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Bumps chardet from 5.2.0 to 7.6.0.

Release notes

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7.6.0

Big release: a Cython scoring kernel joins mypyc in compiled wheels, every model retrained on a deduplicated corpus, UTF-7 fixed in both directions, and a guarantee that detect() never returns an encoding that can't decode your complete input.

Performance

• Compiled wheels now score bigram profiles through a small Cython kernel alongside mypyc, and the pair is 4.7x faster than the pure wheel on CPython 3.14. _kernel.py stays plain Python (PyPy and pure wheels run it interpreted, unchanged), and detection output is bit-identical. The kernel declares itself safe without the GIL, so free-threaded CPython scales instead of silently re-enabling the GIL on import: 3.14t runs the whole suite in ~340ms across 8 threads, the fastest configuration measured. Compiled builds now need both hooks: HATCH_BUILD_HOOK_ENABLE_MYPYC=true HATCH_BUILD_HOOK_ENABLE_CUSTOM=true.
• Added support for CPython 3.15, including the free-threaded build. No code changes were needed.

Bug Fixes

• detect() no longer returns an encoding that cannot decode the input it was given (#380, thanks @​yarikoptic). When the whole input has been examined and the winner's only multi-byte evidence is an incomplete trailing sequence, the best candidate that decodes the input completely wins instead. Genuinely truncated data keeps its answer.
• Fixed delimited ASCII data like |NAME,+LAY| misdetecting as UTF-7 (#371 follow-up, thanks @​agreenburg). The whole buffer must now actually decode as UTF-7, and a lone shifted character must land in a plausible script range.
• Signed UTF-7 no longer reads as ASCII: the BOM stage recognizes the four UTF-7 signature prefixes when the rest of the buffer decodes as UTF-7.
• Fixed short apostrophe-heavy English being labeled Scottish Gaelic or Breton: a rare-language label on an input under 128 bytes now needs a 0.03 lead over the best mainstream language (ADR-0005).
• Fixed Hungarian text losing to a Czech reading in confusion rescoring; tied pairs are compared only under language models both encodings have.
• Fixed space-padded text matching a degenerate Serbian model at high confidence; statistical scoring now skips repeated-whitespace bigrams. This also fixes windows-1251 logs misdetecting as windows-1250 (#379).
• Fixed EBCDIC text being invisible to the early pipeline stages, and the last two EBCDIC sibling misdetections.
• Fixed training normalization gaps that starved ISO-8859-16 and the 26 pre-euro encodings at exactly their distinguishing bytes.

Improvements

• Retrained every bigram model on a refreshed, deduplicated corpus with training provenance now recorded per model.
• New ANSI-art model for cp437, trained on 16,621 text-mode art files from 16colo.rs.
• Rare-language arbitration (ADR-0005): low-confidence statistical winners from languages with no documented legacy-encoding population yield to near-tied mainstream candidates.
• Confusion-group resolution is context-aware: per-occurrence votes, word-shape demotions, art-model exemption.
• Statistical dead heats no longer resolve by candidate enumeration order.
• Training pipeline hardening after a cache-loss post-mortem.

Full Changelog: chardet/chardet@7.5.1...7.6.0

7.5.1

Patch release: three detection fixes found while benchmarking against charset-normalizer's char-dataset.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed markup-declared encodings being reported under a name that can't decode the input. A page declaring Shift_JIS but using CP932 extension characters (like ①) came back as SHIFT_JIS, which fails .decode() on those same bytes. Superset promotion (CP932, CP949) now always fires when the reported name can't decode the data but the superset can.
• Fixed a lying charset declaration beating genuine UTF-8 content. A UTF-8 page declaring <meta charset="iso-8859-1"> came back as ISO-8859-1, which decodes to mojibake. Valid multi-byte UTF-8 now wins over a conflicting declaration.
• Fixed BOM-less UTF-16 byte-order detection for pure-CJK text: short Chinese UTF-16 samples came back with reversed endianness at full confidence. Byte order is now chosen by decoding both ways and comparing text quality.

