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It will now listen on an IPv6 socket if possible or fall back to IPv4 if that doesn't work. It will no longer filter out all IPv6 addresses and instead it will only filter out those that point to the local network. It looks like the DNS bootstrapping should just automatically work because getaddrinfo already returns IPv6 addresses from the AAAA record. In order to convert from the ASCII representation of IPv6 addresses and back we need inet_ntop and inet_pton. Python 2 doesn't currently provide these for Windows so instead this patch provides a hot patch to the socket module which wraps WSAStringToAddress and WSAAddressToString using ctypes.
PyBitmessage
Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs.
Development
Bitmessage is a collaborative project. You are welcome to submit pull requests although if you plan to put a non-trivial amount of work into coding new features, it is recommended that you first solicit feedback on the DevTalk pseudo-mailing list: BM-2D9QKN4teYRvoq2fyzpiftPh9WP9qggtzh