Blue Duckling: Ixora

What has been fixed ?

• We mitigated some cryptography vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-0286 & CVE-2023-23931) my changing the minimun required version.

• A fatal error when no nameservers are configured by the hosting system. The default DNS Servers (when none are defined at OS/Configuration level) are now the Quad9 unsecured one. (#328)

• The git.io service is not deprecated. All URLs were Updated. (#341)

What has been improved?

For End-Users

• The weebly.com SPECIAL rulesets. We now take down subdomains, that returns the 406 status code.

• The wordpress.com SPECIAL rulesets. (#321)

For Developers

• We now support SQLAlchemy v2.x+.
• All SPECIAL rule handlers now share a set of methods to allow us to unify to way we go through our SPECIAL rulesets.
• All converters can now be used without initialization of the subject. Just use the convert method, and you are good to go!

What has been removed?

• The support of any Python version lower that 3.8 (<=3.7).

What is new?

For End-Users

• The support of Python 3.11.

• The support of PostgreSQL.

• The "subject-switch" SPECIAL rulesets. (#185)

• The "changeip" SPECIAL rulesets. (#311)

• The imgur.com SPECIAL rulesets. (#319)

• The eToxic SPECIAL rulesets. (#334)

• An ips output subdirectory has been added. IPs are now "first-class citizens" among the plain text output format-s. (#268)

For Developers

• Testing with pytest now works out of the box. (#328)

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Contributors

Thanks to those awesome people who contributed to this release!

• Josenilson Ferreira da SIlva - @Nilsonfsilva | @Nilsonfsilva
• smed79 - @smed79 | @smed79
• spirilln - @spirillen | @spirillen
• T145 - @T145 | @T145