chardet 7.3.0 on Python PyPI

License

0BSD license — the project license has been changed from MIT to 0BSD, a maximally permissive license with no attribution requirement. All prior 7.x releases should also be considered 0BSD licensed as of this release.

Added mime_type field to detection results — identifies file types for both binary (via magic number matching) and text content. Returned in all detect(), detect_all(), and UniversalDetector results. (#350)
New pipeline/magic.py module detects 40+ binary file formats including images, audio/video, archives, documents, executables, and fonts. ZIP-based formats (XLSX, DOCX, JAR, APK, EPUB, wheel, OpenDocument) are distinguished by entry filenames. (#350)

Fixed incorrect equivalence between UTF-16-LE and UTF-16-BE in accuracy testing — these are distinct encodings with different byte order, not interchangeable

Added 4 new modules to mypyc compilation (orchestrator, confusion, magic, ascii), bringing the total to 11 compiled modules
Capped statistical scoring at 16 KB — bigram models converge quickly, so large files no longer score the full 200 KB. Worst-case detection time dropped from 62ms to 26ms with no accuracy loss.
Replaced dataclasses.replace() with direct DetectionResult construction on hot paths, eliminating ~354k function calls per full test suite run

Added riscv64 to the mypyc wheel build matrix — prebuilt wheels are now published for RISC-V Linux alongside existing architectures (#348, thanks @gounthar)