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Changes for 1.1
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.. currentmodule:: gevent
1.1.2 (Jul 21, 2016)
====================
- Python 2: ``sendall`` on a non-blocking socket could spuriously fail
with a timeout.
- If ``sys.stderr`` has been monkey-patched (not recommended),
exceptions that the hub reports aren't lost and can still be caught.
Reported in :issue:`825` by Jelle Smet.
- :class:`selectors.SelectSelector` is properly monkey-patched
regardless of the order of imports. Reported in :issue:`835` by
Przemysław Węgrzyn.
- Python 2: ``reload(site)`` no longer fails with a ``TypeError`` if
gevent has been imported. Reported in :issue:`805` by Jake Hilton.
1.1.1 (Apr 4, 2016)
===================
- Nested callbacks that set and clear an Event no longer cause
``wait`` to return prematurely. Reported in :issue:`771` by Sergey
Vasilyev.
- Fix build on Solaris 10. Reported in :issue:`777` by wiggin15.
- The ``ref`` parameter to :func:`gevent.os.fork_and_watch` was being ignored.
- Python 3: :class:`gevent.queue.Channel` is now correctly iterable, instead of
raising a :exc:`TypeError`.
- Python 3: Add support for :meth:`socket.socket.sendmsg`,
:meth:`socket.socket.recvmsg` and :meth:`socket.socket.recvmsg_into`
on platforms where they are defined. Initial :pr:`773` by Jakub
Klama.
1.1.0 (Mar 5, 2016)
===================
- Python 3: A monkey-patched :class:`threading.RLock` now properly
blocks (or deadlocks) in ``acquire`` if the default value for
*timeout* of -1 is used (which differs from gevent's default of
None). The ``acquire`` method also raises the same :exc:`ValueError`
exceptions that the standard library does for invalid parameters.
Reported in :issue:`750` by Joy Zheng.
- Fix a race condition in :class:`~gevent.event.Event` that made it
return ``False`` when the event was set and cleared by the same
greenlet before allowing a switch to already waiting greenlets. (Found
by the 3.4 and 3.5 standard library test suites; the same as Python
`bug 13502`_. Note that the Python 2 standard library still has this
race condition.)
- :class:`~gevent.event.Event` and :class:`~.AsyncResult` now wake
waiting greenlets in the same (unspecified) order. Previously,
``AsyncResult`` tended to use a FIFO order, but this was never
guaranteed. Both classes also use less per-instance memory.
- Using a :class:`~logging.Logger` as a :mod:`pywsgi` error or request
log stream no longer produces extra newlines. Reported in
:issue:`756` by ael-code.
- Windows: Installing from an sdist (.tar.gz) on PyPI no longer
requires having Cython installed first. (Note that the binary installation
formats (wheels, exes, msis) are preferred on Windows.) Reported in
:issue:`757` by Ned Batchelder.
- Issue a warning when :func:`~gevent.monkey.patch_all` is called with
``os`` set to False (*not* the default) but ``signal`` is still True
(the default). This combination of parameters will cause signal
handlers for ``SIGCHLD`` to not get called. In the future this might
raise an error. Reported by Josh Zuech.
- Issue a warning when :func:`~gevent.monkey.patch_all` is called more
than once with different arguments. That causes the cumulative set of all True
arguments to be patched, which may cause unexpected results.
- Fix returning the original values of certain ``threading``
attributes from :func:`gevent.monkey.get_original`.
.. _bug 13502: http://bugs.python.org/issue13502
1.1rc5 (Feb 24, 2016)
=====================
- SSL: Attempting to send empty data using the
:meth:`~socket.socket.sendall` method of a gevent SSL socket that has
a timeout now returns immediately (like the standard library does),
instead of incorrectly raising :exc:`ssl.SSLEOFError`. (Note that
sending empty data with the :meth:`~socket.socket.send`
method *does* raise ``SSLEOFError`` in
both gevent and the standard library.) Reported in :issue:`719` by
Mustafa Atik and Tymur Maryokhin, with a reproducible test case
provided by Timo Savola.
