changes from 1.14 to 1.15
-------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- CUI or CIF (Codul Unic de Înregistrare, Romanian company identifier)
- PEID (Liechtenstein tax code for individuals and entities)
(thanks Matthias Schmid)
- ЄДРПОУ, EDRPOU (Identifier for enterprises and organizations in Ukraine)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- РНОКПП, RNTRC (Individual taxpayer registration number in Ukraine)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
* Make list of EU member states part of public API
* Retain RO prefix in Romanian VAT numbers
* Support international VAT numbers that are only valid with country prefix
* Expanded validation for Belgian VAT numbers
* Use ABN as Australian VAT number
* Remove GB from EU member states
changes from 1.13 to 1.14
-------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- УНП, UNP (Учетный номер плательщика, the Belarus VAT number)
- AIC (Italian code for identification of drugs) (thanks Fabrizio Montanari)
- Company Number (מספר חברה, or short ח.פ. Israeli company number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria, El Salvador tax number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- USCC (Unified Social Credit Code, 统一社会信用代码, China tax number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- UEN (Singapore's Unique Entity Number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- BRN (사업자 등록 번호, South Korea Business Registration Number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- MST (Mã số thuế, Vietnam tax number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- NPWP (Nomor Pokok Wajib Pajak, Indonesian VAT Number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- UBN (Unified Business Number, 統一編號, Taiwanese tax number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- UTR (United Kingdom Unique Taxpayer Reference) (thanks Mohammed Salman)
- ONRC (Ordine din Registrul Comerţului, Romanian Trade Register identifier)
(thanks dotbit1)
- GS1-128 (Standard to encode product information in Code 128 barcodes)
(thanks Sergi Almacellas Abellana)
- VATIN (International value added tax identification number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
* Fix missing Dominican Republic NCF document types (thanks Gustavo Valverde)
* Fix issue with extra plus or minus in Swedish Personnummer
(thanks balderman)
* Update Dominican Republic DGII endpoint (thanks Gustavo Valverde)
* Support validating temporary Finnish personal identity codes
(thanks Aleksi Hoffman)
* Fix misleading docstring in se.personnummer.get_birth_date()
(thanks Leon Sandøy)
* Improve birth date validation in Danish CPR (thanks Leon Sandøy)
* Add birth date validating in Norwegian Fødselsnummer (thanks Leon Sandøy)
* Add missing vat aliases for a number of countries (thanks Leandro Regueiro)
* Use HTTPS instead of HTTP fox VIES lookups (thanks grzekru)
* Switch to HTTPS URLs where possible
* Support 6 as third digit in Ecuadorian CI (thanks Christopher Ormaza)
* Add an online check for South Korean BRN
* Fix unescaping in Dominican Republic RNC online check (thanks evaldez89)
* Support foreign residents for Romanian CNP (thanks dotbit1)
changes from 1.12 to 1.13
-------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- ESR, ISR, QR-reference (reference number on Swiss payment slips)
(thanks Kurt Keller)
- ID number (South African Identity Document number)
* Add format function for ISO 11649 numbers (thanks Kurt Keller)
* Add support for Python 3.8 (thanks Sergi Almacellas Abellana)
* Clarify that the Italian Codice Fiscale can also be the IVA for companies
(thanks Nicholas Fiorentini)
* Support the new Dutch btw-identificatienummer (thanks Cas Vissers,
Jeroen van Heiningen, Jerome Hanke, Nicolas Martinelli, Ronald Portier and
Tim Muller)
* Extend test for Argentinian CUIT to check first two digits
* Add more country codes to ISIN (thanks nocluebutalotofit, Anwar Baroudi and
alexbond73)
changes from 1.11 to 1.12
-------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- NRT (Número de Registre Tributari, Andorra tax number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- CPF (Cédula de Persona Física, Costa Rica physical person ID number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- CPJ (Cédula de Persona Jurídica, Costa Rica tax number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- CR (Cédula de Residencia, Costa Rica foreigners ID number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- NIT (Número de Identificación Tributaria, Guatemala tax number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- Identity Number (Mispar Zehut, מספר זהות, Israeli identity number)
