CHANGES.rst

Changelog

gevent

1.2.2 (unreleased)

• TBD

1.2.1 (2017-01-12)

• 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 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 916.

1.2.0 (2016-12-23)

• 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 774.

1.2a2 (Dec 9, 2016)

• 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 888.
• Let gevent.server.StreamServer accept an SSLContext on Python versions that support it. Added in 904 by Arcadiy Ivanov.

1.2a1 (Oct 27, 2016)

Incompatible Changes

• Support for Python 2.6 has been removed. See 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.

Libraries and Installation

• 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 809 by Fredrix Fornwall.

Security

• 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 775.
• Incoming headers containing an underscore are no longer placed in the WSGI environ. See 819.
• Errors logged by ~gevent.pywsgi.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 779 by sean-peters-au and changed in 781.

Platforms

• 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 866, and Fabio Utzig for 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.

Stdlib Compatibility

• 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 805 by Jake Hilton.
• Python 2: sendall on a non-blocking socket could spuriously fail with a timeout.

select/poll

• 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 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.

File objects

• 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 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 841 by Dana Powers.

Other Changes

• ~.Group and ~.Pool now return whether ~.Group.join returned with an empty group. Suggested by Filippo Sironi in 503.
• Unhandled exception reports that kill a greenlet now include a timestamp. See 137.
• ~.PriorityQueue now ensures that an initial items list is a valid heap. Fixed in 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 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 825 by Jelle Smet.
• The gevent.os.waitpid function is cooperative in more circumstances. Reported in 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 874 by stefanmh.
• The BackDoorServer now tracks spawned greenlets (connections) and kills them in its stop method.

Servers

• Default to AF_INET6 when binding to all addresses (e.g., ""). This supports both IPv4 and IPv6 connections (except on Windows). Original change in 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.

Threads

• 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 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 747 by Sergey Vasilyev.

SSL

• 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 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 800 by Kevin Chen.

subprocess module

• 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 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.

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 825 by Jelle Smet.
• selectors.SelectSelector is properly monkey-patched regardless of the order of imports. Reported in 835 by Przemysław Węgrzyn.
• Python 2: reload(site) no longer fails with a TypeError if gevent has been imported. Reported in 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 771 by Sergey Vasilyev.
• Fix build on Solaris 10. Reported in 777 by wiggin15.
• The ref parameter to gevent.os.fork_and_watch was being ignored.
• Python 3: gevent.queue.Channel is now correctly iterable, instead of raising a TypeError.
• Python 3: Add support for socket.socket.sendmsg, socket.socket.recvmsg and socket.socket.recvmsg_into on platforms where they are defined. Initial 773 by Jakub Klama.

1.1.0 (Mar 5, 2016)

• Python 3: A monkey-patched 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 ValueError exceptions that the standard library does for invalid parameters. Reported in 750 by Joy Zheng.
• Fix a race condition in ~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.)
• ~gevent.event.Event and ~.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 ~logging.Logger as a pywsgi error or request log stream no longer produces extra newlines. Reported in 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 757 by Ned Batchelder.
• Issue a warning when ~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 ~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 gevent.monkey.get_original.

1.1rc5 (Feb 24, 2016)

• SSL: Attempting to send empty data using the ~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 ssl.SSLEOFError. (Note that sending empty data with the ~socket.socket.send method does raise SSLEOFError in both gevent and the standard library.) Reported in 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 728 by Garrett Heel.
• Python 2: Don't raise 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 289 by ggjjlldd, with contributions by Nathan Hoad.
• ~gevent.baseserver.BaseServer and its subclasses like ~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 ~ssl.SSLSocket now raises the same ValueError the standard library does, instead of an AttributeError. Found by updating gevent's copy of the standard library test cases. Initially reported in 735 by Dmitrij D. Czarkoff.
• Python 3: Fix ~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 socket.socket.sendfile. Found via updated standard library tests.
• Python 3.4+: Add missing support for socket.socket.get_inheritable and ~socket.socket.set_inheritable. Found via updated standard library tests.

1.1rc3 (Jan 04, 2016)

• Python 2: Support the new PEP 466 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 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 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 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 socket.timeout instead of 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 317.
• 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 696 by Adam Ning.
• gevent.spawn_raw now accepts keyword arguments, as previously (incorrectly) documented. Reported in 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 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 gevent.subprocess module, fixing a large number of failing tests. Examples of failures are in 668 and 669 reported by srossross.
• Python 3: The SSLSocket class should return an empty bytes object on an EOF instead of a str. Fixed in 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 675 by WGH-.

• PyPy: Fix a crash. Reported in 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 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 237 and fix based on 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 687 by Gregory Petukhov.

