v1.0.0

Added

• Casing-aware credential matching: an ALL-CAPS token reads as a credential, title or lower case as a name, so surnames like Do, Vi, Ma, and Ba no longer parse as suffixes.
• Nursing and allied-health credentials from the NPI registry (RN, NP, PharmD, APRN, PA-C, OTR/L, and 30+ more); first/last accuracy on 30k real names rose from 92.8% to 95.3%.
• Confidence::assess() flags names whose credential-vs-name split is undecidable from casing, for manual review.
• Expanded base credential and salutation dictionary (DDS, DO, DVM, PsyD, LCSW, Hon., roman numerals VI to X), from the CodeByZach fork.

Changed

• Namespace is Iliaal\NameParser (was TheIconic\NameParser).
• Requires PHP 8.3+ and ext-mbstring. Tested through PHP 8.5.
• Tooling: PHPUnit 12, PHPStan 2 (level 9), PHP-CS-Fixer, GitHub Actions.

Fixed

• Unclosed nickname delimiter no longer swallows the surname or leaks a stray bracket; "John (Bob Smith" keeps last name Smith (via tobyberster/name-parser).
• Multibyte initials are no longer corrupted; accented tokens like "É Durand" survive instead of becoming replacement characters.
• Trailing comma-separated credentials are no longer dropped; "Smith, John, MD, PhD" keeps both.
• Empty nickname no longer renders as "()" in the string cast of a name.
• setWhitespace() now trims the configured characters from the edges of the input.
• setMaxSalutationIndex() larger than the token count no longer emits undefined-array-key warnings.