My favorite web development framework recently committed some code to add support for IPv6 addresses in data models. The commit closes a ticket I opened 6 years ago. Congratulations to Erik Romijn for finally closing this off. Better late than never :)
The new code differs from my original code in a number of ways. First of all it has better testing and documentation. Second, it does IPv6 address validation programmatically rather than using a regular expression.
The code also borrows from ipaddr-py, which I also contribute to.
A variation on my original code is still running and has been used to manage IPv6 addresses so I can vouch for it. Most of my code doesn't actually use IPAddressFields in Django because of this even older issue which was fixed 3 years ago.
Now both of them are fixed I might look at using the new fields.