- CN (法人番号, hōjin bangō, Japanese Corporate Number)
(thanks Alan Hettinger)
- RRN (South Korean resident registration number)
(thanks Dimitri Papadopoulos)
- IRD number (New Zealand Inland Revenue Department (Te Tari Tāke) number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- CUI (Cédula Única de Identidad, Peruvian identity number)
- RUC (Registro Único de Contribuyentes, Peruvian company tax number)
- RUC number (Registro Único de Contribuyentes, Paraguay tax number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- VKN (Vergi Kimlik Numarası, Turkish tax identification number)
(thanks Leandro Regueiro)
- RUT (Registro Único Tributario, Uruguay tax number)
(Leandro Regueiro)
- RIF (Registro de Identificación Fiscal, Venezuelan VAT number)
(thanks Kevin Kaiser)
- TIN (South African Tax Identification Number) (thanks Leandro Regueiro)
* Support GTIN (EAN-14) validation as part of EAN
(thanks Sergi Almacellas Abellana)
* Support Dominican Republic e-CF within NCF (thanks Jeffry Jesus De La Rosa)
* Fix Dominican Republic DGII lookups of NCF (thanks Jeffry Jesus De La Rosa)
* Fix German Handelsregisternummer to not confuse Hamburg with Homburg and to
accept shorter numbers (thanks Kevin Kaiser)
* Support lookups of German Handelsregisternummer in OffeneRegister.de web
service
* Handle - and + sign correctly in Swedish Personnummer
(thanks Amin Solhizadeh)
* Provide various personalid and vat aliases for existing numbers
(thanks Andreas Häber)
* Improve descriptions of Spanish codes (thanks Gerard Dalmau)
* Fix handling and normalisation of various Unicode digit representations
(thanks Helge Munk Jacobsen)
changes from 1.10 to 1.11
-------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- DNI (Documento Nacional de Identidad, Argentinian national identity nr.)
- VNR, SVNR, VSNR (Versicherungsnummer, Austrian social security number)
- NI (Número de identidad, Cuban identity card numbers)
- AMKA (Αριθμός Μητρώου Κοινωνικής Ασφάλισης, Greek social security number)
- Asmens kodas (Lithuanian, personal numbers)
- MAC address (Media Access Control address)
- IDNO (Moldavian company identification number)
- CURP (Clave Única de Registro de Población, Mexican personal ID)
- Fødselsnummer (Norwegian birth number, the national identity number) (thanks Ilya Vihtinsky)
- New Zealand bank account number
- Personnummer (Swedish personal identity number) (thanks Ilya Vihtinsky)
* Code style improvements
* Change Dominican Republic DGII check URL to HTTPS (thanks Gustavo Valverde)
* Support Ecuadorian Cedula and RUC of foreigners (thanks Christopher Ormaza)
* Add format() function for Argentinian CUIT number (thanks Mario Puntin)
* Support passing formatted numbers to all get_birth_date() and similar functions
* Handle Dominican Republic DGII lookup returning multiple entities (thanks Andrés R)
changes from 1.9 to 1.10
------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- Bitcoin address
- ISO 11649 (Structured Creditor Reference)
- ID number (Mauritian national identifier)
- Norwegian IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
- Konto nr. (Norwegian bank account number)
* Fix a bug in handling of Mexican tax numbers
* Improve Spanish CIF and NIF validation
* Update Dominican Republic NCF numbers online check
* Improve Unicode conversion for bytestrings
* Improvements to some corner cases in IBAN validation
* Documentation improvements
* Add stdnum.ru.vat as an alias for stdnum.ru.inn
changes from 1.8.1 to 1.9
-------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- Postleitzahl (Austrian postal code)
- Abgabenkontonummer (Austrian tax identification number)
- Belgian IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
- Handelsregisternummer (German company register number)
- St.-Nr. (Steuernummer, German tax number)
- FIGI (Financial Instrument Global Identifier)
- Montenegro IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
* Have documentation rebuilt reproducibly (thanks Chris Lamb)
* Allow configuring the SOAP request timeout
* Support spaces in ISO 9362 (SWIFT) BIC codes
* Add check_dgii() to stdnum.do.cedula module
* Add validation for "individual" part of hetu (thanks Esa Halsti)
* Support new style of Dominican Republic NCF numbers
* Fix issue when using PySimpleSOAP for DGII lookups
* Fix an issue in splitting certain IMSI values
* Support building a universal wheel
