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4 Twisted Core 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
5 ================================
9 - twisted.internet.cfreactor has been significantly improved. It now
10 runs, and passes, the test suite. Many, many bugs in it have been
11 fixed, including several segfaults, as it now uses PyObjC and
12 longer requires C code in Twisted. (#1833)
13 - twisted.protocols.ftp.FTPRealm now accepts a parameter to override
14 "/home" as the container for user directories. The new
15 BaseFTPRealm class in the same module also allows easy
16 implementation of custom user directory schemes. (#2179)
17 - twisted.python.filepath.FilePath and twisted.python.zippath.ZipPath
18 now have a descendant method to simplify code which calls the child
19 method repeatedly. (#3169)
20 - twisted.python.failure._Frame objects now support fake f_locals
22 - twisted.internet.endpoints now has 'serverFromString' and
23 'clientFromString' APIs for constructing endpoints from descriptive
25 - The default trial reporter now combines reporting of tests with the
26 same result to shorten its summary output. (#4487)
27 - The new class twisted.protocols.ftp.SystemFTPRealm implements an
28 FTP realm which uses system accounts to select home directories.
30 - twisted.internet.reactor.spawnProcess now wastes less time trying
31 to close non-existent file descriptors on POSIX platforms. (#4522)
32 - twisted.internet.win32eventreactor now declares that it implements
33 a new twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorWin32Events interface.
35 - twisted.application.service.IProcess now documents its attributes
36 using zope.interface.Attribute. (#4534)
37 - twisted.application.app.ReactorSelectionMixin now saves the value
38 of the --reactor option in the "reactor" key of the options object.
40 - twisted.internet.endpoints.serverFromString and clientFromString,
41 and therefore also twisted.application.strports.service, now
42 support plugins, so third parties may implement their own endpoint
47 - twisted.internet.defer.Deferred now handles chains iteratively
48 instead of recursively, preventing RuntimeError due to excessive
49 recursion when handling long Deferred chains. (#411)
50 - twisted.internet.cfreactor now works with trial. (#2556)
51 - twisted.enterprise.adbapi.ConnectionPool.close may now be called
52 even if the connection pool has not yet been started. This will
53 prevent the pool from ever starting. (#2680)
54 - twisted.protocols.basic.NetstringReceiver raises
55 NetstringParseErrors for invalid netstrings now. It handles empty
56 netstrings ("0:,") correctly, and the performance for receiving
57 netstrings has been improved. (#4378)
58 - reactor.listenUDP now returns an object which declares that it
59 implements IListeningPort. (#4462)
60 - twisted.python.randbytes no longer uses PyCrypto as a secure random
61 number source (since it is not one). (#4468)
62 - twisted.internet.main.installReactor now blocks installation of
63 another reactor when using python -O (#4476)
64 - twisted.python.deprecate.deprecatedModuleAttribute now emits only
65 one warning when used to deprecate a package attribute which is a
67 - The "brief" mode of twisted.python.failure.Failure.getTraceback now
68 handles exceptions raised by the underlying exception's __str__
70 - twisted.words.xish.domish now correctly parses XML with namespaces
71 which include whitespace. (#4503)
72 - twisted.names.authority.FileAuthority now generates correct
73 negative caching hints, marks its referral NS RRs as non-
74 authoritative, and correctly generates referrals for ALL_RECORDS
76 - twisted.internet.test.reactormixins.ReactorBuilder's attribute
77 `requiredInterface` (which should an interface) is now
78 `requiredInterfaces` (a list of interfaces) as originally described
79 per the documentation. (#4527)
80 - twisted.python.zippath.ZipPath.__repr__ now correctly formats paths
81 with ".." in them (by including it). (#4535)
82 - twisted.names.hosts.searchFileFor has been fixed against
83 refcounting dependency. (#4540)
84 - The POSIX process transports now declare that they implement
85 IProcessTransport. (#4585)
86 - Twisted can now be built with the LLVM clang compiler, with
87 'CC=clang python setup.py build'. C code that caused errors with
88 this compiler has been removed. (#4652)
89 - trial now puts coverage data in the path specified by --temp-
90 directory, even if that option comes after --coverage on the
92 - The unregisterProducer method of connection-oriented transports
93 will now cause the connection to be closed if there was a prior
94 call to loseConnection. (#4719)
95 - Fixed an issue where the new StreamServerEndpointService didn't log
96 listen errors. (This was a bug not present in any previous
97 releases, as this class is new.) (#4731)
99 Improved Documentation
100 ----------------------
101 - The trial man page now documents the meaning of the final line of
102 output of the default reporter. (#1384)
103 - The API documentation for twisted.internet.defer.DeferredList now
104 goes into more depth about the effects each of the __init__ flags
105 that class accepts. (#3595)
106 - There is now narrative documentation for the endpoints APIs, in the
107 'endpoints' core howto, as well as modifications to the 'writing
108 clients' and 'writing servers' core howto documents to indicate
109 that endpoints are now the preferred style of listening and
111 - trial's man page now documents the --disablegc option in more
113 - trial's coverage output format is now documented in the trial man
115 - Broken links and spelling errors in the finger tutorial are now
117 - twisted.internet.threads.blockingCallFromThread's docstring is now
118 explicit about Deferred support. (#4517)
119 - twisted.python.zippath.ZipPath.child now documents its handling of
120 ".." (which is not special, making it different from
121 FilePath.child). (#4535)
122 - The API docs for twisted.internet.defer.Deferred now cover several
123 more of its (less interesting) attributes. (#4538)
124 - LineReceiver, NetstringReceiver, and IntNStringReceiver from
125 twisted.protocols.basic now have improved API documentation for
126 read callbacks and write methods. (#4542)
127 - Tidied up the Twisted Conch documentation for easier conversion.
129 - Use correct Twisted version for when cancellation was introduced in
130 the Deferred docstring. (#4614)
131 - The logging howto is now more clear about how the standard library
132 logging module and twisted.python.log can be integrated. (#4642)
133 - The finger tutorial still had references to .tap files. This
134 reference has now been removed. The documentation clarifies
135 "finger.tap" is a module and not a filename. (#4679)
136 - The finger tutorial had a broken link to the
137 twisted.application.service.Service class, which is now fixed.
138 Additionally, a minor typo ('verison') was fixed. (#4681)
139 - twisted.protocols.policies.TimeoutMixin now has clearer API
140 documentation. (#4684)
142 Deprecations and Removals
143 -------------------------
144 - twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.setTimeout has been removed, after
145 being deprecated since Twisted 2.0. (#1702)
146 - twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorTime.cancelCallLater
147 (deprecated since 2007) and
148 twisted.internet.interfaces.base.ReactorBase.cancelCallLater
149 (deprecated since 2002) have been removed. (#4076)
150 - Removed twisted.cred.util.py, which has been deprecated since
152 - twisted.python.text.docstringLStrip was deprecated. (#4328)
153 - The module attributes `LENGTH`, `DATA`, `COMMA`, and `NUMBER` of
154 twisted.protocols.basic (previously used by `NetstringReceiver`)
155 are now deprecated. (#4541)
156 - twisted.protocols.basic.SafeNetstringReceiver, deprecated since
157 2001 (before Twisted 2.0), was removed. (#4546)
158 - twisted.python.threadable.whenThreaded, deprecated since Twisted
159 2.2.0, has been removed. (#4550)
160 - twisted.python.timeoutqueue, deprecated since Twisted 8.0, has been
162 - iocpreactor transports can no longer be pickled. (#4617)
166 - #4300, #4475, #4477, #4504, #4556, #4562, #4564, #4569, #4608,
167 #4616, #4617, #4626, #4630, #4650, #4705
170 Twisted Conch 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
171 =================================
175 - twisted.conch.ssh.factory.SSHFactory no longer disables coredumps.
177 - The Deferred returned by twisted.conch.telnet.TelnetTransport.will
178 now fires with an OptionRefused failure if the peer responds with a
179 refusal for the option negotiation. (#4231)
180 - SSHServerTransport and SSHClientTransport in
181 twisted.conch.ssh.transport no longer use PyCrypto to generate
182 random numbers for DH KEX. They also now generate values from the
183 full valid range, rather than only half of it. (#4469)
184 - twisted.conch.ssh.connection.SSHConnection now errbacks leftover
185 request deferreds on connection shutdown. (#4483)
192 Twisted Lore 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
193 ================================
195 No significant changes have been made for this release.
202 Twisted Mail 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
203 ================================
205 Improved Documentation
206 ----------------------
207 - The email server example now demonstrates how to set up
208 authentication and authorization using twisted.cred. (#4609)
210 Deprecations and Removals
211 -------------------------
212 - twisted.mail.smtp.sendEmail, deprecated since mid 2003 (before
213 Twisted 2.0), has been removed. (#4529)
220 Twisted Names 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
221 =================================
225 - twisted.names.server can now serve SPF resource records using
226 twisted.names.dns.Record_SPF. twisted.names.client can query for
227 them using lookupSenderPolicy. (#3928)
231 - twisted.names.common.extractRecords doesn't try to close the
232 transport anymore in case of recursion, as it's done by the
233 Resolver itself now. (#3998)
235 Improved Documentation
236 ----------------------
237 - Tidied up the Twisted Names documentation for easier conversion.
