This file contains the news files from 2008-2014.

Twisted Core 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Conch 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Lore 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Names 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted News 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Words 14.0.2 (2014-09-18)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Core 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Conch 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Lore 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Names 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted News 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

Bugfixes

  • BrowserLikePolicyForHTTPS would always ignore the specified trustRoot and use the system trust root instead, which has been rectified. (#7647)

Twisted Words 14.0.1 (2014-09-17)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Core 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Features

  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IUDPTransport - and that interface’s implementations in Twisted - now supports enabling broadcasting. (#454)
  • trial’s TestCase will now report a test method as an error if that test method is a generator function, preventing an issue when a user forgets to decorate a test method with defer.inlineCallbacks, causing the test method to not run. (#3917)
  • twisted.positioning, a new API for positioning systems such as GPS, has been added. It comes with an implementation of NMEA, the most common wire protocol for GPS devices. It will supersede twisted.protoocols.gps. (#3926)
  • The new interface twisted.internet.interfaces.IStreamClientEndpoint StringParserWithReactor will supply the reactor to its parseStreamClient method, passed along from twisted.internet.endpoints.clientFromString. (#5069)
  • IReactorUDP.listenUDP, IUDPTransport.write and IUDPTransport.connect now accept ipv6 address literals. (#5086)
  • A new API, twisted.internet.ssl.optionsForClientTLS, allows clients to specify and verify the identity of the peer they’re communicating with. When used with the service_identity library from PyPI, this provides support for service identity verification from RFC 6125, as well as server name indication from RFC 6066. (#5190)
  • Twisted’s TLS support now provides a way to ask for user-configured trust roots rather than having to manually configure such certificate authority certificates yourself. twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now accepts a new argument, trustRoot, which combines verification flags and trust sources, as well as a new function that provides a value for that argument, twisted.internet.ssl.platformTrust, which allows using the trusted platform certificate authorities from OpenSSL for certificate verification. (#5446)
  • Constants are now comparable/orderable based on the order in which they are defined. (#6523)
  • “setup.py install” and “pip install” now work on Python 3.3, installing the subset of Twisted that has been ported to Python 3. (#6539)
  • twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now supports ECDHE for servers by default on pyOpenSSL 0.14 and later, if the underlying versions of cryptography.io and OpenSSL support it. (#6586)
  • twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now allows the user to set acceptable ciphers and uses secure ones by default. (#6663)
  • The Deferred returned by twisted.internet.defer.DeferredFilesystemLock.deferUntilLocked can now be cancelled. (#6720)
  • twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now enables TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 by default (in addition to TLSv1.0) if the underlying version of OpenSSL supports these protocol versions. (#6772)
  • twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now supports Diffie-Hellman key exchange. (#6799)
  • twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now disables TLS compression to avoid CRIME attacks and, for servers, uses server preference to choose the cipher. (#6801)
  • SSL server endpoint string descriptions now support the specification of Diffie-Hellman key exchange parameter files. (#6924)
  • twisted.python.reflect.requireModule was added to handle conditional imports of python modules and work around pyflakes warnings of unused imports code. (#7014)

Bugfixes

  • If a ProcessProtocol.processExited method raised an exception a broken process handler would be left in the global process state leading to errors later on. This has been fixed and now an error will be logged instead. (#5151)
  • Twisted now builds on Solaris. Note that lacking a Buildbot slave (see http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/boxes-supported) Solaris is not a supported Twisted platform. (#5728)
  • twisted.internet.utils is now correctly installed on Python 3. (#6929)
  • twisted.python.threadpool.ThreadPool no longer starts new workers when its pool size is changed while the pool is not running. (#7011)

Improved Documentation

  • Twisted now uses the Sphinx documentation generator for its narrative documentation, which means that the source format for narrative documentation has been converted to ReStructuredText. (#4500)
  • The Sphinx documentation is now also configured to allow intersphinx links to standard library documentation. (#4582)
  • The docstring for twisted.internet.task.react now better documents the main parameter (#6071)
  • The writing standard now explicitly mandates the usage of ungendered pronouns. (#6858)

Deprecations and Removals

  • test_import.py was removed as it was redundant. (#2053)
  • Support for versions of pyOpenSSL older than 0.10 has been removed. Affected users should upgrade pyOpenSSL. (#5014)
  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IStreamClientEndpointStringParser is now deprecated in favor of twisted.internet.interfaces.IStreamClien tEndpointStringParserWithReactor. (#5069)
  • unsignedID and setIDFunction, previously part of twisted.python.util and deprecated since 13.0, have now been removed. (#6707)
  • FTPClient.changeDirectory was deprecated in 8.2 and is now removed. (#6759)
  • twisted.internet.stdio.StandardIO.closeStdin, an alias for loseWriteConnection only available on POSIX and deprecated since 2.1, has been removed. (#6785)
  • twisted.python.reflect.getcurrent is now deprecated and must not be used. twisted.python.reflect.isinst is now deprecated in favor of the built-in isinstance. (#6859)

Other

  • #1822, #5929, #6239, #6537, #6565, #6614, #6632, #6690, #6784, #6792, #6795, #6821, #6843, #6846, #6854, #6856, #6857, #6872, #6892, #6902, #6906, #6922, #6926, #6936, #6941, #6942, #6943, #6944, #6945, #6946, #6948, #6979, #7001, #7049, #7051, #7094, #7098

Twisted Conch 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Improved Documentation

  • The docstring for twisted.conch.ssh.userauth.SSHUserAuthClient is now clearer on how the preferredOrder instance variable is handled. (#6850)

Other

  • #6696, #6807, #7054

Twisted Lore 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.lore is now deprecated in favor of Sphinx. (#6907)

Other

  • #6998

Twisted Mail 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Improved Documentation

  • twisted.mail.alias now has full API documentation. (#6637)
  • twisted.mail.tap now has full API documentation. (#6648)
  • twisted.mail.maildir now has full API documentation. (#6651)
  • twisted.mail.pop3client now has full API documentation. (#6653)
  • twisted.mail.protocols now has full API documentation. (#6654)
  • twisted.mail.pop now has full API documentation. (#6666)
  • twisted.mail.relay and twisted.mail.relaymanager now have full API documentation. (#6739)
  • twisted.mail.pop3client public classes now appear as part of the twisted.mail.pop3 API. (#6761)

Other

  • #6696

Twisted Names 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Features

  • twisted.names.root.Resolver now accepts a resolverFactory argument, which makes it possible to control how root.Resolver performs iterative queries to authoritative nameservers. (#6095)
  • twisted.names.dns.Message now has a repr method which shows only those instance flags, fields and sections which are set to non- default values. (#6847)
  • twisted.names.dns.Message now support rich comparison. (#6848)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.names.server.DNSServerFactory now responds with messages whose flags and fields are reset to their default values instead of copying these from the request. This means that AD and CD flags, and EDNS OPT records in the request are no longer mirrored back to the client. (#6645)

Improved Documentation

  • twisted.names now has narrative documentation showing how to create a custom DNS server. (#6864)
  • twisted.names.server now has full API documentation. (#6886)
  • twisted.names now has narrative documentation explaining how to use its client APIs. (#6925)
  • twisted.names now has narrative documentation and examples showing how to perform reverse DNS lookups. (#6969)

Other

  • #5675, #6222, #6672, #6696, #6887, #6940, #6975, #6990

Twisted News 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #6991

Twisted Pair 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Features

  • twisted.pair.tuntap now has complete test coverage, basic documentation, and works without the difficult-to-find system bindings it used to require. (#6169)

Other

  • #6898, #6931, #6993

Twisted Runner 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #6992

Twisted Web 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Features

  • twisted.web.http.proxiedLogFormatter can now be used with twisted.web.http.HTTPFactory (and subclasses) to record X -Forwarded-For values to the access log when the HTTP server is deployed behind a reverse proxy. (#1468)
  • twisted.web.client.Agent now uses twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions for SSL/TLS and benefits from its continuous improvements. (#6893)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.client.Agent now correctly manage flow-control on pooled connections, and therefore requests will no longer hang sometimes when deliverBody is not called synchronously within the callback on Request. (#6751)
  • twisted.web.client.Agent now verifies that the provided server certificate in a TLS connection is trusted by the platform. (#7042)
  • When requesting an HTTPS URL with twisted.web.client.Agent, the hostname of the presented certificate will be checked against the requested hostname; mismatches will now result in an error rather than a man-in-the-middle opportunity for attackers. This may break existing code that incorrectly depended on insecure behavior, but such code was erroneous and should be updated. (#4888)

Other

  • #5004, #6881, #6956

Twisted Words 14.0.0 (2014-05-08)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.words.protocols.jabber.sasl_mechansisms.DigestMD5 now works with unicode arguments. (#5066)

Other

  • #6696

Twisted Core 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

Features

  • twistd now waits for the application to start successfully before exiting after daemonization. (#823)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints now provides HostnameEndpoint, a TCP client endpoint that connects to a hostname as quickly as possible. (#4859)
  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorSocket now has a new adoptDatagramPort method which is implemented by some reactors allowing them to listen on UDP sockets set up by external software (eg systemd or launchd). (#5574)
  • trial now accepts an –order option that specifies what order to run TestCase methods in. (#5787)
  • Port twisted.python.lockfile to Python 3, enabling twisted.python.defer.DeferredFilesystemLock and tests. (#5960)
  • Returning a Deferred from a callback that’s directly returned from that Deferred will now produce a DeprecationWarning, to notify users of the buggy behavior. (#6164)
  • SSL server endpoint string descriptions now support the specification of chain certificates. (#6499)
  • twisted.application.reactors.installReactor now returns the just- installed reactor. (#6596)
  • twisted.internet.defer.DeferredList now has a new cancel method. And twisted.internet.defer.gatherResults now returns a cancellable result. (#6639)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.protocols.basic.LineReceiver no longer passes incorrect data (a buffer missing a delimiter) to lineLengthExceeded in certain cases. (#6536)
  • twisted.cred.digest.DigestCredentialFactory now supports decoding challenge responses with field values including “,”. (#6609)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints.TCP6ClientEndpoint now establishes connections when constructed with a hostname. (#6633)
  • twisted.application.internet.TimerService is now pickleable in all cases. (#6657)

Improved Documentation

  • The howto document page of Deferred now has documentation about cancellation. (#4320)
  • Docstrings for twisted.internet.task.Cooperator and cooperate. (#6213)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Returning a Deferred from a callback that’s directly returned from that Deferred will now produce a DeprecationWarning, to notify users of the buggy behavior. (#6164)
  • Accessor, AccessorType, OriginalAccessor, PropertyAccessor, Settable and Summer in twisted.python.reflect, deprecated since Twisted 12.1.0, are now removed. (#6689)

Other

  • #5001, #5312, #5387, #5442, #5634, #6221, #6393, #6406, #6485, #6570, #6575, #6610, #6674, #6684, #6685, #6715, #6729, #6731, #6736, #6773, #6788, #6793

Twisted Conch 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

Features

  • ckeygen now accepts –no-passphrase to generate unprotected keys. (#5998)
  • twisted.conch.endpoints.SSHCommandClientEndpoint.newConnection now supplies a convenient default for the ui parameter if a value is not passed in for it. (#6550)

Bugfixes

  • ckeygen –changepass now doesn’t delete unencrypted keys or raise an exception on encrypted ones. (#5894)
  • twisted.conch.endpoints.SSHCommandClientEndpoint now doesn’t try password authentication if there is no password specified. (#6553)
  • twisted.conch.endpoints.SSHCommandClientEndpoint now uses the standard SSH port if no port is specified. (#6631)

Other

  • #5387, #6220

Twisted Lore 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #6546

Twisted Mail 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

Features

  • twisted.mail.smtp.sendmail now returns a cancellable Deferred. (#6572)

Improved Documentation

  • twisted.mail.mail now has full API documentation. (#6649)
  • twisted.mail.bounce now has full API documentation. (#6652)

Other

  • #5387, #6486

Twisted Names 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

Features

  • twisted.names.authority.FileAuthority now considers any AAAA it knows about for inclusion in the additional section of a response (following the same logic previously used for including A records there). (#6642)
  • twisted.names.dns.Message now allows encoding and decoding of the Authentic Data (AD) and Checking Disabled (CD) flags described in RFC2535. (#6680)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.names.resolve.ResolverChain now returns a twisted.names.error.DomainError failure if its resolvers list is empty. (#5992)
  • twisted.names.authority.FileAuthority now only returns AuthoritativeDomainError (NXDOMAIN) for names which are subdomains. (#6475)
  • The Deferred returned by twisted.names.client.Resolver.queryTCP now fires with an error if the TCP connection attempt fails. (#6658)

Improved Documentation

  • Use zope.interface.moduleProvides to allow pydoctor to properly document the twisted.names.client.lookup* functions. (#6328)

Other

  • #5387, #5668, #6563, #6655

Twisted News 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

Features

  • IAgent has been added to twisted.web.iweb to explicitly define the interface implemented by the various “Agent” classes in twisted.web.client. (#6702)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.client.Response.deliverBody now calls connectionLost on the body protocol for responses with no body (such as 204, 304, and HEAD requests). (#5476)
  • twisted.web.static.loadMimeTypes now uses all available system MIME types. (#5717)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Two attributes of twisted.web.iweb.IRequest, headers and received_headers, are now deprecated. (#6704)

Other

  • #5387, #6119, #6121, #6695, #6701, #6734

Twisted Words 13.2.0 (2013-10-29)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.words.service.IRCUser now properly reports an error, in response to NICK commands with non-UTF8 and non-ASCII symbols. (#5780)

Other

  • #5329, #5387, #6544

Twisted Core 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

Features

  • trial now has an –exitfirst flag which stops the test run after the first error or failure. (#1518)
  • twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now supports chain certificates. (#2061)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints now provides ProcessEndpoint, a child process endpoint. (#4696)
  • Factory now has a forProtocol classmethod that constructs an instance and sets its protocol attribute. (#5016)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints.connectProtocol allows connecting to a client endpoint using only a protocol instance, rather than requiring a factory. (#5270)
  • twisted.trial.unittest.SynchronousTestCase.assertNoResult no longer swallows the result, if the assertion succeeds. (#6291)
  • twisted.python.constants.FlagConstant implements __iter__ so that it can be iterated upon to find the flags that went into a flag set, and implements __nonzero__ to test as false when empty. (#6302)
  • assertIs and assertIsNot have now been added to twisted.trial.unittest.TestCase. (#6350)
  • twisted.trial.unittest.TestCase.failureResultOf now takes an optional expected failure type argument. (#6380)
  • The POSIX implementation of twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorProcess now does not change the parent process UID or GID in order to run child processes with a different UID or GID. (#6443)

Bugfixes

  • self.transport.resumeProducing() will no longer raise an AssertionError if called after self.transport.loseConnection() (#986)
  • twisted.protocols.ftp.FTP now supports IFTPShell implementations which return non-ASCII filenames as unicode strings. (#5411)
  • twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions now disables SSLv2 if SSLv23 is selected, allowing only SSLv3 and TLSv1. (#6337)
  • trial dist support now gets sys.path from an environment variable passed to it. (#6390)
  • twisted.test.proto_helpers.StringTransportWithDisconnection now correctly passes Failure instead of an exception to connectionLost through loseConnection. (#6521)

Improved Documentation

  • The Application howto now provides an example of writing a custom Service. (#5586)
  • The -j flag to trial (introduced in 12.3.0) is now documented. (#5994)
  • The SSL howto now covers twisted.internet.ssl.CertificateOptions instead of the older context factories it replaces. (#6273)
  • The Constants HOWTO documents iteration and truth testing of flags, as well as previously undocumented boolean operations. (#6302)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.trial.runner.suiteVisit and PyUnitTestCase as well as visitor methods, all deprecated since Twisted 8.0, have been removed. (#3231)
  • twisted.python._epoll bindings were removed; the epoll reactor now uses the stdlib-provided epoll support. (#5847)
  • The deprecated LENGTH, DATA, COMMA, and NUMBER NetstringReceiver parser state attributes in t.protocols.basic are removed now. (#6321)
  • twisted.trial.runner.DryRunVisitor is now deprecated. Trial uses a different method to handle –dry-run now. (#6333)
  • twisted.python.hashlib is now deprecated in favor of hashlib from stdlib. (#6342)
  • twisted.web.server’s Session.loopFactory, lifetime parameter of Session.startCheckingExpiration and Session.checkExpired attributes, deprecated since Twisted 9.0, have been removed. (#6514)

