PyNacl v1.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2022-01-07 // about 2 years ago
    • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Removed support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.5.
    • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: We no longer distribute manylinux1 wheels.
    • Added manylinux2014, manylinux_2_24, musllinux, and macOS universal2 wheels (the latter supports macOS arm64).
    • ๐Ÿš€ Update libsodium to 1.0.18-stable (July 25, 2021 release).
    • โž• Add inline type hints.

Previous changes from v1.4.0

    • โšก๏ธ Update libsodium to 1.0.18.
    • BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: We no longer distribute 32-bit manylinux1 wheels. Continuing to produce them was a maintenance burden.
    • โž• Added support for Python 3.8, and removed support for Python 3.4.
    • โž• Add low level bindings for extracting the seed and the public key from crypto_sign_ed25519 secret key
    • โž• Add low level bindings for deterministic random generation.
    • โž• Add wheel and setuptools setup_requirements in setup.py (#485)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix checks on very slow builders (#481, #495)
    • โž• Add low-level bindings to ed25519 arithmetic functions
    • โšก๏ธ Update low-level blake2b state implementation
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix wrong short-input behavior of SealedBox.decrypt() (#517)
    • ๐Ÿ‘ป Raise CryptPrefixError exception instead of InvalidkeyError when trying to check a password against a verifier stored in a unknown format (#519)
    • โž• Add support for minimal builds of libsodium. Trying to call functions not available in a minimal build will raise an UnavailableError exception. To compile a minimal build of the bundled libsodium, set the SODIUM_INSTALL_MINIMAL environment variable to any non-empty string (e.g. SODIUM_INSTALL_MINIMAL=1) for setup.