Full Changelog: chardet/chardet@7.5.0...7.5.1

7.5.0

Accuracy and speed release: truncation-proof byte validity, statistical pruning worth ~2.9x, and half the peak memory.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed multi-byte encodings being eliminated when the input ends in an incomplete character. Byte-validity filtering used a one-shot strict decode, which cannot tell a truncated tail from corrupt data, so a single dangling lead byte dropped every CJK candidate and the result came down to input-length parity. Also reachable on complete files through chardet's own max_bytes and _SCAN_LIMIT slicing. Validity checks now decode incrementally with final=False. (#376, thanks @​aadsm)
• Fixed compat_names (the default) leaking internal Python codec names for seven encodings (ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-13, Windows-1250, Windows-1256, Windows-1257, CP874). (#374, thanks @​aadsm)
• Fixed compat_names leaking the internal cp932 codec name; detect() now returns CP932. (#375, thanks @​uttam12331)

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Changelog

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7.6.0 (2026-08-14)

Performance:

• Compiled wheels now score bigram profiles through a small Cython kernel alongside mypyc, and the pair is 4.7x faster than the pure wheel on CPython 3.14. _kernel.py stays plain Python (PyPy and pure wheels run it interpreted, unchanged), _kernel.pxd adds C types at build time and ships nothing, and detection output is bit-identical. The kernel declares itself safe without the GIL, so free-threaded CPython scales instead of silently re-enabling the GIL on import: 3.14t runs the whole suite in ~340ms across 8 threads, the fastest configuration measured. Compiled builds now need both hooks::

  HATCH_BUILD_HOOK_ENABLE_MYPYC=true HATCH_BUILD_HOOK_ENABLE_CUSTOM=true uv build
  

  (Dan Blanchard <https://github.com/dan-blanchard>_ via Claude)

• Added support for CPython 3.15, including the free-threaded build. No code changes were needed. (Dan Blanchard <https://github.com/dan-blanchard>_ via Claude)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed delimited ASCII data like |NAME,+LAY| misdetecting as UTF-7, a follow-up to [#371](https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/371) <https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/371>. Two new checks: the whole buffer must actually decode as UTF-7 (+| is an illegal shift, so tabular data fails immediately), and a block encoding a single code unit must land in a script range where a lone shifted character plausibly occurs. +LAY decodes to U+2C06, Glagolitic; no genuine lone block in the corpus lands anywhere like it, while em dashes, ellipses, kanji, and accented letters all pass. (Dan Blanchard <https://github.com/dan-blanchard> via Claude)
• Signed UTF-7 no longer reads as ASCII. The BOM stage recognizes the four UTF-7 signature prefixes (+/v8- and friends) when the rest of the buffer decodes as UTF-7 --- the prefix alone is ordinary ASCII (a diff of V8 source paths starts with +/v8). This is a deliberate divergence from WHATWG's browser-security exclusion of UTF-7: chardet already detects the unsigned form, so refusing only the signed one made no sense. (Dan Blanchard <https://github.com/dan-blanchard>_ via Claude)
• detect() no longer returns an encoding that cannot decode the input it was given ([#380](https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/380) <https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/380>_). When the whole input has been examined and the winner's only multi-byte evidence is an incomplete trailing sequence, the best candidate that decodes the input completely wins instead. Genuinely truncated data keeps its answer: CJK cut mid-character, or input sliced at

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Commits

• dcf07fb Scope the 7.6.0 changelog to the 7.5.1..7.6.0 delta
• 1177ee0 Release 7.6.0
• e3a7d78 docs: final pre-release benchmark refresh on the 3,125-file corpus
• 6bbb2af Stop UTF-7 misdetections both ways: decode-gate the class, sniff the signature
• e20d6c1 docs: publish the first x86 benchmark run
• c7f62c5 Credit patrikha's PEP 263 request; make the x86 benchmark debuggable
• 9d63eca Credit deedy5's chunked-processing proposal; add an x86 benchmark workflow
• 060c6b8 docs: address the accurate parts of charset-normalizer's rebuttal
• 7e25984 Fix two docstring lint violations the pre-push check missed
• 75b751f docs: rewrite the 7.6.0 changelog as a point-in-time view of main vs 7.5.1
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