Other

  • #2380, #5197, #5228, #5386, #5459, #5578, #5801, #5952, #5955, #5981, #6051, #6189, #6228, #6240, #6284, #6286, #6299, #6316, #6353, #6354, #6368, #6377, #6378, #6381, #6389, #6400, #6403, #6407, #6416, #6417, #6418, #6419, #6430, #6433, #6438, #6439, #6440, #6441, #6444, #6459, #6465, #6468, #6477, #6480, #6498, #6508, #6510, #6525

Twisted Conch 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

Features

  • twisted.conch.endpoints.SSHCommandClientEndpoint is a new IStreamClientEndpoint which supports connecting a protocol to the stdio of a command running on a remote host via an SSH connection. (#4698)
  • twisted.conch.client.knownhosts.KnownHostsFile now has a public savePath attribute giving the filesystem path where the known hosts data is saved to and loaded from. (#6255)
  • twisted.conch.endpoints.SSHCommandClientEndpoint.connect() returns a cancellable Deferred when using new connections. (#6532)

Other

  • #5386, #6342, #6386, #6405, #6541

Twisted Lore 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.lore.lint.parserErrors is deprecated now. (#5386)

Twisted Mail 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.mail.smtp.ESMTPClient no longer tries to use a STARTTLS capability offered by a server after TLS has already been negotiated. (#6524)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.mail.IDomain.startMessage, deprecated since 2003, is removed now. (#4151)

Other

  • #6342

Twisted Names 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #3908, #6381

Twisted News 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #6342

Twisted Pair 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

Features

  • The deferred returned by twisted.web.client.Agent.request can now be cancelled. (#4330)
  • twisted.web.client.BrowserLikeRedirectAgent, a new redirect agent, treats HTTP 301 and 302 like HTTP 303 on non-HEAD/GET requests, changing the method to GET before proceeding. (#5434)
  • The new attribute twisted.web.iweb.IResponse.request is a reference to a provider of the new twisted.web.iweb.IClientRequest interface which, among other things, provides a way to access the request’s absolute URI. It is now also possible to inspect redirect history with twisted.web.iweb.IResponse.previousResponse. (#5435)
  • twisted.web.client.RedirectAgent now supports relative URI references in the Location HTTP header. (#5462)
  • twisted.web.client now provides readBody to collect the body of a response from Agent into a string. (#6251)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.QueryProtocol now generates valid Authorization headers for long user names and passwords. (#2980)

Other

  • #6122, #6153, #6342, #6381, #6391, #6503

Twisted Words 13.1.0 (2013-06-23)

Features

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.assembleFormattedText flattens a formatting structure into mIRC-formatted markup; conversely twisted.words.protocols.irc.stripFormatting removes all mIRC formatting from text. (#3844)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The crippled attribute in twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmpp_stringprep is deprecated now. (#5386)

Other

  • #6315, #6342, #6392, #6402, #6479, #6481, #6482

Twisted Core 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

Features

  • The twisted.protocols.ftp.FTP server now treats “LIST -La”, “LIST -al”, and all other combinations of ordering and case of the “-l” and “-a” flags the same: by ignoring them rather than treating them as a pathname. (#1333)
  • twisted.python.log.FileLogObserver now uses datetime.strftime to format timestamps, adding support for microseconds and timezone offsets to the timeFormat string. (#3513)
  • trial now deterministically runs tests in the order in which they were specified on the command line, instead of quasi-randomly according to dictionary key ordering. (#5520)
  • Cooperator.running can be used to determine the current cooperator status. (#5937)
  • twisted.python.modules.PythonPath now implements __contains__ to allow checking, by name, whether a particular module exists within it. (#6198)
  • twisted.application.internet.TimerService.stopService now waits for any currently running call to finish before firing its deferred. (#6290)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.protocols.ftp.FTP now recognizes all glob expressions supported by fnmatch. (#4181)
  • Constant values defined using twisted.python.constants can now be set as attributes of other classes without triggering an unhandled AttributeError from the constants implementation. (#5797)
  • Fixed problem where twisted.names.client.Resolver was not closing open file handles which can lead to an out of file descriptor error on PyPy. (#6216)
  • All reactors included in Twisted itself now gracefully handle a rare case involving delayed calls scheduled very far in the future. (#6259)
  • twisted.trial.reporter.Reporter._trimFrames correctly removes frames from twisted.internet.utils.runWithWarningsSuppressed again, after being broke in #6009. (#6282)

Improved Documentation

  • A new “Deploying Twisted with systemd” howto document which demonstrates how to start a Twisted service using systemd socket activation. (#5601)
  • New “Introduction to Deferreds” howto. Old howto rebranded as reference documentation. (#6180)
  • “Components: Interfaces and Adapters” howto now uses zope.interface’s decorator-based API. (#6269)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.python.util.unsignedID and setIDFunction are deprecated now. (#5544)
  • twisted.python.zshcomp deprecated since 11.1.0 has now been removed. Shell tab-completion is now handled by twisted.python.usage. (#5767)
  • python.runtime.Platform.isWinNT is deprecated now. Use Platform.isWindows instead. (#5925)
  • twisted.trial.util.findObject, deprecated since Twisted 10.1.0, has been removed. (#6260)

Other

  • #2915, #4009, #4315, #5909, #5918, #5953, #6026, #6046, #6165, #6201, #6207, #6208, #6211, #6235, #6236, #6247, #6265, #6272, #6288, #6297, #6309, #6322, #6323, #6324, #6327, #6332, #6338, #6349

Twisted Conch 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

Features

  • twisted.conch.client.knownhosts.KnownHostsFile now takes care not to overwrite changes to its save file made behind its back, making it safer to use with the same known_hosts file as is being used by other software. (#6256)

Other

  • #5864, #6257, #6297

Twisted Lore 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.mail.smtp.ESMTPClient no longer attempts to negotiate a TLS session if transport security has been requested and the protocol is already running on a TLS connection. (#3989)
  • twisted.mail.imap4.Query now filters illegal characters from the values of KEYWORD and UNKEYWORD and also emits them without adding quotes (which are also illegal). (#4392)
  • twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client can now interpret the BODY response for multipart/* messages with parts which are also multipart/*. (#4631)

Deprecations and Removals

  • tlsMode attribute of twisted.mail.smtp.ESMTPClient is deprecated. (#5852)

Other

  • #6218, #6297

Twisted Names 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

Features

  • twisted.names.dns.Name and twisted.names.srvconnect.SRVConnector now support unicode domain names, automatically converting using the idna encoding. (#6245)

Improved Documentation

  • The API documentation for IResolver and its implementations has been updated and consolidated in twisted.internet.interfaces.IResolver. (#4685)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The retry, Resolver.discoveredAuthority, lookupNameservers, lookupAddress, extractAuthority, and discoverAuthority APIs in twisted.names.root have been deprecated since 10.0 and have been removed. (#5564)

Other

  • #5596, #6246, #6297

Twisted News 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #5740

Twisted Web 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.template now properly quotes attribute values, including Tag instances serialized within attribute values. (#6275)

Other

  • #6167, #6297, #6326

Twisted Words 13.0.0 (2013-03-19)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.words.im.ircsupport no longer logs a failure whenever receiving ISUPPORT messages from an IRC server. (#6263)

Other

  • #6297

Twisted Core 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

Features

  • The new -j flag to trial provides a trial runner supporting multiple worker processes on the local machine, for parallel testing. (#1784)
  • twisted.internet.task.react, a new function, provides a simple API for running the reactor until a single asynchronous function completes. (#3270)
  • twisted.protocols.ftp.FTP now handles FEAT and OPTS commands. (#4515)
  • trial now supports specifying a debugger other than pdb with the –debugger command line flag. (#5794)
  • twisted.python.util.runWithWarningsSuppressed has been added; it runs a function with specified warning filters. (#5950)
  • trial’s skipping feature is now implemented in a way compatible with the standard library unittest’s runner. (#6006)
  • The setup3.py script is now provided to provisionally support building and installing an experimental, incomplete version of Twisted in a Python 3 environment. (#6040)
  • twisted.python.util.FancyStrMixin now supports arbitrary callables to format attribute values. (#6063)
  • Several new methods of twisted.trial.unittest.SynchronousTestCase - successResultOf, failureResultOf, and assertNoResult - have been added to make testing Deferred-using code easier. (#6105)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.protocols.basic.LineReceiver now does not hit the maximum stack recursion depth when the line and data mode is switched many times. (#3050)
  • twisted.protocols.ftp.FTPFileListProtocol fixed to support files with space characters in their name. (#4986)
  • gireactor and gtk3reactor no longer prevent gi.pygtkcompat from working, and likewise can load if gi.pygtkcompat has previously been enabled. (#5676)
  • gtk2reactor now works again on FreeBSD, and perhaps other platforms that were broken by gi interactions. (#5737)
  • gireactor now works with certain older versions of gi that are missing the threads_init() function. (#5790)
  • Fixed a bug where twisted.python.sendmsg would sometimes fail with obscure errors including “Message too long” or “Invalid argument” on some 64-bit platforms. (#5867)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints.TCP6ClientEndpoint now provides twisted.internet.interfaces.IStreamClientEndpoint (#5876)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints.AdoptedStreamServerEndpoint now provides twisted.internet.interfaces.IStreamServerEndpoint. (#5878)
  • Spawning subprocesses with PTYs now works on OS X 10.8. (#5880)
  • twisted.internet.test.test_sigchld no longer incorrectly fails when run after certain other tests. (#6161)
  • twisted.internet.test.test_gireactor no longer fails when using pygobject 3.4 and gtk 3.6 when X11 is unavailable. (#6170)
  • twisted/python/sendmsg.c no longer fails to build on OpenBSD. (#5907)

Improved Documentation

  • The endpoint howto now lists TCP IPv6 server endpoint in the list of endpoints included with Twisted. (#5741)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The minimum required version of zope.interface is now 3.6.0. (#5683)
  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorArbitrary and twisted.application.internet.GenericServer and GenericClient, deprecated since Twisted 10.1, have been removed. (#5943)
  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IFinishableConsumer, deprecated since Twisted 11.1, has been removed. (#5944)
  • twisted.python.failure has removed all support for string exceptions. (#5948)
  • assertTrue, assertEqual, and the other free-functions in twisted.trial.unittest for writing assertions, deprecated since prior to Twisted 2.3, have been removed. (#5963)
  • Ports, connectors, wakers and other reactor-related types no longer log a nice warning when they are erroneously pickled. Pickling of such objects continues to be unsupported. (#5979)
  • twisted.python.components.Componentized no longer inherits from Versioned. (#5983)
  • twisted.protocols.basic.NetstringReceiver.sendString no longer accepts objects other than bytes; the removed behavior was deprecated in Twisted 10.0. (#6025)
  • The lookupRecord method of twisted.internet.interfaces.IResolver, never implemented or called by Twisted, has been removed. (#6091)

Other

  • #4286, #4920, #5627, #5785, #5860, #5865, #5873, #5874, #5877, #5879, #5884, #5885, #5886, #5891, #5896, #5897, #5899, #5900, #5901, #5903, #5906, #5908, #5912, #5913, #5914, #5916, #5917, #5931, #5932, #5933, #5934, #5935, #5939, #5942, #5947, #5956, #5959, #5967, #5969, #5970, #5972, #5973, #5974, #5975, #5980, #5985, #5986, #5990, #5995, #6002, #6003, #6005, #6007, #6009, #6010, #6018, #6019, #6022, #6023, #6033, #6036, #6039, #6041, #6043, #6052, #6053, #6054, #6055, #6060, #6061, #6065, #6067, #6068, #6069, #6084, #6087, #6088, #6097, #6099, #6100, #6103, #6109, #6114, #6139, #6140, #6141, #6142, #6157, #6158, #6159, #6163, #6172, #6182, #6190, #6194, #6204, #6209

Twisted Conch 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

Bugfixes

  • Passing multiple –auth arguments to conch now correctly adds all the specified checkers to the conch server (#5881)
  • ckeygen –showpub now uses OPENSSH as default display, instead of breaking because no display type was passed. (#5889)
  • ckeygen –showpub catches EncryptedKeyError instead of BadKeyError to detect that a key needs to be decrypted with a passphrase. (#5890)

Other

  • #5923

Twisted Lore 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.mail.imap4._FetchParser now raises IllegalClientResponse(“Invalid Argument”) when protocol encounters extra bytes at the end of a valid FETCH command. (#4000)

Improved Documentation

  • twisted.mail.tap now documents example usage in its longdesc output for the ‘mail’ plugin (#5922)

Other

  • #3751

Twisted Names 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The protocol attribute of twisted.names.client.Resolver, deprecated since Twisted 8.2, has been removed. (#6045)
  • twisted.names.hosts.Resolver is no longer a twisted.persisted.styles.Versioned subclass. (#6092)

Other

  • #5594, #6056, #6057, #6058, #6059, #6093

Twisted News 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

Features

  • twisted.web.server.Site now supports an encoders argument to encode request content, twisted.web.server.GzipEncoderFactory being the first one provided. (#104)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.http.HTTPChannel.headerReceived now catches the error if the Content-Length header is not an integer and return a 400 Bad Request response. (#6029)
  • twisted.web.http.HTTPChannel now drops the connection and issues a 400 error upon receipt of a chunk-encoding encoded request with a bad chunk-length field. (#6030)

Improved Documentation

  • twisted.web.iweb.IRequest now documents its content attribute and a new “web in 60 seconds” howto demonstrates its use. (#6181)

Other

  • #5882, #5883, #5887, #5920, #6031, #6077, #6078, #6079, #6080, #6110, #6113, #6196, #6205

Twisted Words 12.3.0 (2012-12-20)

Improved Documentation

  • The Twisted Words code examples now documents inside each example description on how to run it. (#5589)

Twisted Core 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

Starting with the release after 12.2, Twisted will begin requiring zope.interface 3.6 (as part of Python 3 support).

This is the last Twisted release supporting Python 2.6 on Windows.

