Bump version and CHANGELOG to v33.0.0rc1

Signed-off-by: Ayan Sinha Mahapatra <asmahapatra@aboutcode.org>

Author: AyanSinhaMahapatra

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,34 @@ Changelog
 Next release
 --------------
 
+v33.0.0rc1 - 2026-05-14
+------------------------
+
+This is a major release candidate with major changes in packaging,
+with the licensedcode-data and licensedcode-index being published
+in two seperate wheels. Also adds linux/macos ARM support in
+release archives and pypi wheels.
+
+- Remove the licensedcode data and built license indexes from the
+  main scancode-toolkit built wheel, and release them as
+  seperate wheels which scancode-toolkit depends on.
+  This enables to release scancode licensedb data/index wheels
+  seperately whenever necessary and also reduces the scancode
+  wheel size greatly. For more details see:
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/issues/3459
+
+- Add macos ARM and linux arm support in release archives and
+  pypi wheels through ``scancode-toolkit-mini`` which uses
+  system provided libraries instead of bundled binaries.
+  Also use updated non pure-python dependencies supporting
+  linux/macos arm wheels. For more details see:
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/issues/3205
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/issues/3958
+
+- Add new and updates licenses, and license rules, including
+  support for the SPDX License List 3.28
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/pull/4956
+
 - Add support for the Python UV package manager. Two new package data
   handlers parse ``pyproject.toml`` files containing a ``[tool.uv]`` table
   and ``uv.lock`` lockfiles, including PEP 735 ``[dependency-groups]``,
@@ -12,7 +40,8 @@ Next release
   single Python package.
   https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/issues/4501
 
-v3.5.0 - 2026-01-15
+
+v32.5.0 - 2026-01-15
 -------------------
 
 - Improve package scan performance by:

pyproject-licensedcode-data.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "flot.buildapi"
 
 [project]
 name = "licensedcode-data"
-version = "32.5.0"
+version = "33.0.0rc1"
 description = "A packaging of the ScanCode licensedb license and license rules database."
 long_description_content_type = "text/x-rst"
 readme = "src/licensedcode/data/README.rst"

pyproject-licensedcode-index.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "flot.buildapi"
 
 [project]
 name = "licensedcode-index"
-version = "32.5.0"
+version = "33.0.0rc1"
 description = "A packaging of the ScanCode licensedb license and license rules pre-built index. Can only be used with ScanCode-Toolkit."
 long_description_content_type = "text/x-rst"
 readme = "src/licensedcode/data/README.rst"

pyproject-scancode-toolkit-mini.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "flot.buildapi"
 
 [project]
 name = "scancode-toolkit-mini"
-version = "32.5.0"
+version = "33.0.0rc1"
 description = "ScanCode is a tool to scan code for license, copyright, package and their documented dependencies and other interesting facts."
 readme = "README.rst"
 license = { text = "Apache-2.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND LicenseRef-scancode-other-permissive AND LicenseRef-scancode-other-copyleft" }
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ dev = [
 
 
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "32.5.0"
+current_version = "33.0.0rc1"
 allow_dirty = true
 
 files = [

pyproject-scancode-toolkit.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "flot.buildapi"
 
 [project]
 name = "scancode-toolkit"
-version = "32.5.0"
+version = "33.0.0rc1"
 description = "ScanCode is a tool to scan code for license, copyright, package and their documented dependencies and other interesting facts."
 readme = "README.rst"
 license = { text = "Apache-2.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND LicenseRef-scancode-other-permissive AND LicenseRef-scancode-other-copyleft" }
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ dev = [
 
 
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "32.5.0"
+current_version = "33.0.0rc1"
 allow_dirty = true
 
 files = [

pyproject.toml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ build-backend = "flot.buildapi"
 
 [project]
 name = "scancode-toolkit-devel"
-version = "32.5.0"
+version = "33.0.0rc1"
 description = "ScanCode is a tool to scan code for license, copyright, package and their documented dependencies and other interesting facts."
 readme = "README.rst"
 license = { text = "Apache-2.0 AND CC-BY-4.0 AND LicenseRef-scancode-other-permissive AND LicenseRef-scancode-other-copyleft" }
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ dev = [
 
 
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "32.5.0"
+current_version = "33.0.0rc1"
 allow_dirty = true
 
 files = [

src/scancode_config.py

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def _create_dir(location):
 # See https://scancode-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/misc/versioning.html for
 # more information on versioning
 if not __version__:
-    __version__ = '32.5.0'
+    __version__ = '33.0.0rc1'
 
 #######################
 # used to warn user when the version is out of date