1.1b6 (Oct 17, 2015)

• PyPy: Fix a memory leak for code that allocated and disposed of many gevent.lock.Semaphore subclasses. If monkey-patched, this could also apply to threading.Semaphore objects. Reported in 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 ~.WSGIHandler to handle invalid HTTP client requests. Reported by not-bob.
• ~.WSGIServer more robustly supports ~logging.Logger-like parameters for log and error_log (as introduced in 1.1b1, this could cause integration issues with gunicorn). Reported in 663 by Jay Oster.
• ~gevent.threading._DummyThread objects, created in a monkey-patched system when 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 ~gevent.lock.Semaphore, which is especially important for PyPy.
• Request logging by gevent.pywsgi formats the status code correctly on Python 3. Reported in 664 by Kevin Chen.
• Restore the ability to take a weak reference to instances of exactly gevent.lock.Semaphore, which was unintentionally removed as part of making Semaphore atomic on PyPy on 1.1b1. Reported in 666 by Ivan-Zhu.
• Build Windows wheels for Python 3.5. Reported in 665 by Hexchain Tong.

1.1b5 (Sep 18, 2015)

• gevent.subprocess works under Python 3.5. In general, Python 3.5 has preliminary support. Reported in 653 by Squeaky.
• 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 Queue.peek <gevent.queue.Queue.peek>. Reported in 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 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 ~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 651 and 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 650 by Erich Heine.
• ~gevent.pywsgi.WSGIServer and ~gevent.pywsgi.WSGIHandler do a better job detecting and reporting potential encoding errors for headers and the status line during ~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.

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 643 by michaelvol.
• Make SIGCHLD handlers specified to gevent.signal.signal work with the child watchers that are used by default. Also make 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 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 619 by Thinh Nguyen and 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 634 by Mike Kaplinskiy.
• Common lookup errors using the 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 617 by Jay Oster and Carlos Sanchez.
• PyPy: Fix a TypeError from gevent.idle(). Reported in 639 by chilun2008.
• The ~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 638 by Sylvain Zimmer.
• The 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 gevent.queue.Queue now supports the len function.

1.1b2 (Aug 5, 2015)

• Enable using the 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 618 by Jay Oster.
• gevent.kill raises the correct exception in the target greenlet. Reported in 623 by Jonathan Kamens.
• Various fixes on Windows. Reported in 625, 627, and 628 by jacekt and Yuanteng (Jeff) Pei. Fixed in 624.
• Add ~gevent.fileobject.FileObjectPosix.readable and ~gevent.fileobject.FileObjectPosix.writable methods to ~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 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 608 by Heungsub Lee.
• libev's child watchers caused os.waitpid to become unreliable due to the use of signals on POSIX platforms. This was especially noticeable when using gevent.subprocess in combination with multiprocessing. Now, the monkey-patched os module provides a ~gevent.os.waitpid function that seeks to ameliorate this. Reported in 600 by champax and 452 by Łukasz Kawczyński.
• On platforms that implement select.poll, provide a gevent-friendly gevent.select.poll and corresponding monkey-patch. Implemented in 604 by Eddi Linder.
• Allow passing of events to the io callback under PyPy. Reported in 531 by M. Nunberg and implemented in 604.
• gevent.thread.allocate_lock (and so a monkey-patched standard library ~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 308 by Jędrzej Nowak.
• gevent.fileobject.FileObjectThread uses the threadpool to close the underling file-like object. Reported in 201 by vitaly-krugl.
• Malicious or malformed HTTP chunked transfer encoding data sent to the 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 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 153.
• Under Python 2, use the io package to implement ~gevent.fileobject.FileObjectPosix. This unifies the code with the Python 3 implementation, and fixes problems with using seek(). See 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 108 by shaun and initial fix based on code by Sylvain Zimmer.
• gevent.spawn, spawn_raw and spawn_later, as well as the ~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 119 by stephan.
• Recursive use of 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 131 by 8mayday.
• When the threading module is monkey-patched <gevent.monkey.patch_thread>, the module-level lock in the 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 ~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 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 RuntimeError from importlib. Reported in 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 381 and fixed in 616 by Chris Lane. Additional fix in 626 by Kevin Chen.
• (Experimental) Let the pywsgi.WSGIServer accept a 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 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.
• gevent.threadpool.ThreadPool.apply now raises any exception raised by the called function, the same as ~gevent.pool.Group/~gevent.pool.Pool and the builtin apply function. This obsoletes the undocumented apply_e function. Original PR 556 by Robert Estelle.
• Monkey-patch the selectors module from patch_all and patch_select on Python 3.4. See 591.
• Additional query functions for the gevent.monkey module allow knowing what was patched. Discussed in 135 and implemented in 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 597 by David Ford.
• gevent.socket.socket.sendall supports arbitrary objects that implement the buffer protocol (such as ctypes structures), just like native sockets. Reported in 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 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 Popen.communicate <gevent.subprocess.Popen.communicate> raises an exception like its Python 3 counterpart.
• An exception starting a child process with the gevent.subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors. Reported in 374 by 陈小玉.
• The example echoserver.py no longer binds to the standard X11 TCP port. Reported in 485 by minusf.
• gevent.iwait no longer throws ~gevent.hub.LoopExit if the caller switches greenlets between return values. Reported and initial patch in 467 by Alexey Borzenkov.
• The default threadpool and default threaded resolver work in a forked child process, such as with multiprocessing.Process. Previously the child process would hang indefinitely. Reported in 230 by Lx Yu.
• Fork watchers are more likely to (eventually) get called in a multi-threaded program (except on Windows). See 154.
• gevent.killall accepts an arbitrary iterable for the greenlets to kill. Reported in 404 by Martin Bachwerk; seen in combination with older versions of simple-requests.
• gevent.local.local objects are now eligible for garbage collection as soon as the greenlet finishes running, matching the behaviour of the built-in threading.local (when implemented natively). Reported in 387 by AusIV.
• Killing a greenlet (with gevent.kill or 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 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 38.
• Add support for PyPy. See 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 gevent.joinall to not ignore count when raise_error is False. See 512 by Ivan Diao.
• Fix gevent.subprocess.Popen to not ignore the bufsize argument. Note that this changes the (platform dependent) default, typically from buffered to unbuffered. See 542 by Romuald Brunet.

