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Core 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
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- Reactors are slowly but surely becoming more isolated, thus improving
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- FilePath has gained a realpath method, and FilePath.walk no longer infinitely
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recurses in the case of a symlink causing a self-recursing filesystem tree
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- FilePath's moveTo and copyTo methods now have an option to disable following
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- Private APIs are now included in the API documentation (#3268)
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- hotshot is now the default profiler for the twistd --profile parameter and
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using cProfile is now documented (#3355, #3356)
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- Process protocols can now implement a processExited method, which is
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distinct from processEnded in that it is called immediately when the child
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has died, instead of waiting for all the file descriptors to be closed
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- twistd now has a --umask option (#966, #3024)
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- A new deferToThreadPool function exists in twisted.internet.threads (#2845)
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- There is now an example of writing an FTP server in examples/ftpserver.py
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- A new runAsEffectiveUser function has been added to twisted.python.util
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- twisted.internet.utils.getProcessOutput now offers a mechanism for
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waiting for the process to actually end, in the event of data received on
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- A fullyQualifiedName function has been added to twisted.python.reflect
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- strports now defaults to managing access to a UNIX socket with a lock;
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lockfile=0 can be included in the strports specifier to disable this
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- FTPClient now has a 'rename' method (#3335)
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- FTPClient now has a 'makeDirectory' method (#3500)
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- FTPClient now has a 'removeFile' method (#3491)
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- flushWarnings, A new Trial method for testing warnings, has been added
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- The log observer can now be configured in .tac files (#3534)
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- TLS Session Tickets are now disabled by default, allowing connections to
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certain servers which hang when an empty session ticket is received (like
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- twisted.enterprise.adbapi.ConnectionPool's noisy attribute now defaults to
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False, as documented (#1806)
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- Error handling and logging in adbapi is now much improved (#3244)
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- TCP listeners can now be restarted (#2913)
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- Doctests can now be rerun with trial's --until-failure option (#2713)
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- Some memory leaks have been fixed in trial's --until-failure
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implementation (#3119, #3269)
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- Trial's summary reporter now prints correct runtime information and handles
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the case of 0 tests (#3184)
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- Trial and any other user of the 'namedAny' function now has better error
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reporting in the case of invalid module names (#3259)
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- Multiple instances of trial can now run in parallel in the same directory
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by creating _trial_temp directories with an incremental suffix (#2338)
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- Trial's failUnlessWarns method now works on Python 2.6 (#3223)
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- twisted.python.log now hooks into the warnings system in a way compatible
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with Python 2.6 (#3211)
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- The GTK2 reactor is now better supported on Windows, but still not passing
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the entire test suite (#3203)
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- low-level failure handling in spawnProcess has been improved and no longer
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leaks file descriptors (#2305, #1410)
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- Perspective Broker avatars now have their logout functions called in more
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- Log observers which raise exceptions are no longer removed (#1069)
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- transport.getPeer now always includes an IP address in the Address returned
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instead of a hostname (#3059)
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- Functions in twisted.internet.utils which spawn processes now avoid calling
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chdir in the case where no working directory is passed, to avoid some
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obscure permission errors (#3159)
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- twisted.spread.publish.Publishable no longer corrupts line endings on
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- SelectReactor now properly detects when a TLS/TCP connection has been
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- twisted.python.lockfile no longer raises an EEXIST OSError and is much
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better supported on Windows (#3367)
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- When ITLSTransport.startTLS is called while there is data in the write
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buffer, TLS negotiation will now be delayed instead of the method raising
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- The userAnonymous argument to FTPFactory is now honored (#3390)
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- twisted.python.modules no longer tries to "fix" sys.modules after an import
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error, which was just causing problems (#3388)
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- setup.py no longer attempts to build extension modules when run with Jython
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- AMP boxes can now be sent in IBoxReceiver.startReceivingBoxes (#3477)
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- AMP connections are closed as soon as a key length larger than 255 is
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- Log events with timezone offsets between -1 and -59 minutes are now
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correctly reported as negative (#3515)
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Deprecations and Removals
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- Trial's setUpClass and tearDownClass methods are now deprecated (#2903)
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- problemsFromTransport has been removed in favor of the argument passed to
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connectionLost (#2874)
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- The mode parameter to methods of IReactorUNIX and IReactorUNIXDatagram are
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deprecated in favor of applications taking other security precautions, since
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the mode of a Unix socket is often not respected (#1068)
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- Index access on instances of twisted.internet.defer.FirstError has been
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removed in favor of the subFailure attribute (#3298)
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- The 'changeDirectory' method of FTPClient has been deprecated in favor of
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the 'cwd' method (#3491)
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- #3202, #2869, #3225, #2955, #3237, #3196, #2355, #2881, #3054, #2374, #2918,
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#3210, #3052, #3267, #3288, #2985, #3295, #3297, #2512, #3302, #1222, #2631,
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#3306, #3116, #3215, #1489, #3319, #3320, #3321, #1255, #2169, #3182, #3323,
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#3301, #3318, #3029, #3338, #3346, #1144, #3173, #3165, #685, #3357, #2582,
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#3370, #2438, #1253, #637, #1971, #2208, #979, #1790, #1888, #1882, #1793,
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#754, #1890, #1931, #1246, #1025, #3177, #2496, #2567, #3400, #2213, #2027,
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#3415, #1262, #3422, #2500, #3414, #3045, #3111, #2974, #2947, #3222, #2878,
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#2375, #3502, #3482, #3504, #3505, #3507, #2605, #3519, #3520, #3121, #3484,
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