It's Dangerous 1.0.0 has been released. See the changelog for a list of changes since the last release on 2014-03-28.
It's Dangerous provides secure message signing and serialization. Without the secret key used to sign a message, the content cannot be changed without invalidating the signature. This allows, for example, Flask to store information in a session cookie that is transmitted over public networks, and be sure that the data has not been tampered with when loading a subsequent request.
Install from PyPI with pip:
pip install -U ItsDangerous
Previously, It's Dangerous was a single Python module with about 1000 lines of code. The project has been reorganized as a package with submodules, which will make the code easier to navigate going forward.
However, this means that everything that It's Dangerous imported or defined used to be importable from itsdangerous. With the reorganization, only the public API is importable from itsdangerous. To ease transition, "public" was defined as any name that was previously documented in the API section. These compatibility imports will be deprecated and removed in future releases. If you were importing undocumented names, you'll need to import them from the correct submodule now.
It's Dangerous has moved its docs to Read the Docs. The new URL for the docs is https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/.
The docs were previously hosted on PyPI's docs site (pythonhosted.org/itsdangerous), but this site has been deprecated and it is no longer possible to upload new docs there. Unfortunately, due to the deprecation, there is no way to add a redirect to the new docs. As of this release, any URLs pointing to the old site will break.
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