• Upgraded c-ares to 1.10.0. See 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 gevent.iwait. See 482 by wiggin15.
• Add a timeout argument to 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 554 by DuLLSoN.
• gevent.pywsgi no longer prints debugging information for the normal conditions of a premature client disconnect. See 136, fixed in 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 450 and 528 by Rodolfo and Eddi Linder and 240 by Erik Allik.
• Upgrade to libev 4.20. See 590 by Peter Renström.
• Fix gevent.baseserver.BaseServer to be printable when its handle function is an instancemethod of itself. See 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 544 by Mouad Benchchaoui.
• Patch subprocess by default in gevent.monkey.patch_all. See 446.
• gevent.pool.Group.imap and imap_unordered now accept multiple iterables like itertools.imap. 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 614.

Release 1.0.2

• Fix LifoQueue.peek() to return correct element. 456. Patch by Christine Spang.
• Upgrade to libev 4.19
• Remove SSL3 entirely as default TLS protocol
• Import socket on Windows (closes 459)
• Fix C90 syntax error (449)
• Add compatibility with Python 2.7.9's SSL changes. 477.

Release 1.0.1

• Fix 423: Pool's imap/imap_unordered could hang forever. Based on patch and test by Jianfei Wang.

Release 1.0 (Nov 26, 2013)

• pywsgi: Pass copy of error list instead of direct reference. Thanks to Jonathan Kamens, Matt Iversen.
• Ignore the autogenerated doc/gevent.*.rst files. Patch by Matthias Urlichs.
• Fix cythonpp.py on Windows. Patch by Jeryn Mathew.
• Remove gevent.run (use gevent.wait).

Release 1.0rc3 (Sep 14, 2013)

• Fix 251: crash in gevent.core when accessing destroyed loop.
• Fix 235: Replace self._threadpool.close() with self._threadpool.kill() in hub.py. Patch by Jan-Philip Gehrcke.
• Remove unused timeout from select.py (254). Patch by Saúl Ibarra Corretgé.
• Rename Greenlet.link()'s argument to 'callback' (closes 244).
• Fix parallel build (193). Patch by Yichao Yu.
• Fix 263: potential UnboundLocalError: 'length' in gevent.pywsgi.
• Simplify psycopg2_pool.py (239). Patch by Alex Gaynor.
• pywsgi: allow Content-Length in GET requests (264). Patch by 陈小玉.
• documentation fixes (281) [philipaconrad].
• Fix old documentation about default blocking behavior of kill, killall (306). Patch by Daniel Farina.
• Fix 6: patch sys after thread. Patch by Anton Patrushev.
• subprocess: fix check_output on Py2.6 and older (265). Thanks to Marc Sibson for test.
• Fix 302: "python -m gevent.monkey" now sets __file__ properly.
• pywsgi: fix logging when bound on unix socket (295). Thanks to Chris Meyers, Eugene Pankov.
• pywsgi: readout request data to prevent ECONNRESET
• Fix 303: 'requestline' AttributeError in pywsgi. Thanks to Neil Chintomby.
• Fix 79: Properly handle HTTP versions. Patch by Luca Wehrstedt.
• Fix 216: propagate errors raised by Pool.map/imap

Release 1.0rc2 (Dec 10, 2012)

• Fixed 210: callbacks were not run for non-default loop (bug introduced in 1.0rc1).
• patch_all() no longer patches subprocess unless subprocess=True is passed.
• Fixed AttributeError in hub.Waiter.
• Fixed 181: make hidden imports visible to freezing tools like py2exe. Patch by Ralf Schmitt.
• Fixed 202: periodically yield when running callbacks (sleep(0) cannot block the event loop now).
• Fixed 204: os.tp_read/tp_write did not propogate errors to the caller.
• Fixed 217: do not set SO_REUSEADDR on Windows.
• Fixed bug in --module argument for gevent.monkey. Patch by Örjan Persson.
• Remove warning from threadpool.py about mixing fork() and threads.
• Cleaned up hub.py from code that was needed to support older greenlets. Patch by Saúl Ibarra Corretgé.
• Allow for explicit default loop creation via get_hub(default=True). Patch by Jan-Philip Gehrcke.