1.1rc4 (Feb 16, 2016)
=====================
- Python 2: Using the blocking API at import time when multiple
greenlets are also importing should not lead to ``LoopExit``.
Reported in :issue:`728` by Garrett Heel.
- Python 2: Don't raise :exc:`OverflowError` when using the ``readline``
method of the WSGI input stream without a size hint or with a large
size hint when the client is uploading a large amount of data. (This
only impacted CPython 2; PyPy and Python 3 already handled this.)
Reported in :issue:`289` by ggjjlldd, with contributions by Nathan
Hoad.
- :class:`~gevent.baseserver.BaseServer` and its subclasses like
:class:`~gevent.pywsgi.WSGIServer` avoid allocating a new closure for
each request, reducing overhead.
- Python 2: Under 2.7.9 and above (or when the PEP 466 SSL interfaces
are available), perform the same hostname validation that the
standard library does; previously this was skipped. Also,
reading, writing, or handshaking a closed
:class:`~ssl.SSLSocket` now raises the same :exc:`ValueError`
the standard library does, instead of an :exc:`AttributeError`.
Found by updating gevent's copy of the standard library test cases.
Initially reported in :issue:`735` by Dmitrij D. Czarkoff.
- Python 3: Fix :meth:`~ssl.SSLSocket.unwrap` and SNI callbacks.
Also raise the correct exceptions for unconnected SSL sockets and
properly validate SSL hostnames. Found via updated standard library
tests.
- Python 3: Add missing support for :meth:`socket.socket.sendfile`. Found via updated
standard library tests.
- Python 3.4+: Add missing support for
:meth:`socket.socket.get_inheritable` and
:meth:`~socket.socket.set_inheritable`. Found via updated standard
library tests.
1.1rc3 (Jan 04, 2016)
=====================
- Python 2: Support the new PEP 466 :mod:`ssl` interfaces on any Python 2
version that supplies them, not just on the versions it officially
shipped with. Some Linux distributions, including RedHat/CentOS and
Amazon have backported the changes to older versions. Reported in
:issue:`702`.
- PyPy: An interaction between Cython compiled code and the garbage
collector caused PyPy to crash when a previously-allocated Semaphore
was used in a ``__del__`` method, something done in the popular
libraries ``requests`` and ``urllib3``. Due to this and other Cython
related issues, the Semaphore class is no longer compiled by Cython
on PyPy. This means that it is now traceable and not exactly as
atomic as the Cython version, though the overall semantics should
remain the same. Reported in :issue:`704` by Shaun Crampton.
- PyPy: Optimize the CFFI backend to use less memory (two pointers per
watcher).
- Python 3: The WSGI ``PATH_INFO`` entry is decoded from URL escapes
using latin-1, not UTF-8. This improves compliance with PEP 3333 and
compatibility with some frameworks like Django. Fixed in :pr:`712`
by Ruben De Visscher.
1.1rc2 (Dec 11, 2015)
=====================
- Exceptions raised by gevent's SSL sockets are more consistent with
the standard library (e.g., gevent's Python 3 SSL sockets raise
:exc:`socket.timeout` instead of :exc:`ssl.SSLError`, a change
introduced in Python 3.2).
- Python 2: gevent's socket's ``sendall`` method could completely ignore timeouts
in some cases. The timeout now refers to the total time taken by
``sendall``.
- gevent's SSL socket's ``sendall`` method should no longer raise ``SSL3_WRITE_PENDING``
in rare cases when sending large buffers. Reported in :issue:`317`.
- :func:`gevent.signal.signal` now allows resetting (SIG_DFL) and ignoring (SIG_IGN) the
SIGCHLD signal at the process level (although this may allow race
conditions with libev child watchers). Reported in :issue:`696` by
Adam Ning.
- :func:`gevent.spawn_raw` now accepts keyword arguments, as
previously (incorrectly) documented. Reported in :issue:`680` by Ron
Rothman.
