passlib.context: now raises UnknownHashError() if hash can't be identified.

this inherits from ValueError, and has same text, so backwards compatible.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/history/1.7.rst b/docs/history/1.7.rst
index 6d6293b..42ffeec 100644
--- a/docs/history/1.7.rst
+++ b/docs/history/1.7.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,18 @@ Passlib 1.7
     and will require Python >= 3.5.  The 1.7 series will be the last
     to support Python 2.7.  (See :issue:`119` for rationale).
 
+**1.7.4** (NOT YET RELEASED)
+============================
+
+Other Changes
+-------------
+* .. py:currentmodule:: passlib.context
+
+  :class:`CryptContext` will now throw :exc:`~passlib.exc.UnknownHashError` when it can't identify
+  a hash provided to methods such as :meth:`!CryptContext.verify`.
+  Previously it would throw a generic :exc:`ValueError`.
+
+
 **1.7.3** (2020-10-06)
 ======================