[Twisted-Python] Twisted 16.4.0 Prerelease 1 Announcement

[Amber Brown]

You needn't be concerned, Glyph, the asyncio reactor landed after I cut the
release, so it's existence is currently a spoiler for season 16.5 of
Twisted ;)

On 14 Aug 2016 09:34, "Glyph Lefkowitz" <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:18 PM, Amber Hawkie Brown <
> hawkowl at atleastfornow.net> wrote:
>
> In a rare Twisted release double feature right after 16.3.1, I bring you
> the first prerelease of Twisted 16.4.0.
>
> This is a big release, the first after the Git migration has really kicked
> in! And so, here's what it brings us:
>
> - twist, a new command line tool for running Twisted plugins, similar to
> twistd but with a simpler, cleaner interface.
> - A new interface for Protocols, IHandshakeListener, which tells Twisted
> to tell the Protocol when the TLS handshake has been completed.
> - async/await support for Deferreds, allowing you to write Python 3.5+
> coroutines using Twisted
> - Trial can be invoked with "python -m twisted.trial".
> - 35+ more modules ported to Python 3, and many many cleanups on the way
> to Python 3 on Windows support.
> - 240+ closed tickets overall.
>
> For more information, check the NEWS file (link provided below).
>
> As usual, it's available for download -- go here (
> https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/pre/16.4.0pre1/) to get the prerelease
> tarballs and the full NEWS file. If you want to install it right away, run:
>
>    pip install https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/pre/16.4.0pre1/
> Twisted-16.4.0rc1.tar.bz2
>
> Please let me know if you have any issues, as well as if you don't! If
> everything works well, that's a good thing for me to know :)
>
>
> This is a _lot_ of stuff.  I can only imagine what a mega-blockbuster
> release we are going to have once we have this level of investment but we
> are already _done_ with python 3 porting (a day which, at this clip, will
> come soon)!!!
>
> Two minor points:
>
>
>    1. This release _also_ comes with setuptools console scripts.  That
>    sounds a bit dull, but for those of you on Windows, the exciting
>    consequence of this apparently mundane tweak is that that this is the first
>    release to have programs like twistd (and the new 'twist'!) work properly
>    at a Windows command line, without any special %PATHEXT% configuration!
>     setuptools/virtualenv/pip's .exe-stub generation makes .exe files that
>    work more or less like regular Windows executables, and therefore integrate
>    much better into the environment for all kinds of purposes.
>    2. I'm about to land the fix for <https://twistedmatrix.com/
>    trac/ticket/8754>.  While not technically a regression, I believe we
>    should have a pre2 for this; it would be sad for our first asyncioreactor
>    release to be beset by random EPIPE tracebacks (even if asyncio itself
>    would be without our help ;-)).
>
>
> -glyph
>
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