[Twisted-Python] Twisted 16.6.0rc1 Release Candidate Announcement

[Mark Williams]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:56:52PM +1100, Amber "Hawkie" Brown wrote:
> - Python 3 support for Words' IRC support and twisted.protocols.sip among some smaller modules,

I have opened a PR to revert this:

https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/593

A full explanation is here:

https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/6320#comment:16

In summary: a valid IRC message will cause a UnicodeDecodeError within
the event loop that a user cannot handle or avoid, and all length
checks on line sizes are wrong because they occur prior to encoding to
utf-8.