2.6.1

• This release includes no source code changes. The only changes are to
  the release workflow.
• Binary wheels are now built on Linux for aarch64. Pull request by Kevin
  Park. GitHub #160.
• Binary wheels are now built on macOS for Apple silicon. Requested by
  Kevin Park. GitHub #152.

2.6.0

• Added type annotations for instance variables on Metadata
• Updated type stubs for maxminddb.extension.
• setuptools is no longer listed as a runtime dependency. Pull request
  by Lewis Collard. GitHub #155.

2.5.2

• The vendored libmaxminddb version was updated to 1.9.0. This fixes
  an issue when reading databases with a search tree exceeding 2 GB.
  Reported by Sami Salonen. GitHub #146.

2.5.1

• This is a re-release of 2.5.0 to address missing files from the sdist.
  Reported by Lumír 'Frenzy' Balhar. GitHub #132.

2.5.0

• IMPORTANT: Python 3.8 or greater is required. If you are using an older
  version, please use an earlier release.
• Windows is now supported by the C extension.
• The Reader class now implements the __iter__ method. This will
  return an iterator that iterates over all records in the database,
  excluding repeated aliased of the IPv4 network. Requested by
  Jean-Baptiste Braun and others. GitHub #23.
• The multiprocessing test now explicitly uses fork. This allows it
  to run successfully on macOS. Pull request by Theodore Ni. GitHub #116.
• A vendored copy of libmaxminddb will now be used by default when
  building the extension. If you wish to continue using the system shared
  library, you may set the MAXMINDDB_USE_SYSTEM_LIBMAXMINDDB environment
  variable to a true value when building the extension.
• The C extension now builds on Python 3.13.
• The C extension will now be built for PyPy.

2.4.0

• Package metadata was migrated from setup.py to setup.cfg. GitHub
  #113.
• The C extension now decrements the reference count on an object
  containing the database filename after its use in an error message rather
  than before. Pull request by Lumír 'Frenzy' Balhar. GitHub #114.

2.3.0

• IMPORTANT: Python 3.7 or greater is required. If you are using an older
  version, please use an earlier release.
• distutils is no longer used for building the C extension.
• Missing Py_INCREF was added to module initialization for the C
  extension. Pull request by R. Christian McDonald. GitHub #106.

2.2.0

• The return type for maxminddb.open_database() has been simplified
  to be just the Reader class as opposed to a union of that with
  the extension class. This is done by casting the extension to
  Reader. The extension class has the same public API as the
  pure Python implementation. This simplifies type checking for users of
  this library. The Reader class is exposed as maxminddb.Reader.
  Pull request by wouter bolsterlee. GitHub #88.
• maxminddb.__all__ is now set to define a public API. Pull request
  by wouter bolsterlee. GitHub #88.
• Fix minor regression in repr output of maxminddb.reader.Metadata
  in 2.1.0.

2.1.0

• The C extension now correctly supports objects that implement the
  os.PathLike interface.
• When opening a database fails due to an access issue, the correct
  OSError subclass will now be thrown.
• The Metadata class object is now available from the C extension
  module as maxminddb.extension.Metadata rather than
  maxminddb.extension.extension.
• Type stubs have been added for maxminddb.extension.

2.0.3

• The 2.0.0 release unintentionally required Python to be compiled with
  mmap support for the module to work. mmap is now optional
  again. Reported by john-heasman-cg. GitHub #76.