241 Twisted News 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
242 ================================
246 - twisted.news.database.PickleStorage now invokes the email APIs
247 correctly, allowing it to actually send moderation emails. (#4528)
250 Twisted Pair 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
251 ================================
253 No significant changes have been made for this release.
256 Twisted Runner 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
257 ==================================
259 No significant changes have been made for this release.
262 Twisted Web 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
263 ===============================
267 - twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC.xmlrpc_* methods can now be decorated
268 using withRequest to cause them to be passed the HTTP request
273 - twisted.web.xmlrpc.QueryProtocol.handleResponse now disconnects
274 from the server, meaning that Twisted XML-RPC clients disconnect
275 from the server as soon as they receive a response, rather than
276 relying on the server to disconnect. (#2518)
277 - twisted.web.twcgi now generates responses containing all
278 occurrences of duplicate headers produced by CGI scripts, not just
279 the last value. (#4742)
281 Deprecations and Removals
282 -------------------------
283 - twisted.web.trp, which has been deprecated since Twisted 9.0, was
288 - #4576, #4577, #4709, #4723
291 Twisted Words 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
292 =================================
296 - twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.msg now enforces a maximum
297 length for messages, splitting up messages that are too long.
302 - twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient no longer invokes privmsg()
303 in the default noticed() implementation. (#4419)
304 - twisted.words.im.ircsupport.IRCProto now sends the correct name in
305 the USER command. (#4641)
307 Deprecations and Removals
308 -------------------------
309 - Remove twisted.words.im.proxyui and twisted.words.im.tap. (#1823)
312 Twisted Core 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
313 ================================
317 - Add linux inotify support, allowing monitoring of file system
319 - Deferreds now support cancellation. (#990)
320 - Added new "endpoint" interfaces in twisted.internet.interfaces,
321 which abstractly describe stream transport endpoints which can be
322 listened on or connected to. Implementations for TCP and SSL
323 clients and servers are present in twisted.internet.endpoints.
324 Notably, client endpoints' connect() methods return cancellable
325 Deferreds, so code written to use them can bypass the awkward
326 "ClientFactory.clientConnectionFailed" and
327 "Connector.stopConnecting" methods, and handle errbacks from or
328 cancel the returned deferred, respectively. (#1442)
329 - twisted.protocols.amp.Integer's documentation now clarifies that
330 integers of arbitrary size are supported and that the wire format
331 is a base-10 representation. (#2650)
332 - twisted.protocols.amp now includes support for transferring
333 timestamps (amp.DateTime) and decimal values (amp.Decimal). (#2651)
334 - twisted.protocol.ftp.IWriteFile now has a close() method, which can
335 return a Deferred. Previously a STOR command would finish
336 immediately upon the receipt of the last byte of the uploaded file.
337 With close(), the backend can delay the finish until it has
338 performed some other slow action (like storing the data to a
339 virtual filesystem). (#3462)
340 - FilePath now calls os.stat() only when new status information is
341 required, rather than immediately when anything changes. For some
342 applications this may result in fewer stat() calls. Additionally,
343 FilePath has a new method, 'changed', which applications may use to
344 indicate that the FilePath may have been changed on disk and
345 therefore the next status information request must fetch a new
346 stat result. This is useful if external systems, such as C
347 libraries, may have changed files that Twisted applications are
348 referencing via a FilePath. (#4130)
349 - Documentation improvements are now summarized in the NEWS file.
351 - twisted.internet.task.deferLater now returns a cancellable
353 - The connect methods of twisted.internet.protocol.ClientCreator now
354 return cancellable Deferreds. (#4329)
355 - twisted.spread.pb now has documentation covering some of its
357 - twisted.spread.jelly now supports jellying and unjellying classes
358 defined with slots if they also implement __getstate__ and
359 __setstate__. (#4430)
360 - twisted.protocols.amp.ListOf arguments can now be specified as
365 - On POSIX platforms, reactors now support child processes in a way
366 which doesn't cause other syscalls to sometimes fail with EINTR (if
367 running on Python 2.6 or if Twisted's extension modules have been
369 - Substrings are escaped before being passed to a regular expression
370 for searching to ensure that they don't get interpreted as part of
371 the expression. (#1893)
372 - twisted.internet.stdio now supports stdout being redirected to a
373 normal file (except when using epollreactor). (#2259)
375 - The tap2rpm script now works with modern versions of RPM. (#3292)
376 - twisted.python.modules.walkModules will now handle packages
377 explicitly precluded from importing by a None placed in
379 - ConnectedDatagramPort now uses stopListening when a connection
380 fails instead of the deprecated loseConnection. (#3425)
381 - twisted.python.filepath.FilePath.setContent is now safe for
382 multiple processes to use concurrently. (#3694)
383 - The mode argument to the methods of
384 twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorUNIX is no longer deprecated.
386 - Do not include blacklisted projects when generating NEWS. (#4190)
387 - When generating NEWS for a project that had no significant changes,
388 include a section for that project and say that there were no
389 interesting changes. (#4191)
390 - Redundant 'b' mode is no longer passed to calls to FilePath.open
391 and FilePath.open itself now corrects the mode when multiple 'b'
392 characters are present, ensuring only one instance of 'b' is
393 provided, as a workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue7686.
395 - HTML tags inside <pre> tags in the code snippets are now escaped.
397 - twisted.protocols.amp.CommandLocator now allows subclasses to
398 override responders inherited from base classes. (#4343)
399 - Fix a bunch of small but important defects in the INSTALL, README
400 and so forth. (#4346)
401 - The poll, epoll, glib2, and gtk2 reactors now all support half-
402 close in the twisted.internet.stdio.StandardIO transport. (#4352)
403 - twisted.application.internet no longer generates an extra and
404 invalid entry in its __all__ list for the nonexistent
405 MulticastClient. (#4373)
406 - Choosing a reactor documentation now says that only the select-
407 based reactor is a truly cross-platform reactor. (#4384)
408 - twisted.python.filepath.FilePath now no longer leaves files open,
409 to be closed by the garbage collector, when an exception is raised
410 in the implementation of setContent, getContent, or copyTo. (#4400)
411 - twisted.test.proto_helpers.StringTransport's getHost and getPeer
412 methods now return IPv4Address instances by default. (#4401)
413 - twisted.protocols.amp.BinaryBoxProtocol will no longer deliver an
414 empty string to a switched-to protocol's dataReceived method when
415 the BinaryBoxProtocol's buffer happened to be empty at the time of
416 the protocol switch. (#4405)
417 - IReactorUNIX.listenUNIX implementations now support abstract
418 namespace sockets on Linux. (#4421)
419 - Files opened with FilePath.create() (and therefore also files
420 opened via FilePath.open() on a path with alwaysCreate=True) will
421 now be opened in binary mode as advertised, so that they will
422 behave portably across platforms. (#4453)
423 - The subunit reporter now correctly reports import errors as errors,
424 rather than by crashing with an unrelated error. (#4496)
426 Improved Documentation
427 ----------------------
428 - The finger tutorial example which introduces services now avoids
429 double-starting the loop to re-read its users file. (#4420)
430 - twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.callback's docstring now mentions
431 the implicit chaining feature. (#4439)
432 - doc/core/howto/listing/pb/chatclient.py can now actually send a
433 group message. (#4459)
435 Deprecations and Removals
436 -------------------------
437 - twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorArbitrary,
438 twisted.application.internet.GenericServer, and
439 twisted.application.internet.GenericClient are now deprecated.
441 - twisted.internet.gtkreactor is now deprecated. (#2833)
442 - twisted.trial.util.findObject has been deprecated. (#3108)
443 - twisted.python.threadpool.ThreadSafeList is deprecated and Jython
444 platform detection in Twisted core removed (#3725)
445 - twisted.internet.interfaces.IUDPConnectedTransport has been removed
446 (deprecated since Twisted 9.0). (#4077)
447 - Removed twisted.application.app.runWithProfiler, which has been
448 deprecated since Twisted 8.0. (#4090)
449 - Removed twisted.application.app.runWithHotshot, which has been
450 deprecated since Twisted 8.0. (#4091)
451 - Removed twisted.application.app.ApplicationRunner.startLogging,
452 which has been deprecated (doesn't say since when), as well as
453 support for the legacy
454 twisted.application.app.ApplicationRunner.getLogObserver method.
