptools to hatchling
  • RAiD support (#143)
  • build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7
  • build(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0

Version v1.6.1 (released 2026-05-28)

  • setup: replace isbnlib with isbnlib2

Version v1.6.0 (released 2026-03-19)

  • refactor: remove DeprecationWarning
  • feat: add cstr and rrid identifiers
  • adding tests
  • feat: add openalex validator

Version v1.5.1 (released 2025-12-15)

  • feat: add support for wikidata type QID scheme
  • gh-action: various version bumps

Version v1.5.0 (released 2025-07-14)

  • chores: replaced importlib_metadata with importlib.metadata

Version 1.4.5 (2025-06-05)

  • ark: fix regex to match new ARK identifiers without slash

Version 1.4.4 (2025-06-03)

  • swhid: improved SWHID validation
  • tests: additional tests

Version 1.4.3 (2025-05-12)

  • is_url: allow URL parameters (i.e. semicolon)
  • gnd: improve validation and normalization
  • pmcid: fix url to a working location
  • pmid: add trailing slash
  • new: email and sha1 identifiers

Version 1.4.2 (2024-11-01)

  • setup: remove pytest-invenio to make imports cleaner
  • setup: install importlib_metadata for compatibility
  • bibcode/ads: normalize unicode

Version 1.4.1 (2024-10-18)

  • install: add importlib_metadata

Version 1.4.0 (2024-10-17)

  • Restructure module to be configurable and readable.
  • Adds a new entrypoint to register new custom schemes
  • Adds deprecations for direct imports of schemes

Version 1.3.0 (2024-10-15) (yanked due to undesired flask dependency)

  • Restructure module to be configurable and readable.
  • Adds a new entrypoint to register new custom schemes
  • Adds deprecations for direct imports of schemes

Version 1.2.1 (2023-03-02)

  • Fixes ORCiD validation, by adding the new ISNI block range.

Version 1.2.0 (2023-01-30)

  • schemes: add support for viaf and urn

Version 1.1.12 (2022-02-28)

  • Replaces isbnid_fork with isbnlib

Version 1.1.11 (2022-01-28)

  • Normalize pmid + their URL identifiers

Version 1.1.10 (2022-01-11)

  • Add purl.fdlp.gov as a valid PURL netloc
  • Normalize ror identifiers

Version 1.1.9 (2021-08-30)

  • Update ARK's NAAN regex per https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-kunze-ark-28#section-2.3.

Version 1.1.8 (2020-08-13)

  • Adds support for GEO and ArrayExpress identifiers.

Version 1.1.7 (2020-06-22)

  • Updates Software Heritage identifiers
  • Adds Research Organization Registry identifiers
  • Fixes DeprctationWarnings by using raw strings for regular expressions

Version 1.1.6 (2020-05-07)

  • Deprecates Python versions lower than 3.6.0. Now supporting 3.6.0 and 3.7.0.

Version 1.1.5 (2020-02-26)

  • Adds support for Software Heritage identifiers.
  • Fixes handling of non-digit characters in DOI detection.

Version 1.1.4 (2019-09-27)

  • Adds support for ASCL identifiers.
  • Fixes the ADS identifier regex to also detect lower-case author initials.

Version 1.1.3 (2019-09-17)

  • Adds support for HTTPS ORCiD identifiers.

Version 1.1.2 (2019-02-12)

  • Adds support for HAL identifiers.

Version 1.1.1 (2018-11-18)

  • Changes URL resolution for bibcodes to use https://ui.adsabs.harvard instead of https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/.
  • Allows choosing HTTP/HTTPS for any generated URL by idutils.to_url.

Version 1.1.0 (2018-08-17)

  • Adds support for genomic identifiers: SRA, BioProject, BioSample, Ensembl, UniProt, RefSeq, GenBank/RefSeq.
  • Fixes bug in bibcode detection for non-capitalized journals.

Version 1.0.1 (2018-05-02)

  • Fixes bug causing invalid DOIs to be accepted.

Version 1.0.0 (2017-12-07)

  • Fixes handling of unicode characters in DOIs.
  • Adds support for APS style arXiv identifiers.

Version 0.2.4 (2017-01-30)

  • Removes Python 3.3 from a list of supported Python versions and adds Python 3.6
  • Moves from isbnid (v0.3.4) to isbnid_fork (v0.4.4) library.

Version 0.2.3 (2016-09-21)

  • Adds an optional parameter in idutils.to_url to use HTTPS scheme for PID providers that support it.
  • Detects and parses Handles and DOIs without the "http(s)://", and ignores whitespace after scheme tags (eg. "doi: 10.123/456").

Version 0.2.2 (2016-09-16)

  • Fixes issue where a valid ISBN with dashes and spaces could not be normalized.

Version 0.2.1 (2016-06-17)

  • Changes ISBN normalization to use isbnid instead of isbnlib. Now, importing this library will not change the default socket timeout, resulting in unwanted side effects.

Version 0.2.0 (2016-04-07)

  • Changes URL resolution for DOIs to use https://doi.org instead of http://dx.doi.org according to https://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html#3.8

Version 0.1.1 (2015-07-22)

  • Fixes GND validation and normalization.
  • Replaces invalid package name in run-tests.sh and makes run-tests.sh file executable. One can now use docker-compose run --rm web /code/run-tests.sh to run all the CI tests (pep257, sphinx, test suite).
  • Initial release of Docker configuration suitable for local developments. docker-compose build rebuilds the image, docker-compose run --rm web /code/run-tests.sh runs the test suite.

Version 0.1.0 (2015-07-02)

  • First public release.