[Twisted-Python] Twisted 16.0 Released

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Tue Mar 15 15:42:03 MDT 2016


> On Mar 14, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Amber Hawkie Brown <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net> wrote:
> 
> On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honoured to announce the release of Twisted 16.0!
> 
> Twisted 16.0 brings some important changes, and some nice-to-haves as well. The major things are:
> 
> - TLS endpoints have arrived! They're like the old `ssl:` endpoints, but support faster IPv4/IPv6 connections (using HostnameEndpoint) and always do hostname verification.
> - Conch now uses Cryptography instead of PyCrypto for underlying cryptographic operations. This means it'll work much better on PyPy!
> - Headers objects (notably used by t.web.server.Request) now support Unicode for the vast majority of cases, encoding keys to ISO-8859-1 and values to UTF-8.
> - WSGI support and AMP have been ported to Python 3, along with a handful of other modules.
> - More shedding of the past, with the GTK+ 1 reactor being removed.
> - Over 45 tickets have been closed since 15.5.
> 
> For more information, check the NEWS file (link provided below).
> 
> You can find the downloads at <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted> (or alternatively <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads>). The NEWS file is also available at <https://github.com/twisted/twisted/blob/twisted-16.0.0/NEWS>.
> 
> Many thanks to everyone who had a part in this release - the supporters of the Twisted Software Foundation, the developers who contributed code as well as documentation, and all the people building great things with Twisted!

This was a real banner release, and we have more great features coming in 16.1.  Thanks a ton to everybody once again, especially those who reviewed those first two PRs :-).

-glyph





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