456 - twisted.application.app.reportProfile has been removed. (#4093)
457 - twisted.application.app.getLogFile has been removed. (#4094)
458 - Removed twisted.cred.util.py, which has been deprecated since
460 - twisted.python.util.dsu is now deprecated. (#4339)
461 - In twisted.trial.util: FailureError, DirtyReactorWarning,
462 DirtyReactorError, and PendingTimedCallsError, which have all been
463 deprecated since Twisted 8.0, have been removed. (#4505)
467 - #1363, #1742, #3170, #3359, #3431, #3738, #4088, #4206, #4221,
468 #4239, #4257, #4272, #4274, #4287, #4291, #4293, #4309, #4316,
469 #4319, #4324, #4332, #4335, #4348, #4358, #4394, #4399, #4409,
470 #4418, #4443, #4449, #4479, #4485, #4486, #4497
473 Twisted Conch 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
474 =================================
478 - twisted.conch.ssh.transport.SSHTransportBase now allows supported
479 ssh protocol versions to be overriden. (#4428)
483 - SSHSessionProcessProtocol now doesn't close the session when stdin
484 is closed, but instead when both stdout and stderr are. (#4350)
485 - The 'cftp' command-line tool will no longer encounter an
486 intermittent error, crashing at startup with a ZeroDivisionError
487 while trying to report progress. (#4463)
488 - twisted.conch.ssh.connection.SSHConnection now replies to requests
489 to open an unknown channel with a OPEN_UNKNOWN_CHANNEL_TYPE message
490 instead of closing the connection. (#4490)
492 Deprecations and Removals
493 -------------------------
494 - twisted.conch.insults.client was deprecated. (#4095)
495 - twisted.conch.insults.colors has been deprecated. Please use
496 twisted.conch.insults.helper instead. (#4096)
497 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.asn1, which has been deprecated since
499 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.common.Entropy, as Entropy.get_bytes has
500 been deprecated since 2007 and Entropy.get_bytes was the only
501 attribute of Entropy. (#4098)
502 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.getPublicKeyString, which has been
503 deprecated since 2007. Also updated the conch examples
504 sshsimpleserver.py and sshsimpleclient.py to reflect this removal.
506 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.makePublicKeyString, which has been
507 deprecated since 2007. (#4100)
508 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.getPublicKeyObject, which has been
509 deprecated since 2007. (#4101)
510 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.getPrivateKeyObject, which has been
511 deprecated since 2007. Also updated the conch examples to reflect
512 this removal. (#4102)
513 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.makePrivateKeyString, which has been
514 deprecated since 2007. (#4103)
515 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.makePublicKeyBlob, which has been
516 deprecated since 2007. (#4104)
517 - Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.signData,
518 twisted.conch.ssh.keys.verifySignature, and
519 twisted.conch.ssh.keys.printKey, which have been deprecated since
524 - #3849, #4408, #4454
527 Twisted Lore 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
528 ================================
530 No significant changes have been made for this release.
533 Twisted Mail 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
534 ================================
538 - twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server no longer fails on search queries
539 that contain wildcards. (#2278)
540 - A case which would cause twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server to loop
541 indefinitely when handling a search command has been fixed. (#4385)
545 - #4069, #4271, #4467
548 Twisted Names 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
549 =================================
553 - twisted.names.dns.Message now uses a specially constructed
554 dictionary for looking up record types. This yields a significant
555 performance improvement on PyPy. (#4283)
558 Twisted News 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
559 ================================
561 No significant changes have been made for this release.
564 Twisted Pair 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
565 ================================
567 No significant changes have been made for this release.
570 Twisted Runner 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
571 ==================================
575 - twistd now has a procmon subcommand plugin - a convenient way to
576 monitor and automatically restart another process. (#4356)
578 Deprecations and Removals
579 -------------------------
580 - twisted.runner.procmon.ProcessMonitor's active, consistency, and
581 consistencyDelay attributes are now deprecated. (#1763)
588 Twisted Web 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
589 ===============================
593 - twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC and twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy now expose
594 xmlrpclib's support of datetime.datetime objects if useDateTime is
596 - HTTP11ClientProtocol now has an abort() method for cancelling an
597 outstanding request by closing the connection before receiving the
598 entire response. (#3811)
599 - twisted.web.http_headers.Headers initializer now rejects
600 incorrectly structured dictionaries. (#4022)
601 - twisted.web.client.Agent now supports HTTPS URLs. (#4023)
602 - twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy.callRemote now returns a Deferred which
603 can be cancelled to abort the attempted XML-RPC call. (#4377)
607 - twisted.web.guard now logs out avatars even if a request completes
608 with an error. (#4411)
609 - twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC will now no longer trigger a RuntimeError
610 by trying to write responses to closed connections. (#4423)
612 Improved Documentation
613 ----------------------
614 - Fix broken links to deliverBody and iweb.UNKNOWN_LENGTH in
615 doc/web/howto/client.xhtml. (#4507)
617 Deprecations and Removals
618 -------------------------
619 - twisted.web.twcgi.PHP3Script and twisted.web.twcgi.PHPScript are
620 now deprecated. (#516)
627 Twisted Words 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
628 =================================
632 - twisted.words.im.basechat.ChatUI now has a functional
633 contactChangedNick with unit tests. (#229)
634 - twisted.words.protocols.jabber.error.StanzaError now correctly sets
635 a default error type and code for the remote-server-timeout
637 - twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream.ListenAuthenticator now
638 uses unicode objects for session identifiers (#4345)
641 Twisted Core 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
642 ================================
646 - The twistd man page now has a SIGNALS section. (#689)
648 - reactor.spawnProcess now will not emit a PotentialZombieWarning
649 when called before reactor.run, and there will be no potential for
650 zombie processes in this case. (#2078)
652 - High-throughput applications based on Perspective Broker should now
653 run noticably faster thanks to the use of a more efficient decoding
654 function in Twisted Spread. (#2310)
656 - Documentation for trac-post-commit-hook functionality in svn-dev
659 - twisted.protocols.socks.SOCKSv4 now supports the SOCKSv4a protocol.
662 - Trial can now output test results according to the subunit
663 protocol, as long as Subunit is installed (see
664 https://launchpad.net/subunit). (#4004)
666 - twisted.protocols.amp now provides a ListOf argument type which can
667 be composed with some other argument types to create a zero or more
668 element sequence of that type. (#4116)
670 - If returnValue is invoked outside of a function decorated with
671 @inlineCallbacks, but causes a function thusly decorated to exit, a
672 DeprecationWarning will be emitted explaining this potentially
673 confusing behavior. In a future release, this will cause an
676 - twisted.python.logfile.BaseLogFile now has a reopen method allowing
677 you to use an external logrotate mechanism. (#4255)
681 - FTP.ftp_NLST now handles requests on invalid paths in a way
682 consistent with RFC 959. (#1342)
684 - twisted.python.util.initgroups now calls the low-level C initgroups
685 by default if available: the python version can create lots of I/O
686 with certain authentication setup to retrieve all the necessary
689 - startLogging now does nothing on subsequent invocations, thus
690 fixing a terrible infinite recursion bug that's only on edge case.
693 - Stringify non-string data to NetstringReceiver.sendString before
694 calculating the length so that the calculated length is equal to
695 the actual length of the transported data. (#3299)
697 - twisted.python.win32.cmdLineQuote now correctly quotes empty
698 strings arguments (#3876)
700 - Change the behavior of the Gtk2Reactor to register only one source
701 watch for each file descriptor, instead of one for reading and one
702 for writing. In particular, it fixes a bug with Glib under Windows
703 where we failed to notify when a client is connected. (#3925)
705 - Twisted Trial no longer crashes if it can't remove an old
706 _trial_temp directory. (#4020)
708 - The optional _c_urlarg extension now handles unquote("") correctly
709 on platforms where malloc(0) returns NULL, such as AIX. It also
710 compiles with less warnings. (#4142)
712 - On POSIX, child processes created with reactor.spawnProcess will no
713 longer automatically ignore the signals which the parent process
714 has set to be ignored. (#4199)
716 - All SOCKSv4a tests now use a dummy reactor with a deterministic
717 resolve method. (#4275)
719 - Prevent extraneous server, date and content-type headers in proxy
722 Deprecations and Removals
723 -------------------------
724 - twisted.internet.error.PotentialZombieWarning is now deprecated.
727 - twisted.test.time_helpers is now deprecated. (#3719)
729 - The deprecated connectUDP method of IReactorUDP has now been
732 - twisted.trial.unittest.TestCase now ignores the previously
733 deprecated setUpClass and tearDownClass methods. (#4175)
737 - #917, #2406, #2481, #2608, #2689, #2884, #3056, #3082, #3199,
738 #3480, #3592, #3718, #3935, #4066, #4083, #4154, #4166, #4169,
739 #4176, #4183, #4186, #4188, #4189, #4194, #4201, #4204, #4209,
740 #4222, #4234, #4235, #4238, #4240, #4245, #4251, #4264, #4268,
744 Twisted Conch 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
745 =================================
749 - twisted.conch.checkers.SSHPublicKeyDatabase now looks in the
750 correct user directory for authorized_keys files. (#3984)
751 - twisted.conch.ssh.SSHUserAuthClient now honors preferredOrder when
752 authenticating. (#4266)
756 - #2391, #4203, #4265
759 Twisted Lore 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
760 ================================
767 Twisted Mail 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
768 ================================
772 - twisted.mail.smtp.ESMTPClient and
773 twisted.mail.smtp.LOGINAuthenticator now implement the (obsolete)
774 LOGIN SASL mechanism according to the draft specification. (#4031)
776 - twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client will no longer misparse all html-
777 formatted message bodies received in response to a fetch command.
780 - The regression in IMAP4 search handling of "OR" and "NOT" terms has
785 - #4028, #4170, #4200
788 Twisted Names 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
789 =================================
793 - twisted.names.root.Resolver no longer leaks UDP sockets while
794 resolving names. (#970)
796 Deprecations and Removals
797 -------------------------
798 - Several top-level functions in twisted.names.root are now
806 Twisted Pair 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
807 ================================
814 Twisted Runner 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
815 ==================================
822 Twisted Web 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
823 ===============================
827 - Twisted Web in 60 Seconds, a series of short tutorials with self-
828 contained examples on a range of common web topics, is now a part
829 of the Twisted Web howto documentation. (#4192)
833 - Data and File from twisted.web.static and
834 twisted.web.distrib.UserDirectory will now only generate a 200
835 response for GET or HEAD requests.