- PyPy: PyPy 2.6.1 or later is now required (4.0.1 or later is
recommended).
- The CFFI backend is now built and usable on CPython implementations
(except on Windows) if ``cffi`` is installed before gevent is
installed. To use the CFFI backend, set the environment variable
``GEVENT_CORE_CFFI_ONLY`` before starting Python. This can aid
debugging in some cases and helps ensure parity across all
combinations of supported platforms.
- The CFFI backend now calls the callback of a watcher whose ``args`` attribute is
set to ``None``, just like the Cython backend does. It also only
allows ``args`` to be a tuple or ``None``, again matching the Cython backend.
- PyPy/CFFI: Fix a potential crash when using stat watchers.
- PyPy/CFFI: Encode unicode paths for stat watchers using
:meth:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` like the Cython backend.
- The internal implementation modules ``gevent._fileobject2``,
``gevent._fileobject3``, and ``gevent._util`` were removed. These
haven't been used or tested since 1.1b1.
1.1rc1 (Nov 14, 2015)
=====================
- Windows/Python 3: Finish porting the :mod:`gevent.subprocess` module, fixing a
large number of failing tests. Examples of failures are in
:issue:`668` and :issue:`669` reported by srossross.
- Python 3: The SSLSocket class should return an empty ``bytes``
object on an EOF instead of a ``str``. Fixed in :pr:`674` by Dahoon
Kim.
- Python 2: Workaround a buffering bug in the stdlib ``io`` module
that caused ``FileObjectPosix`` to be slower than necessary in some
cases. Reported in :issue:`675` by WGH-.
- PyPy: Fix a crash. Reported in :issue:`676` by Jay Oster.
.. caution:: There are some remaining, relatively rare, PyPy
crashes, but their ultimate cause is unknown (gevent,
CFFI, greenlet, the PyPy GC?). PyPy users can
contribute to :issue:`677` to help track them down.
- PyPy: Exceptions raised while handling an error raised by a loop
callback function behave like the CPython implementation: the
exception is printed, and the rest of the callbacks continue
processing.
- If a Hub object with active watchers was destroyed and then another
one created for the same thread, which itself was then destroyed with
``destroy_loop=True``, the process could crash. Documented in
:issue:`237` and fix based on :pr:`238`, both by Jan-Philip Gehrcke.
- Python 3: Initializing gevent's hub for the first time
simultaneously in multiple native background threads could fail with
``AttributeError`` and ``ImportError``. Reported in :issue:`687` by
Gregory Petukhov.
1.1b6 (Oct 17, 2015)
====================
- PyPy: Fix a memory leak for code that allocated and disposed of many
:class:`gevent.lock.Semaphore` subclasses. If monkey-patched, this could
also apply to :class:`threading.Semaphore` objects. Reported in
:issue:`660` by Jay Oster.
- PyPy: Cython version 0.23.4 or later must be used to avoid a memory
leak (`details`_). Thanks to Jay Oster.
- Allow subclasses of :class:`~.WSGIHandler` to handle invalid HTTP client
requests. Reported by not-bob.
- :class:`~.WSGIServer` more robustly supports :class:`~logging.Logger`-like parameters for
``log`` and ``error_log`` (as introduced in 1.1b1, this could cause
integration issues with gunicorn). Reported in :issue:`663` by Jay
Oster.
- :class:`~gevent.threading._DummyThread` objects, created in a
monkey-patched system when :func:`threading.current_thread` is
called in a new greenlet (which often happens implicitly, such as
when logging) are much lighter weight. For example, they no longer
allocate and then delete a :class:`~gevent.lock.Semaphore`, which is
especially important for PyPy.
- Request logging by :mod:`gevent.pywsgi` formats the status code
correctly on Python 3. Reported in :issue:`664` by Kevin Chen.
- Restore the ability to take a weak reference to instances of exactly
:class:`gevent.lock.Semaphore`, which was unintentionally removed
as part of making ``Semaphore`` atomic on PyPy on 1.1b1. Reported in
:issue:`666` by Ivan-Zhu.
