[Twisted-Python] Twisted 18.9.0rc1 Release Candidate Announcement

[Glyph]

On Sep 28, 2018, at 3:43 AM, Amber Brown <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone! It's time again for a Twisted release. It's not a huge one, but it does have some important changes!

Yay!

> Twisted 18.9rc1 features:
> 
> - Support for Python 3.7!

Woohoo!

> - Better support for Unicode handling in logging tracebacks in Python 2
> - trial -j now reports tracebacks on test failures on Python 3.
> - twisted.internet._sslverify.ClientTLSOptions no longer raises IDNAError when given an IPv6 address as a hostname in a HTTPS URL.

Note for future release notes; we should really use the public names impacted, which in this case is `twisted.internet.ssl.optionsForClientTLS` :-).

> - HTTP/2 server connections will no longer time out active downloads that take too long.
> 
> You can get the tarball and the NEWS file at https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/rc/18.9.0rc1/ , or you can try it out from PyPI:
> 
>     python -m pip install Twisted==18.9.0rc1
> 
> Please test it, and let me know how your applications fare, good or bad! If nothing comes up, I will release next week.

Thanks again Amber!

-g