836 twisted.web.client.HTTPPageGetter will no longer ignore the case of
837 a request method when considering whether to apply special HEAD
838 processing to a response. (#446)
840 - twisted.web.http.HTTPClient now supports multi-line headers.
843 - Resources served via twisted.web.distrib will no longer encounter a
844 Banana error when writing more than 640kB at once to the request
847 - The Error, PageRedirect, and InfiniteRedirection exception in
848 twisted.web now initialize an empty message parameter by mapping
849 the HTTP status code parameter to a descriptive string. Previously
850 the lookup would always fail, leaving message empty. (#3806)
852 - The 'wsgi.input' WSGI environment object now supports -1 and None
853 as arguments to the read and readlines methods. (#4114)
855 - twisted.web.wsgi doesn't unquote QUERY_STRING anymore, thus
856 complying with the WSGI reference implementation. (#4143)
858 - The HTTP proxy will no longer pass on keep-alive request headers
859 from the client, preventing pages from loading then "hanging"
860 (leaving the connection open with no hope of termination). (#4179)
862 Deprecations and Removals
863 -------------------------
864 - Remove '--static' option from twistd web, that served as an alias
865 for the '--path' option. (#3907)
869 - #3784, #4216, #4242
872 Twisted Words 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
873 =================================
877 - twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.irc_MODE now takes ISUPPORT
878 parameters into account when parsing mode messages with arguments
879 that take parameters (#3296)
883 - When twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient's versionNum and
884 versionEnv attributes are set to None, they will no longer be
885 included in the client's response to CTCP VERSION queries. (#3660)
887 - twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream.hashPassword now only
888 accepts unicode as input (#3741, #3742, #3847)
892 - #2503, #4066, #4261
895 Twisted Core 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
896 ===============================
900 - LineReceiver.clearLineBuffer now returns the bytes that it cleared (#3573)
901 - twisted.protocols.amp now raises InvalidSignature when bad arguments are
902 passed to Command.makeArguments (#2808)
903 - IArgumentType was added to represent an existing but previously unspecified
904 interface in amp (#3468)
905 - Obscure python tricks have been removed from the finger tutorials (#2110)
906 - The digest auth implementations in twisted.web and twisted.protocolos.sip
907 have been merged together in twisted.cred (#3575)
908 - FilePath and ZipPath now has a parents() method which iterates up all of its
910 - reactors which support threads now have a getThreadPool method (#3591)
911 - The MemCache client implementation now allows arguments to the "stats"
913 - The MemCache client now has a getMultiple method which allows fetching of
914 multiple values (#3171)
915 - twisted.spread.jelly can now unserialize some new-style classes (#2950)
916 - twisted.protocols.loopback.loopbackAsync now accepts a parameter to control
917 the data passed between client and server (#3820)
918 - The IOCP reactor now supports SSL (#593)
919 - Tasks in a twisted.internet.task.Cooperator can now be paused, resumed, and
921 - AmpList arguments can now be made optional (#3891)
922 - The syslog output observer now supports log levels (#3300)
923 - LoopingCall now supports reporting the number of intervals missed if it
924 isn't able to schedule calls fast enough (#3671)
928 - The deprecated md5 and sha modules are no longer used if the stdlib hashlib
929 module is available (#2763)
930 - An obscure deadlock involving waking up the reactor within signal handlers
931 in particular threads was fixed (#1997)
932 - The passivePortRange attribute of FTPFactory is now honored (#3593)
933 - TestCase.flushWarnings now flushes warnings even if they were produced by a
934 file that was renamed since it was byte compiled (#3598)
935 - Some internal file descriptors are now marked as close-on-exec, so these will
936 no longer be leaked to child processes (#3576)
937 - twisted.python.zipstream now correctly extracts the first file in a directory
938 as a file, and not an empty directory (#3625)
939 - proxyForInterface now returns classes which correctly *implement* interfaces
940 rather than *providing* them (#3646)
941 - SIP Via header parameters should now be correctly generated (#2194)
942 - The Deferred returned by stopListening would sometimes previously never fire
943 if an exception was raised by the underlying file descriptor's connectionLost
944 method. Now the Deferred will fire with a failure (#3654)
945 - The command-line tool "manhole" should now work with newer versions of pygtk
947 - When a DefaultOpenSSLContextFactory is instantiated with invalid parameters,
948 it will now raise an exception immediately instead of waiting for the first
950 - Twisted command line scripts should now work when installed in a virtualenv
952 - Trial will no longer delete temp directories which it did not create (#3481)
953 - Processes started on Windows should now be cleaned up properly in more cases
955 - Certain misbehaving importers will no longer cause twisted.python.modules
956 (and thus trial) to raise an exception, but rather issue a warning (#3913)
957 - MemCache client protocol methods will now fail when the transport has been
959 - In the AMP method callRemoteString, the requiresAnswer parameter is now
961 - Spawning a "script" (a file which starts with a #! line) on Windows running
962 Python 2.6 will now work instead of raising an exception about file mode
964 - FilePath's walk method now calls its "descend" parameter even on the first
965 level of children, instead of only on grandchildren. This allows for better
966 symlink cycle detection (#3911)
967 - Attempting to write unicode data to process pipes on Windows will no longer
968 result in arbitrarily encoded messages being written to the pipe, but instead
969 will immediately raise an error (#3930)
970 - The various twisted command line utilities will no longer print
971 ModuleType.__doc__ when Twisted was installed with setuptools (#4030)
972 - A Failure object will now be passed to connectionLost on stdio connections
973 on Windows, instead of an Exception object (#3922)
975 Deprecations and Removals
976 -------------------------
977 - twisted.persisted.marmalade was deleted after a long period of deprecation
979 - Some remaining references to the long-gone plugins.tml system were removed
981 - SSLv2 is now disabled by default, but it can be re-enabled explicitly
983 - twisted.python.plugin has been removed (#1911)
984 - reactor.run will now raise a ReactorAlreadyRunning exception when it is
985 called reentrantly instead of warning a DeprecationWarning (#1785)
986 - twisted.spread.refpath is now deprecated because it is unmaintained,
987 untested, and has dubious value (#3723)
988 - The unused --quiet flag has been removed from the twistd command (#3003)
992 - #3545, #3490, #3544, #3537, #3455, #3315, #2281, #3564, #3570, #3571, #3486,
993 #3241, #3599, #3220, #1522, #3611, #3596, #3606, #3609, #3602, #3637, #3647,
994 #3632, #3675, #3673, #3686, #2217, #3685, #3688, #2456, #506, #3635, #2153,
995 #3581, #3708, #3714, #3717, #3698, #3747, #3704, #3707, #3713, #3720, #3692,
996 #3376, #3652, #3695, #3735, #3786, #3783, #3699, #3340, #3810, #3822, #3817,
997 #3791, #3859, #2459, #3677, #3883, #3894, #3861, #3822, #3852, #3875, #2722,
998 #3768, #3914, #3885, #2719, #3905, #3942, #2820, #3990, #3954, #1627, #2326,
999 #2972, #3253, #3937, #4058, #1200, #3639, #4079, #4063, #4050
1002 Twisted Conch 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1003 ================================
1007 - The SSH key parser has been removed and conch now uses pyASN1 to parse keys.
