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" <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:18 PM, Amber Hawkie Brown < > hawk...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > >
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