Version 3.2.0

• #295 New API using a context manager

  • Support for using Encoder via context manager
  • Support for encoding sequences via context manager
  • Support for encoding sets via context manager
  • Support for using Decoder via context manager

• Add support of Python 3.14

• New way of installing old versions of Python in the Docker file.
  As a consequence, all versions of Python including 2.7 and from 3.5 to 3.14 are now properly tested.

Version 3.1.0

• #291 - Add support for mypy. As a consequence, the previous module has been migrated to a package.

Version 3.0.1

• Fix #288 - Use DER encoding by default as in previous versions

Version 3.0.0

• Encoding and decoding of the ASN.1 REAL type
• Support of indefinite lengths
• Encoding and decoding of complex data (lists, sets, ...)
• Add support for streams (file-like objects) when encoding and decoding
• Optionally return the number of unused bits when decoding a BitString (see also #276)
• #286 - Add ASN.1:2008 compliance test suite

Note: Even if the API has changed, it is backward-compatible with previous versions.

Version 2.8.0

• PR #285 - Use Enum with Tag for pretty representation (thanks to @Julien00859)
• Make explicit that Python 3.12 and 3.13 are supported
• Fix some links in the documentation
• Add a Docker file for testing

Version 2.7.1

• Fix OID encoding/decoding for the first octet according to ITU-T X.690 (thanks to Ian Neal)

Version 2.7.0

• Add context manager support (thanks to Mastermind-U)

Version 2.6.0

• Add support for GeneralizedTime (thanks to vollkorntomate)

Version 2.5.0

• Fixes to BitString decoding and encoding of IA5String and UTCTime (thanks to 0xbf00)

Version 2.4.2 (2021-10-29)

• Fix a minor mistake in the dump.py example
• Add Python 3.9 and 3.10