1008 This should fix a number of cases where parsing a key would fail, but it now
1009 requires users to have pyASN1 installed (#3391)
1010 - The time field on SFTP file listings should now be correct (#3503)
1011 - The day field on SFTP file listings should now be correct on Windows (#3503)
1012 - The "cftp" sftp client now truncates files it is uploading over (#2519)
1013 - The telnet server protocol can now properly respond to subnegotiation
1015 - Tests and factoring of the SSHv2 server implementation are now much better
1017 - The SSHv2 server now sends "exit-signal" messages to the client, instead of
1018 raising an exception, when a process dies due to a signal (#2687)
1019 - cftp's client-side "exec" command now uses /bin/sh if the current user has
1022 Deprecations and Removals
1023 -------------------------
1024 - The buggy SSH connection sharing feature of the SSHv2 client was removed
1026 - Use of strings and PyCrypto objects to represent keys is deprecated in favor
1027 of using Conch Key objects (#2682)
1031 - #3548, #3537, #3551, #3220, #3568, #3689, #3709, #3809, #2763, #3540, #3750,
1032 #3897, #3813, #3871, #3916, #4047, #3940, #4050
1035 Twisted Lore 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1036 ===============================
1040 - Python source listings now include line numbers (#3486)
1044 - Lore now uses minidom instead of Twisted's microdom, which incidentally
1045 fixes some Lore bugs such as throwing away certain whitespace
1046 (#3560, #414, #3619)
1047 - Lore's "lint" command should no longer break on documents with links in them
1050 Deprecations and Removals
1051 -------------------------
1052 - Lore no longer uses the ancient "tml" Twisted plugin system (#1911)
1056 - #3565, #3246, #3540, #3750, #4050
1059 Twisted Mail 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1060 ===============================
1064 - maildir.StringListMailbox, an in-memory maildir mailbox, now supports
1065 deletion, undeletion, and syncing (#3547)
1066 - SMTPClient's callbacks are now more completely documented (#684)
1070 - Parse UNSEEN response data and include it in the result of
1071 IMAP4Client.examine (#3550)
1072 - The IMAP4 client now delivers more unsolicited server responses to callbacks
1073 rather than ignoring them, and also won't ignore solicited responses that
1074 arrive on the same line as an unsolicited one (#1105)
1075 - Several bugs in the SMTP client's idle timeout support were fixed (#3641,
1077 - A case where the SMTP client could skip some recipients when retrying
1078 delivery has been fixed (#3638)
1079 - Errors during certain data transfers will no longer be swallowed. They will
1080 now bubble up to the higher-level API (such as the sendmail function) (#3642)
1081 - Escape sequences inside quoted strings in IMAP4 should now be parsed
1082 correctly by the IMAP4 server protocol (#3659)
1083 - The "imap4-utf-7" codec that is registered by twisted.mail.imap4 had a number
1084 of fixes that allow it to work better with the Python codecs system, and to
1085 actually work (#3663)
1086 - The Maildir implementation now ensures time-based ordering of filenames so
1087 that the lexical sorting of messages matches the order in which they were
1089 - SASL PLAIN credentials generated by the IMAP4 protocol implementations
1090 (client and server) should now be RFC-compliant (#3939)
1091 - Searching for a set of sequences using the IMAP4 "SEARCH" command should
1092 now work on the IMAP4 server protocol implementation. This at least improves
1093 support for the Pine mail client (#1977)
1097 - #2763, #3647, #3750, #3819, #3540, #3846, #2023, #4050
1100 Twisted Names 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1101 ================================
1103 Deprecations and Removals
1104 -------------------------
1105 - client.ThreadedResolver is deprecated in favor of
1106 twisted.internet.base.ThreadedResolver (#3710)
1110 - #3540, #3560, #3712, #3750, #3990
1113 Twisted News 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1114 ===============================
1121 Twisted Pair 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1122 ===============================
1129 Twisted Runner 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1130 =================================
1134 - procmon.ProcessMonitor.addProcess now accepts an 'env' parameter which allows
1135 users to specify the environment in which a process will be run (#3691)
1142 Twisted Web 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1143 ==============================
1147 - There is now an iweb.IRequest interface which specifies the interface that
1148 request objects provide (#3416)
1149 - downloadPage now supports the same cookie, redirect, and timeout features
1150 that getPage supports (#2971)
1151 - A chapter about WSGI has been added to the twisted.web documentation (#3510)
1152 - The HTTP auth support in the web server now allows anonymous sessions by
1153 logging in with ANONYMOUS credentials when no Authorization header is
1154 provided in a request (#3924, #3936)
1155 - HTTPClientFactory now accepts a parameter to enable a common deviation from
1156 the HTTP 1.1 standard by responding to redirects in a POSTed request with a
1157 GET instead of another POST (#3624)
1158 - A new basic HTTP/1.1 client API is included in twisted.web.client.Agent
1163 - Requests for "insecure" children of a static.File (such as paths containing
1164 encoded directory separators) will now result in a 404 instead of a 500
1166 - When specifying a followRedirect argument to the getPage function, the state
1167 of redirect-following for other getPage calls should now be unaffected. It
1168 was previously overwriting a class attribute which would affect outstanding
1169 getPage calls (#3192)
1170 - Downloading an URL of the form "http://example.com:/" will now work,
1171 ignoring the extraneous colon (#2402)
1172 - microdom's appendChild method will no longer issue a spurious warning, and
1173 microdom's methods in general should now issue more meaningful exceptions
1174 when invalid parameters are passed (#3421)
1175 - WSGI applications will no longer have spurious Content-Type headers added to
1176 their responses by the twisted.web server. In addition, WSGI applications
1177 will no longer be able to specify the server-restricted headers Server and
1179 - http_headers.Headers now normalizes the case of raw headers passed directly
1180 to it in the same way that it normalizes the headers passed to setRawHeaders
1182 - The distrib module no longer relies on the deprecated woven package (#3559)
1183 - twisted.web.domhelpers now works with both microdom and minidom (#3600)
1184 - twisted.web servers will now ignore invalid If-Modified-Since headers instead
1185 of returning a 500 error (#3601)
1186 - Certain request-bound memory and file resources are cleaned up slightly
1187 sooner by the request when the connection is lost (#1621, #3176)
1188 - xmlrpclib.DateTime objects should now correctly round-trip over twisted.web's
1189 XMLRPC support in all supported versions of Python, and errors during error
1190 serialization will no longer hang a twisted.web XMLRPC response (#2446)
1191 - request.content should now always be seeked to the beginning when
1192 request.process is called, so application code should never need to seek
1193 back manually (#3585)
1194 - Fetching a child of static.File with a double-slash in the URL (such as
1195 "example//foo.html") should now return a 404 instead of a traceback and
1197 - downloadPage will now fire a Failure on its returned Deferred instead of
1198 indicating success when the connection is prematurely lost (#3645)
1199 - static.File will now provide a 404 instead of a 500 error when it was
1200 constructed with a non-existent file (#3634)
1201 - microdom should now serialize namespaces correctly (#3672)
1202 - The HTTP Auth support resource wrapper should no longer corrupt requests and
1203 cause them to skip a segment in the request path (#3679)
1204 - The twisted.web WSGI support should now include leading slashes in PATH_INFO,
1205 and SCRIPT_NAME will be empty if the application is at the root of the
1206 resource tree. This means that WSGI applications should no longer generate
1207 URLs with double-slashes in them even if they naively concatenate the values
1209 - WSGI applications should now receive the requesting client's IP in the
1210 REMOTE_ADDR environment variable (#3730)
1211 - The distrib module should work again. It was unfortunately broken with the
1212 refactoring of twisted.web's header support (#3697)
1213 - static.File now supports multiple ranges specified in the Range header
1215 - static.File should now generate a correct Content-Length value when the
1216 requested Range value doesn't fit entirely within the file's contents (#3814)
1217 - Attempting to call request.finish() after the connection has been lost will
1218 now immediately raise a RuntimeError (#4013)
1219 - An HTTP-auth resource should now be able to directly render the wrapped
1220 avatar, whereas before it would only allow retrieval of child resources
1222 - twisted.web's wsgi support should no longer attempt to call request.finish
1223 twice, which would cause errors in certain cases (#4025)
1224 - WSGI applications should now be able to handle requests with large bodies
1226 - Exceptions raised from WSGI applications should now more reliably be turned
1227 into 500 errors on the HTTP level (#4019)
1228 - DeferredResource now correctly passes through exceptions raised from the
1229 wrapped resource, instead of turning them all into 500 errors (#3932)
1230 - Agent.request now generates a Host header when no headers are passed at
1233 Deprecations and Removals
1234 -------------------------
1235 - The unmaintained and untested twisted.web.monitor module was removed (#2763)
1236 - The twisted.web.woven package has been removed (#1522)
1237 - All of the error resources in twisted.web.error are now in
1238 twisted.web.resource, and accessing them through twisted.web.error is now
1240 - To facilitate a simplification of the timeout logic in server.Session,
1241 various things have been deprecated (#3457)
1242 - the loopFactory attribute is now ignored
1243 - the checkExpired method now does nothing
1244 - the lifetime parameter to startCheckingExpiration is now ignored
1245 - The twisted.web.trp module is now deprecated (#2030)
1249 - #2763, #3540, #3575, #3610, #3605, #1176, #3539, #3750, #3761, #3779, #2677,
1250 #3782, #3904, #3919, #3418, #3990, #1404, #4050
1253 Twisted Words 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
1254 ================================
1258 - IRCClient.describe is a new method meant to replace IRCClient.me to send
1259 CTCP ACTION messages with less confusing behavior (#3910)
1260 - The XMPP client protocol implementation now supports ANONYMOUS SASL
1261 authentication (#4067)