Features

  • twisted.protocols.sip.MessageParser now handles multiline headers. (#2198)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints now provides StandardIOEndpoint, a Standard I/O endpoint. (#4697)
  • If a FTPCmdError occurs during twisted.protocols.ftp.FTP.ftp_RETR sending the file (i.e. it is raised by the IReadFile.send method it invokes), then it will use that to return an error to the client rather than necessarily sending a 426 CNX_CLOSED_TXFR_ABORTED error. (#4913)
  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorSocket.adoptStreamConnection is implemented by some reactors as a way to add an existing established connection to them. (#5570)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints now provides TCP6ServerEndpoint, an IPv6 TCP server endpoint. (#5694)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints now provides TCP6ClientEndpoint, an IPv6 TCP client endpoint. (#5695)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints.serverFromString, the endpoint string description feature, can now be used to create IPv6 TCP servers. (#5699)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints.serverFromString, the endpoint string description feature, can now be used to create servers that run on Standard I/O. (#5729)
  • twisted.trial.unittest now offers SynchronousTestCase, a test case base class that provides usability improvements but not reactor- based testing features. (#5853)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.internet.Process.signalProcess now catches ESRCH raised by os.kill call and raises ProcessExitedAlready instead. (#2420)
  • TLSMemoryBIOProtocol (and therefore all SSL transports if pyOpenSSL >= 0.10) now provides the interfaces already provided by the underlying transport. (#5182)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Python 2.5 is no longer supported. (#5553)
  • The –extra option of trial, deprecated since 11.0, is removed now. (#3374)
  • addPluginDir and getPluginDirs in twisted.python.util are deprecated now. (#4533)
  • twisted.trial.runner.DocTestCase, deprecated in Twisted 8.0, has been removed. (#5554)
  • startKeepingErrors, flushErrors, ignoreErrors, and clearIgnores in twisted.python.log (deprecated since Twisted 2.5) are removed now. (#5765)
  • unzip, unzipIter, and countZipFileEntries in twisted.python.zipstream (deprecated in Twisted 11.0) are removed now. (#5766)
  • twisted.test.time_helpers, deprecated since Twisted 10.0, has been removed. (#5820)

Other

  • #4244, #4532, #4930, #4999, #5129, #5138, #5385, #5521, #5655, #5674, #5679, #5687, #5688, #5689, #5692, #5707, #5734, #5736, #5745, #5746, #5747, #5749, #5784, #5816, #5817, #5818, #5819, #5830, #5857, #5858, #5859, #5869, #5632

Twisted Conch 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

Features

  • twisted.conch.ssh.transport.SSHTransport now returns an SSHTransportAddress from the getPeer() and getHost() methods. (#2997)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.conch now supports commercial SSH implementations which don’t comply with the IETF standard (#1902)
  • twisted.conch.ssh.userauth now works correctly with hash randomization enabled. (#5776)
  • twisted.conch no longer relies on __builtins__ being a dict, which is a purely CPython implementation detail (#5779)

Other

  • #5496, #5617, #5700, #5748, #5777

Twisted Lore 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server will now generate an error response when it receives an illegal SEARCH term from a client. (#4080)
  • twisted.mail.imap4 now serves BODYSTRUCTURE responses which provide more information and conform to the IMAP4 RFC more closely. (#5763)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.mail.protocols.SSLContextFactory is now deprecated. (#4963)
  • The –passwordfile option to twistd mail is now removed. (#5541)

Other

  • #5697, #5750, #5751, #5783

Twisted Names 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

Features

  • twisted.names.srvconnect.SRVConnector now takes a default port to use when SRV lookup fails. (#3456)

Other

  • #5647

Twisted News 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.web.static.FileTransfer, deprecated since 9.0, is removed now. Use a subclass of StaticProducer instead. (#5651)
  • ErrorPage, NoResource and ForbiddenResource in twisted.web.error were deprecated since 9.0 and are removed now. (#5659)
  • twisted.web.google, deprecated since Twisted 11.1, is removed now. (#5768)

Other

  • #5665

Twisted Words 12.2.0 (2012-08-26)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #5752, #5753

Twisted Core 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)

Features

  • 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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #5555, #5595

Twisted Core 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

Features

  • The interface argument to IReactorTCP.listenTCP may now be an IPv6 address literal, allowing the creation of IPv6 TCP servers. (#5084)
  • twisted.python.constants.Names now provides a way to define collections of named constants, similar to the “enum type” feature of C or Java. (#5382)
  • twisted.python.constants.Values now provides a way to define collections of named constants with arbitrary values. (#5383)

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an obscure case where connectionLost wasn’t called on the protocol when using half-close. (#3037)
  • UDP ports handle socket errors better on Windows. (#3396)
  • When idle, the gtk2 and glib2 reactors no longer wake up 10 times a second. (#4376)
  • Prevent a rare situation involving TLS transports, where a producer may be erroneously left unpaused. (#5347)
  • twisted.internet.iocpreactor.iocpsupport now has fewer 64-bit compile warnings. (#5373)
  • The GTK2 reactor is now more responsive on Windows. (#5396)
  • TLS transports now correctly handle producer registration after the connection has been lost. (#5439)
  • twisted.protocols.htb.Bucket now empties properly with a non-zero drip rate. (#5448)
  • IReactorSSL and ITCPTransport.startTLS now synchronously propagate errors from the getContext method of context factories, instead of being capturing them and logging them as unhandled. (#5449)

Improved Documentation

  • The multicast documentation has been expanded. (#4262)
  • twisted.internet.defer.Deferred now documents more return values. (#5399)
  • Show a better starting page at http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current (#5429)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Remove the deprecated module twisted.enterprise.reflector. (#4108)
  • Removed the deprecated module twisted.enterprise.row. (#4109)
  • Remove the deprecated module twisted.enterprise.sqlreflector. (#4110)
  • Removed the deprecated module twisted.enterprise.util, as well as twisted.enterprise.adbapi.safe. (#4111)
  • Python 2.4 is no longer supported on any platform. (#5060)
  • Removed printTraceback and noOperation from twisted.spread.pb, deprecated since Twisted 8.2. (#5370)

Other

  • #1712, #2725, #5284, #5325, #5331, #5362, #5364, #5371, #5407, #5427, #5430, #5431, #5440, #5441

Twisted Conch 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

Features

  • use Python shadow module for authentication if it’s available (#3242)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.conch.ssh.transport.messages no longer ends with with old message IDs on platforms with differing dict() orderings (#5352)

Other

  • #5225

Twisted Lore 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Names 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.names.dns.Message now sets the auth flag on RRHeader instances it creates to reflect the authority of the message itself. (#5421)

Twisted News 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

Features

  • twisted.web.util.redirectTo now raises TypeError if the URL passed to it is a unicode string instead of a byte string. (#5236)
  • The new class twisted.web.template.CharRef provides support for inserting numeric character references in output generated by twisted.web.template. (#5408)

Improved Documentation

  • The Twisted Web howto now has a section on proxies and reverse proxies. (#399)
  • The web client howto now covers ContentDecoderAgent and links to an example of its use. (#5415)

Other

  • #5404, #5438

Twisted Words 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)

Improved Documentation

  • twisted.words.im.basechat now has improved API documentation. (#2458)

Other

  • #5401

Twisted Core 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

Features

  • TCP and TLS transports now support abortConnection() which, unlike loseConnection(), always closes the connection immediately. (#78)
  • Failures received over PB when tracebacks are disabled now display the wrapped exception value when they are printed. (#581)
  • twistd now has a –logger option, allowing the use of custom log observers. (#638)
  • The default reactor is now poll(2) on platforms that support it. (#2234)
  • twisted.internet.defer.inlineCallbacks(f) now raises TypeError when f returns something other than a generator or uses returnValue as a non-generator. (#2501)
  • twisted.python.usage.Options now supports performing Zsh tab- completion on demand. Tab-completion for Twisted commands is supported out-of-the-box on any recent zsh release. Third-party commands may take advantage of zsh completion by copying the provided stub file. (#3078)
  • twisted.protocols.portforward now uses flow control between its client and server connections to avoid having to buffer an unbounded amount of data when one connection is slower than the other. (#3350)
  • On Windows, the select, IOCP, and Gtk2 reactors now implement IReactorWin32Events (most notably adding support for serial ports to these reactors). (#4862)
  • twisted.python.failure.Failure no longer captures the state of locals and globals of all stack frames by default, because it is expensive to do and rarely used. You can pass captureVars=True to Failure’s constructor if you want to capture this data. (#5011)
  • twisted.web.client now supports automatic content-decoding via twisted.web.client.ContentDecoderAgent, gzip being supported for now. (#5053)
  • Protocols may now implement ILoggingContext to customize their logging prefix. twisted.protocols.policies.ProtocolWrapper and the endpoints wrapper now take advantage of this feature to ensure the application protocol is still reflected in logs. (#5062)
  • AMP’s raw message-parsing performance was increased by approximately 12%. (#5075)
  • Twisted is now installable on PyPy, because some incompatible C extensions are no longer built. (#5158)
  • twisted.internet.defer.gatherResults now accepts a consumeErrors parameter, with the same meaning as the corresponding argument for DeferredList. (#5159)
  • Added RMD (remove directory) support to the FTP client. (#5259)
  • Server factories may now implement ILoggingContext to customize the name that is logged when the reactor uses one to start listening on a port. (#5292)
  • The implementations of ITransport.writeSequence will now raise TypeError if passed unicode strings. (#3896)
  • iocp reactor now operates correctly on 64 bit Python runtimes. (#4669)
  • twistd ftp now supports the cred plugin. (#4752)
  • twisted.python.filepath.FilePath now has an API to retrieve the permissions of the underlying file, and two methods to determine whether it is a block device or a socket. (#4813)
  • twisted.trial.unittest.TestCase is now compatible with Python 2.7’s assertDictEqual method. (#5291)

Bugfixes

  • The IOCP reactor now does not try to erroneously pause non- streaming producers. (#745)
  • Unicode print statements no longer blow up when using Twisted’s logging system. (#1990)
  • Process transports on Windows now support the writeToChild method (but only for stdin). (#2838)
  • Zsh tab-completion of Twisted commands no longer relies on statically generated files, but instead generates results on-the- fly - ensuring accurate tab-completion for the version of Twisted actually in use. (#3078)
  • LogPublishers don’t use the global log publisher for reporting broken observers anymore. (#3307)
  • trial and twistd now add the current directory to sys.path even when running as root or on Windows. mktap, tapconvert, and pyhtmlizer no longer add the current directory to sys.path. (#3526)
  • twisted.internet.win32eventreactor now stops immediately if reactor.stop() is called from an IWriteDescriptor.doWrite implementation instead of delaying shutdown for an arbitrary period of time. (#3824)
  • twisted.python.log now handles RuntimeErrors more gracefully, and always restores log observers after an exception is raised. (#4379)
  • twisted.spread now supports updating new-style RemoteCache instances. (#4447)
  • twisted.spread.pb.CopiedFailure will no longer be thrown into a generator as a (deprecated) string exception but as a twisted.spread.pb.RemoteException. (#4520)
  • trial now gracefully handles the presence of objects in sys.modules which respond to attributes being set on them by modifying sys.modules. (#4748)
  • twisted.python.deprecate.deprecatedModuleAttribute no longer spuriously warns twice when used to deprecate a module within a package. This should make it easier to write unit tests for deprecated modules. (#4806)
  • When pyOpenSSL 0.10 or newer is available, SSL support now uses Twisted for all I/O and only relies on OpenSSL for cryptography, avoiding a number of tricky, potentially broken edge cases. (#4854)
  • IStreamClientEndpointStringParser.parseStreamClient now correctly describes how it will be called by clientFromString (#4956)
  • twisted.internet.defer.Deferreds are 10 times faster at handling exceptions raised from callbacks, except when setDebugging(True) has been called. (#5011)
  • twisted.python.filepath.FilePath.copyTo now raises OSError(ENOENT) if the source path being copied does not exist. (#5017)
  • twisted.python.modules now supports iterating over namespace packages without yielding duplicates. (#5030)
  • reactor.spawnProcess now uses the resource module to guess the maximum possible open file descriptor when /dev/fd exists but gives incorrect results. (#5052)
  • The memory BIO TLS/SSL implementation now supports producers correctly. (#5063)
  • twisted.spread.pb.Broker no longer creates an uncollectable reference cycle when the logout callback holds a reference to the client mind object. (#5079)
  • twisted.protocols.tls, and SSL/TLS support in general, now do clean TLS close alerts when disconnecting. (#5118)
  • twisted.persisted.styles no longer uses the deprecated allYourBase function (#5193)
  • Stream client endpoints now start (doStart) and stop (doStop) the factory passed to the connect method, instead of a different implementation-detail factory. (#5278)
  • SSL ports now consistently report themselves as SSL rather than TCP when logging their close message. (#5292)
  • Serial ports now deliver connectionLost to the protocol when closed. (#3690)
  • win32eventreactor now behaves better in certain rare cases in which it previously would have failed to deliver connection lost notification to a protocol. (#5233)

Improved Documentation

  • Test driven development with Twisted and Trial is now documented in a how-to. (#2443)
  • A new howto-style document covering twisted.protocols.amp has been added. (#3476)
  • Added sample implementation of a Twisted push producer/consumer system. (#3835)
  • The “Deferred in Depth” tutorial now includes accurate output for the deferred_ex2.py example. (#3941)
  • The server howto now covers the Factory.buildProtocol method. (#4761)
  • The testing standard and the trial tutorial now recommend the assertEqual form of assertions rather than the assertEquals to coincide with the standard library unittest’s preference. (#4989)
  • twisted.python.filepath.FilePath’s methods now have more complete API documentation (docstrings). (#5027)
  • The Clients howto now uses buildProtocol more explicitly, hopefully making it easier to understand where Protocol instances come from. (#5044)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IFinishableConsumer is now deprecated. (#2661)
  • twisted.python.zshcomp is now deprecated in favor of the tab- completion system in twisted.python.usage (#3078)
  • The unzip and unzipIter functions in twisted.python.zipstream are now deprecated. (#3666)
  • Options.optStrings, deprecated for 7 years, has been removed. Use Options.optParameters instead. (#4552)
  • Removed the deprecated twisted.python.dispatch module. (#5023)
  • Removed the twisted.runner.procutils module that was deprecated in Twisted 2.3. (#5049)
  • Removed twisted.trial.runner.DocTestSuite, deprecated in Twisted 8.0. (#5111)
  • twisted.scripts.tkunzip is now deprecated. (#5140)
  • Deprecated option –password-file in twistd ftp (#4752)
  • mktap, deprecated since Twisted 8.0, has been removed. (#5293)

Other

  • #1946, #2562, #2674, #3074, #3077, #3776, #4227, #4539, #4587, #4619, #4624, #4629, #4683, #4690, #4702, #4778, #4944, #4945, #4949, #4952, #4957, #4979, #4980, #4987, #4990, #4994, #4995, #4997, #5003, #5008, #5009, #5012, #5019, #5042, #5046, #5051, #5065, #5083, #5088, #5089, #5090, #5101, #5108, #5109, #5112, #5114, #5125, #5128, #5131, #5136, #5139, #5144, #5146, #5147, #5156, #5160, #5165, #5191, #5205, #5215, #5217, #5218, #5223, #5243, #5244, #5250, #5254, #5261, #5266, #5273, #5299, #5301, #5302, #5304, #5308, #5311, #5321, #5322, #5327, #5328, #5332, #5336

Twisted Conch 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

Features

  • twisted.conch.ssh.filetransfer.FileTransferClient now handles short status messages, not strictly allowed by the RFC, but sent by some SSH implementations. (#3009)
  • twisted.conch.manhole now supports CTRL-A and CTRL-E to trigger HOME and END functions respectively. (#5252)

Bugfixes

  • When run from an unpacked source tarball or a VCS checkout, the bin/conch/ scripts will now use the version of Twisted they are part of. (#3526)
  • twisted.conch.insults.window.ScrolledArea now passes no extra arguments to object.__init__ (which works on more versions of Python). (#4197)
  • twisted.conch.telnet.ITelnetProtocol now has the correct signature for its unhandledSubnegotiation() method. (#4751)
  • twisted.conch.ssh.userauth.SSHUserAuthClient now more closely follows the RFC 4251 definition of boolean values when negotiating for key-based authentication, allowing better interoperability with other SSH implementations. (#5241)
  • twisted.conch.recvline.RecvLine now ignores certain function keys in its keystrokeReceived method instead of raising an exception. (#5246)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The –user option to twistd manhole has been removed as it was dead code with no functionality associated with it. (#5283)

Other

  • #5107, #5256, #5349

Twisted Lore 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

Bugfixes

  • When run from an unpacked source tarball or a VCS checkout, bin/lore/lore will now use the version of Twisted it is part of. (#3526)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Removed compareMarkPos and comparePosition from lore.tree, deprecated in Twisted 9.0. (#5127)

Twisted Mail 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

Features

  • twisted.mail.smtp.LOGINCredentials now generates challenges with “:” instead of “0” for interoperability with Microsoft Outlook. (#4692)

Bugfixes

  • When run from an unpacked source tarball or a VCS checkout, bin/mail/mailmail will now use the version of Twisted it is part of. (#3526)

Other

  • #4796, #5006

Twisted Names 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

Features

  • twisted.names.dns.Message now parses records of unknown type into instances of a new UnknownType class. (#4603)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.names.dns.Name now detects loops in names it is decoding and raises an exception. Previously it would follow the loop forever, allowing a remote denial of service attack against any twisted.names client or server. (#5064)
  • twisted.names.hosts.Resolver now supports IPv6 addresses; its lookupAddress method now filters them out and its lookupIPV6Address method is now implemented. (#5098)

