[Twisted-Python] Twisted 15.5 Prerelease 1 Announcement

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

> On Nov 18, 2015, at 2:58 AM, Amber Hawkie Brown <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone!
> 
> Hot off the presses comes Twisted 15.5.0pre1, the prerelease of Twisted 15.5, which has been described by some as "totally radical" and "off the wall".
> 
> In this release:
> 
> - Python 3.5 support on POSIX was added, and Python 2.6 support was dropped.
> - More than nine additional modules have been ported to Python 3, ranging from Twisted Web's Agent and downloadPage, twisted.python.logfile, and many others, as well as...
> - twistd is ported to Python 3, and its first plugin, web, is ported.
> - twisted.python.url, a new URL/IRI abstraction, has been introduced to answer the question "just what IS a URL" in Twisted, once and for all.
> - NPN and ALPN support has been added to Twisted's TLS implementation, paving the way for HTTP/2.
> - Conch now supports the DH group14-sha1 and group-exchange-sha256 key exchange algorithms, as well as hmac-sha2-256 and hmac-sha2-512 MAC algorithms. Conch also works nicer with newer OpenSSH implementations.
> - Twisted's IRC support now has a sendCommand() method, which enables the use of sending messages with tags.
> - 55+ closed tickets overall.
> 
> As usual, it's available for download -- go here (https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/pre/15.5.0pre1/) to get the prerelease tarballs and the full NEWS file.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any issues, as well as if you don't! If everything works well, that's a good thing for me to know :)
> 
> Thanks! <3
> 
> Amber Brown
> Twisted Release Manager

Fantastic job yet again - 2015 has seen some very exciting milestones and a record number of releases.  Thanks, Amber, for making that happen!

-glyph