- Build Windows wheels for Python 3.5. Reported in :pr:`665` by Hexchain Tong.
.. _details: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/cython-devel/2015-October/004571.html
1.1b5 (Sep 18, 2015)
====================
- :mod:`gevent.subprocess` works under Python 3.5. In general, Python 3.5
has preliminary support. Reported in :issue:`653` by Squeaky.
- :func:`Popen.communicate <gevent.subprocess.Popen.communicate>` honors a ``timeout``
argument even if there is no way to communicate with the child
process (none of stdin, stdout and stderr were set to ``PIPE``).
Noticed as part of the Python 3.5 test suite for the new function
``subprocess.run`` but impacts all versions (``timeout`` is an
official argument under Python 3 and a gevent extension with
slightly different semantics under Python 2).
- Fix a possible ``ValueError`` from :meth:`Queue.peek <gevent.queue.Queue.peek>`.
Reported in :issue:`647` by Kevin Chen.
- Restore backwards compatibility for using ``gevent.signal`` as a
callable, which, depending on the order of imports, could be broken
after the addition of the ``gevent.signal`` module. Reported in
:issue:`648` by Sylvain Zimmer.
- gevent blocking operations performed at the top-level of a module
after the system was monkey-patched under Python 2 could result in
raising a :exc:`~gevent.hub.LoopExit` instead of completing the expected blocking
operation. Note that performing gevent blocking operations in the
top-level of a module is typically not recommended, but this
situation can arise when monkey-patching existing scripts. Reported
in :issue:`651` and :issue:`652` by Mike Kaplinskiy.
- ``SIGCHLD`` and ``waitpid`` now work for the pids returned by the
(monkey-patched) ``os.forkpty`` and ``pty.fork`` functions in the
same way they do for the ``os.fork`` function. Reported in
:issue:`650` by Erich Heine.
- :class:`~gevent.pywsgi.WSGIServer` and
:class:`~gevent.pywsgi.WSGIHandler` do a better job detecting and
reporting potential encoding errors for headers and the status line
during :meth:`~gevent.pywsgi.WSGIHandler.start_response` as recommended by the `WSGI
specification`_. In addition, under Python 2, unnecessary encodings
and decodings (often a trip through the ASCII encoding) are avoided
for conforming applications. This is an enhancement of an already
documented and partially enforced constraint: beginning in 1.1a1,
under Python 2, ``u'abc'`` would typically previously have been
allowed, but ``u'\u1f4a3'`` would not; now, neither will be allowed,
more closely matching the specification, improving debugability and
performance and allowing for better error handling both by the
application and by gevent (previously, certain encoding errors could
result in gevent writing invalid/malformed HTTP responses). Reported
by Greg Higgins and Carlos Sanchez.
- Code coverage by tests is now reported on `coveralls.io`_.
.. _WSGI specification: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/#the-start-response-callable
.. _coveralls.io: https://coveralls.io/github/gevent/gevent
1.1b4 (Sep 4, 2015)
===================
- Detect and raise an error for several important types of
programming errors even if Python interpreter optimizations are
enabled with ``-O`` or ``PYTHONOPTIMIZE``. Previously these would go
undetected if optimizations were enabled, potentially leading to
erratic, difficult to debug behaviour.
- Fix an ``AttributeError`` from ``gevent.queue.Queue`` when ``peek``
was called on an empty ``Queue``. Reported in :issue:`643` by michaelvol.
- Make ``SIGCHLD`` handlers specified to :func:`gevent.signal.signal` work with
the child watchers that are used by default. Also make
:func:`gevent.os.waitpid` work with a first argument of -1. (Also
applies to the corresponding monkey-patched stdlib functions.)
Noted by users of gunicorn.
- Under Python 2, any timeout set on a socket would be ignored when
using the results of ``socket.makefile``. Reported in :issue:`644`
by Karan Lyons.