Twisted News 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

Features

  • twisted.web.client.ProxyAgent is a new HTTP/1.1 web client which adds proxy support. (#1774)
  • twisted.web.client.Agent now takes optional connectTimeout and bindAddress arguments which are forwarded to the subsequent connectTCP/connectSSL call. (#3450)
  • The new class twisted.web.client.FileBodyProducer makes it easy to upload data in HTTP requests made using the Agent client APIs. (#4017)
  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC now allows its lookupProcedure method to be overridden to change how XML-RPC procedures are dispatched. (#4836)
  • A new HTTP cookie-aware Twisted Web Agent wrapper is included in twisted.web.client.CookieAgent (#4922)
  • New class twisted.web.template.TagLoader provides an ITemplateLoader implementation which loads already-created twisted.web.iweb.IRenderable providers. (#5040)
  • The new class twisted.web.client.RedirectAgent adds redirect support to the HTTP 1.1 client stack. (#5157)
  • twisted.web.template now supports HTML tags from the HTML5 standard, including <canvas> and <video>. (#5306)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.client.getPage and .downloadPage now only fire their result Deferred after the underlying connection they use has been closed. (#3796)
  • twisted.web.server now omits the default Content-Type header from NOT MODIFIED responses. (#4156)
  • twisted.web.server now responds correctly to ‘Expect: 100-continue’ headers, although this is not yet usefully exposed to user code. (#4673)
  • twisted.web.client.Agent no longer raises an exception if a server responds and closes the connection before the request has been fully transmitted. (#5013)
  • twisted.web.http_headers.Headers now correctly capitalizes the header names Content-MD5, DNT, ETag, P3P, TE, and X-XSS-Protection. (#5054)
  • twisted.web.template now escapes more inputs to comments which require escaping in the output. (#5275)

Improved Documentation

  • The twisted.web.template howto now documents the common idiom of yielding tag clones from a renderer. (#5286)
  • CookieAgent is now documented in the twisted.web.client how-to. (#5110)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.web.google is now deprecated. (#5209)

Other

  • #4951, #5057, #5175, #5288, #5316

Twisted Words 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)

Features

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient now uses a PING heartbeat as a keepalive to avoid losing an IRC connection without being aware of it. (#5047)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient now replies only once to known CTCP queries per message and not at all to unknown CTCP queries. (#5029)
  • IRCClient.msg now determines a safe maximum command length, drastically reducing the chance of relayed text being truncated on the server side. (#5176)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.me was deprecated in Twisted 9.0 and has been removed. Use IRCClient.describe instead. (#5059)

Other

  • #5025, #5330

Twisted Core 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

Features

  • The reactor is not restartable, but it would previously fail to complain. Now, when you restart an unrestartable reactor, you get an exception. (#2066)
  • twisted.plugin now only emits a short log message, rather than a full traceback, if there is a problem writing out the dropin cache file. (#2409)
  • Added a ‘replacement’ parameter to the ‘twisted.python.deprecate.deprecated’ decorator. This allows deprecations to unambiguously specify what they have been deprecated in favor of. (#3047)
  • Added access methods to FilePath for FilePath.statinfo’s st_ino, st_dev, st_nlink, st_uid, and st_gid fields. This is in preparation for the deprecation of FilePath.statinfo. (#4712)
  • IPv4Address and UNIXAddress now have a __hash__ method. (#4783)
  • twisted.protocols.ftp.FTP.ftp_STOR now catches FTPCmdError s raised by the file writer, and returns the error back to the client. (#4909)

Bugfixes

  • twistd will no longer fail if a non-root user passes –uid ‘myuid’ as a command-line argument. Instead, it will emit an error message. (#3172)
  • IOCPReactor now sends immediate completions to the main loop (#3233)
  • trial can now load test methods from multiple classes, even if the methods all happen to be inherited from the same base class. (#3383)
  • twisted.web.server will now produce a correct Allow header when a particular render_FOO method is missing. (#3678)
  • HEAD requests made to resources whose HEAD handling defaults to calling render_GET now always receive a response with no body. (#3684)
  • trial now loads decorated test methods whether or not the decorator preserves the original method name. (#3909)
  • t.p.amp.AmpBox.serialize will now correctly consistently complain when being fed Unicode. (#3931)
  • twisted.internet.wxreactor now supports stopping more reliably. (#3948)
  • reactor.spawnProcess on Windows can now handle ASCII-encodable Unicode strings in the system environment (#3964)
  • When C-extensions are not complied for twisted, on python2.4, skip a test in twisted.internet.test.test_process that may hang due to a SIGCHLD related problem. Running ‘python setup.py build_ext –inplace’ will compile the extension and cause the test to both run and pass. (#4331)
  • twisted.python.logfile.LogFile now raises a descriptive exception when passed a log directory which does not exist. (#4701)
  • Fixed a bug where Inotify will fail to add a filepatch to watchlist after it has been added/ignored previously. (#4708)
  • IPv4Address and UNIXAddress object comparison operators fixed (#4817)
  • twisted.internet.task.Clock now sorts the list of pending calls before and after processing each call (#4823)
  • ConnectionLost is now in twisted.internet.error.__all__ instead of twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream.__all__. (#4856)
  • twisted.internet.process now detects the most appropriate mechanism to use for detecting the open file descriptors on a system, getting Twisted working on FreeBSD even when fdescfs is not mounted. (#4881)
  • twisted.words.services referenced nonexistent twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRC_NOSUCHCHANNEL. This has been fixed. Related code has also received test cases. (#4915)

Improved Documentation

  • The INSTALL file now lists all of Twisted’s dependencies. (#967)
  • Added the stopService and startService methods to all finger example files. (#3375)
  • Missing reactor.run() calls were added in the UDP and client howto documents. (#3834)
  • The maxRetries attribute of twisted.internet.protocols.RetryingClientFactory now has API documentation. (#4618)
  • Lore docs pointed to a template that no longer existed, this has been fixed. (#4682)
  • The servers argument to twisted.names.client.createResolver now has more complete API documentation. (#4713)
  • Linked to the Twisted endpoints tutorial from the Twisted core howto list. (#4773)
  • The Endpoints howto now links to the API documentation. (#4774)
  • The Quotes howto is now more clear in its PYTHONPATH setup instructions. (#4785)
  • The API documentation for DeferredList’s fireOnOneCallback parameter now gives the correct order of the elements of the result tuple. (#4882)

Deprecations and Removals

  • returning a value other than None from IProtocol.dataReceived was deprecated (#2491)
  • Deprecated the –extra option in trial. (#3372)
  • twisted.protocols._c_urlarg has been removed. (#4162)
  • Remove the –report-profile option for twistd, deprecated since 2007. (#4236)
  • Deprecated twisted.persisted.journal. This library is no longer maintained. (#4298)
  • Removed twisted.protocols.loopback.loopback, which has been deprecated since Twisted 2.5. (#4547)
  • __getitem__ __getslice__ and __eq__ (tuple comparison, indexing) removed from twisted.internet.address.IPv4Address and twisted.internet.address.UNIXAddress classes UNIXAddress and IPv4Address properties _bwHack are now deprecated in twisted.internet.address (#4817)
  • twisted.python.reflect.allYourBase is now no longer used, replaced with inspect.getmro (#4928)
  • allYourBase and accumulateBases are now deprecated in favor of inspect.getmro. (#4946)

Other

  • #555, #1982, #2618, #2665, #2666, #4035, #4247, #4567, #4636, #4717, #4733, #4750, #4821, #4842, #4846, #4853, #4857, #4858, #4863, #4864, #4865, #4866, #4867, #4868, #4869, #4870, #4871, #4872, #4873, #4874, #4875, #4876, #4877, #4878, #4879, #4905, #4906, #4908, #4934, #4955, #4960

Twisted Conch 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

Bugfixes

  • The transport for subsystem protocols now declares that it implements ITransport and implements the getHost and getPeer methods. (#2453)
  • twisted.conch.ssh.transport.SSHTransportBase now responds to key exchange messages at any time during a connection (instead of only at connection setup). It also queues non-key exchange messages sent during key exchange to avoid corrupting the connection state. (#4395)
  • Importing twisted.conch.ssh.common no longer breaks pow(base, exp[, modulus]) when the gmpy package is installed and base is not an integer. (#4803)
  • twisted.conch.ls.lsLine now returns a time string which does not consider the locale. (#4937)

Improved Documentation

  • Changed the man page for ckeygen to accurately reflect what it does, and corrected its synopsis so that a second “ckeygen” is not a required part of the ckeygen command line. (#4738)

Other

  • #2112

Twisted Lore 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

Features

  • The twistd mail command line now accepts endpoint descriptions for POP3 and SMTP servers. (#4739)
  • The twistd mail plugin now accepts new authentication options via strcred.AuthOptionMixin. These include –auth, –auth-help, and authentication type-specific help options. (#4740)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server now generates INTERNALDATE strings which do not consider the locale. (#4937)

Improved Documentation

  • Added a simple SMTP example, showing how to use sendmail. (#4042)

Other

  • #4162

Twisted Names 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted News 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #4580

Twisted Pair 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

Features

  • twisted.web._newclient.HTTPParser (and therefore Agent) now handles HTTP headers delimited by bare LF newlines. (#3833)
  • twisted.web.client.downloadPage now accepts the afterFoundGet parameter, with the same meaning as the getPage parameter of the same name. (#4364)
  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy constructor now takes additional ‘timeout’ and ‘reactor’ arguments. The ‘timeout’ argument defaults to 30 seconds. (#4741)
  • Twisted Web now has a templating system, twisted.web.template, which is a direct, simplified derivative of Divmod Nevow. (#4939)

Bugfixes

  • HTTPPageGetter now adds the port to the host header if it is not the default for that scheme. (#3857)
  • twisted.web.http.Request.write now raises an exception if it is called after response generation has already finished. (#4317)
  • twisted.web.client.HTTPPageGetter and twisted.web.client.getPage now no longer make two requests when using afterFoundGet. (#4760)
  • twisted.web.twcgi no longer adds an extra “content-type” header to CGI responses. (#4786)
  • twisted.web will now properly specify an encoding (UTF-8) on error, redirect, and directory listing pages, so that IE7 and previous will not improperly guess the ‘utf7’ encoding in these cases. Please note that Twisted still sets a default content-type of ‘text/html’, and you shouldn’t rely on that: you should set the encoding appropriately in your application. (#4900)
  • twisted.web.http.Request.setHost now sets the port in the host header if it is not the default. (#4918)
  • default NOT_IMPLEMENTED and NOT_ALLOWED pages now quote the request method and URI respectively, to protect against browsers which don’t quote those values for us. (#4978)

Improved Documentation

  • The XML-RPC howto now includes an example demonstrating how to access the HTTP request object in a server-side XML-RPC method. (#4732)
  • The Twisted Web client howto now uses the correct, public name for twisted.web.client.Response. (#4769)
  • Some broken links were fixed, descriptions were updated, and new API links were added in the Resource Templating documentation (resource-templates.xhtml) (#4968)

Other

  • #2271, #2386, #4162, #4733, #4855, #4911, #4973

Twisted Words 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)

Features

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient now has an invite method. (#4820)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.say is once again able to send messages when using the default value for the length limit argument. (#4758)
  • twisted.words.protocols.jabber.jstrports is once again able to parse jstrport description strings. (#4771)
  • twisted.words.protocols.msn.NotificationClient now calls the loginFailure callback when it is unable to connect to the Passport server due to missing SSL dependencies. (#4801)
  • twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmpp_stringprep now always uses Unicode version 3.2 for stringprep normalization. (#4850)

Improved Documentation

  • Removed the non-working AIM bot example, depending on the obsolete twisted.words.protocols.toc functionality. (#4007)
  • Outdated GUI-related information was removed from the IM howto. (#4054)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Remove twisted.words.protocols.toc, that was largely non-working and useless since AOL disabled TOC on their AIM network. (#4363)

Other

  • #4733, #4902

Twisted Core 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

Features

  • twisted.internet.cfreactor has been significantly improved. It now runs, and passes, the test suite. Many, many bugs in it have been fixed, including several segfaults, as it now uses PyObjC and longer requires C code in Twisted. (#1833)
  • twisted.protocols.ftp.FTPRealm now accepts a parameter to override “/home” as the container for user directories. The new BaseFTPRealm class in the same module also allows easy implementation of custom user directory schemes. (#2179)
  • twisted.python.filepath.FilePath and twisted.python.zippath.ZipPath now have a descendant method to simplify code which calls the child method repeatedly. (#3169)
  • twisted.python.failure._Frame objects now support fake f_locals attribute. (#4045)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints now has ‘serverFromString’ and ‘clientFromString’ APIs for constructing endpoints from descriptive strings. (#4473)
  • The default trial reporter now combines reporting of tests with the same result to shorten its summary output. (#4487)
  • The new class twisted.protocols.ftp.SystemFTPRealm implements an FTP realm which uses system accounts to select home directories. (#4494)
  • twisted.internet.reactor.spawnProcess now wastes less time trying to close non-existent file descriptors on POSIX platforms. (#4522)
  • twisted.internet.win32eventreactor now declares that it implements a new twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorWin32Events interface. (#4523)
  • twisted.application.service.IProcess now documents its attributes using zope.interface.Attribute. (#4534)
  • twisted.application.app.ReactorSelectionMixin now saves the value of the –reactor option in the “reactor” key of the options object. (#4563)
  • twisted.internet.endpoints.serverFromString and clientFromString, and therefore also twisted.application.strports.service, now support plugins, so third parties may implement their own endpoint types. (#4695)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.internet.defer.Deferred now handles chains iteratively instead of recursively, preventing RuntimeError due to excessive recursion when handling long Deferred chains. (#411)
  • twisted.internet.cfreactor now works with trial. (#2556)
  • twisted.enterprise.adbapi.ConnectionPool.close may now be called even if the connection pool has not yet been started. This will prevent the pool from ever starting. (#2680)
  • twisted.protocols.basic.NetstringReceiver raises NetstringParseErrors for invalid netstrings now. It handles empty netstrings (“0:,”) correctly, and the performance for receiving netstrings has been improved. (#4378)
  • reactor.listenUDP now returns an object which declares that it implements IListeningPort. (#4462)
  • twisted.python.randbytes no longer uses PyCrypto as a secure random number source (since it is not one). (#4468)
  • twisted.internet.main.installReactor now blocks installation of another reactor when using python -O (#4476)
  • twisted.python.deprecate.deprecatedModuleAttribute now emits only one warning when used to deprecate a package attribute which is a module. (#4492)
  • The “brief” mode of twisted.python.failure.Failure.getTraceback now handles exceptions raised by the underlying exception’s __str__ method. (#4501)
  • twisted.words.xish.domish now correctly parses XML with namespaces which include whitespace. (#4503)
  • twisted.names.authority.FileAuthority now generates correct negative caching hints, marks its referral NS RRs as non- authoritative, and correctly generates referrals for ALL_RECORDS requests. (#4513)
  • twisted.internet.test.reactormixins.ReactorBuilder’s attribute requiredInterface (which should an interface) is now requiredInterfaces (a list of interfaces) as originally described per the documentation. (#4527)
  • twisted.python.zippath.ZipPath.__repr__ now correctly formats paths with “..” in them (by including it). (#4535)
  • twisted.names.hosts.searchFileFor has been fixed against refcounting dependency. (#4540)
  • The POSIX process transports now declare that they implement IProcessTransport. (#4585)
  • Twisted can now be built with the LLVM clang compiler, with ‘CC=clang python setup.py build’. C code that caused errors with this compiler has been removed. (#4652)
  • trial now puts coverage data in the path specified by –temp- directory, even if that option comes after –coverage on the command line. (#4657)
  • The unregisterProducer method of connection-oriented transports will now cause the connection to be closed if there was a prior call to loseConnection. (#4719)
  • Fixed an issue where the new StreamServerEndpointService didn’t log listen errors. (This was a bug not present in any previous releases, as this class is new.) (#4731)

