[Twisted-Python] ANN: Twisted 1.0.6 (includes security fixes)

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Sat Jun 28 23:58:14 EDT 2003


   IMPORTANT: This release includes security updates to twisted.web.
   It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to this version of
   Twisted.

Twisted is an event-driven networking framework for server and client
applications.

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What's New in 1.0.6
===================

- Security fixes for twisted.web.

- Cred, Twisted's unified authentication and authorization framework,
was rewritten. While still not stable, the new system is far superior
and developers are encouraged to start using it.

- Flow, an utility page for integrating asynchronous control flow with
generators and iterators.

- Many improvements to the UDP subsystem.

- Many Windows-specific networking bug fixes.

- Cleanups in Woven - outputted HTML no longer includes attributes used
by templating, removed fake-acquisition for templates.

- Support switching over to TLS from TCP connections (useful for e.g.
STARTTLS in SMTP.)

- Improvements to the mail protocols and infrastructure.

- Fixed 2.2.0 compatibility.

- Index support for Lore.

- Bug fixes, documentation updates and small feature improvements.





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