1262 - The IRC client protocol implementation now has better support for the
1263 ISUPPORT server->client message, storing the data in a new
1264 ServerSupportedFeatures object accessible via IRCClient.supported (#3285)
1268 - The twisted.words IRC server now always sends an MOTD, which at least makes
1269 Pidgin able to successfully connect to a twisted.words IRC server (#2385)
1270 - The IRC client will now dispatch "RPL MOTD" messages received before a
1271 "RPL MOTD START" instead of raising an exception (#3676)
1272 - The IRC client protocol implementation no longer updates its 'nickname'
1273 attribute directly; instead, that attribute will be updated when the server
1274 acknowledges the change (#3377)
1275 - The IRC client protocol implementation now supports falling back to another
1276 nickname when a nick change request fails (#3377, #4010)
1278 Deprecations and Removals
1279 -------------------------
1280 - The TOC protocol implementation is now deprecated, since the protocol itself
1281 has been deprecated and obselete for quite a long time (#3580)
1282 - The gui "im" application has been removed, since it relied on GTK1, which is
1283 hard to find these days (#3699, #3340)
1287 - #2763, #3540, #3647, #3750, #3895, #3968, #4050
1290 Core 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1291 =======================
1295 - Reactors are slowly but surely becoming more isolated, thus improving
1297 - FilePath has gained a realpath method, and FilePath.walk no longer infinitely
1298 recurses in the case of a symlink causing a self-recursing filesystem tree
1300 - FilePath's moveTo and copyTo methods now have an option to disable following
1302 - Private APIs are now included in the API documentation (#3268)
1303 - hotshot is now the default profiler for the twistd --profile parameter and
1304 using cProfile is now documented (#3355, #3356)
1305 - Process protocols can now implement a processExited method, which is
1306 distinct from processEnded in that it is called immediately when the child
1307 has died, instead of waiting for all the file descriptors to be closed
1309 - twistd now has a --umask option (#966, #3024)
1310 - A new deferToThreadPool function exists in twisted.internet.threads (#2845)
1311 - There is now an example of writing an FTP server in examples/ftpserver.py
1313 - A new runAsEffectiveUser function has been added to twisted.python.util
1315 - twisted.internet.utils.getProcessOutput now offers a mechanism for
1316 waiting for the process to actually end, in the event of data received on
1318 - A fullyQualifiedName function has been added to twisted.python.reflect
1320 - strports now defaults to managing access to a UNIX socket with a lock;
1321 lockfile=0 can be included in the strports specifier to disable this
1323 - FTPClient now has a 'rename' method (#3335)
1324 - FTPClient now has a 'makeDirectory' method (#3500)
1325 - FTPClient now has a 'removeFile' method (#3491)
1326 - flushWarnings, A new Trial method for testing warnings, has been added
1327 (#3487, #3427, #3506)
1328 - The log observer can now be configured in .tac files (#3534)
1332 - TLS Session Tickets are now disabled by default, allowing connections to
1333 certain servers which hang when an empty session ticket is received (like
1335 - twisted.enterprise.adbapi.ConnectionPool's noisy attribute now defaults to
1336 False, as documented (#1806)
1337 - Error handling and logging in adbapi is now much improved (#3244)
1338 - TCP listeners can now be restarted (#2913)
1339 - Doctests can now be rerun with trial's --until-failure option (#2713)
1340 - Some memory leaks have been fixed in trial's --until-failure
1341 implementation (#3119, #3269)
1342 - Trial's summary reporter now prints correct runtime information and handles
1343 the case of 0 tests (#3184)
1344 - Trial and any other user of the 'namedAny' function now has better error
1345 reporting in the case of invalid module names (#3259)
1346 - Multiple instances of trial can now run in parallel in the same directory
1347 by creating _trial_temp directories with an incremental suffix (#2338)
1348 - Trial's failUnlessWarns method now works on Python 2.6 (#3223)
1349 - twisted.python.log now hooks into the warnings system in a way compatible
1350 with Python 2.6 (#3211)
1351 - The GTK2 reactor is now better supported on Windows, but still not passing
1352 the entire test suite (#3203)
1353 - low-level failure handling in spawnProcess has been improved and no longer
1354 leaks file descriptors (#2305, #1410)
1355 - Perspective Broker avatars now have their logout functions called in more
1357 - Log observers which raise exceptions are no longer removed (#1069)
1358 - transport.getPeer now always includes an IP address in the Address returned
1359 instead of a hostname (#3059)
1360 - Functions in twisted.internet.utils which spawn processes now avoid calling
1361 chdir in the case where no working directory is passed, to avoid some
1362 obscure permission errors (#3159)
1363 - twisted.spread.publish.Publishable no longer corrupts line endings on
1365 - SelectReactor now properly detects when a TLS/TCP connection has been
1366 disconnected (#3218)
1367 - twisted.python.lockfile no longer raises an EEXIST OSError and is much
1368 better supported on Windows (#3367)
1369 - When ITLSTransport.startTLS is called while there is data in the write
1370 buffer, TLS negotiation will now be delayed instead of the method raising
1372 - The userAnonymous argument to FTPFactory is now honored (#3390)
1373 - twisted.python.modules no longer tries to "fix" sys.modules after an import
1374 error, which was just causing problems (#3388)
1375 - setup.py no longer attempts to build extension modules when run with Jython
1377 - AMP boxes can now be sent in IBoxReceiver.startReceivingBoxes (#3477)
1378 - AMP connections are closed as soon as a key length larger than 255 is
1380 - Log events with timezone offsets between -1 and -59 minutes are now
1381 correctly reported as negative (#3515)
1383 Deprecations and Removals
1384 -------------------------
1385 - Trial's setUpClass and tearDownClass methods are now deprecated (#2903)
1386 - problemsFromTransport has been removed in favor of the argument passed to
1387 connectionLost (#2874)
1388 - The mode parameter to methods of IReactorUNIX and IReactorUNIXDatagram are
1389 deprecated in favor of applications taking other security precautions, since
1390 the mode of a Unix socket is often not respected (#1068)
1391 - Index access on instances of twisted.internet.defer.FirstError has been
1392 removed in favor of the subFailure attribute (#3298)
1393 - The 'changeDirectory' method of FTPClient has been deprecated in favor of
1394 the 'cwd' method (#3491)
1399 - #3202, #2869, #3225, #2955, #3237, #3196, #2355, #2881, #3054, #2374, #2918,
1400 #3210, #3052, #3267, #3288, #2985, #3295, #3297, #2512, #3302, #1222, #2631,
1401 #3306, #3116, #3215, #1489, #3319, #3320, #3321, #1255, #2169, #3182, #3323,
1402 #3301, #3318, #3029, #3338, #3346, #1144, #3173, #3165, #685, #3357, #2582,
1403 #3370, #2438, #1253, #637, #1971, #2208, #979, #1790, #1888, #1882, #1793,
1404 #754, #1890, #1931, #1246, #1025, #3177, #2496, #2567, #3400, #2213, #2027,
1405 #3415, #1262, #3422, #2500, #3414, #3045, #3111, #2974, #2947, #3222, #2878,
1406 #3402, #2909, #3423, #1328, #1852, #3382, #3393, #2029, #3489, #1853, #2026,
1407 #2375, #3502, #3482, #3504, #3505, #3507, #2605, #3519, #3520, #3121, #3484,
1408 #3439, #3216, #3511, #3524, #3521, #3197, #2486, #2449, #2748, #3381, #3236,
1412 Conch 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1413 ========================
1417 - The type of the protocols instantiated by SSHFactory is now parameterized
1422 - A file descriptor leak has been fixed (#3213, #1789)
1423 - "File Already Exists" errors are now handled more correctly (#3033)
1424 - Handling of CR IAC in TelnetClient is now improved (#3305)
1425 - SSHAgent is no longer completely unusable (#3332)
1426 - The performance of insults.ClientProtocol is now greatly increased by
1427 delivering more than one byte at a time to application code (#3386)
1428 - Manhole and the conch server no longer need to be run as root when not
1430 - The value of FILEXFER_ATTR_ACMODTIME has been corrected (#2902)
1431 - The management of known_hosts and host key verification has been overhauled
1432 (#1376, #1301, #3494, #3496, #1292, #3499)
1439 Lore 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1440 =======================
1447 Mail 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1448 =======================
1452 - The mailmail tool now provides better error messages for usage errors (#3339)
1453 - The SMTP protocol implementation now works on PyPy (#2976)
1460 Names 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1461 ========================
1465 - The NAPTR record type is now supported (#2276)
1469 - Make client.Resolver less vulnerable to the Birthday Paradox attack by
1470 avoiding sending duplicate queries when it's not necessary (#3347)
1471 - client.Resolver now uses a random source port for each DNS request (#3342)
1472 - client.Resolver now uses a full 16 bits of randomness for message IDs,
1473 instead of 10 which it previously used (#3342)
1474 - All record types now have value-based equality and a string representation
1482 Web 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1483 ======================
1487 - The web server can now deal with multi-value headers in the new attributes of
1488 Request, requestHeaders and responseHeaders (#165)
1489 - There is now a resource-wrapper which implements HTTP Basic and Digest auth
1490 in terms of twisted.cred (#696)
1491 - It's now possible to limit the number of redirects that client.getPage will
1493 - The directory-listing code no longer uses Woven (#3257)
1494 - static.File now supports Range headers with a single range (#1493)
1495 - twisted.web now has a rudimentary WSGI container (#2753)
1496 - The web server now supports chunked encoding in requests (#3385)
1500 - The xmlrpc client now raises an error when the server sends an empty
1502 - HTTPPageGetter no longer duplicates default headers when they're explicitly
1503 overridden in the headers parameter (#1382)
1504 - The server will no longer timeout clients which are still sending request
1506 - microdom's isEqualToNode now returns False when the nodes aren't equal
1509 Deprecations and Removals
1510 -------------------------
1512 - Request.headers and Request.received_headers are not quite deprecated, but
1513 they are discouraged in favor of requestHeaders and responseHeaders (#165)
1517 - #909, #687, #2938, #1152, #2930, #2025, #2683, #3471
1520 Web2 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1521 =======================
1523 Note: Twisted Web2 is being phased out in preference for Twisted Web, but some
1524 maintenance changes have been made.
