Testing on Python 3.5 now uses Python 3.5.3 due to SSL changes. See issue #943.
Linux CI has been updated from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 since the former has reached EOL.
Linux CI now tests on PyPy2 5.7.1, updated from PyPy2 5.6.0.
Linux CI now tests on PyPy3 3.5-5.7.1-beta, updated from PyPy3 3.3-5.5-alpha.
Python 2 sockets are compatible with the SOCK_CLOEXEC flag found
on Linux. They no longer pass the socket type or protocol to
getaddrinfo when connect is called. Reported in issue #944
by Bernie Hackett.
Replace optparse module with argparse. See issue #947.
Update to version 1.3.1 of tblib to fix issue #954,
reported by ml31415.
Fix the name of the type parameter to
gevent.socket.getaddrinfo() to be correct on Python 3. This
would cause callers using keyword arguments to raise a TypeError.
Reported in issue #960 by js6626069. Likewise, correct the
argument names for fromfd and socketpair on Python 2,
although they cannot be called with keyword arguments under CPython.
Note
The gethost* functions take different argument names
under CPython and PyPy. gevent follows the CPython
convention, although these functions cannot be called with
keyword arguments on CPython.
The previously-singleton exception objects FileObjectClosed and
cancel_wait_ex were converted to classes. On Python 3, an
exception object is stateful, including references to its context
and possibly traceback, which could lead to objects remaining alive
longer than intended.
Make sure that python -m gevent.monkey <script> runs code in the
global scope, not the scope of the main function. Fixed in
pull request #975 by Shawn Bohrer.
CI services now test on 3.6.0.
Windows: Provide socket.socketpair for all Python 3 versions.
This was added to Python 3.5, but tests were only added in 3.6.
(For versions older than 3.4 this is a gevent extension.) Previously
this was not supported on any Python 3 version.
Windows: List subprocess.STARTUPINFO in subprocess.__all__
for 3.6 compatibility.
The _DummyThread objects created by calling
threading.current_thread() from inside a raw
greenlet.greenlet in a system with monkey-patched
threading now clean up after themselves when the
greenlet dies (gevent.Greenlet-based _DummyThreads have
always cleaned up). This requires the use of a weakref.ref
(and may not be timely on PyPy).
Reported in issue #918 by frozenoctobeer.
Build OS X wheels with -D_DARWIN_FEATURE_CLOCK_GETTIME=0 for
compatibility with OS X releases before 10.12 Sierra. Reported by
Ned Batchelder in issue #916.
The c-ares DNS resolver ignores bad flags to getnameinfo, like the system resolver does. Discovered when cleaning up the DNS resolver tests to produce more reliable results. See issue #774.
Update libev to version 4.23.
Allow the MAKE environment variable to specify the make command
on non-Windows systems for ease of development on BSD systems where
make is BSD make and gmake is GNU make (gevent requires GNU
make). See issue #888.
Let gevent.server.StreamServer accept an SSLContext on
Python versions that support it. Added in pull request #904 by Arcadiy Ivanov.
Support for Python 2.6 has been removed. See pull request #766.
Remove module gevent.coros which was replaced by gevent.lock
and has been deprecated since 1.0b2.
The internal implementation modules gevent.corecext and
gevent.corecffi have been moved. Please import from
gevent.core instead; this has always been the only documented place to
import from.
Update libev to version 4.22 (was 4.20).
Update tblib to 1.3.0.
Update Cython to 0.25 (was 0.23.5).
Update c-ares to version 1.12.0 (was 1.10.0) (release notes).
For the benefit of downstream package maintainers, gevent is now tested with c-ares and libev linked dynamically and not embedded (i.e., using the system libraries). However, only the versions shipped with gevent are tested and known to work.
The repository directory layout has been changed to make it easier to include third-party dependencies. Likewise, the setup.py script has been split to make it easier to build third-party dependencies.
PyPy/CFFI: The corecffi native extension is now only built at installation time. Previously, if it wasn’t available, a build was attempted at every import. This could lead to scattered “gevent” directories and undependable results.
setuptools is now required at build time on all platforms. Previously it was only required for Windows and PyPy.
POSIX: Don’t hardcode /bin/sh into the configuration command
line, instead relying on sh being on the PATH, as
recommended by the standard.
Fixed in pull request #809 by Fredrix Fornwall.
gevent.pywsgi now checks that the values passed to
start_response do not contain a carriage return or newline in
order to prevent HTTP response splitting (header injection), raising
a ValueError if they do. See issue #775.
Incoming headers containing an underscore are no longer placed in the WSGI environ. See issue #819.
Errors logged by WSGIHandler no
longer print the entire WSGI environment by default. This avoids
possible information disclosure vulnerabilities. Applications can
also opt-in to a higher security level for the WSGI environment if they
choose and their frameworks support it. Originally reported
in pull request #779 by sean-peters-au and changed in pull request #781.
As mentioned above, Python 2.6 is no longer supported.
Python 3.6 is now tested on POSIX platforms. This includes a few notable changes:
SSLContext.wrap_socket accepts the session parameter, though
this parameter isn’t useful prior to 3.6.
SSLSocket.recv(0) or read(0) returns an empty byte string. This is a fix for Python bug #23804 which has also been merged into Python 2.7 and Python 3.5.
PyPy3 5.5.0 alpha (supporting Python 3.3.5) is now tested and passes the test suite. Thanks to btegs for issue #866, and Fabio Utzig for pull request #826. Note that PyPy3 is not optimized for performance either by the PyPy developers or under gevent, so it may be significantly slower than PyPy2.
