[Twisted-Python] Twisted 19.10.0rc1 Release Candidate Announcement

[Glyph]

> On Oct 14, 2019, at 1:05 AM, Amber Brown (hawkowl) <hawkowl at atleastfornow.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone, it's time for more Twisted!

It's always time for more Twisted

> It contains:
> 
> - Security fixes for HTTP/2 -- CVE-2019-9512 (Ping Flood), CVE-2019-9514
> (Reset Flood), and CVE-2019-9515 (Settings Flood).  Thanks to Jonathan
> Looney and Piotr Sikora.
> - HTTP/2 fixes regarding timeouts.

My understanding is that these are pretty much all resource-exhaustion attacks?

> - trial's assertResultOf, failureResultOf, and successResultOf, now
> accept Deferred-awaiting coroutines.

Awesome, I've been waiting for that one myself.

> - Various other bug fixes for POP3, conch.ssh.keys, and
> twisted.web.client.FileBodyProducer.

Wow, quite an assortment of important fixes here!

> You can get the tarball and the NEWS file at
> https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/rc/19.10.0rc1/ , or you can try it
> out from PyPI:
> 
>     python -m pip install Twisted==19.10.0rc1
> 
> Please test it, and let me know how your applications fare, good or bad!
> If nothing comes up, 19.10 will release in a week.
> 
> Twisted regards,
> 
> Amber Brown (hawkowl)

Thanks for keeping the release train moving, Amber!

Do we have any progress on a volunteer who will shadow this one / the next one?

Twisted prevails,

-g

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