1528 - The main twisted.web2 docstring now indicates the current state of the
1530 - Headers which require unusual bytes are now quoted (#2346)
1531 - Some links in the introduction documentation have been fixed (#2552)
1534 Words 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
1535 ========================
1539 - There is now a standalone XMPP router included in twisted.words: it can be
1540 used with the 'twistd xmpp-router' command line (#3407)
1541 - A server factory for Jabber XML Streams has been added (#3435)
1542 - Domish now allows for iterating child elements with specific qualified names
1544 - IRCClient now has a 'back' method which removes the away status (#3366)
1545 - IRCClient now has a 'whois' method (#3133)
1549 - The IRC Client implementation can now deal with compound mode changes (#3230)
1550 - The MSN protocol implementation no longer requires the CVR0 protocol to
1551 be included in the VER command (#3394)
1552 - In the IRC server implementation, topic messages will no longer be sent for
1553 a group which has no topic (#2204)
1554 - An infinite loop (which caused infinite memory usage) in irc.split has been
1555 fixed. This was triggered any time a message that starts with a delimiter
1557 - Jabber's toResponse now generates a valid stanza even when stanzaType is not
1559 - The lifetime of authenticator instances in XmlStreamServerFactory is no
1560 longer artificially extended (#3464)
1567 Core 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1568 =======================
1573 - twisted.internet.error.ConnectionClosed is a new exception which is the
1574 superclass of ConnectionLost and ConnectionDone (#3137)
1575 - Trial's CPU and memory performance should be better now (#3034)
1576 - twisted.python.filepath.FilePath now has a chmod method (#3124)
1581 - Some reactor re-entrancy regressions were fixed (#3146, #3168)
1582 - A regression was fixed whereby constructing a Failure for an exception and
1583 traceback raised out of a Pyrex extension would fail (#3132)
1584 - CopyableFailures in PB can again be created from CopiedFailures (#3174)
1585 - FilePath.remove, when called on a FilePath representing a symlink to a
1586 directory, no longer removes the contents of the targeted directory, and
1587 instead removes the symlink (#3097)
1588 - FilePath now has a linkTo method for creating new symlinks (#3122)
1589 - The docstring for Trial's addCleanup method now correctly specifies when
1590 cleanup functions are run (#3131)
1591 - assertWarns now deals better with multiple identical warnings (#2904)
1592 - Various windows installer bugs were fixed (#3115, #3144, #3150, #3151, #3164)
1593 - API links in the howto documentation have been corrected (#3130)
1594 - The Win32 Process transport object now has a pid attribute (#1836)
1595 - A doc bug in the twistd plugin howto which would inevitably lead to
1596 confusion was fixed (#3183)
1597 - A regression breaking IOCP introduced after the last release was fixed
1600 Deprecations and Removals
1601 -------------------------
1603 - mktap is now fully deprecated, and will emit DeprecationWarnings when used
1608 - #3079, #3118, #3120, #3145, #3069, #3149, #3186, #3208, #2762
1611 Conch 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1612 ========================
1616 - A regression was fixed whereby the publicKeys and privateKeys attributes of
1617 SSHFactory would not be interpreted as strings (#3141)
1618 - The sshsimpleserver.py example had a minor bug fix (#3135)
1619 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1620 - An infelicity was fixed whereby a NameError would be raised in certain
1621 circumstances during authentication when a ConchError should have been
1623 - A workaround was added to conch.insults for a bug in gnome-terminal whereby
1624 it would not scroll correctly (#3189)
1627 Lore 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1628 =======================
1632 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1635 News 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1636 =======================
1640 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1643 Web 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1644 ======================
1648 - Fixed an XMLRPC bug whereby sometimes a callRemote Deferred would
1649 accidentally be fired twice when a connection was lost during the handling of
1651 - Fixed a bug in the "Using Twisted Web" document which prevented an example
1652 resource from being renderable (#3147)
1653 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1656 Words 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1657 ========================
1661 - JID objects now have a nice __repr__ (#3156)
1662 - Extending XMPP protocols is now easier (#2178)
1666 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1667 - A bug whereby one-time XMPP observers would be enabled permanently was fixed
1671 Mail 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1672 =======================
1676 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1679 Names 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1680 ========================
1684 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1687 Web2 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)
1688 =======================
1692 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
1695 Core 8.0.1 (2008-03-26)
1696 =======================
1700 - README no longer refers to obsolete trial command line option
1701 - twistd no longer causes a bizarre DeprecationWarning about mktap
1704 Core 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
1705 =======================
1710 - The IOCP reactor has had many changes and is now greatly improved
1712 - The main Twisted distribution is now easy_installable (#1286, #3110)
1713 - twistd can now profile with cProfile (#2469)
1714 - twisted.internet.defer contains a DeferredFilesystemLock which gives a
1715 Deferred interface to lock file acquisition (#2180)
1716 - twisted.python.modules is a new system for representing and manipulating
1717 module paths (i.e. sys.path) (#1951)
1718 - twisted.internet.fdesc now contains a writeToFD function, along with other
1720 - twisted.python.usage now allows optional type enforcement (#739)
1721 - The reactor now has a blockingCallFromThread method for non-reactor threads
1722 to use to wait for a reactor-scheduled call to return a result (#1042, #3030)
1723 - Exceptions raised inside of inlineCallbacks-using functions now have a
1724 better chance of coming with a meaningful traceback (#2639, #2803)
1725 - twisted.python.randbytes now contains code for generating secure random
1727 - The classes in twisted.application.internet now accept a reactor parameter
1728 for specifying the reactor to use for underlying calls to allow for better
1730 - LoopingCall now allows you to specify the reactor to use to schedule new
1731 calls, allowing much better testing techniques (#2633, #2634)
1732 - twisted.internet.task.deferLater is a new API for scheduling calls and
1733 getting deferreds which are fired with their results (#1875)
1734 - objgrep now knows how to search through deque objects (#2323)
1735 - twisted.python.log now contains a Twisted log observer which can forward
1736 messages to the Python logging system (#1351)
1737 - Log files now include seconds in the timestamps (#867)
1738 - It is now possible to limit the number of log files to create during log
1740 - The interface required by the log context system is now documented as
1741 ILoggingContext, and abstract.FileDescriptor now declares that it implements
1743 - There is now an example cred checker that uses a database via adbapi (#460)
1744 - The epoll reactor is now documented in the choosing-reactors howto (#2539)
1745 - There were improvements to the client howto (#222)
1746 - Int8Receiver was added (#2315)
1747 - Various refactorings to AMP introduced better testability and public
1748 interfaces (#2657, #2667, #2656, #2664, #2810)
1749 - twisted.protocol.policies.TrafficLoggingFactory now has a resetCounter
1751 - The FTP client can be told which port range within which to bind passive
1752 transfer ports (#1904)
1753 - twisted.protocols.memcache contains a new asynchronous memcache client
1755 - PB now supports anonymous login (#439, #2312)
1756 - twisted.spread.jelly now supports decimal objects (#2920)
1757 - twisted.spread.jelly now supports all forms of sets (#2958)
1758 - There is now an interface describing the API that process protocols must
1760 - Trial reporting to core unittest TestResult objects has been improved (#2495)
1761 - Trial's TestCase now has an addCleanup method which allows easy setup of
1762 tear-down code (#2610, #2899)
1763 - Trial's TestCase now has an assertIsInstance method (#2749)
1764 - Trial's memory footprint and speed are greatly improved (#2275)
1765 - At the end of trial runs, "PASSED" and "FAILED" messages are now colorized
1767 - Tests which leave global state around in the reactor will now fail in
1768 trial. A new option, --unclean-warnings, will convert these errors back into
1770 - Trial now has a --without-module command line for testing code in an
1771 environment that lacks a particular Python module (#1795)
1772 - Error reporting of failed assertEquals assertions now has much nicer
1774 - Trial now has methods for monkey-patching (#2598)
1775 - Trial now has an ITestCase (#2898, #1950)
1776 - The trial reporter API now has a 'done' method which is called at the end of
1778 - TestCase now has an assertWarns method which allows testing that functions
1779 emit warnings (#2626, #2703)
1780 - There are now no string exceptions in the entire Twisted code base (#2063)
1781 - There is now a system for specifying credentials checkers with a string
1787 - Some tests which were asserting the value of stderr have been changed
1788 because Python uncontrollably writes bytes to stderr (#2405)
1789 - Log files handle time zones with DST better (#2404)
1790 - Subprocesses using PTYs on OS X that are handled by Twisted will now be able
1791 to more reliably write the final bytes before they exit, allowing Twisted
1792 code to more reliably receive them (#2371, #2858)
