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Twisted Core 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
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Features
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- The kqueue reactor has been revived. (#1918)
- twisted.python.filepath now provides IFilePath, an interface for
file path objects. (#2176)
- New gtk3 and gobject-introspection reactors have been added.
(#4558)
- gtk and glib reactors now run I/O and scheduled events with lower
priority, to ensure the UI stays responsive. (#5067)
- IReactorTCP.connectTCP() can now accept IPv6 address literals
(although not hostnames) in order to support connecting to IPv6
hosts. (#5085)
- twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorSocket, a new interface, is now
supported by some reactors to listen on sockets set up by external
software (eg systemd or launchd). (#5248)
- twisted.internet.endpoints.clientFromString now also supports
strings in the form of tcp:example.com:80 and ssl:example.com:4321
(#5358)
- twisted.python.constants.Flags now provides a way to define
collections of flags for bitvector-type uses. (#5384)
- The epoll(7)-based reactor is now the default reactor on Linux.
(#5478)
- twisted.python.runtime.platform.isLinux can be used to check if
Twisted is running on Linux. (#5491)
- twisted.internet.endpoints.serverFromString now recognizes a
"systemd" endpoint type, for listening on a server port inherited
from systemd. (#5575)
- Connections created using twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorUNIX
now support sending and receiving file descriptors between
different processes. (#5615)
- twisted.internet.endpoints.clientFromString now supports UNIX
client endpoint strings with the path argument specified like
"unix:/foo/bar" in addition to the old style, "unix:path=/foo/bar".
(#5640)
- twisted.protocols.amp.Descriptor is a new AMP argument type which
supports passing file descriptors as AMP command arguments over
UNIX connections. (#5650)
Bugfixes
--------
- twisted.internet.abstract.FileDescriptor implements
twisted.internet.interfaces.IPushProducer instead of
twisted.internet.interfaces.IProducer.
twisted.internet.iocpreactor.abstract.FileHandle implements
twisted.internet.interfaces.IPushProducer instead of
twisted.internet.interfaces.IProducer. (#4386)
- The epoll reactor now supports reading/writing to regular files on
stdin/stdout. (#4429)
- Calling .cancel() on any Twisted-provided client endpoint
(TCP4ClientEndpoint, UNIXClientEndpoint, SSL4ClientEndpoint) now
works as documented, rather than logging an AlreadyCalledError.
(#4710)
- A leak of OVERLAPPED structures in some IOCP error cases has been
fixed. (#5372)
- twisted.internet._pollingfile._PollableWritePipe now checks for
outgoing unicode data in write() and writeSequence() instead of
checkWork(). (#5412)
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- "Working from Twisted's Subversion repository" links to UQDS and
Combinator are now updated. (#5545)
- Added tkinterdemo.py, an example of Tkinter integration. (#5631)
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- The 'unsigned' flag to twisted.scripts.tap2rpm.MyOptions is now
deprecated. (#4086)
- Removed the unreachable _fileUrandom method from
twisted.python.randbytes.RandomFactory. (#4530)
- twisted.persisted.journal is removed, deprecated since Twisted
11.0. (#4805)
- Support for pyOpenSSL 0.9 and older is now deprecated. pyOpenSSL
0.10 or newer will soon be required in order to use Twisted's SSL
features. (#4974)
- backwardsCompatImplements and fixClassImplements are removed from
twisted.python.components, deprecated in 2006. (#5034)
- twisted.python.reflect.macro was removed, deprecated since Twisted
8.2. (#5035)
- twisted.python.text.docstringLStrip, deprecated since Twisted
10.2.0, has been removed (#5036)
- Removed the deprecated dispatch and dispatchWithCallback methods
from twisted.python.threadpool.ThreadPool (deprecated since 8.0)
(#5037)
- twisted.scripts.tapconvert is now deprecated. (#5038)
- twisted.python.reflect's Settable, AccessorType, PropertyAccessor,
Accessor, OriginalAccessor and Summer are now deprecated. (#5451)
- twisted.python.threadpool.ThreadSafeList (deprecated in 10.1) is
removed. (#5473)
- twisted.application.app.initialLog, deprecated since Twisted 8.2.0,
has been removed. (#5480)
- twisted.spread.refpath was deleted, deprecated since Twisted 9.0.
