v4.2.0

What's Changed

• Added support for the "legal" service endpoint, providing legal status
  information for patents as documented in chapter 3.5 of the OPS v3.2
  documentation. Thanks, @MartiONE.

• Updated documentation. Thanks, @CholoTook and @mattkeanny.

Details

• Chore: Update release instructions / recipe by @amotl in #78
• Chore: Trim setup.py by @amotl in #79
• Chore: Update .pre-commit-config.yaml by @amotl in #80
• removed duplicate entry in readme table by @mattkeanny in #85
• Tests: Skip OPS-based integration tests when no credentials are defined by @amotl in #86
• Update README.md by @mattkeanny in #81
• Dependencies: Update to dogpile.cache 1.3. Update develop and test dependencies across the board. by @amotl in #93
• Chore: Add relaxed Codecov configuration by @amotl in #94
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #95
• build(deps-dev): update ruff requirement from <0.2 to <0.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #98
• build(deps-dev): update responses requirement from <0.24 to <0.26 by @dependabot[bot] in #100
• build(deps-dev): update twine requirement from <5 to <6 by @dependabot[bot] in #99
• build(deps-dev): update ruff requirement from <0.3 to <0.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #102
• build(deps): update python-dateutil requirement from <2.9 to <2.10 by @dependabot[bot] in #101
• Update README.md by @CholoTook in #106
• Added docstring and type annotations to family(), removed parameter endpoint by @mattkeanny in #87
• build(deps): bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 by @dependabot[bot] in #96
• build(deps-dev): update pytest-cov requirement from <4.2 to <5.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #105
• build(deps-dev): update ruff requirement from <0.4 to <0.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #109
• style: format toml by @gsong in #115
• fix: for issue 52 about 'sqlite3.ProgrammingError: SQLite objects created in a thread can only be used in that same thread' by @gsong in #117
• CI: This and that by @amotl in #122
• build(deps-dev): update ruff requirement from <0.7 to <0.9 by @dependabot[bot] in #121
• build(deps-dev): update twine requirement from <6 to <7 by @dependabot[bot] in #124
• build(deps-dev): update pytest-cov requirement from <5.1 to <6.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #119
• Remove black by @amotl in #125
• build(deps-dev): update python-dotenv requirement from <1.1 to <1.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #127
• CI: Update to use ubuntu-latest and Python >= 3.8 by @amotl in #135
• build(deps): update dogpile-cache requirement from <1.4 to <1.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #130
• build(deps-dev): update pytest-cov requirement from <6.1 to <6.3 by @dependabot[bot] in #131
• build(deps-dev): update ruff requirement from <0.10 to <0.13 by @dependabot[bot] in #132
• Adding the legal service endpoint support by @MartiONE in #133
• CI: Stage release packages to PyPI through GHA by @amotl in #137
• README: Educate about retrieving the document's "description" and "claims" by @amotl in #138

New Contributors

• @CholoTook made their first contribution in #106
• @MartiONE made their first contribution in #133

Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.2.0