Improved Documentation

  • The trial man page now documents the meaning of the final line of output of the default reporter. (#1384)
  • The API documentation for twisted.internet.defer.DeferredList now goes into more depth about the effects each of the __init__ flags that class accepts. (#3595)
  • There is now narrative documentation for the endpoints APIs, in the ‘endpoints’ core howto, as well as modifications to the ‘writing clients’ and ‘writing servers’ core howto documents to indicate that endpoints are now the preferred style of listening and connecting. (#4478)
  • trial’s man page now documents the –disablegc option in more detail. (#4511)
  • trial’s coverage output format is now documented in the trial man page. (#4512)
  • Broken links and spelling errors in the finger tutorial are now fixed. (#4516)
  • twisted.internet.threads.blockingCallFromThread’s docstring is now explicit about Deferred support. (#4517)
  • twisted.python.zippath.ZipPath.child now documents its handling of “..” (which is not special, making it different from FilePath.child). (#4535)
  • The API docs for twisted.internet.defer.Deferred now cover several more of its (less interesting) attributes. (#4538)
  • LineReceiver, NetstringReceiver, and IntNStringReceiver from twisted.protocols.basic now have improved API documentation for read callbacks and write methods. (#4542)
  • Tidied up the Twisted Conch documentation for easier conversion. (#4566)
  • Use correct Twisted version for when cancellation was introduced in the Deferred docstring. (#4614)
  • The logging howto is now more clear about how the standard library logging module and twisted.python.log can be integrated. (#4642)
  • The finger tutorial still had references to .tap files. This reference has now been removed. The documentation clarifies “finger.tap” is a module and not a filename. (#4679)
  • The finger tutorial had a broken link to the twisted.application.service.Service class, which is now fixed. Additionally, a minor typo (‘verison’) was fixed. (#4681)
  • twisted.protocols.policies.TimeoutMixin now has clearer API documentation. (#4684)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.setTimeout has been removed, after being deprecated since Twisted 2.0. (#1702)
  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorTime.cancelCallLater (deprecated since 2007) and twisted.internet.interfaces.base.ReactorBase.cancelCallLater (deprecated since 2002) have been removed. (#4076)
  • Removed twisted.cred.util.py, which has been deprecated since Twisted 8.3. (#4107)
  • twisted.python.text.docstringLStrip was deprecated. (#4328)
  • The module attributes LENGTH, DATA, COMMA, and NUMBER of twisted.protocols.basic (previously used by NetstringReceiver) are now deprecated. (#4541)
  • twisted.protocols.basic.SafeNetstringReceiver, deprecated since 2001 (before Twisted 2.0), was removed. (#4546)
  • twisted.python.threadable.whenThreaded, deprecated since Twisted 2.2.0, has been removed. (#4550)
  • twisted.python.timeoutqueue, deprecated since Twisted 8.0, has been removed. (#4551)
  • iocpreactor transports can no longer be pickled. (#4617)

Other

  • #4300, #4475, #4477, #4504, #4556, #4562, #4564, #4569, #4608, #4616, #4617, #4626, #4630, #4650, #4705

Twisted Conch 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.conch.ssh.factory.SSHFactory no longer disables coredumps. (#2715)
  • The Deferred returned by twisted.conch.telnet.TelnetTransport.will now fires with an OptionRefused failure if the peer responds with a refusal for the option negotiation. (#4231)
  • SSHServerTransport and SSHClientTransport in twisted.conch.ssh.transport no longer use PyCrypto to generate random numbers for DH KEX. They also now generate values from the full valid range, rather than only half of it. (#4469)
  • twisted.conch.ssh.connection.SSHConnection now errbacks leftover request deferreds on connection shutdown. (#4483)

Other

  • #4677

Twisted Lore 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Other

  • #4571

Twisted Mail 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

Improved Documentation

  • The email server example now demonstrates how to set up authentication and authorization using twisted.cred. (#4609)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.mail.smtp.sendEmail, deprecated since mid 2003 (before Twisted 2.0), has been removed. (#4529)

Other

  • #4038, #4572

Twisted Names 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

Features

  • twisted.names.server can now serve SPF resource records using twisted.names.dns.Record_SPF. twisted.names.client can query for them using lookupSenderPolicy. (#3928)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.names.common.extractRecords doesn’t try to close the transport anymore in case of recursion, as it’s done by the Resolver itself now. (#3998)

Improved Documentation

  • Tidied up the Twisted Names documentation for easier conversion. (#4573)

Twisted News 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.news.database.PickleStorage now invokes the email APIs correctly, allowing it to actually send moderation emails. (#4528)

Twisted Pair 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Web 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

Features

  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC.xmlrpc_* methods can now be decorated using withRequest to cause them to be passed the HTTP request object. (#3073)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.QueryProtocol.handleResponse now disconnects from the server, meaning that Twisted XML-RPC clients disconnect from the server as soon as they receive a response, rather than relying on the server to disconnect. (#2518)
  • twisted.web.twcgi now generates responses containing all occurrences of duplicate headers produced by CGI scripts, not just the last value. (#4742)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.web.trp, which has been deprecated since Twisted 9.0, was removed. (#4299)

Other

  • #4576, #4577, #4709, #4723

Twisted Words 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)

Features

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.msg now enforces a maximum length for messages, splitting up messages that are too long. (#4416)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient no longer invokes privmsg() in the default noticed() implementation. (#4419)
  • twisted.words.im.ircsupport.IRCProto now sends the correct name in the USER command. (#4641)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Remove twisted.words.im.proxyui and twisted.words.im.tap. (#1823)

Twisted Core 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

Features

  • Add linux inotify support, allowing monitoring of file system events. (#972)
  • Deferreds now support cancellation. (#990)
  • Added new “endpoint” interfaces in twisted.internet.interfaces, which abstractly describe stream transport endpoints which can be listened on or connected to. Implementations for TCP and SSL clients and servers are present in twisted.internet.endpoints. Notably, client endpoints’ connect() methods return cancellable Deferreds, so code written to use them can bypass the awkward “ClientFactory.clientConnectionFailed” and “Connector.stopConnecting” methods, and handle errbacks from or cancel the returned deferred, respectively. (#1442)
  • twisted.protocols.amp.Integer’s documentation now clarifies that integers of arbitrary size are supported and that the wire format is a base-10 representation. (#2650)
  • twisted.protocols.amp now includes support for transferring timestamps (amp.DateTime) and decimal values (amp.Decimal). (#2651)
  • twisted.protocol.ftp.IWriteFile now has a close() method, which can return a Deferred. Previously a STOR command would finish immediately upon the receipt of the last byte of the uploaded file. With close(), the backend can delay the finish until it has performed some other slow action (like storing the data to a virtual filesystem). (#3462)
  • FilePath now calls os.stat() only when new status information is required, rather than immediately when anything changes. For some applications this may result in fewer stat() calls. Additionally, FilePath has a new method, ‘changed’, which applications may use to indicate that the FilePath may have been changed on disk and therefore the next status information request must fetch a new stat result. This is useful if external systems, such as C libraries, may have changed files that Twisted applications are referencing via a FilePath. (#4130)
  • Documentation improvements are now summarized in the NEWS file. (#4224)
  • twisted.internet.task.deferLater now returns a cancellable Deferred. (#4318)
  • The connect methods of twisted.internet.protocol.ClientCreator now return cancellable Deferreds. (#4329)
  • twisted.spread.pb now has documentation covering some of its limitations. (#4402)
  • twisted.spread.jelly now supports jellying and unjellying classes defined with slots if they also implement __getstate__ and __setstate__. (#4430)
  • twisted.protocols.amp.ListOf arguments can now be specified as optional. (#4474)

Bugfixes

  • On POSIX platforms, reactors now support child processes in a way which doesn’t cause other syscalls to sometimes fail with EINTR (if running on Python 2.6 or if Twisted’s extension modules have been built). (#733)
  • Substrings are escaped before being passed to a regular expression for searching to ensure that they don’t get interpreted as part of the expression. (#1893)
  • twisted.internet.stdio now supports stdout being redirected to a normal file (except when using epollreactor). (#2259)
  • (#2367)
  • The tap2rpm script now works with modern versions of RPM. (#3292)
  • twisted.python.modules.walkModules will now handle packages explicitly precluded from importing by a None placed in sys.modules. (#3419)
  • ConnectedDatagramPort now uses stopListening when a connection fails instead of the deprecated loseConnection. (#3425)
  • twisted.python.filepath.FilePath.setContent is now safe for multiple processes to use concurrently. (#3694)
  • The mode argument to the methods of twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorUNIX is no longer deprecated. (#4078)
  • Do not include blacklisted projects when generating NEWS. (#4190)
  • When generating NEWS for a project that had no significant changes, include a section for that project and say that there were no interesting changes. (#4191)
  • Redundant ‘b’ mode is no longer passed to calls to FilePath.open and FilePath.open itself now corrects the mode when multiple ‘b’ characters are present, ensuring only one instance of ‘b’ is provided, as a workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue7686. (#4207)
  • HTML tags inside <pre> tags in the code snippets are now escaped. (#4336)
  • twisted.protocols.amp.CommandLocator now allows subclasses to override responders inherited from base classes. (#4343)
  • Fix a bunch of small but important defects in the INSTALL, README and so forth. (#4346)
  • The poll, epoll, glib2, and gtk2 reactors now all support half- close in the twisted.internet.stdio.StandardIO transport. (#4352)
  • twisted.application.internet no longer generates an extra and invalid entry in its __all__ list for the nonexistent MulticastClient. (#4373)
  • Choosing a reactor documentation now says that only the select- based reactor is a truly cross-platform reactor. (#4384)
  • twisted.python.filepath.FilePath now no longer leaves files open, to be closed by the garbage collector, when an exception is raised in the implementation of setContent, getContent, or copyTo. (#4400)
  • twisted.test.proto_helpers.StringTransport’s getHost and getPeer methods now return IPv4Address instances by default. (#4401)
  • twisted.protocols.amp.BinaryBoxProtocol will no longer deliver an empty string to a switched-to protocol’s dataReceived method when the BinaryBoxProtocol’s buffer happened to be empty at the time of the protocol switch. (#4405)
  • IReactorUNIX.listenUNIX implementations now support abstract namespace sockets on Linux. (#4421)
  • Files opened with FilePath.create() (and therefore also files opened via FilePath.open() on a path with alwaysCreate=True) will now be opened in binary mode as advertised, so that they will behave portably across platforms. (#4453)
  • The subunit reporter now correctly reports import errors as errors, rather than by crashing with an unrelated error. (#4496)

Improved Documentation

  • The finger tutorial example which introduces services now avoids double-starting the loop to re-read its users file. (#4420)
  • twisted.internet.defer.Deferred.callback’s docstring now mentions the implicit chaining feature. (#4439)
  • doc/core/howto/listing/pb/chatclient.py can now actually send a group message. (#4459)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorArbitrary, twisted.application.internet.GenericServer, and twisted.application.internet.GenericClient are now deprecated. (#367)
  • twisted.internet.gtkreactor is now deprecated. (#2833)
  • twisted.trial.util.findObject has been deprecated. (#3108)
  • twisted.python.threadpool.ThreadSafeList is deprecated and Jython platform detection in Twisted core removed (#3725)
  • twisted.internet.interfaces.IUDPConnectedTransport has been removed (deprecated since Twisted 9.0). (#4077)
  • Removed twisted.application.app.runWithProfiler, which has been deprecated since Twisted 8.0. (#4090)
  • Removed twisted.application.app.runWithHotshot, which has been deprecated since Twisted 8.0. (#4091)
  • Removed twisted.application.app.ApplicationRunner.startLogging, which has been deprecated (doesn’t say since when), as well as support for the legacy twisted.application.app.ApplicationRunner.getLogObserver method. (#4092)
  • twisted.application.app.reportProfile has been removed. (#4093)
  • twisted.application.app.getLogFile has been removed. (#4094)
  • Removed twisted.cred.util.py, which has been deprecated since Twisted 8.3. (#4107)
  • twisted.python.util.dsu is now deprecated. (#4339)
  • In twisted.trial.util: FailureError, DirtyReactorWarning, DirtyReactorError, and PendingTimedCallsError, which have all been deprecated since Twisted 8.0, have been removed. (#4505)

Other

  • #1363, #1742, #3170, #3359, #3431, #3738, #4088, #4206, #4221, #4239, #4257, #4272, #4274, #4287, #4291, #4293, #4309, #4316, #4319, #4324, #4332, #4335, #4348, #4358, #4394, #4399, #4409, #4418, #4443, #4449, #4479, #4485, #4486, #4497

Twisted Conch 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

Features

  • twisted.conch.ssh.transport.SSHTransportBase now allows supported ssh protocol versions to be overridden. (#4428)

Bugfixes

  • SSHSessionProcessProtocol now doesn’t close the session when stdin is closed, but instead when both stdout and stderr are. (#4350)
  • The ‘cftp’ command-line tool will no longer encounter an intermittent error, crashing at startup with a ZeroDivisionError while trying to report progress. (#4463)
  • twisted.conch.ssh.connection.SSHConnection now replies to requests to open an unknown channel with an OPEN_UNKNOWN_CHANNEL_TYPE message instead of closing the connection. (#4490)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.conch.insults.client was deprecated. (#4095)
  • twisted.conch.insults.colors has been deprecated. Please use twisted.conch.insults.helper instead. (#4096)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.asn1, which has been deprecated since Twisted 9.0. (#4097)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.common.Entropy, as Entropy.get_bytes has been deprecated since 2007 and Entropy.get_bytes was the only attribute of Entropy. (#4098)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.getPublicKeyString, which has been deprecated since 2007. Also updated the conch examples sshsimpleserver.py and sshsimpleclient.py to reflect this removal. (#4099)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.makePublicKeyString, which has been deprecated since 2007. (#4100)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.getPublicKeyObject, which has been deprecated since 2007. (#4101)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.getPrivateKeyObject, which has been deprecated since 2007. Also updated the conch examples to reflect this removal. (#4102)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.makePrivateKeyString, which has been deprecated since 2007. (#4103)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.makePublicKeyBlob, which has been deprecated since 2007. (#4104)
  • Removed twisted.conch.ssh.keys.signData, twisted.conch.ssh.keys.verifySignature, and twisted.conch.ssh.keys.printKey, which have been deprecated since 2007. (#4105)

Other

  • #3849, #4408, #4454

Twisted Lore 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Mail 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server no longer fails on search queries that contain wildcards. (#2278)
  • A case which would cause twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server to loop indefinitely when handling a search command has been fixed. (#4385)

Other

  • #4069, #4271, #4467

Twisted Names 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

Features

  • twisted.names.dns.Message now uses a specially constructed dictionary for looking up record types. This yields a significant performance improvement on PyPy. (#4283)

Twisted News 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Pair 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

No significant changes have been made for this release.