* Documentation and code style improvements
changes from 1.8 to 1.8.1
-------------------------
* Fix a packaging issue in the long description
changes from 1.7 to 1.8
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- NCF (Números de Comprobante Fiscal, Dominican Republic receipt number)
- Euro banknote serial numbers
- CAS RN (Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number)
- Aadhaar (Indian digital resident personal identity number)
(thanks Srikanth Lakshmanan)
- PAN (Permanent Account Number, Indian income tax identifier)
(thanks Srikanth Lakshmanan)
* Add functions for using the Dominican Republic DGII web service to validate
and search for RNC and NCF numbers
* Add/update whitelists for Dominican Republic RNC and Cedula
* Support zeep as preferred SOAP library (suds and pysimplesoap are tried
as fallback)
* Rename stdnum.iso9362 to stdnum.bic (iso9362 is deprecated but still
available for compatibility)
* Add tests for web services (not normally run to avoid unnecessary load)
* Fixes and improvement to the sample online validation service
Development of the NCF format validation and DGII web service validation
was funded by iterativo | http://iterativo.do
changes from 1.6 to 1.7
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- BN (Canadian Business Number)
- SIN (Canadian Social Insurance Number)
- IdNr (Steuerliche Identifikationsnummer, German personal tax number)
(thanks Mohammed Salman of Holvi)
- Registrikood (Estonian organisation registration code)
(thanks Mohammed Salman of Holvi)
- Veronumero (Finnish individual tax number)
(thanks Mohammed Salman of Holvi)
- UPN (English Unique Pupil Number)
* Fix a bug in the Czech DIČ check digit calculation
* Fix conversion of 9 digit ISBN to ISBN13
* Fix a bug in the Damm is_valid() function
* More validation of 13-digit ISBN values
* More validation of ISMN values
* Various code and test improvements (100% branch coverage now)
* Documentation improvements
changes from 1.5 to 1.6
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- CBU (Clave Bancaria Uniforme, Argentine bank account number)
(thanks Luciano Rossi)
- EIC (European Energy Identification Code)
- NACE (classification for businesses in the European Union)
- LEI (Legal Entity Identifier)
- n° TVA (taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, Monacan VAT number)
- PIB (Poreski Identifikacioni Broj, Serbian tax identification number)
* Add online check example that finds valid formats for a given number
* Fix support for Ñ in Spanish Referencia Catastral
* Updates to U.S. Employer Identification Number (thanks Greg Kuwaye)
* Various minor improvements
changes from 1.4 to 1.5
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- ABN (Australian Business Number)
- ACN (Australian Company Number)
- TFN (Australian Tax File Number)
- CCC (Código Cuenta Corriente, Spanish Bank Account Code)
- CUPS (Código Unificado de Punto de Suministro, Supply Point Unified Code)
- Spanish IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
- Referencia Catastral (Spanish real estate property id)
* The IBAN module now support validating the country-specific part
* The Belgian VAT number is now also referenced as businessid
* Add a Tox configuration file
changes from 1.3 to 1.4
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- NIF (Numéro d'Immatriculation Fiscale, French tax identification number)
provided by Dimitri Papadopoulos
- NIR (French personal identification number) provided by Dimitri
Papadopoulos
- SIRET (a French company establishment identification number) provided by
Yoann Aubineau
- NHS (United Kingdom National Health Service patient identifier)
- T.C. Kimlik No. (Turkish personal identification number)
* Add an implementation of the Damm algorithm
* Ensure data files are properly closed
* Documentation improvements
* Extend test suite
* A number of minor bug fixes and improvements
changes from 1.2 to 1.3
-----------------------
* Fix ISO 6346 check digit calculation (thanks Ronald Paloschi)
* Fix problem with check_vies_approx() (thanks Lionel Elie Mamane)
* Fix problem with SOAP client when using suds
* Include documentation that was previously on the Trac wiki
changes from 1.1 to 1.2
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- Austrian Company Register Numbers
- CNPJ (Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica, Brazilian company identifier)
- UID (Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer, Swiss business identifier)
- VAT, MWST, TVA, IVA, TPV (Mehrwertsteuernummer, the Swiss VAT number)