Release 1.0rc1 (Oct 30, 2012)

• Fixed hub.switch() not to touch stacktrace when switching. greenlet restores the exception information correctly since version 0.3.2. gevent now requires greenlet >= 0.3.2
• Added gevent.wait() and gevent.iwait(). This is like gevent.joinall() but supports more objects, including Greenlet, Event, Semaphore, Popen. Without arguments it waits for the event loop to finish (previously gevent.run() did that). gevent.run will be removed before final release and gevent.joinall() might be deprecated.
• Reimplemented loop.run_callback with a list and a single prepare watcher; this fixes the order of spawns and improves performance a little.
• Fixes Semaphore/Lock not to init hub in __init__, so that it's possible to have module-global locks without initializing the hub. This fixes monkey.patch_all() not to init the hub.
• New implementation of callbacks that executes them in the order they were added. core.loop.callback is removed.
• Fixed 2.5 compatibility.
• Fixed crash on Windows when request 'prev' and 'attr' attributes of 'stat' watcher. The attribute access still fails, but now with an exception.
• Added known_failures.txt that lists all the tests that fail. It can be used by testrunner.py via expected option. It's used when running the test suite in travis.
• Fixed socket, ssl and fileobject to not mask EBADF error - it is now propogated to the caller. Previously EBADF was converted to empty read/write. Thanks to Vitaly Kruglikov
• Removed gevent.event.waitall()
• Renamed FileObjectThreadPool -> FileObjectThread
• Greenlet: Fixed 143: greenlet links are now executed in the order they were added
• Synchronize access to FileObjectThread with Semaphore
• EINVAL is no longer handled in fileobject.

monkey:

• Fixed 178: disable monkey patch os.read/os.write
• Fixed monkey.patch_thread() to patch threading._DummyThread to avoid leak in threading._active. Original patch by Wil Tan.
• added Event=False argument to patch_all() and patch_thread
• added patch_sys() which patches stdin, stdout, stderr with FileObjectThread wrappers. Experimental / buggy.
• monkey patching everything no longer initializes the hub/event loop.

socket:

• create_connection: do not lookup IPv6 address if IPv6 is unsupported. Patch by Ralf Schmitt.

pywsgi:

• Fixed 86: bytearray is now supported. Original patch by Aaron Westendorf.
• Fixed 116: Multiline HTTP headers are now handled properly. Patch by Ralf Schmitt.

subprocess:

• Fixed Windows compatibility. The wait() method now also supports 'timeout' argument on Windows.
• Popen: Added rawlink() method, which makes Popen objects supported by gevent.wait(). Updated examples/processes.py
• Fixed 148: read from errpipe_read in small chunks, to avoid trigger EINVAL issue on Mac OS X. Patch by Vitaly Kruglikov
• Do os._exit() in "finally" section to avoid executing unrelated code. Patch by Vitaly Kruglikov.

resolver_ares:

• improve getaddrinfo: For string ports (e.g. "http") resolver_ares/getaddrinfo previously only checked either getservbyname(port, "tcp") or getservbyname(port, "udp"), but never both. It now checks both of them.
• gevent.ares.channel now accepts strings as arguments
• upgraded c-ares to cares-1_9_1-12-g805c736
• it is now possible to configure resolver_ares directly with environ, like GEVENTARES_SERVERS

os:

• Renamed threadpool_read/write to tp_read/write.
• Removed posix_read, posix_write.
• Added nb_read, nb_write, make_nonblocking.

hub:

• The system error is now raised immediatelly in main greenlet in all cases.
• Dropped support for old greenlet versions (need >= 0.3.2 now)

core:

• allow 'callback' property of watcher to be set to None. "del w.callback" no longer works.
• added missing 'noinotify' flag

Misc:

• gevent.thread: allocate_lock is now an alias for LockType/Semaphore. That way it does not fail when being used as class member.
• Updated greentest.py to start timeouts with ref=False.
• pool: remove unused get_values() function
• setup.py now recognizes GEVENTSETUP_EV_VERIFY env var which sets EV_VERIFY macro when compiling
• Added a few micro benchmarks
• stdlib tests that we care about are now included in greentest/2.x directories, so we don't depend on them being installed system-wide
• updated util/makedist.py
• the testrunner was completely rewritten.

Release 1.0b4 (Sep 6, 2012)

• Added gevent.os module with 'read' and 'write' functions. Patch by Geert Jansen.
• Moved gevent.hub.fork to gevent.os module (it is still available as gevent.fork).
• Fixed 148: Made fileobject handle EINVAL, which is randomly raised by os.read/os.write on Mac OS X. Thanks to Mark Hingston.
• Fixed 150: gevent.fileobject.SocketAdapter.sendall() could needlessly wait for write event on the descriptor. Original patch by Mark Hingston.
• Fixed AttributeError in baseserver. In case of error, start() would call kill() which was renamed to close(). Thanks to Vitaly Kruglikov.

