Hi forum,

Locus 2.0.0, a MaxMind DB reader, was released tonight.

It’s the first breaking release and I used this opportunity to drop most deprecated code as well as polish the existing API.

Added

• support for retrieving databases using consumer-defined locus_custom_fetchers
• support for decoding IEEE-754 infinities in MMDB data
• locus:check/1 to API (which replaces locus:analyze/1 and can be up to 3200% faster )
• details to MMDB unpacking errors
• linting checks with rebar3_lint
• dead code checks with rebar3_hank

Changed

• return type of locus:lookup/2 (see MIGRATION.md)
• database loader to use persistent_term instead of ETS
• MMDB decoder to perform stricter metadata validations
• MMDB decoder to not crash upon maps containing duplicate keys
• databases downloaded through HTTP(S) without a last-modified response header to no longer be cached
• imported version of tls_certificate_check to ‘~> 1.7’
• single CT suite covering both filesystem and HTTP sources into one for each
• test coverage for the better

Removed

• locus:wait_for_loader/1 from API (deprecated in 1.10.0 - see MIGRATION.md)
• locus:wait_for_loader/2 from API (deprecated in 1.10.0 - see …)
• locus:wait_for_loaders/2 from API (deprecated in 1.10.0 - see …)
• locus:get_version/1 from API (deprecated in 1.4.0 - see …)
• locus:analyze/1 from API (locus:check/1 now fullfils this role - see …)
• deprecated loader options pre_readiness_update_period and post_readiness_update_period (see …)
• warnings on the use of discontinued GeoLite2 HTTP URLs

Links:

• Migration guide
• Hex package
• Documentation
• Source code (GitHub)
• Source code (GitLab)

Locus 1.9.0, after one month in beta, has been released!

Added

• support for downloading databases with full awareness of license keys (now mandatory)

Deprecated

• the use of discontinued https://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-... database URLs

Links:

• Hex package
• Documentation
• GitHub
• GitLab

Hi forum,

Locus 1.3.0 was released today.

Added:

• ability of loading databases from local file system
• type spec of database entries

Fixed:

• wrong handling of timezones on cached tarballs
• wrong handling of daylight saving time on conditional HTTP requests

The timezone / DST fixes mentioned above were also backported to earlier versions and tagged under:

• 1.0.1
• 1.1.4
• 1.2.2

Links:

• Package
• Documentation