Twisted Runner 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

Features

  • twistd now has a procmon subcommand plugin - a convenient way to monitor and automatically restart another process. (#4356)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.runner.procmon.ProcessMonitor’s active, consistency, and consistencyDelay attributes are now deprecated. (#1763)

Other

  • #3775

Twisted Web 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

Features

  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC and twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy now expose xmlrpclib’s support of datetime.datetime objects if useDateTime is set to True. (#3219)
  • HTTP11ClientProtocol now has an abort() method for cancelling an outstanding request by closing the connection before receiving the entire response. (#3811)
  • twisted.web.http_headers.Headers initializer now rejects incorrectly structured dictionaries. (#4022)
  • twisted.web.client.Agent now supports HTTPS URLs. (#4023)
  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy.callRemote now returns a Deferred which can be cancelled to abort the attempted XML-RPC call. (#4377)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.web.guard now logs out avatars even if a request completes with an error. (#4411)
  • twisted.web.xmlrpc.XMLRPC will now no longer trigger a RuntimeError by trying to write responses to closed connections. (#4423)

Improved Documentation

  • Fix broken links to deliverBody and iweb.UNKNOWN_LENGTH in doc/web/howto/client.xhtml. (#4507)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.web.twcgi.PHP3Script and twisted.web.twcgi.PHPScript are now deprecated. (#516)

Other

  • #4403, #4452

Twisted Words 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.words.im.basechat.ChatUI now has a functional contactChangedNick with unit tests. (#229)
  • twisted.words.protocols.jabber.error.StanzaError now correctly sets a default error type and code for the remote-server-timeout condition (#4311)
  • twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream.ListenAuthenticator now uses unicode objects for session identifiers (#4345)

Twisted Core 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Features

  • The twistd man page now has a SIGNALS section. (#689)
  • reactor.spawnProcess now will not emit a PotentialZombieWarning when called before reactor.run, and there will be no potential for zombie processes in this case. (#2078)
  • High-throughput applications based on Perspective Broker should now run noticeably faster thanks to the use of a more efficient decoding function in Twisted Spread. (#2310)
  • Documentation for trac-post-commit-hook functionality in svn-dev policy. (#3867)
  • twisted.protocols.socks.SOCKSv4 now supports the SOCKSv4a protocol. (#3886)
  • Trial can now output test results according to the subunit protocol, as long as Subunit is installed (see https://launchpad.net/subunit). (#4004)
  • twisted.protocols.amp now provides a ListOf argument type which can be composed with some other argument types to create a zero or more element sequence of that type. (#4116)
  • If returnValue is invoked outside of a function decorated with @inlineCallbacks, but causes a function thusly decorated to exit, a DeprecationWarning will be emitted explaining this potentially confusing behavior. In a future release, this will cause an exception. (#4157)
  • twisted.python.logfile.BaseLogFile now has a reopen method allowing you to use an external logrotate mechanism. (#4255)

Bugfixes

  • FTP.ftp_NLST now handles requests on invalid paths in a way consistent with RFC 959. (#1342)
  • twisted.python.util.initgroups now calls the low-level C initgroups by default if available: the python version can create lots of I/O with certain authentication setup to retrieve all the necessary information. (#3226)
  • startLogging now does nothing on subsequent invocations, thus fixing a terrible infinite recursion bug that’s only on edge case. (#3289)
  • Stringify non-string data to NetstringReceiver.sendString before calculating the length so that the calculated length is equal to the actual length of the transported data. (#3299)
  • twisted.python.win32.cmdLineQuote now correctly quotes empty strings arguments (#3876)
  • Change the behavior of the Gtk2Reactor to register only one source watch for each file descriptor, instead of one for reading and one for writing. In particular, it fixes a bug with Glib under Windows where we failed to notify when a client is connected. (#3925)
  • Twisted Trial no longer crashes if it can’t remove an old _trial_temp directory. (#4020)
  • The optional _c_urlarg extension now handles unquote(“”) correctly on platforms where malloc(0) returns NULL, such as AIX. It also compiles with less warnings. (#4142)
  • On POSIX, child processes created with reactor.spawnProcess will no longer automatically ignore the signals which the parent process has set to be ignored. (#4199)
  • All SOCKSv4a tests now use a dummy reactor with a deterministic resolve method. (#4275)
  • Prevent extraneous server, date and content-type headers in proxy responses. (#4277)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.internet.error.PotentialZombieWarning is now deprecated. (#2078)
  • twisted.test.time_helpers is now deprecated. (#3719)
  • The deprecated connectUDP method of IReactorUDP has now been removed. (#4075)
  • twisted.trial.unittest.TestCase now ignores the previously deprecated setUpClass and tearDownClass methods. (#4175)

Other

  • #917, #2406, #2481, #2608, #2689, #2884, #3056, #3082, #3199, #3480, #3592, #3718, #3935, #4066, #4083, #4154, #4166, #4169, #4176, #4183, #4186, #4188, #4189, #4194, #4201, #4204, #4209, #4222, #4234, #4235, #4238, #4240, #4245, #4251, #4264, #4268, #4269, #4282

Twisted Conch 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.conch.checkers.SSHPublicKeyDatabase now looks in the correct user directory for authorized_keys files. (#3984)
  • twisted.conch.ssh.SSHUserAuthClient now honors preferredOrder when authenticating. (#4266)

Other

  • #2391, #4203, #4265

Twisted Lore 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Other

  • #4241

Twisted Mail 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.mail.smtp.ESMTPClient and twisted.mail.smtp.LOGINAuthenticator now implement the (obsolete) LOGIN SASL mechanism according to the draft specification. (#4031)
  • twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client will no longer misparse all html- formatted message bodies received in response to a fetch command. (#4049)
  • The regression in IMAP4 search handling of “OR” and “NOT” terms has been fixed. (#4178)

Other

  • #4028, #4170, #4200

Twisted Names 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Bugfixes

  • twisted.names.root.Resolver no longer leaks UDP sockets while resolving names. (#970)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Several top-level functions in twisted.names.root are now deprecated. (#970)

Other

  • #4066

Twisted Pair 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Other

  • #4170

Twisted Runner 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Other

  • #3961

Twisted Web 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Features

  • Twisted Web in 60 Seconds, a series of short tutorials with self- contained examples on a range of common web topics, is now a part of the Twisted Web howto documentation. (#4192)

Bugfixes

  • Data and File from twisted.web.static and twisted.web.distrib.UserDirectory will now only generate a 200 response for GET or HEAD requests. twisted.web.client.HTTPPageGetter will no longer ignore the case of a request method when considering whether to apply special HEAD processing to a response. (#446)
  • twisted.web.http.HTTPClient now supports multi-line headers. (#2062)
  • Resources served via twisted.web.distrib will no longer encounter a Banana error when writing more than 640kB at once to the request object. (#3212)
  • The Error, PageRedirect, and InfiniteRedirection exception in twisted.web now initialize an empty message parameter by mapping the HTTP status code parameter to a descriptive string. Previously the lookup would always fail, leaving message empty. (#3806)
  • The ‘wsgi.input’ WSGI environment object now supports -1 and None as arguments to the read and readlines methods. (#4114)
  • twisted.web.wsgi doesn’t unquote QUERY_STRING anymore, thus complying with the WSGI reference implementation. (#4143)
  • The HTTP proxy will no longer pass on keep-alive request headers from the client, preventing pages from loading then “hanging” (leaving the connection open with no hope of termination). (#4179)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Remove ‘–static’ option from twistd web, that served as an alias for the ‘–path’ option. (#3907)

Other

  • #3784, #4216, #4242

Twisted Words 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)

Features

  • twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.irc_MODE now takes ISUPPORT parameters into account when parsing mode messages with arguments that take parameters (#3296)

Bugfixes

  • When twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient’s versionNum and versionEnv attributes are set to None, they will no longer be included in the client’s response to CTCP VERSION queries. (#3660)
  • twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream.hashPassword now only accepts unicode as input (#3741, #3742, #3847)

Other

  • #2503, #4066, #4261

Twisted Core 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Features

  • LineReceiver.clearLineBuffer now returns the bytes that it cleared (#3573)
  • twisted.protocols.amp now raises InvalidSignature when bad arguments are passed to Command.makeArguments (#2808)
  • IArgumentType was added to represent an existing but previously unspecified interface in amp (#3468)
  • Obscure python tricks have been removed from the finger tutorials (#2110)
  • The digest auth implementations in twisted.web and twisted.protocolos.sip have been merged together in twisted.cred (#3575)
  • FilePath and ZipPath now has a parents() method which iterates up all of its parents (#3588)
  • reactors which support threads now have a getThreadPool method (#3591)
  • The MemCache client implementation now allows arguments to the “stats” command (#3661)
  • The MemCache client now has a getMultiple method which allows fetching of multiple values (#3171)
  • twisted.spread.jelly can now unserialize some new-style classes (#2950)
  • twisted.protocols.loopback.loopbackAsync now accepts a parameter to control the data passed between client and server (#3820)
  • The IOCP reactor now supports SSL (#593)
  • Tasks in a twisted.internet.task.Cooperator can now be paused, resumed, and cancelled (#2712)
  • AmpList arguments can now be made optional (#3891)
  • The syslog output observer now supports log levels (#3300)
  • LoopingCall now supports reporting the number of intervals missed if it isn’t able to schedule calls fast enough (#3671)

Fixes

  • The deprecated md5 and sha modules are no longer used if the stdlib hashlib module is available (#2763)
  • An obscure deadlock involving waking up the reactor within signal handlers in particular threads was fixed (#1997)
  • The passivePortRange attribute of FTPFactory is now honored (#3593)
  • TestCase.flushWarnings now flushes warnings even if they were produced by a file that was renamed since it was byte compiled (#3598)
  • Some internal file descriptors are now marked as close-on-exec, so these will no longer be leaked to child processes (#3576)
  • twisted.python.zipstream now correctly extracts the first file in a directory as a file, and not an empty directory (#3625)
  • proxyForInterface now returns classes which correctly implement interfaces rather than providing them (#3646)
  • SIP Via header parameters should now be correctly generated (#2194)
  • The Deferred returned by stopListening would sometimes previously never fire if an exception was raised by the underlying file descriptor’s connectionLost method. Now the Deferred will fire with a failure (#3654)
  • The command-line tool “manhole” should now work with newer versions of pygtk (#2464)
  • When a DefaultOpenSSLContextFactory is instantiated with invalid parameters, it will now raise an exception immediately instead of waiting for the first connection (#3700)
  • Twisted command line scripts should now work when installed in a virtualenv (#3750)
  • Trial will no longer delete temp directories which it did not create (#3481)
  • Processes started on Windows should now be cleaned up properly in more cases (#3893)
  • Certain misbehaving importers will no longer cause twisted.python.modules (and thus trial) to raise an exception, but rather issue a warning (#3913)
  • MemCache client protocol methods will now fail when the transport has been disconnected (#3643)
  • In the AMP method callRemoteString, the requiresAnswer parameter is now honored (#3999)
  • Spawning a “script” (a file which starts with a #! line) on Windows running Python 2.6 will now work instead of raising an exception about file mode “ru” (#3567)
  • FilePath’s walk method now calls its “descend” parameter even on the first level of children, instead of only on grandchildren. This allows for better symlink cycle detection (#3911)
  • Attempting to write unicode data to process pipes on Windows will no longer result in arbitrarily encoded messages being written to the pipe, but instead will immediately raise an error (#3930)
  • The various twisted command line utilities will no longer print ModuleType.__doc__ when Twisted was installed with setuptools (#4030)
  • A Failure object will now be passed to connectionLost on stdio connections on Windows, instead of an Exception object (#3922)

Deprecations and Removals

  • twisted.persisted.marmalade was deleted after a long period of deprecation (#876)
  • Some remaining references to the long-gone plugins.tml system were removed (#3246)
  • SSLv2 is now disabled by default, but it can be re-enabled explicitly (#3330)
  • twisted.python.plugin has been removed (#1911)
  • reactor.run will now raise a ReactorAlreadyRunning exception when it is called reentrantly instead of warning a DeprecationWarning (#1785)
  • twisted.spread.refpath is now deprecated because it is unmaintained, untested, and has dubious value (#3723)
  • The unused –quiet flag has been removed from the twistd command (#3003)

Other

  • #3545, #3490, #3544, #3537, #3455, #3315, #2281, #3564, #3570, #3571, #3486, #3241, #3599, #3220, #1522, #3611, #3596, #3606, #3609, #3602, #3637, #3647, #3632, #3675, #3673, #3686, #2217, #3685, #3688, #2456, #506, #3635, #2153, #3581, #3708, #3714, #3717, #3698, #3747, #3704, #3707, #3713, #3720, #3692, #3376, #3652, #3695, #3735, #3786, #3783, #3699, #3340, #3810, #3822, #3817, #3791, #3859, #2459, #3677, #3883, #3894, #3861, #3822, #3852, #3875, #2722, #3768, #3914, #3885, #2719, #3905, #3942, #2820, #3990, #3954, #1627, #2326, #2972, #3253, #3937, #4058, #1200, #3639, #4079, #4063, #4050

Twisted Conch 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Fixes

  • The SSH key parser has been removed and conch now uses pyASN1 to parse keys. This should fix a number of cases where parsing a key would fail, but it now requires users to have pyASN1 installed (#3391)
  • The time field on SFTP file listings should now be correct (#3503)
  • The day field on SFTP file listings should now be correct on Windows (#3503)
  • The “cftp” sftp client now truncates files it is uploading over (#2519)
  • The telnet server protocol can now properly respond to subnegotiation requests (#3655)
  • Tests and factoring of the SSHv2 server implementation are now much better (#2682)
  • The SSHv2 server now sends “exit-signal” messages to the client, instead of raising an exception, when a process dies due to a signal (#2687)
  • cftp’s client-side “exec” command now uses /bin/sh if the current user has no shell (#3914)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The buggy SSH connection sharing feature of the SSHv2 client was removed (#3498)
  • Use of strings and PyCrypto objects to represent keys is deprecated in favor of using Conch Key objects (#2682)

Other

  • #3548, #3537, #3551, #3220, #3568, #3689, #3709, #3809, #2763, #3540, #3750, #3897, #3813, #3871, #3916, #4047, #3940, #4050

Twisted Lore 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Features

  • Python source listings now include line numbers (#3486)

Fixes

  • Lore now uses minidom instead of Twisted’s microdom, which incidentally fixes some Lore bugs such as throwing away certain whitespace (#3560, #414, #3619)
  • Lore’s “lint” command should no longer break on documents with links in them (#4051, #4115)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Lore no longer uses the ancient “tml” Twisted plugin system (#1911)

Other

  • #3565, #3246, #3540, #3750, #4050

Twisted Mail 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Features

  • maildir.StringListMailbox, an in-memory maildir mailbox, now supports deletion, undeletion, and syncing (#3547)
  • SMTPClient’s callbacks are now more completely documented (#684)

Fixes

  • Parse UNSEEN response data and include it in the result of IMAP4Client.examine (#3550)
  • The IMAP4 client now delivers more unsolicited server responses to callbacks rather than ignoring them, and also won’t ignore solicited responses that arrive on the same line as an unsolicited one (#1105)
  • Several bugs in the SMTP client’s idle timeout support were fixed (#3641, #1219)
  • A case where the SMTP client could skip some recipients when retrying delivery has been fixed (#3638)
  • Errors during certain data transfers will no longer be swallowed. They will now bubble up to the higher-level API (such as the sendmail function) (#3642)
  • Escape sequences inside quoted strings in IMAP4 should now be parsed correctly by the IMAP4 server protocol (#3659)
  • The “imap4-utf-7” codec that is registered by twisted.mail.imap4 had a number of fixes that allow it to work better with the Python codecs system, and to actually work (#3663)
  • The Maildir implementation now ensures time-based ordering of filenames so that the lexical sorting of messages matches the order in which they were received (#3812)
  • SASL PLAIN credentials generated by the IMAP4 protocol implementations (client and server) should now be RFC-compliant (#3939)
  • Searching for a set of sequences using the IMAP4 “SEARCH” command should now work on the IMAP4 server protocol implementation. This at least improves support for the Pine mail client (#1977)

Other

  • #2763, #3647, #3750, #3819, #3540, #3846, #2023, #4050

Twisted Names 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Deprecations and Removals

  • client.ThreadedResolver is deprecated in favor of twisted.internet.base.ThreadedResolver (#3710)

Other

  • #3540, #3560, #3712, #3750, #3990

Twisted News 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Other

  • #2763, #3540

Twisted Pair 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Other

  • #3540, #4050

Twisted Runner 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Features

  • procmon.ProcessMonitor.addProcess now accepts an ‘env’ parameter which allows users to specify the environment in which a process will be run (#3691)