1.1b3 (Aug 16, 2015)
====================
- Fix an ``AttributeError`` from ``gevent.monkey.patch_builtins`` on
Python 2 when the `future`_ library is also installed. Reported by
Carlos Sanchez.
- PyPy: Fix a ``DistutilsModuleError`` or ``ImportError`` if the CFFI
module backing ``gevent.core`` needs to be compiled when the hub is
initialized (due to a missing or invalid ``__pycache__`` directory).
Now, the module will be automtically compiled when gevent is
imported (this may produce compiler output on stdout). Reported in
:issue:`619` by Thinh Nguyen and :issue:`631` by Andy Freeland, with
contributions by Jay Oster and Matt Dupre.
- PyPy: Improve the performance of ``gevent.socket.socket:sendall``
with large inputs. `bench_sendall.py`_ now performs about as well on
PyPy as it does on CPython, an improvement of 10x (from ~60MB/s to
~630MB/s). See this `pypy bug`_ for details.
- Fix a possible ``TypeError`` when calling ``gevent.socket.wait``.
Reported in #635 by lanstin.
- ``gevent.socket.socket:sendto`` properly respects the socket's
blocking status (meaning it can raise EWOULDBLOCK now in cases it
wouldn't have before). Reported in :pr:`634` by Mike Kaplinskiy.
- Common lookup errors using the :mod:`threaded resolver
<gevent.resolver_thread>` are no longer always printed to stderr
since they are usually out of the programmer's control and caught
explicitly. (Programming errors like ``TypeError`` are still
printed.) Reported in :issue:`617` by Jay Oster and Carlos Sanchez.
- PyPy: Fix a ``TypeError`` from ``gevent.idle()``. Reported in
:issue:`639` by chilun2008.
- The :func:`~gevent.pool.Pool.imap_unordered` methods of a pool-like
object support a ``maxsize`` parameter to limit the number of
results buffered waiting for the consumer. Reported in :issue:`638`
by Sylvain Zimmer.
- The class :class:`gevent.queue.Queue` now consistently orders multiple
blocked waiting ``put`` and ``get`` callers in the order they
arrived. Previously, due to an implementation quirk this was often
roughly the case under CPython, but not under PyPy. Now they both
behave the same.
- The class :class:`gevent.queue.Queue` now supports the :func:`len` function.
.. _future: http://python-future.org
.. _bench_sendall.py: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gevent/gevent/master/greentest/bench_sendall.py
.. _pypy bug: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/2091/non-blocking-socketsend-slow-gevent
1.1b2 (Aug 5, 2015)
===================
- Enable using the :mod:`c-ares resolver <gevent.resolver_ares>` under
PyPy. Note that its performance characteristics are probably
sub-optimal.
- On some versions of PyPy on some platforms (notably 2.6.0 on 64-bit
Linux), enabling ``gevent.monkey.patch_builtins`` could cause PyPy
to crash. Reported in :issue:`618` by Jay Oster.
- :func:`gevent.kill` raises the correct exception in the target greenlet.
Reported in :issue:`623` by Jonathan Kamens.
- Various fixes on Windows. Reported in :issue:`625`, :issue:`627`,
and :issue:`628` by jacekt and Yuanteng (Jeff) Pei. Fixed in :pr:`624`.
- Add :meth:`~gevent.fileobject.FileObjectPosix.readable` and
:meth:`~gevent.fileobject.FileObjectPosix.writable` methods to
:class:`~gevent.fileobject.FileObjectPosix`; this fixes e.g., help() on Python 3 when
monkey-patched.
1.1b1 (Jul 17, 2015)
====================
- ``setup.py`` can be run from a directory containing spaces. Reported
in :issue:`319` by Ivan Smirnov.
- ``setup.py`` can build with newer versions of clang on OS X. They
enforce the distinction between CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
- ``gevent.lock.Semaphore`` is atomic on PyPy, just like it is on
CPython. This comes at a small performance cost on PyPy.
- Fixed regression that failed to set the ``successful`` value to
False when killing a greenlet before it ran with a non-default
exception. Fixed in :pr:`608` by Heungsub Lee.