Release 1.0b3 (Jul 27, 2012)

• New gevent.subprocess module
• New gevent.fileobject module
• Fixed ThreadPool to discard references of the objects passed to it (function, arguments) asap. Previously they could be stored for unlimited time until the thread gets a new job.
• Fixed 138: gevent.pool.Pool().imap_unordered hangs with an empty iterator. Thanks to exproxus.
• Fixed 127: ssl.py could raise TypeError in certain cases. Thanks to Johan Mjones.
• Fixed socket.makefile() to keep the timeout setting of the socket instance. Thanks to Colin Marc.
• Added 'copy()' method to queues.
• The 'nochild' event loop config option is removed. The install_sigchld offer more flexible way of enabling child watchers.
• core: all watchers except for 'child' now accept new 'priority' keyword argument
• gevent.Timeout accepts new arguments: 'ref' and 'priority'. The default priority for Timeout is -1.
• Hub.wait() uses Waiter now instead of raw switching
• Updated libev to the latest CVS version
• Made pywsgi to raise an AssertionError if non-zero content-length is passed to start_response(204/304) or if non-empty body is attempted to be written for 304/204 response
• Removed pywsgi feature to capitalize the passed headers.
• Fixed util/cythonpp.py to work on python3.2 (123). Patch by Alexandre Kandalintsev.
• Added 'closed' readonly property to socket.
• Added 'ref' read/write property to socket.
• setup.py now parses CARES_EMBED and LIBEV_EMBED parameters, in addition to EMBED.
• gevent.reinit() and gevent.fork() only reinit hub if it was created and do not create it themselves
• Fixed setup.py not to add libev and c-ares to include dirs in non-embed mode. Patch by Ralf Schmitt.
• Renamed util/make_dist.py to util/makedist.py
• testrunner.py now saves more information about the system; the stat printing functionality is moved to a separate util/stat.py script.

Release 1.0b2 (Apr 11, 2012)

Major and backward-incompatible changes:

• Made the threadpool-based resolver the default. To enable the ares-based resolver, set GEVENT_RESOLVER=ares env var.
• Added support for child watchers (not available on Windows).
  • Libev loop now reaps all children by default.
  • If NOCHILD flag is passed to the loop, child watchers and child reaping are disabled.
• Renamed gevent.coros to gevent.lock. The gevent.coros is still available but deprecated.
• Added 'stat' watchers to loop.
• The setup.py now recognizes gevent_embed env var. When set to "no", bundled c-ares and libev are ignored.
• Added optional 'ref' argument to sleep(). When ref=false, the watchers created by sleep() do not hold gevent.run() from exiting.
• ThreadPool now calls Hub.handle_error for exceptions in worker threads.
• ThreadPool got new method: apply_e.
• Added new extension module gevent._util and moved gevent.core.set_exc_info function there.
• Added new extension module gevent._semaphore. It contains Semaphore class which is imported by gevent.lock as gevent.lock.Semaphore. Providing Semaphore in extension module ensures that trace function set with settrace will not be called during __exit__. Thanks to Ralf Schmitt.
• It is now possible to kill or pre-spawn threads in ThreadPool by setting its 'size' property.

core:

• Make sure the default loop cannot be destroyed more than once, thus crashing the process.
• Make Hub.destroy() method not to destroy the default loop, unless destroy_loop is True. Non-default loops are still destroyed by default.
• loop: Removed properties from loop: fdchangecnt, timercnt, asynccnt.
• loop: Added properties: sigfd, origflags, origflags_int
• loop: The EVFLAG_NOENV is now always passed to libev. Thus LIBEV_FLAGS env variable is no longer checked. Use GEVENT_BACKEND.

Misc:

• Check that the argument of link() is callable. Raise TypeError when it's not.
• Fixed TypeError in baseserver when parsing an address.
• Pool: made add() and discard() usable by external users. Thanks to Danil Eremeev.
• When specifying a class to import, it is now possible to use format path/package.module.name
• pywsgi: Made sure format_request() does not fail if 'status' attribute is not set yet
• pywsgi: Added REMOTE_PORT variable to the environment.

Examples:

• portforwarder.py now shows how to use gevent.run() to implement graceful shutdown of a server.
• psycopg2_pool.py: Changed execute() to return rowcount.
• psycopg2_pool.py: Added fetchall() and fetchiter() methods.

Developer utilities:

• When building, CYTHON env variable can be used to specify Cython executable to use.
• util/make_dist.py now recongizes --fast and --revert options. Previous --rsync option is removed.
• Added util/winvbox.py which automates building/testing/making binaries on Windows VM.
• Fixed typos in exception handling code in testrunner.py
• Fixed patching unittest.runner on Python2.7. This caused the details of test cases run lost.
• Made testrunner.py kill the whole process group after test is done.

Release 1.0b1 (Jan 10, 2012)

Backward-incompatible changes:

• Removed "link to greenlet" feature of Greenlet.
• If greenlet module older than 0.3.2 is used, then greenlet.GreenletExit.__bases__ is monkey patched to derive from BaseException and not Exception. That way gevent.GreenletExit is always derived from BaseException, regardless of installed greenlet version.
• Some code supporting Python 2.4 has been removed.

Release highlights:

• Added thread pool: gevent.threadpool.ThreadPool.
• Added thread pool-based resolver. Enable with GEVENT_RESOLVER=thread.
• Added UDP server: gevent.server.DatagramServer
• A "configure" is now run on libev. This fixes a problem of 'kqueue' not being available on Mac OS X.
• Gevent recognizes some environment variables now:
  • GEVENT_BACKEND allows passing argument to loop, e.g. "GEVENT_BACKEND=select" for force select backend
  • GEVENT_RESOLVER allows choosing resolver class.
  • GEVENT_THREADPOOL allows choosing thread pool class.
• Added new examples: portforwarder, psycopg2_pool.py, threadpool.py, udp_server.py
• Fixed non-embedding build. To build against system libev, remove or rename 'libev' directory. To build against system c-ares, remove or rename 'c-ares'. Thanks to Örjan Persson.

misc: - gevent.joinall() method now accepts optional 'count' keyword. - gevent.fork() only calls reinit() in the child process now. - gevent.run() now returns False when exiting because of timeout or event (previous None). - Hub got a new method: destroy(). - Hub got a new property: threadpool.

ares.pyx: - Fixed 104: made ares_host_result pickable. Thanks to Shaun Cutts.

pywsgi: - Removed unused deprecated 'wfile' property from WSGIHandler - Fixed 92: raise IOError on truncated POST requests. - Fixed 93: do not sent multiple "100 continue" responses

core: - Fixed 97: the timer watcher now calls ev_now_update() in start() and again() unless 'update' keyword is passed and set to False. - add set_syserr_cb() function; it's used by gevent internally. - gevent now installs syserr callback using libev's set_syserr_cb. This callback is called when libev encounters an error it cannot recover from. The default action is to print a message and abort. With the callback installed, a SystemError() is now raised in the main greenlet. - renamed 'backend_fd' property to 'fileno()' method. (not available if you build gevent against system libev) - added 'asynccnt' property (not available if you build gevent against system libev) - made loop.__repr__ output a bit more compact - the watchers check the arguments for validness now (previously invalid argument would crash libev). - The 'async' watcher now has send() method; - fixed time() function - libev has been upgraded to latest CVS version. - libev has been patched to use send()/recv() for evpipe on windows when libev_vfd.h is in effect

resolver_ares: - Slightly improved compatibility with stdlib's socket in some error cases.

socket: - Fixed close() method not to reference any globals - Fixed 115: _dummy gets unexpected Timeout arg - Removed _fileobject used for python 2.4 compatibility in socket.py - Fixed 94: fallback to buffer if memoryview fails in _get_memory on python 2.7

monkey: - Removed patch_httplib() - Fixed 112: threading._sleep is not patched. Thanks to David LaBissoniere. - Added get_unpatched() function. However, it is slightly broken at the moment.

backdoor: - make 'locals()' not spew out __builtin__.__dict__ in backdoor - add optional banner argument to BackdoorServer

servers: - add server.DatagramServer; - StreamServer: 'ssl_enabled' is now a read-only property - servers no longer have 'kill' method; it has been renamed to 'close'. - listeners can now be configured as strings, e.g. ':80' or 80 - modify baseserver.BaseServer in such a way that makes it a good base class for both StreamServer and DatagramServer - BaseServer no longer accepts 'backlog' parameter. It is now done by StreamServer. - BaseServer implements start_accepting() and stop_accepting() methods - BaseServer now implements "temporarily stop accepting" strategy - BaseServer now has _do_read method which does everything except for actually calling accept()/recvfrom() - pre_start() method is renamed to init_socket() - renamed _stopped_event to _stop_event - 'started' is now a read-only property (which actually reports state of _stop_event) - post_stop() method is removed - close() now sets _stop_event(), thus setting 'started' to False, thus causing serve_forever() to exit - _tcp_listener() function is moved from baseserver.py to server.py - added 'fatal_errors' class attribute which is a tuple of all errnos that should kill the server

coros: - Semaphore: add _start_notify() method - Semaphore: avoid copying list of links; rawlink() no longer schedules notification

Release 1.0a3 (Sep 15, 2011)

Added 'ref' property to all watchers. Settings it to False make watcher call ev_unref/ev_ref appropriately so that this watcher does not prevent loop.run()/hub.join()/run() from exiting. Made resolver_ares.Resolver use 'ref' property for internal watcher.

In all servers, method "kill" was renamed to "close". The old name is available as deprecated alias.

Added a few properties to the loop: backend_fd, fdchangecnt, timercnt.

Upgraded c-ares to 1.7.5+patch.

Fixed getaddrinfo to return results in the order (::1, IPv4, IPv6).

Fixed getaddrinfo() to handle integer of string type. Thanks to kconor.

Fixed gethostbyname() to handle '' (empty string).

Fixed getaddrinfo() to convert UnicodeEncodeError into error('Int or String expected').

Fixed getaddrinfo() to uses the lowest 16 bits of passed port integer similar to built-in _socket.

Fixed getnameinfo() to call getaddrinfo() to process arguments similar to built-in _socket.

Fixed gethostbyaddr() to use getaddrinfo() to process arguments.

version_info is now a 5-tuple.

Added handle_system_error() method to Hub (used internally).

Fixed Hub's run() method to never exit. This prevent inappropriate switches into parent greenlet.

Fixed Hub.join() to return True if Hub was already dead.

Added 'event' argument to Hub.join().

Added run() function to gevent top level package.

Fixed Greenlet.start() to exit silently if greenlet was already started rather than raising AssertionError.

Fixed Greenlet.start() not to schedule another switch if greenlet is already dead.

Fixed gevent.signal() to spawn Greenlet instead of raw greenlet. Also it'll switch into the new greenlet immediately instead of scheduling additional callback.

Do monkey patch create_connection() as gevent's version works better with gevent.socket.socket than the standard create_connection.

pywsgi: make sure we don't try to read more requests if socket operation failed with EPIPE

pywsgi: if we failed to send the reply, change 'status' to socket error so that the logs mention the error.

Release 1.0a2 (Aug 2, 2011)

Fixed a bug in gevent.queue.Channel class. (Thanks to Alexey Borzenkov)

Release 1.0a1 (Aug 2, 2011)

Backward-incompatible changes:

• Dropped support for Python 2.4.
• Queue(0) is now equivalent to an unbound queue and raises DeprecationError. Use gevent.queue.Channel if you need a channel.
• Deprecated ability to pass a greenlet instance to Greenlet.link, Greenlet.link_value and Greenlet.link_exception.
• All of gevent.core has been rewritten and the interface is not compatible.
• SystemExit and SystemError now kill the whole process instead of printing a traceback.
• Removed deprecated util.lazy_property property.
• Removed gevent.dns module.
• Removed deprecated gevent.sslold module
• Removed deprecated gevent.rawgreenlet module
• Removed deprecated name GreenletSet which used to be alias for Group.

Release highlights:

• The gevent.core module now wraps libev's API and is not compatible with gevent 0.x.
• Added a concept of pluggable event loops. By default gevent.core.loop is used, which is a wrapper around libev.
• Added a concept of pluggable name resolvers. By default a resolver based on c-ares library is used.
• Added support for multiple OS threads, each new thread will get its own Hub instance with its own event loop.
• The release now includes and embeds the dependencies: libev and c-ares.
• The standard signal works now as expected.
• The unhandled errors are now handled uniformely by Hub.handle_error function.
• Added Channel class to gevent.queue module. It is equivalent to Queue(0) in gevent 0.x, which is deprecated now.
• Added method peek to Queue class.
• Added idle function which blocks until the event loop is idle.
• Added a way to gracefully shutdown the application by waiting for all outstanding greenlets/servers/watchers: Hub.join.
• Added new gevent.ares C extension which wraps c-ares and provides asynchronous DNS resolver.
• Added new gevent.resolver_ares module provides synchronous API on top of gevent.ares.

The gevent.socket module:

• DNS functions now use c-ares library rather than libevent-dns. This fixes a number of problems with name resolving:

  • Fix 2: DNS resolver no longer breaks after fork(). You still need to call gevent.fork (os.fork is monkey

    patched with it if monkey.patch_all() was called).

  • DNS resolver no longer ignores /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts.
• The following functions were added to socket module
  • gethostbyname_ex
  • getnameinfo
  • gethostbyaddr
  • getfqdn
• Removed undocumented bind_and_listen and tcp_listener

The Hub object:

• Added join method which waits until the event loop exits or optional timeout expires.
• Added wait method which waits until a watcher has got an event.
• Added handle_error method which is called by all of gevent in case of unhandled exception.
• Added print_exception method which is called by handle_error to print the exception traceback.

The Greenlet objects:

• Added __nonzero__ implementation that returns True after greenlet was started until it's dead. Previously greenlet was False after start() until it was first switched to.

The mod:gevent.pool module:

• It is now possible to add raw greenlets to the pool.
• The map and imap methods now start yielding the results as soon as possible.
• The imap_unordered no longer swallows an exception raised while iterating its argument.

Miscellaneous:

• gevent.sleep(<negative value>) no longer raises an exception, instead it does sleep(0).
• Added method clear to internal Waiter class.
• Removed wait method from internal Waiter class.
• The WSGIServer now sets max_accept to 1 if wsgi.multiprocessing is set to True.
• Added monkey.patch_module function that monkey patches module using __implements__ list provided by gevent module. All of gevent modules that replace stdlib module now have __implements__ attribute.

Release 0.13.8 (September 6, 2012)

• Fixed 80: gevent.httplib failed with RequestFailed errors because timeout was reset to 1s. Patch by Tomasz Prus.
• core: fix compilation with the latest Cython: remove emit_ifdef/emit_else/emit_endif.
• Fixed 132: gevent.socket.gethostbyname(<unicode>) now does ascii encoding and uses gevent's resolver rather than calling built-in resolver. Patch by Alexey Borzenkov.

