[derek73]

Ships nameparser 2.6.0: the default vocabulary as per-word TOML (#737), the opt-in Policy(two_family_names=True) (#754), and the credential, title, comma and case-repair fixes in the release log.

Release checklist, steps 0–3

• Step 0, stale-prose sweep. Three read-only reviewers (user docs; docstrings, messages, Reads: lines, case notes; design docs and AGENTS.md), then a fourth review of the fix commits.
  • migrate.rst: "Changed in" now covers 2.6, with 11 doctested shapes, each "1.4 read X" checked against the 1.4.0 wheel. It also lists the 2.6 pickle break among the 2.x breaks.
  • README.rst: leads with 2.6. The README doctest passes and readme_renderer renders it.
  • Release log: a summary intro, plus a new bullet for the pickle break. A 2.5.0 Policy pickle fails on two_family_names, which no bullet mentioned. The Should Italian abbreviated salutations like Sig.ra and Dott.ssa be titles? Dott.ssa Anna Bianchi reads given Dott.ssa #840 bullet named Sig.ra and repaired SIG.RA MARIA ROSSI, but 2.5.0 already did both, so it now names Dott.ssa and Sig.na.
  • Code-side prose: Reads: in _post_rules (name_order, O6) and _comma (unlisted_dotted_suffixes), H8 on _assign's Implements line, three tests/v2/cases.py notes that called md a title, and the CAPITALIZATION_EXCEPTIONS docstring's dphil example (a shipped mask since Should "John Smith, FNP-C" read FNP-C as a credential instead of the given name? #797; now dclinpsy).
  • Design docs and AGENTS.md: the dual list after Take sa out of the vocabulary, so Maria de Sa keeps its surname (#857) #879; the split-default demo key, re-measured 2026-10-25 with dclinpsy; md superseded in decisions/vocabulary-model, C13 and S7.
  • User docs: usage.rst names H8, locales.rst points at nameparser/vocab/*.toml, concepts.rst names two_family_names, and customize.rst gives decisions/O6's measured Portuguese figure.
  • Dependabot: no open PRs on uv.lock. Security alert 6 (certifi, critical, dev group only through sphinx → requests; nameparser has no runtime dependencies) is fixed here by bumping certifi to 2026.10.23.
• Step 1. snapshot.py --since v2.5.0: 22 reading moves outside the 276 new corpus names, all from Mark 33 credential readings ambiguous where a surname reading is substantial #796, Should "John Smith, FNP-C" read FNP-C as a credential instead of the given name? #797, Should a title word written after another title be the given name (Mr Sultan Khan, Mr Md Karim Uddin)? #853, Should Ram Bahadur B.K. keep B.K. as its family name? #864 and Should Maria de Sa keep its surname, as Maria de Sá does? #857. compare.py --baseline 2.5.0 (case views): 82 moves, all from capitalized() lowercases a letter that should stay capital, after a period (J.R.R. → J.r.r.) or after an ayn (ʿAlī → ʿalī) #838 and JOHN SMITH, PA-C repairs to Pa-C: a listed credential joined by a hyphen or slash is capitalized like a name #808. Nothing is unaccounted for.
• Steps 2–3. PRE_RELEASE = "", CITATION.cff 2.6.0, release log stamped October 25, 2026.

Local checks: the full suite (24,369 passed), -n0 -m serial, mypy, ruff, build.py --check, Sphinx doctest and HTML.

After merge: tag v2.6.0 on the squash commit, gh release create, approve the pypi environment, move the five open 2.6 issues to a new "Next Release" milestone, then a PR for steps 8–9 (DEFAULT_BASELINE 2.6.0, 2.7.0dev).

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