Prepare 1.9.0 release

.readthedocs.yaml

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 version: 2
 
 build:
-  os: ubuntu-22.04
+  os: ubuntu-24.04
   tools:
-    python: '3.12'
+    python: '3.14'
 
 # Build documentation in the docs/ directory with Sphinx
 sphinx:

Legal.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-“hdmf-common-schema” Copyright (c) 2019-2024, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“hdmf-common-schema” Copyright (c) 2019-2026, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 If you have questions about your rights to use or distribute this software, please contact Berkeley Lab's Innovation & Partnerships Office at IPO@lbl.gov.
 

README.md

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ The HDMF-common schema provides the following data structures:
 - **DynamicTableRegion**: A data structure for linking to a row or set of rows of a **DynamicTable**.
 - **AlignedDynamicTable**: A **DynamicTable** that supports storing a collection of sub-tables.
 - **CSRMatrix**: A compressed sparse row matrix.
+- **HERD**: A set of tables that track external resource references in a file or across multiple files
 
 The schema also provides the following base data structures:
 
@@ -38,8 +39,6 @@ and may never make it into HDMF-common.
 
 Current experimental data types are:
 
-- **ExternalResources**: A data structure that contains row-based compound-data tables for storing ontology information
-  and other external resource references.
 - **EnumData**: A data structure for representing a column where the data come from a fixed set of elements.
 
 ## Generate documentation

common/namespace.yaml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ namespaces:
   - doc: data types for storing references to web accessible resources
     source: resources.yaml
     title: Resource reference data types
-  version: 1.9.0-alpha
+  version: 1.9.0
 
 - name: hdmf-experimental
   doc: Experimental data structures provided by HDMF. These are not guaranteed to be available in the future.
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ namespaces:
   - doc: Experimental data types
     source: experimental.yaml
     title: Experimental data types
-  version: 0.6.0-alpha
+  version: 0.6.0

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def setup(app):
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'HDMF-common Specification'
-copyright = u'2019-2024, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.'
+copyright = u'2019-2026, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.'
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def setup(app):
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = 'v1.9.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = 'v1.9.0-alpha'
+release = 'v1.9.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ def setup(app):
 #html_theme = 'default'
 #html_theme = "sphinxdoc"
 html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme"
-html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()]
 
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the

docs/source/hdmf_common_release_notes.rst

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 hdmf-common Release Notes
 =========================
 
-1.9.0 (Upcoming)
-----------------------
+1.9.0 (January 29, 2026)
+------------------------
 - Changed the dtype of ``ElementIdentifiers`` and ``DynamicTableRegion`` from "int" to "int32". Under HDMF
   schema language 2.x, "int" means "int32" so this change has no functional impact, except when displaying the
   spec, such as in error messages.

docs/source/hdmf_experimental_release_notes.rst

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 hdmf-experimental Release Notes
 ===============================
 
-0.6.0 (Upcoming)
-----------------
+0.6.0 (January 29, 2026)
+------------------------
 - Promoted ``HERD`` to a stable data type in the HDMF-common namespace. See :ref:`here <hdmf_common_release_notes>` for details.
 
 0.5.0 (August 4, 2023)

license.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-“hdmf-common-schema” Copyright (c) 2019-2024, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“hdmf-common-schema” Copyright (c) 2019-2026, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: