Change log for whois package in Debian

whois (5.5.23) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .sc, .新加坡 (.xn--yfro4i67o, Singapore) and .சிங்கப்பூர்
    (.xn--clchc0ea0b2g2a9gcd, Singapore) TLD servers.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 04 May 2024 03:13:22 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.22 to 5.5.23 (862 bytes)

whois (5.5.22) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed a segmentation fault with --no-recursion.
  * Updated the .bm and .vi TLD servers.
  * Removed 4 new gTLDs which are no longer active.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:14:41 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.21 to 5.5.22 (1.0 KiB)

whois (5.5.21) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .cv and .sd TLD servers.
  * Remove 4 new gTLDs which are no longer active.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:22:22 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.20 to 5.5.21 (3.0 KiB)

whois (5.5.20) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .gn TLD server.
  * Removed 6 new gTLDs which are no longer active.
  * Enabled getopt_long(3) support on Solaris.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:26:02 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.19 to 5.5.20 (2.9 KiB)

whois (5.5.19) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed english support for Japanese queries to not add again the /e
    argument if it had already been provided by the user. (Closes: #1050171)
  * Added the .ye and .বাংলা (.xn--54b7fta0cc, Bangladesh) TLD servers.
  * Updated the .ba, .bb, .dk, .es, .gt, .jo, .ml, .mo, .pa, .pn, .sv,
    .uy, .ﺍﻻﺭﺪﻧ (.xn--mgbayh7gpa, Jordan) and .澳門 (.xn--mix891f, Macao)
    TLD servers.
  * Upgraded the TLD URLs to HTTPS whenever possible.
  * Updated the charset for whois.jprs.jp.
  * Removed 3 new gTLDs which are no longer active.
  * Removed support for the obsolete as32 dot notation.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 08 Oct 2023 22:58:33 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.18 to 5.5.19 (6.2 KiB)

whois (5.5.18) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Marco d'Itri ]
  * Updated the .ga TLD server. (Closes: #1037288)
  * Added new recovered IPv4 allocations.
  * Removed the delegation of 43.0.0.0/8 to JPNIC.
  * Removed 12 new gTLDs which are no longer active.
  * Improved the man page source, courtesy of Bjarni Ingi Gislason.
    (Closes: #1040613)

  [ Robert Scheck ]
  * Added the .edu.za SLD server.
  * Updated the .alt.za SLD server.
  * Added the -ru and -su NIC handles servers.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 22 Jul 2023 17:56:56 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.17 to 5.5.18 (7.1 KiB)

whois (5.5.17) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Robert Scheck ]
  * Added the .cd TLD server.
  * Updated the -kg NIC handles server name.

  [ Marco d'Itri ]
  * Removed 2 new gTLDs which are no longer active.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 03 May 2023 14:24:37 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.16 to 5.5.17 (855 bytes)

whois (5.5.16) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add bash completion support, courtesy of Ville Skyttä.
  * Updated the .tr TLD server.
  * Removed support for -metu NIC handles.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:58:22 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.15 to 5.5.16 (2.3 KiB)

whois (5.5.15) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .bd, .nz and .tv TLD servers.
  * Added the .llyw.cymru, .gov.scot and .gov.wales SLD servers.
  * Updated the .ac.uk and .gov.uk SLD servers.
  * Recursion has been enabled for whois.nic.tv.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs with four generic TLDs assigned in
    October 2013 which were missing due to a bug.
  * Removed 4 new gTLDs which are no longer active.
  * Added the Georgian translation, contributed by Temuri Doghonadze.
  * Updated the Finnish translation, contributed by Lauri Nurmi.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:44:11 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.14 to 5.5.15 (10.5 KiB)

whois (5.5.14) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .bf and .sd TLD servers.
  * Removed the .gu TLD server.
  * Updated the .dm, .fj, .mt and .pk TLD servers.
  * Updated the charset for whois.nic.tr.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Removed whois.nic.fr from the list of RIPE-like servers, because it
    is not one anymore. (Closes: #1021110)
  * Renamed whois.arnes.si to whois.register.si in the list of RIPE-like
    servers.
  * Added the hiding string for whois.auda.org.au.
  * Fixed uclibc builds, because uclibc does not have NLS support.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 16 Oct 2022 22:16:34 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.13 to 5.5.14 (1.9 KiB)

whois (5.5.13) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .sd TLD server.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Added the Turkish translation, contributed by Oğuz Ersen.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 08 Apr 2022 01:08:55 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.11 to 5.5.13 (7.0 KiB)

whois (5.5.12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .pro TLD server, which was totally broken.
  * Fixed the detection of Japanese locales using $LC_MESSAGES.
  * Implemented providing partial salt strings to mkpasswd.
  * Removed 2 new gTLDs which are no longer active.
  * Updated one or more translations. (Closes: #1003597)
  * Enabled full hardening in debian/rules.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:03:11 +0100

whois (5.5.11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Implemented a --no-recursion command line option to disable recursion
    from registrar to registry servers.
  * Updated the .pro, .vu and .xxx TLD servers.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Removed 7 new gTLDs which are no longer active.
  * Updated make_version_h.pl to support Ubuntu no-change uploads,
   contributed by Matthias Klose. (Closes: #995873)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:18:36 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.10ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.5.11 (24.5 KiB)

whois (5.5.10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .lb TLD server.
  * Removed 5 new gTLDs which are no longer active.
  * Updated the charset for whois.lacnic.net, whois.ax, whois.cira.ca
    and whois.dns.pt.
  * Fixed reporting an older version number when using --version.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 06 Jun 2021 19:54:13 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.9 to 5.5.10 (1.2 KiB)

whois (5.5.9) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .ga TLD server.
  * Removed the .cd and cf TLD servers.
  * Removed 72 new gTLDs which are no longer active.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:38:20 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.8 to 5.5.9 (2.9 KiB)

whois (5.5.8) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .xn--4dbrk0ce (.ישראל, Israel) TLD server.
  * Updated the .ie and .az TLD servers.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 16 Feb 2021 01:53:57 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.7 to 5.5.8 (1.2 KiB)

whois (5.5.7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Implemented support for CIDR queries to whois.arin.net.
    The old behaviour caused the server to return no results, now when
    querying for ip/length the server returns a result if there is an
    exact match.
  * Added the .ao, .bh, .mm, and .xn--pgbs0dh (.تونس, Tunisia) TLD servers.
  * Added some .ru and .su SLD servers.
  * Updated the .th and .xn--o3cw4h TLD servers.
  * Updated the .cy, .jo, .lb, .np, .xn--mgbayh7gpa and .xn--qxam TLD URLs.
  * Updated the charset for whois.ati.tn.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:43:06 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.6 to 5.5.7 (9.9 KiB)

whois (5.5.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Depend on pkg-config, or else the package will be built without libidn
    and libxcrypt. (Closes: #950140)
  * Added the .xn--q7ce6a (.ລາວ, Lao) TLD server.
  * Added the .xn--pgbs0dh (.البحرين, Bahrain) domain.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 16 Feb 2020 10:25:51 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.5 to 5.5.6 (1.3 KiB)

whois (5.5.5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed the hide string for .sx, which broke many others.
  * Fixed cross-compilation. (Closes: #947971)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:55:48 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.4 to 5.5.5 (804 bytes)

whois (5.5.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .vu TLD server.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Added the charset for whois.ripe.net.
  * Added support for the referrals in answers from whois.registry.in.
  * Implemented support for passing raw $salts$.
  * Fixed and updated many hiding string.
  * Cleaned up the text and typesetting of the man pages. (Closes: #945622)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 31 Dec 2019 03:04:15 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.3 to 5.5.4 (10.4 KiB)

whois (5.5.3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the new 2630:0000::/12 IPv6 assignment to ARIN.
  * Updated the .xxx TLD server.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Converted the Debian packaging to dh.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:33:50 +0100

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• diff from 5.5.2 to 5.5.3 (1.8 KiB)

whois (5.5.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .xn--qxa6a (.ευ, European Union, Greek) TLD server.
  * Updated the .td TLD server.
  * Updated one or more translations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:44:49 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.1 to 5.5.2 (1.5 KiB)

whois (5.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .ge TLD server.
  * Updated one or more translations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:47:55 +0200

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• diff from 5.5.0 to 5.5.1 (1.4 KiB)

whois (5.5.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Implemented the -I option to query whois.iana.org and use its referrals.
    (Closes: #774603)
  * Updated one or more translations. (Closes: #931336, #931244)
  * Automatically generate the version string sent to servers because I
    kept forgetting to update it with new releases.
  * Updated the .zm TLD server.
  * Added new recovered IPv4 allocations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:31:42 +0200

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• diff from 5.4.3 to 5.5.0 (40.1 KiB)

whois (5.4.3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the new 2a10:0000::/12 IPv6 assignment to RIPE.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:03:56 +0200

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• diff from 5.4.2 to 5.4.3 (458 bytes)

whois (5.4.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .ss and .xn--mgbah1a3hjkrd (موريتانيا, Mauritania) TLD
    servers.
  * Updated the .in TLD and related IDN TLDs servers.
  * Updated the .fm TLD server.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 28 Mar 2019 00:48:28 +0100

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• diff from 5.4.1 to 5.4.2 (5.5 KiB)

whois (5.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .mw TLD server.
  * Updated one or more translations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 27 Jan 2019 04:48:53 +0100

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• diff from 5.4.0 to 5.4.1 (2.7 KiB)

whois (5.4.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added support for the new libxcrypt 4.x.
    This allows mkpasswd to support many modern password hash methods.
  * Renamed the hash types (i.e. the arguments to -H) to use the naming 
    convention established by John the Ripper.
  * Made mkpasswd use entropy gathered by crypt_gensalt(3), when available.
  * Fixed many portability bugs in mkpasswd.
  * Added the .gp TLD server.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:32:49 +0200

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• diff from 5.3.2 to 5.4.0 (4.3 KiB)

whois (5.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .ge TLD server.
  * Updated the charset for whois.nic.cl. (Closes: #900047)
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:38:42 +0200

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• diff from 5.3.1 to 5.3.2 (1.0 KiB)

whois (5.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * mkpasswd: support passwords of arbitrary length. (Closes: #899254)
  * Added the .ls TLD server. (Closes: #896452)
  * Added support for -bzh and -uanic NIC handles.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 22 May 2018 15:32:28 +0200

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• diff from 5.3.0 to 5.3.1 (1.7 KiB)

whois (5.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Implemented querying for ip6.arpa domains.
  * Updated the .pr TLD servers.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 21 Jan 2018 01:23:45 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.20 to 5.3.0 (3.2 KiB)

whois (5.2.20) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the .mr TLD server.
  * Removed the .bs TLD server.
  * Updated the .ai, .gh, .gr, .kw, .ls, .ph, .sb, .com.uy and .vn TLD
    servers.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 27 Dec 2017 03:15:27 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.19 to 5.2.20 (3.2 KiB)

whois (5.2.19) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Switched do libidn2.
  * Adopted getentropy(2) for mkpasswd on recent Linux.
  * Updated the .id and .museum TLD servers.
  * Removed the .dj TLD server.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:16:58 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.18 to 5.2.19 (1.7 KiB)

whois (5.2.17~deb9u1) stretch; urgency=high

  * Rebuilt for stretch. (Closes: #869920)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:45:04 +0200

whois (5.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed an unitialised variable which used to break querying the
    Verisign registry servers with parameters.
  * Do not request domains only when querying the Verisign registry
    servers for a hostname.
  * Fixed the program return code for queries like
    "nameserver name.example.com".

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:45:02 +0200

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• diff from 5.2.17 to 5.2.18 (2.5 KiB)

whois (5.2.17) unstable; urgency=high

  * Fixed whois referrals for .com, .net, .jobs, .bz, .cc and .tv, broken
    by an ICANN-mandated output change:
    https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rdds-labeling-policy-2017-02-01-en
  * Added the .xn--2scrj9c (ಭಾರತ, India), .xn--3hcrj9c (ଭାରତ, India),
    .xn--45br5cyl (ভাৰত, India), .xn--h2breg3eve (भारतम्, India),
    .xn--h2brj9c8c (भारोत, India), .xn--mgbbh1a (ﺏﺍﺮﺗ, India),
    .xn--mgbgu82a (ڀﺍﺮﺗ, India) and .xn--rvc1e0am3e (ഭാരതം, India)
    TLD servers.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * whois.1: fixed a typo. (Closes: #866742)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:08:47 +0200

