From 36adbb22e41d3d0f30ed62fd16be70a2f6c31022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Parrott <80779630+JamesParrott@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 09:22:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] v3.1.7 (bug fix)

---
 README.md        | 17 ++++++++++-------
 changelog.txt    |  4 ++++
 src/shapefile.py |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5f7d188..b5dbd8e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ The Python Shapefile Library (PyShp) reads and writes ESRI Shapefiles in pure Py
 
 - **Author**: [Joel Lawhead](https://github.com/GeospatialPython)
 - **Maintainers**: [James Parrott](https://github.com/JamesParrott) & [Karim Bahgat](https://github.com/karimbahgat)
-- **Version**: 3.1.7.dev
-- **Date**: 6th Nov 2026
+- **Version**: 3.1.7
+- **Date**: 7th Nov 2026
 - **License**: [MIT](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT)
 
 ## Contents
@@ -93,15 +93,14 @@ part of your geospatial project.
 
 # Recent version Changes
 See also the Older Version Changes section below
+## 3.1.7
+### Bug fix
+ - Non-positive .shp record lengths (@lunnuyenhi-dev) and mismatched shape types now raise CorruptShpShapeRecord instead of hanging forever, raising a KeyError, or passing silently.
+
 ## 3.1.6
 ### Feature
  - Encodings can now be read from .cpg files (and optionally written to them).
 
-## 3.1.5
-### Bug fix
- - Fixed another bug causing dates before the year 1000 to be encoded as less than 8 chars under "%Y%m%d (found by [Thomas Beierlein](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/issues/435))
-
-
 
 # The Basics
 
@@ -1514,6 +1513,10 @@ Zac Miller
 
 # Older version changes
 
+## 3.1.5
+### Bug fix
+ - Fixed another bug causing dates before the year 1000 to be encoded as less than 8 chars under "%Y%m%d (found by [Thomas Beierlein](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/issues/435))
+
 ## 3.1.4
 ### Bug fix
  - Fix bug causing dates supplied as length 8 strings of digits to be encoded by the custom encoding, not ascii.
diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 74df818..9416a46 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+VERSION 3.1.7
+2026-11-07
+	* Improved handling of corrupt .shp record headers [@lunnuyenhi-dev] (see [issue 453](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/issues/453))
+
 VERSION 3.1.6
 2026-07-25
 	* Encodings can now be read from .cpg files (and optionally written to them).
diff --git a/src/shapefile.py b/src/shapefile.py
index b33bc15..e307204 100644
--- a/src/shapefile.py
+++ b/src/shapefile.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "3.1.6"
+__version__ = "3.1.7"
 
 import abc
 import array