v32.5.0

This is a minor scancode release with:

• license, package detection performance improvements

• better copyright, license and package detection

• python3.14 support, and removed python3.9 wheels

• Improve package scan performance by:

  • Skipping binary package detection steps by default,
    and introducing a new CLI option --package-in-compiled
    to detect packages in compiled binaries like rust/go binaries
    Note: previously these were detected in --package CLI
    option directly but this is no longer the case, you've to
    use the new --package-in-compiled to detect packages
    from go/rust and other binaries

  • Creating cached regex patterns and multiregex pre-matchers,
    for a fast package path detection filtering step

  #4606

• Add gibberish detection to copyright scanning. This is done using a
  2-character Markov chain. A new CLI command,
  scancode-train-gibberish-model, has been added to regenerate the model
  used by the detector.
  #4610
  #2402

• Use a cython implementation of sequence matcher to improve
  license detection performance
  #4500

• Add python3.14 support in scancode
  #4595
  #4541

• Always print license references table in html output
  #4474

• Enable License References table for HTML Output without requiring
  --license-references by implementing a fallback license reference
  collection based on the behavior of v32.0.0.
  #4474
  #4101

• Replace unmaintained toml library with tomllib / tomli.
  #4532

• Pin fingerprints and normality to avoid pyicu
  #4493

• Fix click compatibility issues and failures
  #4572

• Remove deprecated ast module attributes
  #4539

• Fix cargo scanning failures
  #4581

• Reorg and improve docs user experience
  #4629

• Handle is_private strings in npm properly
  #4635

• Restructure README docs
  #4667

• Add new licenses, license rules and misc license detection
  improvements
  #4562
  #4674
  #4666
  #4622

What's Changed

• feat(OutputHTML): Always print license references table by @pepper-jk in #4474
• Cython seq by @JonoYang in #4500
• Update cyseq to v0.0.2 by @JonoYang in #4512
• Add new licenses to LicenseDB by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4517
• Pin fingerprints and normality by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4531
• Fix click compatibility issues by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4591
• packagedcode: replace unmaintained toml with tomllib/tomli by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4594
• packagedcode: replace unmaintained toml with tomllib/tomli by @gotmax23 in #4532
• packagedcode: don't use removed ast module attributes by @gotmax23 in #4539
• Add new licenses from dejacode by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4562
• Fixes #4581: Failure to scan cargo by @omsuneri in #4582
• Add tag to ruby license rule by @pombredanne in #4622
• docs: Reorg and improve user experience by @tsteenbe in #4629
• Handle string is private by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4635
• Restructure the README by @DennisClark in #4667
• Detect plantuml license by @uttam282005 in #4666
• Improve package scan performance by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4606
• Detect gibberish copyright #2402 by @JonoYang in #4610
• Make CC-BY-NC-3 rule more specific by @alexzurbonsen in #4674
• Add python3.14 to test support by @AyanSinhaMahapatra in #4595

New Contributors

• @pepper-jk made their first contribution in #4474
• @omsuneri made their first contribution in #4582
• @uttam282005 made their first contribution in #4666

Full Changelog: v32.4.1...v32.5.0