- libev's child watchers caused :func:`os.waitpid` to become unreliable
due to the use of signals on POSIX platforms. This was especially
noticeable when using :mod:`gevent.subprocess` in combination with
``multiprocessing``. Now, the monkey-patched ``os`` module provides
a :func:`~gevent.os.waitpid` function that seeks to ameliorate this. Reported in
:issue:`600` by champax and :issue:`452` by Łukasz Kawczyński.
- On platforms that implement :class:`select.poll`, provide a
gevent-friendly :class:`gevent.select.poll` and corresponding
monkey-patch. Implemented in :pr:`604` by Eddi Linder.
- Allow passing of events to the io callback under PyPy. Reported in
:issue:`531` by M. Nunberg and implemented in :pr:`604`.
- :func:`gevent.thread.allocate_lock` (and so a monkey-patched standard
library :func:`~thread.allocate_lock`) more closely matches the behaviour of the
builtin: an unlocked lock cannot be released, and attempting to do
so throws the correct exception (``thread.error`` on Python 2,
``RuntimeError`` on Python 3). Previously, over-releasing a lock was
silently ignored. Reported in :issue:`308` by Jędrzej Nowak.
- :class:`gevent.fileobject.FileObjectThread` uses the threadpool to close
the underling file-like object. Reported in :issue:`201` by
vitaly-krugl.
- Malicious or malformed HTTP chunked transfer encoding data sent to
the :class:`pywsgi handler <gevent.pywsgi.WSGIHandler>` is handled more robustly, resulting in
"HTTP 400 bad request" responses instead of a 500 error or, in the
worst case, a server-side hang. Reported in :issue:`229` by Björn
Lindqvist.
- Importing the standard library ``threading`` module *before* using
``gevent.monkey.patch_all()`` no longer causes Python 3.4 to fail to
get the ``repr`` of the main thread, and other CPython platforms to
return an unjoinable DummyThread. (Note that this is not
recommended.) Reported in :issue:`153`.
- Under Python 2, use the ``io`` package to implement
:class:`~gevent.fileobject.FileObjectPosix`. This unifies the code with the Python 3
implementation, and fixes problems with using ``seek()``. See
:issue:`151`.
- Under Python 2, importing a module that uses gevent blocking
functions at its top level from multiple greenlets no longer
produces import errors (Python 3 handles this case natively).
Reported in :issue:`108` by shaun and initial fix based on code by
Sylvain Zimmer.
- :func:`gevent.spawn`, :func:`spawn_raw` and :func:`spawn_later`, as well as the
:class:`~gevent.Greenlet` constructor, immediately produce useful ``TypeErrors``
if asked to run something that cannot be run. Previously, the
spawned greenlet would die with an uncaught ``TypeError`` the first
time it was switched to. Reported in :issue:`119` by stephan.
- Recursive use of :meth:`ThreadPool.apply
<gevent.threadpool.ThreadPool.apply>` no longer raises a
``LoopExit`` error (using ``ThreadPool.spawn`` and then ``get`` on
the result still could; you must be careful to use the correct hub).
Reported in :issue:`131` by 8mayday.
- When the :mod:`threading` module is :func:`monkey-patched
<gevent.monkey.patch_thread>`, the module-level lock in the
:mod:`logging` module is made greenlet-aware, as are the instance
locks of any configured handlers. This makes it safer to import
modules that use the standard pattern of creating a module-level
:class:`~logging.Logger` instance before monkey-patching.
Configuring ``logging`` with a basic configuration and then
monkey-patching is also safer (but not configurations that involve
such things as the ``SocketHandler``).
- Fix monkey-patching of :class:`threading.RLock` under Python 3.
- Under Python 3, monkey-patching at the top-level of a module that
was imported by another module could result in a :exc:`RuntimeError`
from :mod:`importlib`. Reported in :issue:`615` by Daniel Mizyrycki.
