[Twisted-Python] Twisted 17.5.0rc2 RC Announcement

[Amber Brown]

Hi Paul,

I don't think we'll be able to get any of those fixed for 17.5, but since
we have no outstanding regressions, there's nothing stopping me doing a
release next month if those things get fixed in the meantime.

- Amber

On 26 May 2017 at 23:02, Paul Tremberth <paul.tremberth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Amber,
>
> I have tested Twisted 17.5.0rc2 with latest Scrapy:
>
> - the issue we have with our resolver in Python 2 looks fixed indeed,
> thank you for this (https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/9137)
>
> > - Support for OpenSSL 1.1.0.
>
> - I tested with OpenSSL 1.1 and am still seeing what I reported on the
> mailing list, about elliptic curves:
> https://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-web/2017-April/005293.html
>
> is there a chance of getting it fixed too in 17.5?
>
> - I also commented on GitHub about issues with ESMTPSenderFactory and
> Python 3
> with a couple of fixes I tried locally in twisted/mail/smtp.py
> (but I did not open a ticket on Trac unfortunately so it may have been
> unnoticed)
> https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/2375#issuecomment-299226510
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> /Paul
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Amber Brown <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Fresh from PyCon US, comes a 17.5 prerelease. Fancy things in this
>> release:
>>
>> - twisted.python.url has been spun out into the new 'hyperlink' package;
>> importing twisted.python.url is now a compatibility alias
>> - Support for OpenSSL 1.1.0.
>> - Fixes around the reactor DNS resolver changes in 17.1, solving all
>> known regressions
>> - Deferred.asFuture and Deferred.fromFuture, to allow you to map asyncio
>> Futures to Twisted Deferreds and vice versa, for use the with Python 3+
>> asyncioreactor in Twisted
>> - Support for TLS 1.3 ciphersuites, in advance of a released OpenSSL to
>> enable the protocol
>> - Further Python 3 support in twisted.web, initial support in
>> twisted.mail.smtp
>>
>> Please see the NEWS.rst file and download the tarball at
>> https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/rc/17.5.0rc2/ . (rc1 fell to metadata
>> mishaps!)
>>
>> Let me know if you notice anything out of the ordinary. If there's no
>> problems, it'll release in the next week or so.
>>
>> Twisted Regards,
>>
>> Amber Brown (HawkOwl)
>>
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