NEWS

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jose 2.0.0 (2026-04-22)

• Add support for ED25519 keys and signatures
• The 'typ' parameter is no longer required in JWT tokens (#21)

jose 1.2

• jwt_encode_sig() now allows to override the typ field via headers #15
• jwt_decode functions now check the 'exp' and 'nbf' fields and raise and error if token has expired.

jose 1.1

• Allow for empty list attributes in jwt_claim(), issue #13

jose 1.0 (2019-01-20)

• jwt_encode_sig() and jwt_decode_sig() now use proper 64bit signatures as described in the spec (instead of openssl DER structures)

jose 0.2 (2018-04-12)

• jwt_encode_hmac() and jwt_encode_sig() gain a 'header' parameter
• Add spell checker, update maintainer email address