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• diff from 5.2.16 to 5.2.17 (2.4 KiB)

whois (5.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed parsing of 6to4 addresses broken in 5.2.15.
  * Updated the .do TLD server.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 13 Mar 2017 01:40:38 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.15 to 5.2.16 (1.0 KiB)

whois (5.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .gf and .mq TLD servers.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Updated the charset for whois.nic.kz.
  * Fixed multiple portability issues on non-Linux platforms.
  * Fixed a lot of minor compiler warnings with no practical effects.
  * Added support for libidn2, not enabled yet.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:37:41 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.14 to 5.2.15 (4.1 KiB)

whois (5.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the .ar, .bm and .fm TLD servers.
  * Updated the Afilias hiding string to fix hiding for the new .bm server.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 29 Dec 2016 23:12:19 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.13 to 5.2.14 (2.0 KiB)

whois (5.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Use "domain" instead of "=" for default verisign-grs queries,
    to ignore the name server names spam.
  * Fixed make_ip_del_recovered.pl, which generated non-functioning data.
  * Added the .xn--90ae (бг, Bulgaria) TLD server.
  * Updated the .bd, .jobs and .mobi TLD servers.
  * Added new ASN allocations.
  * Added new recovered IPv4 allocations.
  * Updated the crsnic.net hiding string to fix hiding for .bi.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:08:07 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.12 to 5.2.13 (9.5 KiB)

whois (5.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Implemented support for fuzzing with the awesome american fuzzy lop.
  * Added the .xn--e1a4c (ею, European Union) and .xn--mix891f (澳門,
    Macao) TLD servers.
  * Updated the .jobs, .kn and .pro TLD servers.
  * Updated the .gi, .lc, .sc and .vc TLD servers, because the precedent
    data caused the program to return an error status.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Fixed the code which queries whois.iana.org for TLDs to recognize IDN
    TLDs too.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 29 Mar 2016 05:33:10 +0200

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• diff from 5.2.11 to 5.2.12 (7.0 KiB)

whois (5.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed the --select-types and --sources long options.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Removed the .an TLD.
  * Removed the .xn--l1acc (.МОН, Mongolia) TLD server.
  * Added the .xn--mgbtx2b (عراق, Iraq) and .xn--qxam (.ΕΛ, Greece) TLD
    servers.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 08 Dec 2015 07:43:48 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 (3.9 KiB)

whois (5.2.10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Updated the .ki and .vg TLD servers.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:26:56 +0200

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• diff from 5.2.9 to 5.2.10 (2.9 KiB)

whois (5.2.9) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Updated the .bn and .cr TLD servers.
  * Updated IDSTRING to 5.2.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 08 Jun 2015 02:18:47 +0200

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• diff from 5.2.8 to 5.2.9 (1.7 KiB)

whois (5.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Added new ASN allocations.
  * Added the .xn--y9a3aq (.հայ, Armenia) TLD server.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 18 May 2015 00:37:32 +0200

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• diff from 5.2.7 to 5.2.8 (3.8 KiB)

whois (5.2.7) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Removed a bogus disclaimer detection string.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:04:44 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.4 to 5.2.7 (6.1 KiB)

whois (5.2.6) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the .edu.ph TLD server.
  * Removed the .gov.py TLD server. (Closes: #780562)
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Implemented hiding multiple disclaimers blocks to improve detection.
  * Updated the disclaimer detection strings.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 23 Mar 2015 04:28:39 +0100

whois (5.2.5) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the .xn--90ais (.бел, Belarus) TLD server.
  * Updated the .ky TLD server.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Added new recovered IPv4 allocations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:15:57 +0100

whois (5.2.4) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fixed referrals handling for the .cc, .tv a .jobs TLDs.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:07:20 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.4~bpo70+1 to 5.2.4 (1.8 KiB)

whois (5.2.4~bpo70+1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Rebuilt for wheezy.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:50:55 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4~bpo70+1 (687 bytes)

