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Python interface for c-ares
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05 Oct 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 2 weeks to 1.1 years
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notes for 33 of 42 stable releases
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14 years old
48 releases · first in 2012
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Fix IDNA 2008 test by @saghul in #288
Use Literal for type by @Dreamsorcerer in #263
Full Changelog: v4.11.0...v5.0.0
One column per quarter.
Add support for Python 3.14 (including free-threaded Python) by @ngoldbaum in #256
Full Changelog: v4.10.0...v4.11.0
Remove unused import by @saghul in #240
Full Changelog: v4.9.0...v4.10.0
Create dependabot configuration by @bdraco in #226
Full Changelog: v4.8.0...v4.9.0
Cancel previous CI jobs on pull request update by @bdraco in #222
Update c-ares to 1.29.0 to add reinit support to Channel by @bdraco in #219
Full Changelog: v4.6.1...v4.7.0
Fix missing attribute type information for errno by @Dreamsorcerer in #215
Full Changelog: v4.6.0...v4.6.1
Swap out is_all_ascii for built-in str.isascii by @bdraco in #209
is_all_ascii for built-in str.isascii by @bdraco in #209Full Changelog: v4.5.0...v4.6.0
Test data updates to fix test failures by @kitterma in #192
Full Changelog: v4.4.0...v4.5.0
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core: add support for CAA queries
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misc: add Python 3.9 classifier
- ffi: new style callbacks
misc: add Python 3.8 classifier
core: drop C backend in favor of CFFI
(changes since version 2.x)
core: add support for ares_search
core: give better errors descriptions for AresError
core: automagically encode query names with IDNA
errno: fix errorcode dictionary
core: add support for ANY queries
core: drop Python < 3.5 support
misc: fix building wheels for unavailable Python versions
core: fix CPython implementation TTL parsing issue
doc: fix installation instructions in README
core: backport fix for CVE-2016-5180
core: fix parsing chunked TXT records
core: fix importing from errno submodule
sample: fix correctly setting events mask
build: fix build on Windows with Python
setup: Fix decoding in non-UTF-8 environments
Fix crash if ares_timeout returns NULL
Fix crash due to a refcount bug
Raise ValueError if query type is not valid
Added asyncio integration example
- Updated to c-ares 1.10.0
Added support for compiling with Microsoft Visual Studio
Simplified gethostbyaddr interface
Fixed checking port number boundaries
- Initial release
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