The modules gevent.os, gevent.signal and
gevent.select export all the attributes from their
corresponding standard library counterpart.
Python 2: reload(site) no longer fails with a TypeError if
gevent has been imported. Reported in issue #805 by Jake Hilton.
Python 2: sendall on a non-blocking socket could spuriously fail
with a timeout.
If gevent.select.select() is given a negative timeout
argument, raise an exception like the standard library does.
If gevent.select.select() is given closed or invalid
file descriptors in any of its lists, raise the appropriate
EBADF exception like the standard library does. Previously,
libev would tend to return the descriptor as ready. In the worst
case, this adds an extra system call, but may also reduce latency if
descriptors are ready at the time of entry.
selectors.SelectSelector is properly monkey-patched
regardless of the order of imports. Reported in issue #835 by
Przemysław Węgrzyn.
gevent.select.poll.unregister() raises an exception if fd is not
registered, like the standard library.
gevent.select.poll.poll() returns an event with
POLLNVAL for registered fds that are invalid. Previously it
would tend to report both read and write events.
FileObjectPosix exposes the read1 method when in read mode,
and generally only exposes methods appropriate to the mode it is in.
FileObjectPosix supports a bufsize of 0 in binary write modes.
Reported in issue #840 by Mike Lang.
Python 3: gevent.socket.connect_ex() was letting
BlockingIOError (and possibly others) get raised instead of
returning the errno due to the refactoring of the exception
hierarchy in Python 3.3. Now the errno is returned. Reported in
issue #841 by Dana Powers.
Group and Pool now return whether
join() returned with an empty group. Suggested by Filippo Sironi in
pull request #503.
Unhandled exception reports that kill a greenlet now include a timestamp. See issue #137.
PriorityQueue now ensures that an initial items list is a
valid heap. Fixed in pull request #793 by X.C.Dong.
gevent.hub.signal (aka gevent.signal()) now verifies
that its handler argument is callable, raising a TypeError
if it isn’t. Reported in issue #818 by Peter Renström.
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.
The gevent.os.waitpid() function is cooperative in more
circumstances. Reported in issue #878 by Heungsub Lee.
The various FileObject implementations are more consistent with
each other. Note: Writing to the io property of a FileObject should be
considered deprecated.
Timeout exceptions (and other asynchronous exceptions) could cause the BackdoorServer to fail to properly manage the stdout/stderr/stdin values. Reported with a patch in pull request #874 by stefanmh.
The BackDoorServer now tracks spawned greenlets (connections) and
kills them in its stop method.
Default to AF_INET6 when binding to all addresses (e.g., “”). This supports both IPv4 and IPv6 connections (except on Windows). Original change in pull request #495 by Felix Kaiser.
pywsgi/performance: Chunks of data the application returns are no longer copied before being sent to the socket when the transfer-encoding is chunked, potentially reducing overhead for large responses.
Add gevent.threadpool.ThreadPoolExecutor (a
concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor variant that always
uses native threads even when the system has been monkey-patched)
on platforms that have concurrent.futures
available (Python 3 and Python 2 with the futures backport
installed). This is helpful for, e.g., grpc. Reported in
issue #786 by Markus Padourek.
Native threads created before monkey-patching threading can now be
joined. Previously on Python < 3.4, doing so would raise a
LoopExit error. Reported in issue #747 by Sergey Vasilyev.
On Python 2.7.9 and above (more generally, when the SSL backport is
present in Python 2), gevent.ssl.get_server_certificate()
would raise a ValueError if the system wasn’t monkey-patched.
Reported in issue #801 by Gleb Dubovik.
On Python 2.7.9 and Python 3, closing an SSL socket in one greenlet
while it’s being read from or written to in a different greenlet is
less likely to raise a TypeError instead of a
ValueError. Reported in issue #800 by Kevin Chen.
Setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN or SIG_DFL after gevent.subprocess
had been used previously could not be reversed, causing
Popen.wait and other calls to hang. Now, if SIGCHLD has been
ignored, the next time gevent.subprocess is used this will be
detected and corrected automatically. (This potentially leads to
issues with os.popen() on Python 2, but the signal can always
be reset again. Mixing the low-level process handling calls,
low-level signal management and high-level use of
gevent.subprocess is tricky.) Reported in issue #857 by
Chris Utz.
Popen.kill and send_signal no longer attempt to send signals
to processes that are known to be exited.
Several backwards compatible updates to the subprocess module have
been backported from Python 3 to Python 2, making
gevent.subprocess smaller, easier to maintain and in some cases
safer.
Popen objects can be used as context managers even on Python 2. The
high-level API functions (call, etc) use this for added safety.
The gevent.subprocess module now provides the
gevent.subprocess.run() function in a cooperative way even
when the system is not monkey patched, on all supported versions of
Python. (It was added officially in Python 3.5.)
Popen objects save their args attribute even on Python 2.
gevent.subprocess.TimeoutExpired is defined even on Python 2,
where it is a subclass of the gevent.timeout.Timeout
exception; all instances where a Timeout exception would
previously be thrown under Python 2 will now throw a
TimeoutExpired exception.
gevent.subprocess.call() (and check_call) accepts the
timeout keyword argument on Python 2. This is standard on Python
3, but a gevent extension on Python 2.
gevent.subprocess.check_output() accepts the timeout and
input arguments on Python 2. This is standard on Python 3, but a
gevent extension on Python 2.
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