whois (5.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the .gw TLD server.
  * Updated the .bm, .gr, .gt, .md, .np, .py, .tc, .tg, .vi, .net.za,
    .org.za and .web.za TLD servers. (Closes: #773489)
  * Removed the .cg TLD server.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * mkpasswd: use arc4random_buf(3) where available.
  * mkpasswd: support OpenBSD's new hash 2b.
  * Updated some IPv4 allocations.
  * Remove the new_gtlds.h generated file from the Debian source package.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:12:24 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.2 to 5.2.3 (6.0 KiB)

whois (5.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fixed the code that removes trailing dots. (Closes: #763834)
  * Added the .xn--d1alf (.мкд, Macedonia) and .xn--node (.გე, Georgia)
    TLD servers.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 06 Nov 2014 03:47:43 +0100

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• diff from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 (1.5 KiB)

whois (5.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the .aw and .zm TLD servers.
  * Added the charset for whois.domain.kg.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Queries for bare TLDs will be directed to whois.iana.org.
    (Closes: #763833)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:01:20 +0200

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• diff from 5.1.5 to 5.2.1 (12.1 KiB)

whois (5.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Implemented support for the long RIPE flags.
  * "Fixed" some harmless bugs discovered with a Coverity scan.
  * Default to whois.ripe.net when using long flags.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Added a new ASN allocation.
  * Added new recovered IPv4 allocations.
  * Updated make_version_h.pl to support Debian binNMUs. (Closes: #761318)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:05:16 +0200

whois (5.1.5) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Added some disclaimer suppression strings for the new gTLDs' servers.
  * Updated one or more translations. (Closes: #756231)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 02 Aug 2014 03:41:44 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.1.4 to 5.1.5 (6.4 KiB)

whois (5.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the charset for whois.lacnic.net.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Updated one or more translations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:22:21 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.1.3 to 5.1.4 (5.6 KiB)

whois (5.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Use the IANA recovered address space list.
  * Updated the list of new gTLDs.
  * Support hiding disclaimers until the end of the output.
  * Fix a disclaimer hiding string. (Closes: #748363)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 26 May 2014 04:19:41 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.1.2 to 5.1.3 (2.8 KiB)

whois (5.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Always query whois.nic.$TLD for the "new" gTLDs, because the ICANN
    contract requires that it works.
  * Added the .aw and .zm TLD servers.
  * Updated the .mk, .tc and .vu TLD servers.
  * Added more ASN entries for Japan and Korea.
  * Fixed some invalid ASN and networks entries which would never be
    matched, reported by Henry Stern.
  * mkpasswd ported to Solaris/Dyson, patch courtesy of Igor Pashev.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 02 May 2014 04:15:08 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 (14.2 KiB)

whois (5.1.1~deb7u1) proposed-updates; urgency=low


  * Rebuilt for wheezy.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 11 Jan 2014 03:16:43 +0100

whois (5.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the servers for 29 "new" gTLDs.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:51:05 +0100

Available diffs

• diff from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1 (1.7 KiB)

whois (5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low


  * Added the .ga, .ml, .pf, .xn--l1acc (.МОН, Mongolia) and
    .xn--mgba3a4f16a (.ﺍیﺭﺎﻧ, Iran) TLD servers.
  * Added the servers for 54 "new" gTLDs.
  * Updated the .bw, .gd, .hn, .sb, .xn--j1amh and .xn--mgberp4a5d4ar
    TLD servers.
  * Added new RIPE and APNIC ASN allocations.
  * Removed the .ck TLD server.
  * Updated one or more translations.
  * Applied multiple small fixes contributed by Petr Písař of Red Hat.
  * Correctly hide the disclaimers for .be and .sx. (Closes: #729366)
  * Direct queries for private ASN blocks to RIPE. (Closes: #724661)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:05:43 +0100

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.26 to 5.1.0 (12.2 KiB)

whois (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=low


  * Added the .cf TLD server.
  * Updated the .bi TLD server.
  * Added a new ASN allocation.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:48:12 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.25 to 5.0.26 (1.2 KiB)

whois (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low


  * Added the .ax, .bn, .iq, .pw and .rw TLD servers.
  * Updated one or more translations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 May 2013 05:13:47 +0200

