0.8.1

Changed

• Fixed sockets being opened and not closed when ip or ip6 were used,
  which could lead to a ResourceWarning (GH-42)

0.8.0

Added

• OpenBSD support
• FreeBSD support
• Python logging is now used instead of print (logger: getmac)
• Include tests in the source distribution
• (CLI) Added aliases for --no-network-requests: -N and --no-net
• (CLI) New argument: -v/--verbose

Changed

• Errors are now logged instead of raising a RuntimeWarning
• Improved Ubuntu support
• Performance improvements

Development

• Significant increase in overall test coverage
• Fixed and migrated the sample tests to pytest
• Added tests for the CLI

0.7.0

Added

• Type annotations (PEP 484)

Removed

• Dropped support for Python 2.6
• Removed the usage of third-party packages (netifaces, psutil, scapy, and arpreq).
  This should improve the performance of lookups of non-existant interfaces
  or hosts, since feature was punishing that path without providing much value.
  If you want to use these packages directly, I have a guide on how to do so on a
  GitHub Gist.

Changed

• Significantly improved the performance of the common cases on Linux
  for interfaces and remote hosts
• Improved POSIX interface performance. Commands specific to OSX
  will be run only on that platform, and vice-versa.
• Significantly improved the speed and accuracy of determining
  the default interface on Linux
• Python 2 will install an executor named getmac2 and Python 3 an
  executor named getmac so they don't conflict when both RPMs are
  installed on the same system (Credit: @hargoniX)
• The warnings module will only be imported if a error/warning
  occurs (improve compatibility with some freezers, notably PyInstaller)
• Improved system platform detection
• Various other minor performance improvements

Development

• Added unit tests for the samples (Credit: @frizz925)
• Scripts for building RPMs in the /scripts directory (Credit: @hargoniX)
• Improved code quality and health checks
• Include the CHANGELOG on the PyPI project page
• Using pytest for all tests now instead of unittest

Documentation

• Added instructions on how to build a Debian package (Credit: @kofrezo)

0.6.0

Added

• Windows default interface detection if network_request is enabled (Credit: @cyberhobbes)
• Docker container (Credit: @komish)

Changed

• Changed name to getmac. This applies to everything, including
  command line tool, PyPI, GitHub, and the documentation.
  This is a breaking change, but needed to happen to remove
  a huge amount of ambiguity that was causing issues with packaging,
  documentation, and several other efforts, not to mention my sanity.
  Long-term, the only downside is a conflict on Windows CLI with getmac.exe.
• Use proper Python 2-compatible print functions (Credit: @Martmists)

Removed

• Support for Python 2.5. It is not feasible to test, and potentially
  breaks some useful language features, such as __future__
• Variables PORT and DEBUG from top-level package imports, since changing
  them would have no actual effect on execution. Instead, use getmac.getmac.DEBUG.

Dev

• Added example videos demonstrating usage (Credit: @fortunate-man)
• Added contribution guide
• Added documentation on ReadTheDocs
• Added a manpage

0.5.0

Added

• Full support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This is working for
  all features, including default interface selection! The only edge case
  is lookup of remote host IP addresses that are actually local interfaces
  won't resolve to a MAC (which should be ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff).

Changed

• Require argparse if Python version is 2.6 or older

Dev

• Updated tox tests: added Jython and IronPython, removed 2.6

0.4.0

Added:

• New methods for remote host MACs
  • Windows: arp
  • POSIX: arpreq package
• New methods for interface MACs
  • Windows: wmic nic
• DEBUG levels: DEBUG value is now an integer, and increasing it will
  increase the amount and verbosity of output. On the CLI, it can be
  configured by increasing the amount of characters for the debug argument,
  e.g. '-dd' for DEBUG level 2.
• Jython support (Note: on Windows Jython currently only works with interfaces)
• IronPython support

