v2.3.0

Changes in v2.3.0

Bug Fixes

• Issue #50: Fixed keywords and other list fields to prevent duplicate values (deduplicates on append and save)
• Issue #45: Removed outdated VERSION = 1.9 comment from code

New Features

• Issue #44: Added LICENSE file with dual Artistic-1.0 / GPL-1.0+ license
• Added UniqueList class for list fields that automatically prevents duplicates

Full Changelog

https://github.com/jamesacampbell/iptcinfo3/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

v2.2.0 - All Issues Fixed + Build System Modernization

Release v2.2.0 - All Issues Fixed + Build System Modernization

🎉 Major release fixing all 10 open issues and modernizing the build system!

🐛 Bug Fixes

• #40: Fixed inconsistent license statements - now consistently "Artistic-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later"
• #24: Changed "Marker scan hit start of image data" to INFO level when force=True is used
• #32: Fixed charset recognition for ISO 2022 escape sequences (UTF-8 as \x1b%G)
• #26: Added validation for float/NaN values in packedIIMData() to prevent TypeError

✨ New Features

• #35: Added 'credit line' field support per IPTC Core 1.1 (backward compatible with 'credit')
• #42: Added 'destination' field as alias for 'original transmission reference'

🔧 Improvements

• #15: Enhanced IPTC tag collection with better field mappings
• #38: Verified backup file behavior (use options={'overwrite': True} to avoid ~ files)
• Better error handling and logging throughout
• #39, #41: All master branch fixes now available on PyPI

🚀 Build System Modernization

• Migrated from legacy setup.py to modern pyproject.toml
• Now uses uv and hatchling for building (PEP 517/518 compliant)
• Simplified setup.py to minimal backward compatibility shim
• Added comprehensive publishing guide (PUBLISHING.md)
• Supports Python 3.8 through 3.13

📦 Installation

pip install IPTCInfo3==2.2.0

or with uv:

uv pip install IPTCInfo3==2.2.0

🔗 Links

• Full Changelog
• Publishing Guide
• Documentation

🙏 Thank You

Special thanks to all contributors who reported issues and helped make this release possible:
@vitaly-zdanevich, @CuriousLearner, @stefan6419846, @AlexSzatmary, @fdrov, @hyanwong, @nealmcb, @martimpassos, @niwics, @Mesqualito, and everyone else who contributed!

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IPTCInfo3 2.0.3

Breaking changes from previous versions for the sake of completeness.