Changes

Features

• Improve JWT.decode() #76 (fixes #75)
• Sort headers when serializing to allow for headless JWT #136 (fixes #80)
• Adjust dependency handling
  • Use PyCryptodome instead of PyCrypto #83
  • Update package dependencies #124 (fixes #158)
• Avoid using deprecated methods #85
• Support X509 certificates #107
• Isolate and flesh out cryptographic backends to enable independent operation #129 (fixes #114)
  • Remove pyca/cryptography backend's dependency on python-ecdsa #117
  • Remove pycrypto/dome backends' dependency on python-rsa #121
  • Make pyca/cryptography backend the preferred backend if multiple backends are present #122

Bugfixes/Improvements

• Enable flake8 check in tox/TravisCI #77
• Fix crytography dependency typo #94
• Trigger tests using python setup.py test #97
• Properly raise an error if a claim is expected and not given #98
• Typo fixes #110
• Fix invalid RSA private key PKCS8 encoding by python-rsa backend #120 (fixes #119)
• Remove future dependency #134 (fixes #112)
• Fix incorrect use of pytest.raises(message=...) #141
• Typo fix #143
• Clarify sign docstring to allow for dict payload #150

Housekeeping

• Streamline the code a bit and update classifiers #87
• Fix typo and rephrase access_token documentation #89
• Code linting now mostly honors flake8 #101
• Document using a dict for jwt.encode and jwt.decode #103
• Include docs and tests in source distributions #111
• Updating README descriptions of crypto backends #130
• Document versioning policy #131
• Add CHANGELOG.rst #132 (fixes #99)
• Simplify and extend .travis.yml #135
• Move CHANGELOG.rst to CHANGELOG.md and update it #158

Special Thanks

• @mpdavis
• @zehn
• @mattsb42-aws
• @leplatrem
• @nelz9999
• @hugovk
• @crgk
• @zulrang
• @shenek
• @imsteev
• @jgehrcke
• @bgrant
• @gene1wood