(#5482)
- twisted.python.otp, deprecated since 9.0, is removed. (#5493)
- Removed `dsu`, `moduleMovedForSplit`, and `dict` from
twisted.python.util (deprecated since 10.2) (#5516)
Other
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- #2723, #3114, #3398, #4388, #4489, #5055, #5116, #5242, #5380,
#5392, #5447, #5457, #5484, #5489, #5492, #5494, #5512, #5523,
#5558, #5572, #5583, #5593, #5620, #5621, #5623, #5625, #5637,
#5652, #5653, #5656, #5657, #5660, #5673
Twisted Conch 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
=================================
Features
--------
- twisted.conch.tap now supports cred plugins (#4753)
Bugfixes
--------
- twisted.conch.client.knownhosts now handles errors encountered
parsing hashed entries in a known hosts file. (#5616)
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- Conch examples window.tac and telnet_echo.tac now have better
explanations. (#5590)
Other
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- #5580
Twisted Lore 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
================================
Bugfixes
--------
- twisted.plugins.twisted_lore's MathProcessor plugin is now
associated with the correct implementation module. (#5326)
Twisted Mail 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
================================
Bugfixes
--------
- twistd mail --auth, broken in 11.0, now correctly connects
authentication to the portal being used (#5219)
Other
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- #5686
Twisted Names 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
=================================
Features
--------
- "twistd dns" secondary server functionality and
twisted.names.secondary now support retrieving zone information
from a master running on a non-standard DNS port. (#5468)
Bugfixes
--------
- twisted.names.dns.DNSProtocol instances no longer throw an
exception when disconnecting. (#5471)
- twisted.names.tap.makeService (thus also "twistd dns") now makes a
DNS server which gives precedence to the hosts file from its
configuration over the remote DNS servers from its configuration.
(#5524)
- twisted.name.cache.CacheResolver now makes sure TTLs on returned
results are never negative. (#5579)
- twisted.names.cache.CacheResolver entries added via the initializer
are now timed out correctly. (#5638)
Improved Documentation
----------------------
- The examples now contain instructions on how to run them and
descriptions in the examples index. (#5588)
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- The deprecated twisted.names.dns.Record_mx.exchange attribute was
removed. (#4549)
Twisted News 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
================================
Bugfixes
--------
- twisted.news.nntp.NNTPServer now has additional test coverage and
less redundant implementation code. (#5537)
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- The ability to pass a string article to NNTPServer._gotBody and
NNTPServer._gotArticle in t.news.nntp has been deprecated for years
and is now removed. (#4548)
Twisted Pair 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
================================
No significant changes have been made for this release.
Twisted Runner 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
==================================
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- ProcessMonitor.active, consistencyDelay, and consistency in
twisted.runner.procmon were deprecated since 10.1 have been
removed. (#5517)
Twisted Web 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
===============================
Features
--------
- twisted.web.client.Agent and ProxyAgent now support persistent
connections. (#3420)
- Added twisted.web.template.renderElement, a function which renders
an Element to a response. (#5395)
- twisted.web.client.HTTPConnectionPool now ensures that failed
queries on persistent connections are retried, when possible.
(#5479)
- twisted.web.template.XMLFile now supports FilePath objects. (#5509)
- twisted.web.template.renderElement takes a doctype keyword
argument, which will be written as the first line of the response,
defaulting to the HTML5 doctype. (#5560)
Bugfixes
--------
- twisted.web.util.formatFailure now quotes all data in its output to
avoid it being mistakenly interpreted as markup. (#4896)
- twisted.web.distrib now lets distributed servers set the response
message. (#5525)
Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------
- PHP3Script and PHPScript were removed from twisted.web.twcgi,
deprecated since 10.1. Use twcgi.FilteredScript instead. (#5456)
- twisted.web.template.XMLFile's support for file objects and
filenames is now deprecated. Use the new support for FilePath
objects. (#5509)
- twisted.web.server.date_time_string and
twisted.web.server.string_date_time are now deprecated in favor of
twisted.web.http.datetimeToString and twisted.web.
http.stringToDatetime (#5535)
Other
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- #4966, #5460, #5490, #5591, #5602, #5609, #5612
Twisted Words 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
=================================
Bugfixes
--------
- twisted.words.protocols.irc.DccChatFactory.buildProtocol now
returns the protocol object that it creates (#3179)
- twisted.words.im no longer offers an empty threat of a rewrite on
import. (#5598)
Other
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- #5555, #5595