Other

  • #3540

Twisted Web 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Features

  • There is now an iweb.IRequest interface which specifies the interface that request objects provide (#3416)
  • downloadPage now supports the same cookie, redirect, and timeout features that getPage supports (#2971)
  • A chapter about WSGI has been added to the twisted.web documentation (#3510)
  • The HTTP auth support in the web server now allows anonymous sessions by logging in with ANONYMOUS credentials when no Authorization header is provided in a request (#3924, #3936)
  • HTTPClientFactory now accepts a parameter to enable a common deviation from the HTTP 1.1 standard by responding to redirects in a POSTed request with a GET instead of another POST (#3624)
  • A new basic HTTP/1.1 client API is included in twisted.web.client.Agent (#886, #3987)

Fixes

  • Requests for “insecure” children of a static.File (such as paths containing encoded directory separators) will now result in a 404 instead of a 500 (#3549, #3469)
  • When specifying a followRedirect argument to the getPage function, the state of redirect-following for other getPage calls should now be unaffected. It was previously overwriting a class attribute which would affect outstanding getPage calls (#3192)
  • Downloading an URL of the form “http://example.com:/” will now work, ignoring the extraneous colon (#2402)
  • microdom’s appendChild method will no longer issue a spurious warning, and microdom’s methods in general should now issue more meaningful exceptions when invalid parameters are passed (#3421)
  • WSGI applications will no longer have spurious Content-Type headers added to their responses by the twisted.web server. In addition, WSGI applications will no longer be able to specify the server-restricted headers Server and Date (#3569)
  • http_headers.Headers now normalizes the case of raw headers passed directly to it in the same way that it normalizes the headers passed to setRawHeaders (#3557)
  • The distrib module no longer relies on the deprecated woven package (#3559)
  • twisted.web.domhelpers now works with both microdom and minidom (#3600)
  • twisted.web servers will now ignore invalid If-Modified-Since headers instead of returning a 500 error (#3601)
  • Certain request-bound memory and file resources are cleaned up slightly sooner by the request when the connection is lost (#1621, #3176)
  • xmlrpclib.DateTime objects should now correctly round-trip over twisted.web’s XMLRPC support in all supported versions of Python, and errors during error serialization will no longer hang a twisted.web XMLRPC response (#2446)
  • request.content should now always be seeked to the beginning when request.process is called, so application code should never need to seek back manually (#3585)
  • Fetching a child of static.File with a double-slash in the URL (such as “example//foo.html”) should now return a 404 instead of a traceback and 500 error (#3631)
  • downloadPage will now fire a Failure on its returned Deferred instead of indicating success when the connection is prematurely lost (#3645)
  • static.File will now provide a 404 instead of a 500 error when it was constructed with a non-existent file (#3634)
  • microdom should now serialize namespaces correctly (#3672)
  • The HTTP Auth support resource wrapper should no longer corrupt requests and cause them to skip a segment in the request path (#3679)
  • The twisted.web WSGI support should now include leading slashes in PATH_INFO, and SCRIPT_NAME will be empty if the application is at the root of the resource tree. This means that WSGI applications should no longer generate URLs with double-slashes in them even if they naively concatenate the values (#3721)
  • WSGI applications should now receive the requesting client’s IP in the REMOTE_ADDR environment variable (#3730)
  • The distrib module should work again. It was unfortunately broken with the refactoring of twisted.web’s header support (#3697)
  • static.File now supports multiple ranges specified in the Range header (#3574)
  • static.File should now generate a correct Content-Length value when the requested Range value doesn’t fit entirely within the file’s contents (#3814)
  • Attempting to call request.finish() after the connection has been lost will now immediately raise a RuntimeError (#4013)
  • An HTTP-auth resource should now be able to directly render the wrapped avatar, whereas before it would only allow retrieval of child resources (#4014)
  • twisted.web’s wsgi support should no longer attempt to call request.finish twice, which would cause errors in certain cases (#4025)
  • WSGI applications should now be able to handle requests with large bodies (#4029)
  • Exceptions raised from WSGI applications should now more reliably be turned into 500 errors on the HTTP level (#4019)
  • DeferredResource now correctly passes through exceptions raised from the wrapped resource, instead of turning them all into 500 errors (#3932)
  • Agent.request now generates a Host header when no headers are passed at (#4131)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The unmaintained and untested twisted.web.monitor module was removed (#2763)
  • The twisted.web.woven package has been removed (#1522)
  • All of the error resources in twisted.web.error are now in twisted.web.resource, and accessing them through twisted.web.error is now deprecated (#3035)
  • To facilitate a simplification of the timeout logic in server.Session, various things have been deprecated (#3457) - the loopFactory attribute is now ignored - the checkExpired method now does nothing - the lifetime parameter to startCheckingExpiration is now ignored
  • The twisted.web.trp module is now deprecated (#2030)

Other

  • #2763, #3540, #3575, #3610, #3605, #1176, #3539, #3750, #3761, #3779, #2677, #3782, #3904, #3919, #3418, #3990, #1404, #4050

Twisted Words 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)

Features

  • IRCClient.describe is a new method meant to replace IRCClient.me to send CTCP ACTION messages with less confusing behavior (#3910)
  • The XMPP client protocol implementation now supports ANONYMOUS SASL authentication (#4067)
  • The IRC client protocol implementation now has better support for the ISUPPORT server->client message, storing the data in a new ServerSupportedFeatures object accessible via IRCClient.supported (#3285)

Fixes

  • The twisted.words IRC server now always sends an MOTD, which at least makes Pidgin able to successfully connect to a twisted.words IRC server (#2385)
  • The IRC client will now dispatch “RPL MOTD” messages received before a “RPL MOTD START” instead of raising an exception (#3676)
  • The IRC client protocol implementation no longer updates its ‘nickname’ attribute directly; instead, that attribute will be updated when the server acknowledges the change (#3377)
  • The IRC client protocol implementation now supports falling back to another nickname when a nick change request fails (#3377, #4010)

Deprecations and Removals

  • The TOC protocol implementation is now deprecated, since the protocol itself has been deprecated and obselete for quite a long time (#3580)
  • The gui “im” application has been removed, since it relied on GTK1, which is hard to find these days (#3699, #3340)

Other

  • #2763, #3540, #3647, #3750, #3895, #3968, #4050

Core 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Features

  • Reactors are slowly but surely becoming more isolated, thus improving testability (#3198)
  • FilePath has gained a realpath method, and FilePath.walk no longer infinitely recurses in the case of a symlink causing a self-recursing filesystem tree (#3098)
  • FilePath’s moveTo and copyTo methods now have an option to disable following of symlinks (#3105)
  • Private APIs are now included in the API documentation (#3268)
  • hotshot is now the default profiler for the twistd –profile parameter and using cProfile is now documented (#3355, #3356)
  • Process protocols can now implement a processExited method, which is distinct from processEnded in that it is called immediately when the child has died, instead of waiting for all the file descriptors to be closed (#1291)
  • twistd now has a –umask option (#966, #3024)
  • A new deferToThreadPool function exists in twisted.internet.threads (#2845)
  • There is now an example of writing an FTP server in examples/ftpserver.py (#1579)
  • A new runAsEffectiveUser function has been added to twisted.python.util (#2607)
  • twisted.internet.utils.getProcessOutput now offers a mechanism for waiting for the process to actually end, in the event of data received on stderr (#3239)
  • A fullyQualifiedName function has been added to twisted.python.reflect (#3254)
  • strports now defaults to managing access to a UNIX socket with a lock; lockfile=0 can be included in the strports specifier to disable this behavior (#2295)
  • FTPClient now has a ‘rename’ method (#3335)
  • FTPClient now has a ‘makeDirectory’ method (#3500)
  • FTPClient now has a ‘removeFile’ method (#3491)
  • flushWarnings, A new Trial method for testing warnings, has been added (#3487, #3427, #3506)
  • The log observer can now be configured in .tac files (#3534)

Fixes

  • TLS Session Tickets are now disabled by default, allowing connections to certain servers which hang when an empty session ticket is received (like GTalk) (#3463)
  • twisted.enterprise.adbapi.ConnectionPool’s noisy attribute now defaults to False, as documented (#1806)
  • Error handling and logging in adbapi is now much improved (#3244)
  • TCP listeners can now be restarted (#2913)
  • Doctests can now be rerun with trial’s –until-failure option (#2713)
  • Some memory leaks have been fixed in trial’s –until-failure implementation (#3119, #3269)
  • Trial’s summary reporter now prints correct runtime information and handles the case of 0 tests (#3184)
  • Trial and any other user of the ‘namedAny’ function now has better error reporting in the case of invalid module names (#3259)
  • Multiple instances of trial can now run in parallel in the same directory by creating _trial_temp directories with an incremental suffix (#2338)
  • Trial’s failUnlessWarns method now works on Python 2.6 (#3223)
  • twisted.python.log now hooks into the warnings system in a way compatible with Python 2.6 (#3211)
  • The GTK2 reactor is now better supported on Windows, but still not passing the entire test suite (#3203)
  • low-level failure handling in spawnProcess has been improved and no longer leaks file descriptors (#2305, #1410)
  • Perspective Broker avatars now have their logout functions called in more cases (#392)
  • Log observers which raise exceptions are no longer removed (#1069)
  • transport.getPeer now always includes an IP address in the Address returned instead of a hostname (#3059)
  • Functions in twisted.internet.utils which spawn processes now avoid calling chdir in the case where no working directory is passed, to avoid some obscure permission errors (#3159)
  • twisted.spread.publish.Publishable no longer corrupts line endings on Windows (#2327)
  • SelectReactor now properly detects when a TLS/TCP connection has been disconnected (#3218)
  • twisted.python.lockfile no longer raises an EEXIST OSError and is much better supported on Windows (#3367)
  • When ITLSTransport.startTLS is called while there is data in the write buffer, TLS negotiation will now be delayed instead of the method raising an exception (#686)
  • The userAnonymous argument to FTPFactory is now honored (#3390)
  • twisted.python.modules no longer tries to “fix” sys.modules after an import error, which was just causing problems (#3388)
  • setup.py no longer attempts to build extension modules when run with Jython (#3410)
  • AMP boxes can now be sent in IBoxReceiver.startReceivingBoxes (#3477)
  • AMP connections are closed as soon as a key length larger than 255 is received (#3478)
  • Log events with timezone offsets between -1 and -59 minutes are now correctly reported as negative (#3515)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Trial’s setUpClass and tearDownClass methods are now deprecated (#2903)
  • problemsFromTransport has been removed in favor of the argument passed to connectionLost (#2874)
  • The mode parameter to methods of IReactorUNIX and IReactorUNIXDatagram are deprecated in favor of applications taking other security precautions, since the mode of a Unix socket is often not respected (#1068)
  • Index access on instances of twisted.internet.defer.FirstError has been removed in favor of the subFailure attribute (#3298)
  • The ‘changeDirectory’ method of FTPClient has been deprecated in favor of the ‘cwd’ method (#3491)

Other

  • #3202, #2869, #3225, #2955, #3237, #3196, #2355, #2881, #3054, #2374, #2918, #3210, #3052, #3267, #3288, #2985, #3295, #3297, #2512, #3302, #1222, #2631, #3306, #3116, #3215, #1489, #3319, #3320, #3321, #1255, #2169, #3182, #3323, #3301, #3318, #3029, #3338, #3346, #1144, #3173, #3165, #685, #3357, #2582, #3370, #2438, #1253, #637, #1971, #2208, #979, #1790, #1888, #1882, #1793, #754, #1890, #1931, #1246, #1025, #3177, #2496, #2567, #3400, #2213, #2027, #3415, #1262, #3422, #2500, #3414, #3045, #3111, #2974, #2947, #3222, #2878, #3402, #2909, #3423, #1328, #1852, #3382, #3393, #2029, #3489, #1853, #2026, #2375, #3502, #3482, #3504, #3505, #3507, #2605, #3519, #3520, #3121, #3484, #3439, #3216, #3511, #3524, #3521, #3197, #2486, #2449, #2748, #3381, #3236, #671

Conch 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Features

  • The type of the protocols instantiated by SSHFactory is now parameterized (#3443)

Fixes

  • A file descriptor leak has been fixed (#3213, #1789)
  • “File Already Exists” errors are now handled more correctly (#3033)
  • Handling of CR IAC in TelnetClient is now improved (#3305)
  • SSHAgent is no longer completely unusable (#3332)
  • The performance of insults.ClientProtocol is now greatly increased by delivering more than one byte at a time to application code (#3386)
  • Manhole and the conch server no longer need to be run as root when not necessary (#2607)
  • The value of FILEXFER_ATTR_ACMODTIME has been corrected (#2902)
  • The management of known_hosts and host key verification has been overhauled (#1376, #1301, #3494, #3496, #1292, #3499)

Other

  • #3193, #1633

Lore 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Other

  • #2207, #2514

Mail 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Fixes

  • The mailmail tool now provides better error messages for usage errors (#3339)
  • The SMTP protocol implementation now works on PyPy (#2976)

Other

  • #3475

Names 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Features

  • The NAPTR record type is now supported (#2276)

Fixes

  • Make client.Resolver less vulnerable to the Birthday Paradox attack by avoiding sending duplicate queries when it’s not necessary (#3347)
  • client.Resolver now uses a random source port for each DNS request (#3342)
  • client.Resolver now uses a full 16 bits of randomness for message IDs, instead of 10 which it previously used (#3342)
  • All record types now have value-based equality and a string representation (#2935)

Other

  • #1622, #3424

Web 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Features

  • The web server can now deal with multi-value headers in the new attributes of Request, requestHeaders and responseHeaders (#165)
  • There is now a resource-wrapper which implements HTTP Basic and Digest auth in terms of twisted.cred (#696)
  • It’s now possible to limit the number of redirects that client.getPage will follow (#2412)
  • The directory-listing code no longer uses Woven (#3257)
  • static.File now supports Range headers with a single range (#1493)
  • twisted.web now has a rudimentary WSGI container (#2753)
  • The web server now supports chunked encoding in requests (#3385)

Fixes

  • The xmlrpc client now raises an error when the server sends an empty response (#3399)
  • HTTPPageGetter no longer duplicates default headers when they’re explicitly overridden in the headers parameter (#1382)
  • The server will no longer timeout clients which are still sending request data (#1903)
  • microdom’s isEqualToNode now returns False when the nodes aren’t equal (#2542)

Deprecations and Removals

  • Request.headers and Request.received_headers are not quite deprecated, but they are discouraged in favor of requestHeaders and responseHeaders (#165)

Other

  • #909, #687, #2938, #1152, #2930, #2025, #2683, #3471

Web2 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Note: Twisted Web2 is being phased out in preference for Twisted Web, but some maintenance changes have been made.