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• diff from 5.0.24 to 5.0.25 (6.5 KiB)

whois (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low


  * Merged documentation fixes and the whois.conf(5) man page, courtesy of
    Petr Písař of Red Hat.
  * Added a new ASN allocation.
  * Updated one or more translations. (Closes: #705163)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:36:17 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.20ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.0.24 (39.0 KiB)

whois (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=medium


  * whois.nic.or.kr switched from EUC-KR to UTF-8. (LP#1132526)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:14:14 +0200

whois (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low


  * Fixed cross-compiling, this time for real. (See #695442.)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:17:29 +0200

whois (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low


  * Fixed parsing of 6to4 addresses: the last two bytes of the IPv4 address
    in 6to4 addresses were not parsed correctly since version 5.0.19.
    (Closes: #699928)
  * Added the .xn--j1amh (.укр, Ukraine) TLD server.
  * Updated the .bi, .se and .vn TLD servers. (Closes: #697753)
  * Removed whois.pandi.or.id from the list of servers which support the 
    RIPE extensions, since it does not anymore and queries are broken.
    (Closes: #704115)
  * Updated some disclaimer suppression strings.
  * Respect DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE when selecting CC for cross-compiling.
    (Closes: #695442)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:46:02 +0200

whois (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low


  * Updated the .by, .ng, .om, .sm, .tn, .ug and .vn TLD servers.
    (Closes: #689486)
  * Added the .bw, .td, .xn--mgb9awbf (عمان., Oman), .xn--mgberp4a5d4ar 
    (.السعودية, Saudi Arabia) and .xn--mgbx4cd0ab (ﻢﻠﻴﺴﻳﺍ., Malaysia)
    TLD servers.
  * Removed the .kp, .mc, .rw and .xn--mgba3a4f16a (ایران., Iran) TLD servers.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:25:05 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.19 to 5.0.20 (3.2 KiB)

whois (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low


  * Added the .post TLD server.
  * Updated the .co.za SLD servers. (Closes: #687094)
  * Added the .alt.za, .net.za and .web.za SLD servers.
  * whois.ua changed (?) the encoding to utf-8. (Closes: #686715)
  * Fixed the parsing of 6to4 addresses like whois 2002:xxxx::. (LP#967311)
  * Modified the package version check in debian/rules to help Ubuntu
    maintainers. (Closes: #684526)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:41:29 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.18 to 5.0.19 (1.5 KiB)

whois (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low


  * Updated the .ae and .xn--mgbaam7a8h (.امارات, United Arabs Emirates)
    TLDs.
  * Updated the server charset table for .fr and .it.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:35:18 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.17 to 5.0.18 (1.5 KiB)

whois (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Updated the .bi, .fo, .gr and .gt TLD servers.
  * Changed the version check in debian/rules to support Ubuntu backports.
    (Closes: #671097)
  * Removed support for recursion of .org queries, it has been a thick
    registry since 2005. (Closes: #678734)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 25 Jun 2012 03:34:36 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.16 to 5.0.17 (3.5 KiB)

whois (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the .xn--80ao21a (.ҚАЗ, Kazakhstan) TLD server.
  * Updated the .ec and .ee TLD servers.
  * Removed the .xn--mgbc0a9azcg (.المغرب, Morocco) and .xn--mgberp4a5d4ar 
    (.السعودية, Saudi Arabia) TLD servers.
  * Added a new ASN allocation.
  * Updated one or more translations.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:44:07 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 5.0.15ubuntu2 (in Ubuntu) to 5.0.16 (15.3 KiB)

whois (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the .xn--mgba3a4f16a (ایران., Iran) TLD server.
  * Updated the .pe TLD server, this time for real. (Closes: #653105)
  * Updated one or more translations. (Closes: #654175)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:56:19 +0100

whois (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Added the .sx TLD server.
  * Updated the .pe TLD server. (Closes: #653105)

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:55:47 +0100

whois (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Updated the .hr TLD server. (Closes: #646572)
  * Improved the package description, thanks to debian-l10n-english@.
    (Closes: #650111)
  * Updated the FSF address in licenses.

 -- Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>  Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:19:28 +0100