- CUSIP number (financial security identification number)
- Wertpapierkennnummer (German securities identification code)
- Isikukood (Estonian Personcal ID number)
- Finnish Association Identifier
- Y-tunnus (Finnish business identifier)
- SEDOL number (Stock Exchange Daily Official List number)
- IMO number (International Maritime Organization number)
- ISIN (International Securities Identification Number)
- RFC (Registro Federal de Contribuyentes, Mexican tax number)
- PESEL (Polish national identification number)
- REGON (Rejestr Gospodarki Narodowej, Polish register of economic units)
- ИНН (Идентификационный номер налогоплательщика, Russian tax identifier)
* Add an alternate VIES check (check_vies_approx()) that includes a proof
(certificate) that the check was performed
* Fall back to pysimplesoap if suds is unavailable
* Test and code quality improvements
changes from 1.0 to 1.1
-----------------------
* Add number formats based on the implementation in the vatnumber module:
- NIPT (Numri i Identifikimit për Personin e Tatueshëm, Albanian VAT number)
- CUIT (Código Único de Identificación Tributaria, Argentinian tax number)
- RUT (Rol Único Tributario, Chilean national tax number)
- NIT (Número De Identificación Tributaria, Colombian identity code)
- COE (Codice operatore economico, San Marino national tax number)
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- Cedula (Dominican Republic national identification number)
- RNC (Registro Nacional del Contribuyente, Dominican Republic tax number)
- Kennitala (Icelandic personal and organisation identity code, provided by
Tuomas Toivonen)
- VSK number (Virðisaukaskattsnúmer, Icelandic VAT number, provided by
Tuomas Toivonen)
- ISO 9362 (Business identifier codes, provided by Tony Bajan)
- MVA (Merverdiavgift, Norwegian VAT number, provided by Tuomas Toivonen)
- Orgnr (Organisasjonsnummer, Norwegian organisation number, provided by
Tuomas Toivonen)
- Orgnr (Organisationsnummer, Swedish company number, provided by Tomas
Thor Jonsson)
* Add Croatia to list of EU VAT numbers
* Update getcnloc script
* Various small fixes and additional tests for existing modules
changes from 0.9 to 1.0
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- Swiss social security number ("Sozialversicherungsnummer")
- RIC No. (Chinese Resident Identity Card Number)
- CI (Cédula de identidad, Ecuadorian personal identity code)
- RUC (Registro Único de Contribuyentes, Ecuadorian company tax number)
- SEPA Identifier of the Creditor (AT-02)
- ISO 6346 (International standard for container identification)
- Codice Fiscale (Italian tax code for individuals)
- RTN (Routing transport number)
* Add support for 2013 extension of Irish PPS Numbers
* Update getisbn script
* Update getmybp URLs for Malaysian code lists
* Various other minor improvements
changes from 0.8.1 to 0.9
-------------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- Brin number (Dutch number for schools)
- Postcode (Dutch postal code)
- ATIN (U.S. Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number)
- EIN (U.S. Employer Identification Number)
- ITIN (U.S. Individual Taxpayer Identification Number)
- PTIN (U.S. Preparer Tax Identification Number)
- TIN (U.S. Taxpayer Identification Number)
* Try to replace Unicode characters with similar-looking ASCII characters
* Update getimsi script (thanks eneq123)
* Update getiban script
* Add proxy support to the stdnum.eu.vat.check_vies() function (thanks
Cédric Krier)
* Support newer United Kingdom VAT numbers
changes from 0.8 to 0.8.1
-------------------------
* Include some files that were missing from the source tarball
changes from 0.7 to 0.8
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- NRIC No. (Malaysian National Registration Identity Card Number)
* All modules now provide a validate() function that throws an exception
that contains more information on the failure reason
* Documentation improvements
* Remove add_check_digit parameter from GRid's format() function
* Improvements to the tests
* Re-add Python3 support (now tested with Python 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3)
changes from 0.6 to 0.7
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- Onderwijsnummer (Dutch school number)
- BTW-nummer (Omzetbelastingnummer, the Dutch VAT number)
- HETU (Finnish personal identity code) as provided by Jussi Judin (#5)
- RČ (Rodné číslo, the Czech and Slovak birth numbers)
- SIREN (a French company identification number)
- FPA, ΦΠΑ (Foros Prostithemenis Aksias, the Greek VAT number)
