On Feb 12, 2016 5:14 AM, "holger krekel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The 3.0 releases of devpi-server and devpi-web, the python packaging and > work flow system for handling release files, documentation, testing and staging, > bring several major improvements: > > - Due to popular demand we now support generalized mirroring, i.e. you can > create mirror indexes which proxy and cache release files from other pypi > servers. Even if the mirror goes down, pip-installing will continue to work > with your devpi-server instance. Previously we only supported mirroring > of pypi.python.org. Using it is simple: > http://doc.devpi.net/3.0/userman/devpi_indices.html#mirror-index
Thanks! > > - For our enterprise clients we majorly worked on improving the speed > of serving simple pages which is now several times faster with > private indexes. We now also support multiple worker processes > both on master and replica sites. > http://doc.devpi.net/3.0/adminman/server.html#multiple-server-instances > > - For our enterprise clients we also introduced a new backend > architecture which allows to store server state in sqlite or > postgres (which is supported through a separately released plugin). > The default remains to use the "sqlite" backend and store files > on the filesystem. See > http://doc.devpi.net/3.0/adminman/server.html#storage-backend-selection > > - we started a new "admin" manual for devpi-server which describes > features relating to server configuration, replication and security > aspects. It's a bit work-in-progress but should already be helpful. > http://doc.devpi.net/3.0/adminman/ > > - A few option names changed and we also released devpi-client-2.5 > where we took great care to keep it forward and backward compatible > so it should run against devpi-server-2.1 and upwards all the way > to 3.0. > > - The "3.0" major release number increase means that you will need to run > through an export/import cycle to upgrade your devpi-2.X installation. > > For more details, see the changelog and the referenced documentation > with the main entry point here: > > http://doc.devpi.net > > Many thanks to my partner Florian Schulze and to the several companies > who funded parts of the work on 3.0. We are especially grateful for > their support to not only cover their own direct issues but also support > community driven demands. I'd also like to express my gratitude to > Rackspace and Jesse Noller who provide VMs for our open source work and > which help a lot with the testing of our releases. > > We are open towards entering more support contracts to make sure you get > what you need out of devpi, tox and pytest which together provide a > mature tool chain for professional python development. And speaking of > showing support, if you or your company is interested to donate to or > attend the largest python testing sprint in history with a particular > focus to pytest or tox, please see > > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/python-testing-sprint-mid-2016/ > > have fun, > > holger krekel, http://merlinux.eu > > > > server-3.0.0 (2016-02-12) > ------------------------- > > - dropped support for python2.6 > > - block most ascii symbols for user and index names except ``-.@_``. > unicode characters are fine. > > - add ``--no-root-pypi`` option which prevents the creation of the > ``root/pypi`` mirror instance on first startup. > > - added optional ``title`` and ``description`` options to users and indexes. > > - new indexes have no bases by default anymore. If you want to be able to > install pypi packages, then you have to explicitly add ``root/pypi`` to > the ``bases`` option of your index. > > - added optional ``custom_data`` option to users. > > - generalized mirroring to allow adding mirror indexes other than only PyPI > > - renamed ``pypi_whitelist`` to ``mirror_whitelist`` > > - speed up simple-page serving for private indexes. A private index > with 200 release files should now be some 5 times faster. > > - internally use normalized project names everywhere, simplifying > code and slightly speeding up some operations. > > - change {name} in route_urls to {project} to disambiguate. > This is potentially incompatible for plugins which have registered > on existing route_urls. > > - use "project" variable naming consistently in APIs > > - drop calling of devpi_pypi_initial hook in favor of > the new "devpi_mirror_initialnames(stage, projectnames)" hook > which is called when a mirror is initialized. > > - introduce new "devpiserver_stage_created(stage)" hook which is > called for each index which is created. > > - simplify and unify internal mirroring code some more > with "normal" stage handling. > > - don't persist the list of mirrored project names anymore > but rely on a per-process RAM cache and the fact > that neither the UI nor pip/easy_install typically > need the projectnames list, anyway. > > - introduce new "devpiserver_storage_backend" hook which allows plugins to > provide custom storage backends. When there is more than one backend > available, the "--storage" option becomes required for startup. > > - introduce new "--requests-only" option to start devpi-server in > "worker" mode. It can be used both for master and replica sites. It > starts devpi-server without event processing and replication threads and > thus depends on respective "main" instances (those not using > "--request-only") to perform event and hook processing. Each > worker instance needs to share the filesystem with a main instance. > Worker instances can not serve the "/+status" URL which must > always be routed to the main instance. > > - add more info when importing data. Thanks Marc Abramowitz for the PR. > > > web-3.0.0 (2016-02-12) > ---------------------- > > - dropped support for python2.6 > > - index.pt, root.pt, style.css: added title and description to > users and indexes. > > - root.pt, style.css: more compact styling of user/index overview using > flexbox, resulting in three columns at most sizes > > - cleanup previously unpacked documentation to remove obsolete files. > > - store hash of doczip with the unpacked data to avoid unpacking if the data > already exists. > > - project.pt, version.pt: renamed ``pypi_whitelist`` related things to > ``mirror_whitelist``. > > - require and adapt to devpi-server-3.0.0 which always uses > normalized project names internally and offers new hooks. > devpi-web-3.0.0 is incompatible to devpi-server-2.X. > > - doc.pt, macros.pt, style.css, docview.js: use scrollbar of documentation > iframe, so documentation that contains dynamically resizing elements works > correctly. For that to work, the search from and navigation was moved into a > wrapping div with class ``header``, so it can overlap the top of the iframe. > > > 2.5.0 (2016-02-08) > ------------------ > > - the ``user`` command now behaves slightly more like ``index`` to show > current user settings and modify them. > > - fix issue309: print server versions with ``devpi --version`` if available. > This is only supported on Python 3.x because of shortcomings in older > argparse versions for Python 2.x. > > - fix issue310: with --set-cfg the ``index`` setting in the ``[search]`` > section would be set multiple times. > > - fix getjson to work when no index but a server is selected > > - allow full urls for getjson > > - "devpi quickstart" is not documented anymore and will be removed > in a later release. > > -- > about me: http://holgerkrekel.net/about-me/ > contracting: http://merlinux.eu > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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