v1.11.5

Changed

• Static WNBA Teams Data - Added the Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo expansion teams, so get_wnba_teams() and the find_wnba_team* helpers return them (PR #693)
• Static Players Data - Refreshed players and wnba_players from stats.nba.com: added the 2025 draft class and newly listed players, updated active-roster flags for the current season, applied upstream name corrections, and dropped inactive entries the API no longer returns (PR #687, PR #698)

Fixed

• V3 Normalized Output - Fixed get_normalized_dict() / get_normalized_json() returning empty payloads for V3 endpoints by persisting endpoint context and normalizing parser-generated data sets (PR #606, fixes #602)
• DunkScoreLeaders Parsing - Fixed response parsing by adding a dedicated parser, registering it in parser dispatch, and aligning expected data keys with the endpoint's nested V3 camelCase payload fields (PR #598)
• ScheduleLeagueV2 - League schedules now parse correctly regardless of the order of keys in the NBA.com response (PR #692)
• Static Teams Data - Added the Boston Celtics' 2024 championship, so find_teams_by_championship_year(2024) returns them (PR #695)
• Win-Loss Example Notebook - Replaced the DataFrame.append call removed in pandas 2 in the Home Team Win-Loss data-prep notebook (PR #684)

Infrastructure

• GitHub Actions CI - Added GitHub Actions running lint plus unit and VCR tests on Python 3.10–3.13 alongside CircleCI, with a single CI passed status check, Conventional Commit PR-title validation, network-blocked test runs, and a lockfile sync check (PR #704, PR #706)
• Release Pipeline - Releases are now published to PyPI from a GitHub Actions workflow using Trusted Publishing, and scripts/gen-release.sh was rewritten to prepare release PRs safely, including agent-written notes and a --bump override (PR #705, PR #710, PR #711)
• Static Teams Generator - Added scripts/static_teams_update/generate_static_teams.py to refresh championship years and new teams in the static data, with a --check mode (PR #699)
• Integration Season Pinning - Cassette-backed integration tests now pin season defaults to the recorded season, so they no longer break when the season rolls over each October (PR #700)
• Live Endpoint Unit Tests - Mocked the HTTP layer in the live boxscore/odds get_request_url tests, which were making real network calls (PR #686)
• Ruff Tooling - Replaced flake8, isort, and pylint with ruff for linting and formatting; added pre-commit hooks to auto-fix on commit (PR #639)
• Pytest Recording Stack - Added pytest-recording (and vcrpy) to dev dependencies; introduced pytest markers for integration test modes (live, vcr, canary, deprecated_endpoint) (PR #640)
• Integration Conftest - Added tests/integration/conftest.py with shared request pacing, cassette directory configuration, and automatic skipping for deprecated endpoint smoke cases (PR #640)
• VCR Query Matcher - Updated query matching to ignore dynamic GameDate params so cassette playback remains stable in CI (PR #644)
• VCR Smoke and Scenario Coverage - Added VCR-backed smoke coverage for ~130 endpoints and scenario/regression coverage for LeagueDashTeamStats, LeagueGameFinder, PlayerDashPtShotDefend, ScoreboardV3, TeamDashLineups, TeamGameLog, and TeamGameLogs, with shared validation helpers (PR #640)
• Test Layout Refactor - Reorganized integration tests into tests/integration/smoke/ and tests/integration/scenarios/, replaced deferred_endpoints.py with EndpointSpec (auto-parameter resolution, per-endpoint skip / deprecated metadata), and reorganized unit tests into package-based folders (PR #640, PR #643)
• Additional Test Coverage - Added unit tests for EndpointSpec, legacy debug/proxy configuration, and DunkScoreLeaders / BoxScoreTraditionalV3 parsing and normalization (PR #640, PR #645, PR #598, PR #606)
• Integration Test Fixes - Updated pytest skip / fail calls to the reason= API and temporarily skipped test_stats_library_playbyplayregex.py until PlayByPlayV3 normalization is wired up (PR #640)

Contributor

• Documentation Overhaul - Updated the README, contributing guide, and debug/HTTP/static docs to match the current codebase; regenerated the table of contents (adding 21 missing endpoints and the live endpoints); and added docs for DunkScoreLeaders, GravityLeaders, ScoreboardV3, and VideoEventsAsset (PR #702)
• AI Agent Guide - Added AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md and shared agent settings for AI coding tools (PR #701)