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+# Contributions to pydantic/pydantic-extra-types
+
+Extra Pydantic types.
+
+This repository holds only my commits to the upstream project, with their original author, date and diff.
+Each of my commits is preceded by a snapshot of the upstream files it touched, so every diff shows exactly what I changed.
+
+## Merged pull requests
+
+- [Add Sha256Str type](https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-extra-types/pull/433) (2026-10-03)
+- [Fix MacAddress accepting octets with a sign or whitespace](https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-extra-types/pull/424) (2026-09-05)