Open the 2.5 cycle after 2.4.2 (#677)

Release checklist steps 8 and 9: VERSION back to (2, 5, 0) with
PRE_RELEASE 'dev', a 2.5.0 Unreleased entry in the release log, and
DEFAULT_BASELINE 2.4.2. CITATION.cff stays at 2.4.2, the last released
version.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: derek73

docs/release_log.rst

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Release Log
 ===========
+* 2.5.0 - Unreleased
+
+    nameparser 2.5 is under development.
+
 * 2.4.2 - October 13, 2026
 
     nameparser 2.4.2 fixes two readings: a name typed with decomposed accents or hangul, and the Hausa given name Shehu.

nameparser/_version.py

@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
 #: cannot carry the dev marker, so `VERSION >= (2, 5, 0)` is already
 #: true here while 2.5.0 is unreleased. Compare `__version__` instead
 #: where that distinction matters.
-VERSION = (2, 4, 2)
+VERSION = (2, 5, 0)
 #: PEP 440 pre-release/dev segment appended to the numeric version, or
 #: "" for a final release. Joined WITHOUT a dot ("2.0.0rc1", not
 #: "2.0.0.rc1"); setuptools reads __version__ as the package version.
 #:
 #: "dev" through the cycle, cleared at release. It normalizes to
 #: 2.5.0.dev0, which sorts above 2.4.0 and BELOW 2.5.0, so an install
 #: from master can never masquerade as the release it precedes.
-PRE_RELEASE = ""
+PRE_RELEASE = "dev"
 __version__ = ".".join(map(str, VERSION)) + PRE_RELEASE

tools/differential/compare.py

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 from typing import NamedTuple
 
 HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
-DEFAULT_BASELINE = "2.4.1"
+DEFAULT_BASELINE = "2.4.2"
 REPO_ROOT = HERE.parents[1]