(The same thing could happen under Python 2 if a ``threading.RLock``
was held around the monkey-patching call; this is less likely but
not impossible with import hooks.)
- Fix configuring c-ares for a 32-bit Python when running on a 64-bit
platform. Reported in :issue:`381` and fixed in :pr:`616` by Chris
Lane. Additional fix in :pr:`626` by Kevin Chen.
- (Experimental) Let the :class:`pywsgi.WSGIServer` accept a
:class:`logging.Logger` instance for its ``log`` and (new) ``error_log``
parameters. Take care that the system is fully monkey-patched very
early in the process's lifetime if attempting this, and note that
non-file handlers have not been tested. Fixes :issue:`106`.
1.1a2 (Jul 8, 2015)
===================
- ``gevent.threadpool.ThreadPool.imap`` and ``imap_unordered`` now
accept multiple iterables.
- (Experimental) Exceptions raised from iterating using the
``ThreadPool`` or ``Group`` mapping/application functions should now
have the original traceback.
- :meth:`gevent.threadpool.ThreadPool.apply` now raises any exception
raised by the called function, the same as
:class:`~gevent.pool.Group`/:class:`~gevent.pool.Pool` and the
builtin :func:`apply` function. This obsoletes the undocumented
``apply_e`` function. Original PR :issue:`556` by Robert Estelle.
- Monkey-patch the ``selectors`` module from ``patch_all`` and
``patch_select`` on Python 3.4. See :issue:`591`.
- Additional query functions for the :mod:`gevent.monkey` module
allow knowing what was patched. Discussed in :issue:`135` and
implemented in :pr:`325` by Nathan Hoad.
- In non-monkey-patched environments under Python 2.7.9 or above or
Python 3, using a gevent SSL socket could cause the greenlet to
block. See :issue:`597` by David Ford.
- :meth:`gevent.socket.socket.sendall` supports arbitrary objects that
implement the buffer protocol (such as ctypes structures), just like
native sockets. Reported in :issue:`466` by tzickel.
- Added support for the ``onerror`` attribute present in CFFI 1.2.0
for better signal handling under PyPy. Thanks to Armin Rigo and Omer
Katz. (See https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issue/152/handling-errors-from-signal-handlers-in)
- The :mod:`gevent.subprocess` module is closer in behaviour to the
standard library under Python 3, at least on POSIX. The
``pass_fds``, ``restore_signals``, and ``start_new_session``
arguments are now implemented, as are the ``timeout`` parameters
to various functions. Under Python 2, the previously undocumented
``timeout`` parameter to :meth:`Popen.communicate
<gevent.subprocess.Popen.communicate>` raises an exception like its
Python 3 counterpart.
- An exception starting a child process with the :mod:`gevent.subprocess`
module no longer leaks file descriptors. Reported in :pr:`374` by 陈小玉.
- The example ``echoserver.py`` no longer binds to the standard X11
TCP port. Reported in :issue:`485` by minusf.
- :func:`gevent.iwait` no longer throws :exc:`~gevent.hub.LoopExit` if the caller
switches greenlets between return values. Reported and initial patch
in :issue:`467` by Alexey Borzenkov.
- The default threadpool and default threaded resolver work in a
forked child process, such as with :class:`multiprocessing.Process`.
Previously the child process would hang indefinitely. Reported in
:issue:`230` by Lx Yu.
- Fork watchers are more likely to (eventually) get called in a
multi-threaded program (except on Windows). See :issue:`154`.
- :func:`gevent.killall` accepts an arbitrary iterable for the greenlets
to kill. Reported in :issue:`404` by Martin Bachwerk; seen in
combination with older versions of simple-requests.
- :class:`gevent.local.local` objects are now eligible for garbage
collection as soon as the greenlet finishes running, matching the
behaviour of the built-in :class:`threading.local` (when implemented
natively). Reported in :issue:`387` by AusIV.
- Killing a greenlet (with :func:`gevent.kill` or
:meth:`gevent.Greenlet.kill`) before it is actually started and
switched to now prevents the greenlet from ever running, instead of
raising an exception when it is later switched to. See :issue:`330`
reported by Jonathan Kamens.
