v0.6.1

Changed

• Look up an address: type an address and get its canton and every court, including the justice of the peace in a city split over several cantons. It's a prototype on the canton boundaries docs page and a new /address/ page in the explorer. Geocoding uses each region's own address register (Adressenregister, UrbIS, ICAR); the package itself is unchanged (#95).
• The explorer says "has jurisdiction" and "courts with jurisdiction" in English, not "competent", as the package does since findCourtsWithJurisdiction (#107).

What's Changed

• Address lookup: docs prototype and the explorer's /address/ page by @pieterjanscheir in #95
• Say "jurisdiction", not "competent", in the explorer by @pieterjanscheir in #107
• Release 0.6.1 by @pieterjanscheir in #108

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.1

v0.6.0

Added

Public and judicial holidays, for deadlines: belgica/calendar. getPublicHolidays(year) gives the ten legal public holidays of any year from 1975 (law of 4 January 1974, royal decree of 18 April 1974, art. 1), with the three that depend on Easter computed. nextWorkingDay moves the last day of a deadline off a Saturday, Sunday or holiday (art. 53 Ger.W. / C. jud.), and isJudicialHoliday tells whether a day is in the judicial holidays, 1 July to 31 August (art. 334). Also getPublicHoliday, isPublicHoliday, isWorkingDay and getEasterSunday. data/public-holidays.json holds the rules, not dates, and the one year a decree moved a holiday: Ascension Day 2008, which fell on 1 May, moved to 2 May. Community holidays (11 July, 27 September, 15 November) aren't legal holidays and aren't in it. Tested against the Royal Observatory's published lists for 2024 to 2027 (#61).

Changed

findCompetentCourts is now findCourtsWithJurisdiction, and find_competent_courts is now find_courts_with_jurisdiction. "Jurisdiction" is the English term for bevoegdheid / compétence. The old names still work, are deprecated, and go in 1.0. The API docs' "Competence" section is now "Jurisdiction" (#jurisdiction).

• Every exported function, constant and schema in src/ has a doc comment, so editor hovers describe the whole API, and pnpm lint (eslint-plugin-jsdoc) keeps it that way (#85).
• The explorer is in the docs' 13 languages, with next-intl, and moved from GitHub Pages to Vercel: a page in every language is about 29,000 pages, over the 1 GB a Pages site may hold. It still isn't part of the package.
• The English documentation is rewritten: an introduction, core concepts (ids, validity, on, coverage, missing data versus errors), common tasks with a "which function?" table, and a page on entry points and bundle size. Every API entry now has its signature, results, errors and an example, and every data page the same "Source and updates" rows. The 12 translations follow later.

What's Changed

• Run CI on the bot's pull requests, release notes from the changelog, union-merge CHANGELOG.md by @pieterjanscheir in #93
• Build the package before the explorer on Vercel by @pieterjanscheir in #94
• Add the public and judicial holidays, for deadlines: belgica/calendar by @pieterjanscheir in #98
• Rename findCompetentCourts to findCourtsWithJurisdiction by @pieterjanscheir in #97
• Translate the explorer into 13 languages and move it to Vercel by @pieterjanscheir in #96
• Rewrite the English documentation by @pieterjanscheir in #104
• Document every exported function, constant and schema in src by @pieterjanscheir in #99
• Add the bailiffs' tariff, legal aid limits and fine multiplier to the roadmap by @pieterjanscheir in #103
• Compare the public holidays with other holiday packages by @pieterjanscheir in #106
• Release 0.6.0 by @pieterjanscheir in #105

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

v0.5.0

What's Changed

• Point the docs to the new issues by @pieterjanscheir in #71
• List issues #53–#70 on the roadmap by @pieterjanscheir in #72
• Add security scanning, PR previews and a release pull request workflow by @pieterjanscheir in #79
• Prototype territorial competence rules on top of belgica by @pieterjanscheir in #87
• Split the courts and cantons data so browser apps load only what they need by @pieterjanscheir in #78
• Ship the canton boundaries once, not as both JSON and inlined JS by @pieterjanscheir in #89
• Add arrondissement boundaries and court locations from the NGI GeoPackage by @pieterjanscheir in #88
• Add a Python package with the data and helpers by @pieterjanscheir in #86
• Add the arrondissement boundaries and court locations to the Python package by @pieterjanscheir in #91
• Add the explorer: a Next.js site built on the package by @pieterjanscheir in #90
• Release 0.5.0 by @pieterjanscheir in #92

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

v0.4.0

What's Changed

• Add formatCourtName with an official style and a canton label by @pieterjanscheir in #46
• Redesign the docs site and translate it into ten more languages by @pieterjanscheir in #47
• Infer the types from zod schemas, exported as belgica/schemas by @pieterjanscheir in #48
• Configure AI review: Gemini Code Assist and CodeRabbit by @pieterjanscheir in #49
• Remove the Swagger / OpenAPI section from the schema docs by @pieterjanscheir in #50
• Release 0.4.0 by @pieterjanscheir in #51

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.4.0

v0.3.1

What's Changed

• README: getInterestRate returns null before coverage, it doesn't throw by @pieterjanscheir in #43
• Release 0.3.1 by @pieterjanscheir in #44

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

v0.3.0

What's Changed

• Add documentation website by @pieterjanscheir in #1
• Harden the API, add schemas, freshness checks and fuller docs by @pieterjanscheir in #11
• Build(deps): Bump actions/deploy-pages from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #12
• Build(deps): Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 3 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #15
• Build(deps): Bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #13
• Build(deps): Bump pnpm/action-setup from 4 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #14
• Build(deps): Bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #16
• Hold TypeScript below 7 in Dependabot by @pieterjanscheir in #20
• Build(deps): Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #21
• Build(deps): Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #22
• Redesign identifiers: kebab-case, official codes, explicit links by @pieterjanscheir in #25
• Redesign the package: ESM-only, canonical data, strict quality gates by @pieterjanscheir in #30
• Data model v2: every court from the official source, prisons, houses of justice, time, weekly rebuilds by @pieterjanscheir in #32
• Upgrade TypeScript 6, Vitest 5 and tsup 9 (supersedes #31) by @pieterjanscheir in #33
• Harden the foundation: law-derived competence, an id lock, validity on every record, generated docs numbers by @pieterjanscheir in #34
• Translate the documentation site into Dutch and French by @pieterjanscheir in #35
• Bring the Dutch and French pages up to date with PR 34 by @pieterjanscheir in #36
• Add regions and provinces as datasets by @pieterjanscheir in #38
• Canton boundaries as GeoJSON from the NGI, with findCantonsAt (#29) by @pieterjanscheir in #39
• Add postal codes (Statbel) and link every address to its municipality by @pieterjanscheir in #37
• Rename the package to belgica by @pieterjanscheir in #40
• Release 0.3.0 by @pieterjanscheir in #41
• Skip publishing a version that's already on npm by @pieterjanscheir in #42

New Contributors

• @pieterjanscheir made their first contribution in #1
• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #12

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.3.0