Upgrade Notes

Version upgrade notes, warnings, and critical changes will be displayed here. This does not supplement the changelog, but serves to provide information on any changes that may affect user experience when upgrading to a new release.

This page is new as of version 1.0.0. Any information on older versions is likely missing or incomplete.

v1.2.0

  • Removed deprecated functions: asn.IPASN._parse_fields_http, asn.IPASN._parse_fields_dns, asn.IPASN._parse_fields_whois, asn.ASNOrigin._parse_fields, asn.ASNOrigin._get_nets_radb, net.Net.lookup_asn, whois.Whois._parse_fields, whois.Whois._get_nets_arin whois.Whois._get_nets_lacnic, whois.Whois._get_nets_other, nir.NIRWhois._parse_fields, nir.NIRWhois._get_nets_jpnic nir.NIRWhois._get_nets_krnic, nir.NIRWhois._get_contact
  • Removed deprecated asn_alts parameter
  • Removed deprecated allow_permutations parameter
  • Added new argument root_ent_check to IPWhois.lookup_rdap and RDAP.lookup. Set this to False to revert to old functionality - missing data, but less queries. If you leave this set to default of True, you will notice more queries and potentially more rate-limiting.
  • Added support for Python 3.8
  • Pinned requirements

v1.1.0

  • Exceptions now inherit a new BaseIpwhoisException rather than Exception
  • Removed support for Python 2.6/3.3, added support for 3.7
  • Removed the disallow_permutations argument from ipwhois_cli.py. Use ans_methods instead.
  • Fixed deprecation warnings in core code

v1.0.0

  • Removed deprecated IPWhois.lookup() - This was moved to IPWhois.lookup_whois()
  • HTTPS (port 443) requirement added for KRNIC lookups.
  • Experimental bulk functions added: experimental.get_bulk_asn_whois and experimental.bulk_lookup_rdap.
  • Added new return key asn_description to net.Net.get_asn_whois, experimental.get_bulk_asn_whois, and hr.py. New argument get_asn_description.
  • The IPWhois argument allow_permutations and the lookup argument asn_alts have been deprecated in favor of new argument asn_methods.
  • Deprecated unnecessary protected class functions, changed to public in asn.py, nir.py, and whois.py (#184): asn.IPASN._parse_fields_dns, asn.IPASN._parse_fields_whois, asn.IPASN._parse_fields_http, asn.ASNOrigin._parse_fields, asn.ASNOrigin._get_nets_radb, nir.NIRWhois._parse_fields, nir.NIRWhois._get_nets_jpnic, nir.NIRWhois._get_nets_krnic, nir.NIRWhois._get_contact, whois.Whois._parse_fields, whois.Whois._get_nets_arin, whois.Whois._get_nets_lacnic, whois.Whois._get_nets_other
  • New IP generators added: utils.ipv4_generate_random and utils.ipv6_generate_random
  • net.Net.get_host(), utils.ipv4_is_defined(), and utils.ipv6_is_defined now return namedtuple instead of tuple.
  • net.Net.get_asn_dns now returns a list rather than a str

v0.14.0

  • NIR (National Internet Registry) lookups are enabled by default. This is currently only performed for JPNIC and KRNIC addresses. To disable, set inc_nir=False in your IPWhois.lookup_*() query.
  • The ‘nets’ -> ‘emails’ key in IPWhois.lookup_whois() was changed from a ‘\n’ separated string to a list.

v0.11.0

  • The new RDAP return format was introduced and split off from the legacy whois return format. Using RDAP lookup (IPWhois.lookup_rdap()) is now the recommended method to maximize indexable values. RDAP return data is different in nearly every way from the legacy whois data. For information on raw RDAP responses, please see the RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7483