1.1a1 (Jun 29, 2015)
====================
- Add support for Python 3.3 and 3.4. Many people have contributed to
this effort, including but not limited to Fantix King, hashstat,
Elizabeth Myers, jander, Luke Woydziak, and others. See :issue:`38`.
- Add support for PyPy. See :issue:`248`. Note that for best results,
you'll need a very recent PyPy build including CFFI 1.2.0.
- Drop support for Python 2.5. Python 2.5 users can continue to use
gevent 1.0.x.
- Fix :func:`gevent.joinall` to not ignore ``count`` when
``raise_error`` is False. See :pr:`512` by Ivan Diao.
- Fix :class:`gevent.subprocess.Popen` to not ignore the ``bufsize`` argument. Note
that this changes the (platform dependent) default, typically from
buffered to unbuffered. See :pr:`542` by Romuald Brunet.
- Upgraded c-ares to 1.10.0. See :pr:`579` by Omer Katz.
.. caution:: The c-ares ``configure`` script is now more strict about the
contents of environment variables such as ``CFLAGS`` and ``LDFLAGS``
and they may have to be modified (for example, ``CFLAGS`` is no
longer allowed to include ``-I`` directives, which must instead be
placed in ``CPPFLAGS``).
- Add a ``count`` argument to :func:`gevent.iwait`. See :pr:`482` by
wiggin15.
- Add a ``timeout`` argument to :meth:`gevent.queue.JoinableQueue.join`
which now returns whether all items were waited for or not.
- ``gevent.queue.JoinableQueue`` treats ``items`` passed to
``__init__`` as unfinished tasks, the same as if they were ``put``.
Initial :pr:`554` by DuLLSoN.
- ``gevent.pywsgi`` no longer prints debugging information for the
normal conditions of a premature client disconnect. See :issue:`136`,
fixed in :pr:`377` by Paul Collier.
- (Experimental.) Waiting on or getting results from greenlets that
raised exceptions now usually raises the original traceback. This
should assist things like Sentry to track the original problem. See
:issue:`450` and :issue:`528` by Rodolfo and Eddi Linder and
:issue:`240` by Erik Allik.
- Upgrade to libev 4.20. See :pr:`590` by Peter Renström.
- Fix ``gevent.baseserver.BaseServer`` to be printable when its
``handle`` function is an instancemethod of itself. See :pr:`501` by Joe
Jevnik.
- Make the ``acquire`` method of ``gevent.lock.DummySemaphore`` always
return True, supporting its use-case as an "infinite" or unbounded
semaphore providing no exclusion, and allowing the idiom ``if
sem.acquire(): ...``. See :pr:`544` by Mouad Benchchaoui.
- Patch ``subprocess`` by default in ``gevent.monkey.patch_all``. See
:issue:`446`.
- ``gevent.pool.Group.imap`` and ``imap_unordered`` now accept
multiple iterables like ``itertools.imap``. :issue:`565` reported by
Thomas Steinacher.
- *Compatibility note*: ``gevent.baseserver.BaseServer`` and
its subclass ``gevent.server.StreamServer`` now deterministically
close the client socket when the request handler returns.
Previously, the socket was left at the mercies of the garbage
collector; under CPython 2.x this meant when the last reference went
away, which was usually, but not necessarily, when the request
handler returned, but under PyPy it was some arbitrary point in the
future and under CPython 3.x a ResourceWarning could be generated.
This was undocumented behaviour, and the client socket could be kept
open after the request handler returned either accidentally or intentionally.
- *Compatibility note*: ``pywsgi`` now ensures that headers can be
encoded in latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). This improves adherence to the HTTP
standard (and is necessary under Python 3). Under certain
conditions, previous versions could have allowed non-ISO-8859-1
headers to be sent, but their interpretation by a conforming
recipient is unknown; now, a UnicodeError will be raised. See :issue:`614`.