New release on PyPI

[absporl]

Are there plans to release the current version of main anytime soon? The current release 1.5.0 on PyPI is from January 2022. I've run into an issue that seems fixed by the current commit, probably due to the updated bundled libsodium, so it would be helpful to have an updated version on PyPI as well.

[reaperhulk]

We should probably run a release soon, yes. There aren't a lot of new features, but that's okay.

[absporl]

That'd be very helpful, thanks! Do you have an idea when that could be? I'm working on a package that needs the current pynacl master, but I'd like to avoid pointing the dependency spec to the git master.

[santiagobasulto]

@reaperhulk seems like the latest version (1.5.0) has been released a few weeks ago, is it safe to close this issue?

I completely misread the year of the last release 1.5.0 as 2025 (it was 2022 :/)

Please disregard my comment

[reaperhulk]

Yeah no I sitll need to get to this, we should definitely leave it open 😄

[santiagobasulto]

@reaperhulk honest question, what's the difference between PyNaCL and pysodium? I've been using Pysodium lately, seems fairly well maintained.

[gonatienza]

@santiagobasulto , they are both listed under libsodium bindings.

The main three differences for me:

1. pynacl and cryptography are both from pyca, which is owned by a group of contributors and not an individual contributor.
2. pysodium does not include the libsodium release for which the bindings were written. I.e, among other possible errors, if you pip install it but libsodium is not there you will get a "Unable to find libsodium" error.
3. pynacl includes some high level wrappers and documentation that make high level implementations safe and not bound to common implementation errors (like a basic nonce reuse).

That being said, pysodium seems like a very simple and direct implementation of the libsodium apis.

HTH!

[santiagobasulto]

Thanks @gonatienza !