Fixes

  • The main twisted.web2 docstring now indicates the current state of the project (#2028)
  • Headers which require unusual bytes are now quoted (#2346)
  • Some links in the introduction documentation have been fixed (#2552)

Words 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)

Feature

  • There is now a standalone XMPP router included in twisted.words: it can be used with the ‘twistd xmpp-router’ command line (#3407)
  • A server factory for Jabber XML Streams has been added (#3435)
  • Domish now allows for iterating child elements with specific qualified names (#2429)
  • IRCClient now has a ‘back’ method which removes the away status (#3366)
  • IRCClient now has a ‘whois’ method (#3133)

Fixes

  • The IRC Client implementation can now deal with compound mode changes (#3230)
  • The MSN protocol implementation no longer requires the CVR0 protocol to be included in the VER command (#3394)
  • In the IRC server implementation, topic messages will no longer be sent for a group which has no topic (#2204)
  • An infinite loop (which caused infinite memory usage) in irc.split has been fixed. This was triggered any time a message that starts with a delimiter was sent (#3446)
  • Jabber’s toResponse now generates a valid stanza even when stanzaType is not specified (#3467)
  • The lifetime of authenticator instances in XmlStreamServerFactory is no longer artificially extended (#3464)

Other

  • #3365

Core 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Features

  • twisted.internet.error.ConnectionClosed is a new exception which is the superclass of ConnectionLost and ConnectionDone (#3137)
  • Trial’s CPU and memory performance should be better now (#3034)
  • twisted.python.filepath.FilePath now has a chmod method (#3124)

Fixes

  • Some reactor re-entrancy regressions were fixed (#3146, #3168)
  • A regression was fixed whereby constructing a Failure for an exception and traceback raised out of a Pyrex extension would fail (#3132)
  • CopyableFailures in PB can again be created from CopiedFailures (#3174)
  • FilePath.remove, when called on a FilePath representing a symlink to a directory, no longer removes the contents of the targeted directory, and instead removes the symlink (#3097)
  • FilePath now has a linkTo method for creating new symlinks (#3122)
  • The docstring for Trial’s addCleanup method now correctly specifies when cleanup functions are run (#3131)
  • assertWarns now deals better with multiple identical warnings (#2904)
  • Various windows installer bugs were fixed (#3115, #3144, #3150, #3151, #3164)
  • API links in the howto documentation have been corrected (#3130)
  • The Win32 Process transport object now has a pid attribute (#1836)
  • A doc bug in the twistd plugin howto which would inevitably lead to confusion was fixed (#3183)
  • A regression breaking IOCP introduced after the last release was fixed (#3200)

Deprecations and Removals

  • mktap is now fully deprecated, and will emit DeprecationWarnings when used (#3127)

Other

  • #3079, #3118, #3120, #3145, #3069, #3149, #3186, #3208, #2762

Conch 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Fixes

  • A regression was fixed whereby the publicKeys and privateKeys attributes of SSHFactory would not be interpreted as strings (#3141)
  • The sshsimpleserver.py example had a minor bug fix (#3135)
  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
  • An infelicity was fixed whereby a NameError would be raised in certain circumstances during authentication when a ConchError should have been (#3154)
  • A workaround was added to conch.insults for a bug in gnome-terminal whereby it would not scroll correctly (#3189)

Lore 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Fixes

  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)

News 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Fixes

  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)

Web 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Fixes

  • Fixed an XMLRPC bug whereby sometimes a callRemote Deferred would accidentally be fired twice when a connection was lost during the handling of a response (#3152)
  • Fixed a bug in the “Using Twisted Web” document which prevented an example resource from being renderable (#3147)
  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)

Words 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Features

  • JID objects now have a nice __repr__ (#3156)
  • Extending XMPP protocols is now easier (#2178)

Fixes

  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
  • A bug whereby one-time XMPP observers would be enabled permanently was fixed (#3066)

Mail 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Fixes

  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)

Names 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Fixes

  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)

Web2 8.1.0 (2008-05-18)

Fixes

  • The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)

Core 8.0.1 (2008-03-26)

Fixes

  • README no longer refers to obsolete trial command line option
  • twistd no longer causes a bizarre DeprecationWarning about mktap

Core 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Features

  • The IOCP reactor has had many changes and is now greatly improved (#1760, #3055)
  • The main Twisted distribution is now easy_installable (#1286, #3110)
  • twistd can now profile with cProfile (#2469)
  • twisted.internet.defer contains a DeferredFilesystemLock which gives a Deferred interface to lock file acquisition (#2180)
  • twisted.python.modules is a new system for representing and manipulating module paths (i.e. sys.path) (#1951)
  • twisted.internet.fdesc now contains a writeToFD function, along with other minor fixes (#2419)
  • twisted.python.usage now allows optional type enforcement (#739)
  • The reactor now has a blockingCallFromThread method for non-reactor threads to use to wait for a reactor-scheduled call to return a result (#1042, #3030)
  • Exceptions raised inside of inlineCallbacks-using functions now have a better chance of coming with a meaningful traceback (#2639, #2803)
  • twisted.python.randbytes now contains code for generating secure random bytes (#2685)
  • The classes in twisted.application.internet now accept a reactor parameter for specifying the reactor to use for underlying calls to allow for better testability (#2937)
  • LoopingCall now allows you to specify the reactor to use to schedule new calls, allowing much better testing techniques (#2633, #2634)
  • twisted.internet.task.deferLater is a new API for scheduling calls and getting deferreds which are fired with their results (#1875)
  • objgrep now knows how to search through deque objects (#2323)
  • twisted.python.log now contains a Twisted log observer which can forward messages to the Python logging system (#1351)
  • Log files now include seconds in the timestamps (#867)
  • It is now possible to limit the number of log files to create during log rotation (#1095)
  • The interface required by the log context system is now documented as ILoggingContext, and abstract.FileDescriptor now declares that it implements it (#1272)
  • There is now an example cred checker that uses a database via adbapi (#460)
  • The epoll reactor is now documented in the choosing-reactors howto (#2539)
  • There were improvements to the client howto (#222)
  • Int8Receiver was added (#2315)
  • Various refactorings to AMP introduced better testability and public interfaces (#2657, #2667, #2656, #2664, #2810)
  • twisted.protocol.policies.TrafficLoggingFactory now has a resetCounter method (#2757)
  • The FTP client can be told which port range within which to bind passive transfer ports (#1904)
  • twisted.protocols.memcache contains a new asynchronous memcache client (#2506, #2957)
  • PB now supports anonymous login (#439, #2312)
  • twisted.spread.jelly now supports decimal objects (#2920)
  • twisted.spread.jelly now supports all forms of sets (#2958)
  • There is now an interface describing the API that process protocols must provide (#3020)
  • Trial reporting to core unittest TestResult objects has been improved (#2495)
  • Trial’s TestCase now has an addCleanup method which allows easy setup of tear-down code (#2610, #2899)
  • Trial’s TestCase now has an assertIsInstance method (#2749)
  • Trial’s memory footprint and speed are greatly improved (#2275)
  • At the end of trial runs, “PASSED” and “FAILED” messages are now colorized (#2856)
  • Tests which leave global state around in the reactor will now fail in trial. A new option, –unclean-warnings, will convert these errors back into warnings (#2091)
  • Trial now has a –without-module command line for testing code in an environment that lacks a particular Python module (#1795)
  • Error reporting of failed assertEquals assertions now has much nicer formatting (#2893)
  • Trial now has methods for monkey-patching (#2598)
  • Trial now has an ITestCase (#2898, #1950)
  • The trial reporter API now has a ‘done’ method which is called at the end of a test run (#2883)
  • TestCase now has an assertWarns method which allows testing that functions emit warnings (#2626, #2703)
  • There are now no string exceptions in the entire Twisted code base (#2063)
  • There is now a system for specifying credentials checkers with a string (#2570)

Fixes

  • Some tests which were asserting the value of stderr have been changed because Python uncontrollably writes bytes to stderr (#2405)
  • Log files handle time zones with DST better (#2404)
  • Subprocesses using PTYs on OS X that are handled by Twisted will now be able to more reliably write the final bytes before they exit, allowing Twisted code to more reliably receive them (#2371, #2858)
  • Trial unit test reporting has been improved (#1901)
  • The kqueue reactor handles connection failures better (#2172)
  • It’s now possible to run “trial foo/bar/” without an exception: trailing slashes no longer cause problems (#2005)
  • cred portals now better deal with implementations of inherited interfaces (#2523)
  • FTP error handling has been improved (#1160, 1107)
  • Trial behaves better with respect to file locking on Windows (#2482)
  • The FTP server now gives a better error when STOR is attempted during an anonymous session (#1575)
  • Trial now behaves better with tests that use the reactor’s threadpool (#1832)
  • twisted.python.reload now behaves better with new-style objects (#2297)
  • LogFile’s defaultMode parameter is now better implemented, preventing potential security exploits (#2586)
  • A minor obscure leak in thread pools was corrected (#1134)
  • twisted.internet.task.Clock now returns the correct DelayedCall from callLater, instead of returning the one scheduled for the furthest in the future (#2691)
  • twisted.spread.util.FilePager no longer unnecessarily buffers data in memory (#1843, 2321)
  • Asking for twistd or trial to use an unavailable reactor no longer prints a traceback (#2457)
  • System event triggers have fewer obscure bugs (#2509)
  • Plugin discovery code is much better behaved, allowing multiple installations of a package with plugins (#2339, #2769)
  • Process and PTYProcess have been merged and some minor bugs have been fixed (#2341)
  • The reactor has less global state (#2545)
  • Failure can now correctly represent and format errors caused by string exceptions (#2830)
  • The epoll reactor now has better error handling which now avoids the bug causing 100% CPU usage in some cases (#2809)
  • Errors raised during trial setUp or tearDown methods are now handled better (#2837)
  • A problem when deferred callbacks add new callbacks to the deferred that they are a callback of was fixed (#2849)
  • Log messages that are emitted during connectionMade now have the protocol prefix correctly set (#2813)
  • The string representation of a TCP Server connection now contains the actual port that it’s bound to when it was configured to listen on port 0 (#2826)
  • There is better reporting of error codes for TCP failures on Windows (#2425)
  • Process spawning has been made slightly more robust by disabling garbage collection temporarily immediately after forking so that finalizers cannot be executed in an unexpected environment (#2483)
  • namedAny now detects import errors better (#698)
  • Many fixes and improvements to the twisted.python.zipstream module have been made (#2996)
  • FilePager no longer blows up on empty files (#3023)
  • twisted.python.util.FancyEqMixin has been improved to cooperate with objects of other types (#2944)
  • twisted.python.FilePath.exists now restats to prevent incorrect result (#2896)
  • twisted.python.util.mergeFunctionMetadata now also merges the __module__ attribute (#3049)
  • It is now possible to call transport.pauseProducing within connectionMade on TCP transports without it being ignored (#1780)
  • twisted.python.versions now understands new SVN metadata format for fetching the SVN revision number (#3058)
  • It’s now possible to use reactor.callWhenRunning(reactor.stop) on gtk2 and glib2 reactors (#3011)

Deprecations and removals

  • twisted.python.timeoutqueue is now deprecated (#2536)
  • twisted.enterprise.row and twisted.enterprise.reflector are now deprecated (#2387)
  • twisted.enterprise.util is now deprecated (#3022)
  • The dispatch and dispatchWithCallback methods of ThreadPool are now deprecated (#2684)
  • Starting the same reactor multiple times is now deprecated (#1785)
  • The visit method of various test classes in trial has been deprecated (#2897)
  • The –report-profile option to twistd and twisted.python.dxprofile are deprecated (#2908)
  • The upDownError method of Trial reporters is deprecated (#2883)

Other

  • #2396, #2211, #1921, #2378, #2247, #1603, #2463, #2530, #2426, #2356, #2574,
  • #1844, #2575, #2655, #2640, #2670, #2688, #2543, #2743, #2744, #2745, #2746,
  • #2742, #2741, #1730, #2831, #2216, #1192, #2848, #2767, #1220, #2727, #2643,
  • #2669, #2866, #2867, #1879, #2766, #2855, #2547, #2857, #2862, #1264, #2735,
  • #942, #2885, #2739, #2901, #2928, #2954, #2906, #2925, #2942, #2894, #2793,
  • #2761, #2977, #2968, #2895, #3000, #2990, #2919, #2969, #2921, #3005, #421,
  • #3031, #2940, #1181, #2783, #1049, #3053, #2847, #2941, #2876, #2886, #3086,
  • #3095, #3109

Conch 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Features

  • Add DEC private mode manipulation methods to ITerminalTransport. (#2403)

Fixes

  • Parameterize the scheduler function used by the insults TopWindow widget. This change breaks backwards compatibility in the TopWindow initializer. (#2413)
  • Notify subsystems, like SFTP, of connection close. (#2421)
  • Change the process file descriptor “connection lost” code to reverse the setNonBlocking operation done during initialization. (#2371)
  • Change ConsoleManhole to wait for connectionLost notification before stopping the reactor. (#2123, #2371)
  • Make SSHUserAuthServer.ssh_USERAUTH_REQUEST return a Deferred. (#2528)
  • Manhole’s initializer calls its parent class’s initializer with its namespace argument. (#2587)
  • Handle ^C during input line continuation in manhole by updating the prompt and line buffer correctly. (#2663)
  • Make twisted.conch.telnet.Telnet by default reject all attempts to enable options. (#1967)
  • Reduce the number of calls into application code to deliver application-level data in twisted.conch.telnet.Telnet.dataReceived (#2107)
  • Fix definition and management of extended attributes in conch file transfer. (#3010)
  • Fix parsing of OpenSSH-generated RSA keys with differing ASN.1 packing style. (#3008)
  • Fix handling of missing $HOME in twisted.conch.client.unix. (#3061)

Misc

  • #2267, #2378, #2604, #2707, #2341, #2685, #2679, #2912, #2977, #2678, #2709 #2063, #2847

Lore 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Fixes

  • Change twisted.lore.tree.setIndexLin so that it removes node with index-link class when the specified index filename is None. (#812)
  • Fix the conversion of the list of options in man pages to Lore format. (#3017)
  • Fix conch man pages generation. (#3075)
  • Fix management of the interactive command tag in man2lore. (#3076)

Misc

  • #2847

News 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Misc

  • Remove all “API Stability” markers (#2847)

Runner 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Misc

  • Remove all “API Stability” markers (#2847)

Web 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Features

  • Add support to twisted.web.client.getPage for the HTTP HEAD method. (#2750)

Fixes

  • Set content-type in xmlrpc responses to “text/xml” (#2430)
  • Add more error checking in the xmlrpc.XMLRPC render method, and enforce POST requests. (#2505)
  • Reject unicode input to twisted.web.client._parse to reject invalid unicode URLs early. (#2628)
  • Correctly re-quote URL path segments when generating an URL string to return from Request.prePathURL. (#2934)
  • Make twisted.web.proxy.ProxyClientFactory close the connection when reporting a 501 error. (#1089)
  • Fix twisted.web.proxy.ReverseProxyResource to specify the port in the host header if different from 80. (#1117)
  • Change twisted.web.proxy.ReverseProxyResource so that it correctly encodes the request URI it sends on to the server for which it is a proxy. (#3013)
  • Make “twistd web –personal” use PBServerFactory (#2681)

Misc

  • #1996, #2382, #2211, #2633, #2634, #2640, #2752, #238, #2905

Words 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Features

  • Provide function for creating XMPP response stanzas. (#2614, #2614)
  • Log exceptions raised in Xish observers. (#2616)
  • Add ‘and’ and ‘or’ operators for Xish XPath expressions. (#2502)
  • Make JIDs hashable. (#2770)

Fixes

  • Respect the hostname and servername parameters to IRCClient.register. (#1649)
  • Make EventDispatcher remove empty callback lists. (#1652)
  • Use legacy base64 API to support Python 2.3 (#2461)
  • Fix support of DIGEST-MD5 challenge parsing with multi-valued directives. (#2606)
  • Fix reuse of dict of prefixes in domish.Element.toXml (#2609)
  • Properly process XMPP stream headers (#2615)
  • Use proper namespace for XMPP stream errors. (#2630)
  • Properly parse XMPP stream errors. (#2771)
  • Fix toResponse for XMPP stanzas without an id attribute. (#2773)
  • Move XMPP stream header procesing to authenticators. (#2772)

Misc

  • #2617, #2640, #2741, #2063, #2570, #2847

Mail 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Features

  • Support CAPABILITY responses that include atoms of the form “FOO” and “FOO=BAR” in IMAP4 (#2695)
  • Parameterize error handling behavior of imap4.encoder and imap4.decoder. (#2929)

Fixes

  • Handle empty passwords in SMTP auth. (#2521)
  • Fix IMAP4Client’s parsing of literals which are not preceded by whitespace. (#2700)
  • Handle MX lookup succeeding without answers. (#2807)
  • Fix issues with aliases(5) process support. (#2729)

Misc

  • #2371, #2123, #2378, #739, #2640, #2746, #1917, #2266, #2864, #2832, #2063, #2865, #2847

Names 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

Fixes

  • Refactor DNSDatagramProtocol and DNSProtocol to use same base class (#2414)
  • Change Resolver to query specified nameservers in specified order, instead of reverse order. (#2290)
  • Make SRVConnector work with bad results and NXDOMAIN responses. (#1908, #2777)
  • Handle write errors happening in dns queries, to have correct deferred failures. (#2492)
  • Fix the value of OP_NOTIFY and add a definition for OP_UPDATE. (#2945)

Misc

  • #2685, #2936, #2581, #2847