v2.5.0

Added

• A language checker named is_language that validates ISO 639 language names and identifiers .

Changed

• Deprecate [bh] ISO 639-1 identifier for Bihari Languages after the 2024-10-17 update of ISO 639-2/RA Change Notice.

v2.4.2

Fixed

• Rolled back Lang one positional argument constraint.

v2.4.1

Fixed

• Bad PyPI classifiers.

v2.4.0

Added

• Detection of deprecated identifiers of ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2.
• Detection of the names of deprecated ISO 639 languages.
• id and reason attributes in DeprecatedLanguageValue exception.
• Support for Python 3.13.

Changed

• Deleted [bh] ISO 639-1 identifier for Bihari Languages after the 2024-08-29 release of ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt.

Removed

• Lang instantiable with multiple compatible positional arguments.
• Lang instantiable with valid keyword argument(s).
• Support for Python 3.7.

Fixed

• Fixed missing ISO 639-2/T for groups of languages.
• Fixed not deprecated [sh] ISO 639-1 identifier for Serbo-Croatian.
• Fixed DeprecatedLanguageValue exception for Daza [dzd] and Subi [xsj].
• Fixed InvalidLanguageValue exception for Himachali languages [him].

Security

• Improved security by replacing pickle file with JSON file to prevent potential exploits from loading malicious code.

v2.3.0

Added

• Recognition of all ISO 639 English names of a language by the Lang class constructor.
• New other_names method to list all the non-reference ISO 639 English names for a given language.

Changed

• Minor update of the iso-639-3.tab source file.

Fixed

• Removed duplicates returned by the individuals method.
• Fixed non-standard public API

v2.2.3

Data update

• ISO 639-3 registration authority decisions on the 2023 change requests.

v2.2.2

Bug fixes

• Remove dependency pinning for Python 3.7 and 3.8.

v2.2.1

Bug fixes

• Fix unnecessary DepreciationWarning on Python 3.12.

v2.2.0

Breaking change

• Python 3.7+ is now required in place of Python 3.6+.

Data update

• ISO 639-3 registration authority decisions on the 2022 change requests.

Bug fixes

• Python 3.12 support.
• Type comparison of the Lang class.

v2.1.0

New feature

• asdict method to get IS0 639 language values in a Python dict.