Changed

• Significant performance improvement for remote hosts. Previously,
  the average for get_mac_address(ip='10.0.0.100') was 1.71 seconds.
  Now, the average is 12.7 miliseconds, with the special case of a unpopulated
  arp table being only slightly higher. This was brought about by changes in
  how the arp table is populated. The original method was to use the
  host's ping command to send an ICMP packet to the host. This took time,
  which heavily delayed the ability to actually get an address. The solution
  is to instead simply send a empty UDP packet to a high port. The port
  this packet is sent to can be configured using the module variable getmac.PORT.
• "Fixed" resolution of localhost/127.0.0.1 by hardcoding the response.
  This should resolve a lot of problematic edge cases. I'm ok with this
  for now since I don't know of a case when it isn't all zeroes.
• Greatly increased the reliability of getting host and interface MACs on Windows
• Improved debugging output
• Tightened up the size of getmac.py
• Various minor stability and performance improvements
• Add LICENSE to PyPI package

Removed

• Support for Python 3.2 and 3.3. The total downloads from PyPI with
  those versions in August was ~53k and ~407K, respectfully. The majority
  of those are likely from automated testing (e.g. TravisCI) and not
  actual users. Therefore, I've decided to drop support to simplify
  development, especially since before 3.4 the 3.x series was still
  very much a "work in progress".

Dev

• Added automated tests for Windows using Appveyor
• Tox runner for tests
• Added github.io page
• Improved TravisCI testing

0.3.0

Added

• Attempt to use various 3rd-party Python modules if they're installed
  • psutil: Interface MACs on all platforms
  • scapy: Interface MACs and Remote MACs on all platforms
  • netifaces: Interface MACs on Non-Windows platforms
• New methods for remote MACs
  • POSIX: ip neighbor show, Abuse of uuid._arp_getnode()
• New methods for Interface MACs
  • POSIX: lanscan -ai (HP-UX)

Changed

• Certain critical failures that should never happen will now warn
  instead of failing silently.
• Added a sanity check to the ip6 argument (IPv6 addresses)
• Improved performance in some areas
• Improved debugging output

Fixed

• Major Bugfix: search of proc/net/arp would return shorter addresses in the
  same subnet if they came earlier in the sequence. Example: a search for
  192.168.16.2 on Linux would instead return the MAC address of
  192.168.16.254 with no errors or warning whatsoever.
• Significantly improved default interface detection. Default
  interfaces are now properly detected on Linux and most other
  POSIX platforms with ip or route commands available, or the
  netifaces Python module.

Dev

• Makefile
• Vagrantfile to spin up testing VMs for various platforms using Vagrant
• Added more samples of command output on platforms (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

0.2.2

Added

• Short versions of CLI arguments (e.g. "-i" for "--interface")

Changed

• Improved usage of "ping" across platforms and IP versions
• Various minor tweaks for performance
• Improved Windows detection

Fixed

• Use of ping command with hostname

Dev:

• Improvements to internal code

Note: Nothing changed in 0.2.1, it was simply a workaround for PyPI not allowing changes without a new version.

0.2.0

Added

• Checks for default interface on Linux systems
• New methods of hunting for addresses on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

Changed

• CLI will output nothing if it failed, instead of "None"
• CLI will return with 1 on failure, 0 on success
• No CLI arguments now implies the default host network interface
• Added an argumnent for debugging: --debug
• Removed -d option from --no-network-requests

Fixed

• Interfaces on Windows and Linux (including Bash for Windows)
• Many bugs

Removed

• Support for Python 2.6 on the CLI

Dev

• Overhaul of internals

0.1.0

Added

• Addition of a terminal command: get-mac
• Ability to run as a module from the command line: python -m getmac

Changed

• arp_request argument was renamed to network_request
• Updated docstring
• Slight reduction in the size of getmac.py

Dev

• Overhauled the README
• Moved tests into their own folder
• Added Python 3.7 to list of supported snakes