- Ust ID Nr. (Umsatzsteur Identifikationnummer, the German VAT number)
- BTW, TVA, NWSt (Belgian VAT number)
- DNI (Documento nacional de identidad, Spanish personal identity codes)
- NIE (Número de Identificación de Extranjeros, Spanish foreigner number)
- CIF (Certificado de Identificación Fiscal, Spanish company tax number)
- NIF (Número de Identificación Fiscal, Spanish VAT number)
- PVN (Pievienotās vērtības nodokļa, Latvian VAT number)
- CVR (Momsregistreringsnummer, Danish VAT number)
- TVA (taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, Luxembourgian VAT number)
- CNP (Cod Numeric Personal, Romanian Numerical Personal Code)
- CF (Cod de înregistrare în scopuri de TVA, Romanian VAT number)
- Partita IVA (Italian VAT number)
- Αριθμός Εγγραφής Φ.Π.Α. (Cypriot VAT number)
- UID (Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer, Austrian VAT number)
- NIF (Número de identificação fiscal, Portuguese VAT number)
- IČ DPH (IČ pre daň z pridanej hodnoty, Slovak VAT number)
- ALV nro (Arvonlisäveronumero, Finnish VAT number)
- DIČ (Daňové identifikační číslo, Czech VAT number)
- ANUM (Közösségi adószám, Hungarian VAT number)
- VAT (Irish VAT number)
- KMKR (Käibemaksukohuslase, Estonian VAT number)
- PVM (Pridėtinės vertės mokestis mokėtojo kodas, Lithuanian VAT number)
- n° TVA (taxe sur la valeur ajoutée, French VAT number)
- VAT (Maltese VAT number)
- NIP (Numer Identyfikacji Podatkowej, Polish VAT number)
- ID za DDV (Davčna številka, Slovenian VAT number)
- VAT (Moms, Mervärdesskatt, Swedish VAT number)
- VAT (United Kingdom (and Isle of Man) VAT registration number)
- EGN (ЕГН, Единен граждански номер, Bulgarian personal identity codes)
- PNF (ЛНЧ, Личен номер на чужденец, Bulgarian number of a foreigner)
- VAT (Идентификационен номер по ДДС, Bulgarian VAT number)
- VAT (European Union VAT number)
- OIB (Osobni identifikacijski broj, Croatian identification number)
- PPS No (Personal Public Service Number, Irish personal number)
- CPR (personnummer, the Danish citizen number)
* Additional tests for robustness and use introspection to test all modules
* Some code refactoring with the introduction of an internal utility module
* Improvements to the docstring documentation
* Generate API documentation using Sphinx
changes from 0.5 to 0.6
-----------------------
* Fix a problem with handling an ISBN13 with a valid check digit but with an
unknown bookland prefix
* Add an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) module
* Implement a conversion function from ISBN13 to ISBN10
* Implement an ismn.ismn_type() function
* Implement an imei.split() function that splits the number into a TAC, serial
number and checksum or software version
* Source code layout changes to better follow PEP8
changes from 0.4 to 0.5
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- EAN (International Article Number)
* Refactoring to use the EAN check digit code for ISBN and ISMN checks
* Implement a conversion function from ISSN to EAN
* Support Python3 with the same codebase
* Python 2.5 compatibility improvement
changes from 0.3 to 0.4
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- CPF (Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas, the Brazilian national identification
number)
- IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
- ISIL (International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related
Organizations)
- SSN (U.S. Social Security Number)
* Implement an internal module to store and handle hierarchically organised
data structures efficiently
* Regional-specific numbers are now in ISO 3166 packages (the BSN module
is now in stdnum.nl.bsn)
* ISBN module functions now have a convert flag to convert to ISBN-13 on
the fly
changes from 0.2 to 0.3
-----------------------
* Add modules for the following number formats:
- ISMN (International Standard Music Number)
- ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number)
- IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
- MEID (Mobile Equipment Identifier)
- GRid (Global Release Identifier)
* Add modules for handling the following check digit algorithms:
- the Verhoeff algorithm
- the Luhn and Luhn mod N algorithms
- some algorithms described in ISO/IEC 7064: Mod 11, 2, Mod 37, 2,
Mod 97, 10, Mod 11, 10 and Mod 37, 36
* Added more unit tests
changes from 0.1 to 0.2
-----------------------
* Rename validate() function to is_valid() for all modules
* Handle wrong types passed to is_valid() more gracefully
* Add more tests and fix some minor bugs