2.2.0

What’s changed

• Support Python 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14; drop Python 3.10 and earlier
• Modernize development, testing, and packaging around uv, current Cython, and current packaging standards
• Update the maintained PyYoshi/uchardet fork while preserving the cChardet-compatible API
• Improve UTF-8 validation and GB18030 candidate ranking
• Return language and confidence information from detection APIs
• Add detect_all() for ranked encoding and language candidates
• Add optional language weights to the Python API and CLI
• Accept bytes, bytearray, and memoryview; add max_bytes to bound detection work
• Stream input in cchardetect, with JSON output and configurable chunk and byte limits
• Expose early-completion state and safely handle inputs larger than uchardet’s internal 32-bit length
• Ship PEP 561 type information
• Add reproducible performance and accuracy comparisons, native sanitizer coverage, arbitrary-byte consistency tests, and installed-wheel smoke tests
• Build and test supported Python versions on Linux, macOS, and Windows, including ARM64 wheel coverage

See CHANGES.md for the complete release history.