Changelog

Versions are year-based with a strict backward compatibility policy. The third digit is only for regressions.

18.1.0 (2018-01-06)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 670229c (20171227)

Changes:

  • It is now possible to use the argon2_cffi bindings against an Argon2 library that is provided by the system.

16.3.0 (2016-11-10)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 1c4fc41f81f358283755eea88d4ecd05e43b7fd3 (20161029)

Changes:

  • Prevent side-effects like the installation of cffi if setup.py is called with a command that doesn’t require it. #20
  • Fix a bunch of warnings with new cffi versions and Python 3.6. #14 #16
  • Add low-level bindings for Argon2id functions.

16.2.0 (2016-09-10)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 4844d2fee15d44cb19296ddf36029326d17c5aa3

Changes:

  • Fix compilation on debian jessie. #13

16.1.0 (2016-04-19)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 00aaa6604501fade85853a4b2f5695611ff6e7c5.

Backward-incompatible changes:

  • Python 3.3 and 2.6 aren’t supported anymore. They may work by chance but any support to them has been ceased.

    The last Python 2.6 release was on October 29, 2013 and isn’t supported by the CPython core team anymore. Major Python packages like Django and Twisted dropped Python 2.6 a while ago already.

    Python 3.3 never had a significant user base and wasn’t part of any distribution’s LTS release.

Changes:

  • Add VerifyMismatchError that is raised if verification fails only because of a password/hash mismatch. It’s a subclass of VerificationError therefore this change is completely backward compatible.
  • Add support for Argon2 1.3. Old hashes remain functional but opportunistic rehashing is strongly recommended.

16.0.0 (2016-01-02)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 421dafd2a8af5cbb215e16da5953663eb101d139.

Deprecations:

  • hash_password(), hash_password_raw(), and verify_password() should not be used anymore. For hashing passwords, use the new argon2.PasswordHasher. If you want to implement your own higher-level abstractions, use the new low-level APIs hash_secret(), hash_secret_raw(), and verify_secret() from the argon2.low_level module. If you want to go really low-level, core() is for you. The old functions will not raise any warnings though and there are no immediate plans to remove them.

Changes:

  • Add argon2.PasswordHasher. A higher-level class specifically for hashing passwords that also works on Unicode strings.
  • Add argon2.low_level module with low-level API bindings for building own high-level abstractions.

15.0.1 (2015-12-18)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 4fe0d8cda37691228dd5a96a310be57369403a4b.

Changes:

  • Fix long_description on PyPI.

15.0.0 (2015-12-18)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 4fe0d8cda37691228dd5a96a310be57369403a4b.

Changes:

  • verify_password() doesn’t guess the hash type if passed None anymore. Supporting this resulted in measurable overhead (~ 0.6ms vs 0.8ms on my notebook) since it had to happen in Python. That means that naïve usage of the API would give attackers an edge. The new behavior is that it has the same default value as hash_password() such that verify_password(hash_password(b"password"), b"password") still works.
  • Conditionally use the SSE2-optimized version of argon2 on x86 architectures.
  • More packaging fixes. Most notably compilation on Visual Studio 2010 for Python 3.3 and 3.4.
  • Tweaked default parameters to more reasonable values. Verification should take between 0.5ms and 1ms on recent-ish hardware.

15.0.0b5 (2015-12-10)

Vendoring Argon2 @ 4fe0d8cda37691228dd5a96a310be57369403a4b.

Initial work. Previous betas were only for fixing Windows packaging. The authors of Argon2 were kind enough to help me to get it building under Visual Studio 2008 that we’re forced to use for Python 2.7 on Windows.