Ticket numbers in this file can be looked up by visiting

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/<number>

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

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- 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

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

Mail 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

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Features

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- 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

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- Handle empty passwords in SMTP auth. (#2521)

- Fix IMAP4Client's parsing of literals which are not preceeded by whitespace.

(#2700)

- Handle MX lookup suceeding without answers. (#2807)

- Fix issues with aliases(5) process support. (#2729)

Misc

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- #2371, #2123, #2378, #739, #2640, #2746, #1917, #2266, #2864, #2832, #2063,

#2865, #2847

Names 8.0.0 (2008-03-17)

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Fixes

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- 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

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- #2685, #2936, #2581, #2847