1793 - Trial unit test reporting has been improved (#1901)
1794 - The kqueue reactor handles connection failures better (#2172)
1795 - It's now possible to run "trial foo/bar/" without an exception: trailing
1796 slashes no longer cause problems (#2005)
1797 - cred portals now better deal with implementations of inherited interfaces
1799 - FTP error handling has been improved (#1160, 1107)
1800 - Trial behaves better with respect to file locking on Windows (#2482)
1801 - The FTP server now gives a better error when STOR is attempted during an
1802 anonymous session (#1575)
1803 - Trial now behaves better with tests that use the reactor's threadpool (#1832)
1804 - twisted.python.reload now behaves better with new-style objects (#2297)
1805 - LogFile's defaultMode parameter is now better implemented, preventing
1806 potential security exploits (#2586)
1807 - A minor obscure leak in thread pools was corrected (#1134)
1808 - twisted.internet.task.Clock now returns the correct DelayedCall from
1809 callLater, instead of returning the one scheduled for the furthest in the
1811 - twisted.spread.util.FilePager no longer unnecessarily buffers data in
1812 memory (#1843, 2321)
1813 - Asking for twistd or trial to use an unavailable reactor no longer prints a
1815 - System event triggers have fewer obscure bugs (#2509)
1816 - Plugin discovery code is much better behaved, allowing multiple
1817 installations of a package with plugins (#2339, #2769)
1818 - Process and PTYProcess have been merged and some minor bugs have been fixed
1820 - The reactor has less global state (#2545)
1821 - Failure can now correctly represent and format errors caused by string
1823 - The epoll reactor now has better error handling which now avoids the bug
1824 causing 100% CPU usage in some cases (#2809)
1825 - Errors raised during trial setUp or tearDown methods are now handled better
1827 - A problem when deferred callbacks add new callbacks to the deferred that
1828 they are a callback of was fixed (#2849)
1829 - Log messages that are emitted during connectionMade now have the protocol
1830 prefix correctly set (#2813)
1831 - The string representation of a TCP Server connection now contains the actual
1832 port that it's bound to when it was configured to listen on port 0 (#2826)
1833 - There is better reporting of error codes for TCP failures on Windows (#2425)
1834 - Process spawning has been made slightly more robust by disabling garbage
1835 collection temporarily immediately after forking so that finalizers cannot
1836 be executed in an unexpected environment (#2483)
1837 - namedAny now detects import errors better (#698)
1838 - Many fixes and improvements to the twisted.python.zipstream module have
1840 - FilePager no longer blows up on empty files (#3023)
1841 - twisted.python.util.FancyEqMixin has been improved to cooperate with objects
1842 of other types (#2944)
1843 - twisted.python.FilePath.exists now restats to prevent incorrect result
1845 - twisted.python.util.mergeFunctionMetadata now also merges the __module__
1847 - It is now possible to call transport.pauseProducing within connectionMade on
1848 TCP transports without it being ignored (#1780)
1849 - twisted.python.versions now understands new SVN metadata format for fetching
1850 the SVN revision number (#3058)
1851 - It's now possible to use reactor.callWhenRunning(reactor.stop) on gtk2 and
1852 glib2 reactors (#3011)
1854 Deprecations and removals
1855 -------------------------
1856 - twisted.python.timeoutqueue is now deprecated (#2536)
1857 - twisted.enterprise.row and twisted.enterprise.reflector are now deprecated
1859 - twisted.enterprise.util is now deprecated (#3022)
1860 - The dispatch and dispatchWithCallback methods of ThreadPool are now
1862 - Starting the same reactor multiple times is now deprecated (#1785)
1863 - The visit method of various test classes in trial has been deprecated (#2897)
1864 - The --report-profile option to twistd and twisted.python.dxprofile are
1866 - The upDownError method of Trial reporters is deprecated (#2883)
1871 - #2396, #2211, #1921, #2378, #2247, #1603, #2463, #2530, #2426, #2356, #2574,
1872 - #1844, #2575, #2655, #2640, #2670, #2688, #2543, #2743, #2744, #2745, #2746,
1873 - #2742, #2741, #1730, #2831, #2216, #1192, #2848, #2767, #1220, #2727, #2643,
1874 - #2669, #2866, #2867, #1879, #2766, #2855, #2547, #2857, #2862, #1264, #2735,
1875 - #942, #2885, #2739, #2901, #2928, #2954, #2906, #2925, #2942, #2894, #2793,
1876 - #2761, #2977, #2968, #2895, #3000, #2990, #2919, #2969, #2921, #3005, #421,
1877 - #3031, #2940, #1181, #2783, #1049, #3053, #2847, #2941, #2876, #2886, #3086,
1881 Conch 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
1882 ========================
1886 - Add DEC private mode manipulation methods to ITerminalTransport. (#2403)
1890 - Parameterize the scheduler function used by the insults TopWindow widget.
1891 This change breaks backwards compatibility in the TopWindow initializer.
1893 - Notify subsystems, like SFTP, of connection close. (#2421)
1894 - Change the process file descriptor "connection lost" code to reverse the
1895 setNonBlocking operation done during initialization. (#2371)
1896 - Change ConsoleManhole to wait for connectionLost notification before
1897 stopping the reactor. (#2123, #2371)
1898 - Make SSHUserAuthServer.ssh_USERAUTH_REQUEST return a Deferred. (#2528)
1899 - Manhole's initializer calls its parent class's initializer with its
1900 namespace argument. (#2587)
1901 - Handle ^C during input line continuation in manhole by updating the prompt
1902 and line buffer correctly. (#2663)
1903 - Make twisted.conch.telnet.Telnet by default reject all attempts to enable
1905 - Reduce the number of calls into application code to deliver application-level
1906 data in twisted.conch.telnet.Telnet.dataReceived (#2107)
1907 - Fix definition and management of extended attributes in conch file transfer.
1909 - Fix parsing of OpenSSH-generated RSA keys with differing ASN.1 packing style.
1911 - Fix handling of missing $HOME in twisted.conch.client.unix. (#3061)
1915 - #2267, #2378, #2604, #2707, #2341, #2685, #2679, #2912, #2977, #2678, #2709
1919 Lore 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
1920 =======================
1924 - Change twisted.lore.tree.setIndexLin so that it removes node with index-link
1925 class when the specified index filename is None. (#812)
1926 - Fix the conversion of the list of options in man pages to Lore format.
1928 - Fix conch man pages generation. (#3075)
1929 - Fix management of the interactive command tag in man2lore. (#3076)
1936 News 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
1937 =======================
1941 - Remove all "API Stability" markers (#2847)
1944 Runner 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
1945 =========================
1949 - Remove all "API Stability" markers (#2847)
1952 Web 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
1953 ======================
1957 - Add support to twisted.web.client.getPage for the HTTP HEAD method. (#2750)
1961 - Set content-type in xmlrpc responses to "text/xml" (#2430)
1962 - Add more error checking in the xmlrpc.XMLRPC render method, and enforce
1963 POST requests. (#2505)
1964 - Reject unicode input to twisted.web.client._parse to reject invalid
1965 unicode URLs early. (#2628)
1966 - Correctly re-quote URL path segments when generating an URL string to
1967 return from Request.prePathURL. (#2934)
1968 - Make twisted.web.proxy.ProxyClientFactory close the connection when
1969 reporting a 501 error. (#1089)
1970 - Fix twisted.web.proxy.ReverseProxyResource to specify the port in the
1971 host header if different from 80. (#1117)
1972 - Change twisted.web.proxy.ReverseProxyResource so that it correctly encodes
1973 the request URI it sends on to the server for which it is a proxy. (#3013)
1974 - Make "twistd web --personal" use PBServerFactory (#2681)
1978 - #1996, #2382, #2211, #2633, #2634, #2640, #2752, #238, #2905
1981 Words 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
1982 ========================
1986 - Provide function for creating XMPP response stanzas. (#2614, #2614)
1987 - Log exceptions raised in Xish observers. (#2616)
1988 - Add 'and' and 'or' operators for Xish XPath expressions. (#2502)
1989 - Make JIDs hashable. (#2770)
1993 - Respect the hostname and servername parameters to IRCClient.register. (#1649)
1994 - Make EventDispatcher remove empty callback lists. (#1652)
1995 - Use legacy base64 API to support Python 2.3 (#2461)
1996 - Fix support of DIGEST-MD5 challenge parsing with multi-valued directives.
1998 - Fix reuse of dict of prefixes in domish.Element.toXml (#2609)
1999 - Properly process XMPP stream headers (#2615)
2000 - Use proper namespace for XMPP stream errors. (#2630)
2001 - Properly parse XMPP stream errors. (#2771)
2002 - Fix toResponse for XMPP stanzas without an id attribute. (#2773)
2003 - Move XMPP stream header procesing to authenticators. (#2772)
2007 - #2617, #2640, #2741, #2063, #2570, #2847
2010 Mail 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
2011 =======================
2015 - Support CAPABILITY responses that include atoms of the form "FOO" and
2016 "FOO=BAR" in IMAP4 (#2695)
2017 - Parameterize error handling behavior of imap4.encoder and imap4.decoder.
2022 - Handle empty passwords in SMTP auth. (#2521)
2023 - Fix IMAP4Client's parsing of literals which are not preceeded by whitespace.
2025 - Handle MX lookup suceeding without answers. (#2807)
2026 - Fix issues with aliases(5) process support. (#2729)
2030 - #2371, #2123, #2378, #739, #2640, #2746, #1917, #2266, #2864, #2832, #2063,
2034 Names 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)
2035 ========================
2040 - Refactor DNSDatagramProtocol and DNSProtocol to use same base class (#2414)
2041 - Change Resolver to query specified nameservers in specified order, instead
2042 of reverse order. (#2290)
2043 - Make SRVConnector work with bad results and NXDOMAIN responses.
2045 - Handle write errors happening in dns queries, to have correct deferred
2047 - Fix the value of OP_NOTIFY and add a definition for OP_UPDATE. (#2945)
2051 - #2685, #2936, #2581, #2847