Release 0.13.7 (April 12, 2012)

• Fixed 94: fallback to buffer if memoryview fails in _get_memory on python 2.7.
• Fixed 103: Queue(None).full() returns False now (previously it returned True).
• Fixed 112: threading._sleep is not patched. Thanks to David LaBissoniere.
• Fixed 115: _dummy gets unexpected Timeout arg.

Release 0.13.6 (May 2, 2011)

• Added __copy__ method to gevent.local.local class that implements copy semantics compatible with built-in threading.local. Patch by Galfy Pundee.
• Fixed StreamServer class to catch EWOULDBLOCK rather than EAGAIN. This fixes lots of spurious tracebacks on Windows where these two constants are not the same. Patch by Alexey Borzenkov.
• Fixed 65: fork now calls event_reinit only in the child process; otherwise the process could hang when using libevent2. Patch by Alexander Boudkar.

Release 0.13.5 (Apr 21, 2011)

• Fixed build problem on Python 2.5

Release 0.13.4 (Apr 11, 2011)

• Fixed TypeError that occurred when environ["wsgi.input"].read function was called with an integer argument.
• Fixed 63: monkey.patch_thread now patches threading too, even if it's already imported. Patch by Shaun Lindsay.
• Fixed 64: joinall and killall functions used to hang if their argument contained duplicate greenlets.
• Fixed 69: pywsgi.WSGIServer reported "Connection reset by peer" if the client did not close the connection gracefully after the last request. Such errors are now ignored.
• Fixed 67: Made wsgi.WSGIServer add REQUEST_URI to environ. Patch by Andreas Blixt.
• Fixed 71: monkey patching httplib with gevent.httplib used to break HTTPSConnection. Patch by Nick Barkas.
• Fixed 74: create_connection <gevent.socket.create_connection> now raises proper exception when getaddrinfo fails.
• Fixed BaseServer.__repr__ method, BaseServer.server_host and BaseServer.server_port attributes to handle the case of AF_UNIX addresses properly. Previously they assumed address is always a tuple.
• Fixed pywsgi.WSGIServer to handle AF_UNIX listeners. The server now sets environ["SERVER_NAME"] and environ["SERVER_PORT"] to empty string in such case.
• Make StreamServer (and thus pywsgi.WSGIServer) accept up to 100 connections per one readiness notification. This behaviour is controlled by StreamServer.max_accept class attribute.
• If bind fails, the servers now include the address that caused bind to fail in the error message.

Release 0.13.3 (Feb 7, 2011)

• Fixed typo in gevent.httplib that rendered it unusable.
• Removed unnecessary delay in getaddrinfo <gevent.socket.getaddrinfo> by calling resolve_ipv4 and resolve_ipv6 concurrently rather than sequentially in AF_UNSPEC case.

Release 0.13.2 (Jan 28, 2011)

• Added gevent.httplib -- experimental support for libevent-http client (9). Thanks to Tommie Gannert, Örjan Persson.
• Fixed crash on Mac OS X (31). Patch by Alexey Borzenkov.
• Fixed compatiblity of gevent.wsgi with libevent2 (62).
• Fixed compilation issues with libevent2. Patch by Ralf Schmitt.
• Fixed pywsgi not to use chunked transfer encoding in case of 304 and 204 responses as it creates a non-empty message body which is against RFC and causes some browsers to fail. Patch by Nicholas Piël.
• Fixed socket.getaddrinfo to handle AF_UNSPEC properly and resolve service names (56). Thanks to Elizabeth Jennifer Myers.
• Fixed socket.getaddrinfo to handle international domain names.
• Fixed leaking of traceback object when switching out of greenlet with sys.exc_info set. Leaking is prevented by not preserving traceback at all and only keeping the value of the exception. Thanks to Ned Rockson.
• Fixed ssl.SSLSocket.unwrap to shutdown SSLSocket properly, without raising SSLError(read operation timeout).
• Fixed TypeError inside Hub on Python 2.4.
• Made a number of internal improvements to gevent.pywsgi to make subclassing easier.
• Changed WSGIServer <pywsgi.WSGIServer> to explicitly close the socket after the last request. Patch by Ralf Schmitt.
• Fixed pywsgi.WSGIHandler not to add CONTENT_TYPE to the environ dict when there's no Content-Type header in the request. Previously a default text/plain was added in such case.
• Added proper implementation of imap_unordered <gevent.pool.Group.imap_unordered> to Pool class. Unlike previous "dummy" implementation this one starts yielding the results as soon as they are ready.
• Implemented iterator protocol in Queue <gevent.queue.Queue>. The main use case is the implementation of Pool.imap_unordered.
• Fixed BaseServer.started property: it is now set to True after start <StreamServer.start> until stop <StreamServer.stop> or kill <StreamServer.kill>. Previously it could become False for short period of times, because StreamServer could stop accepting for a while in presence of errors and StreamServer.started was defined as "whether the server is currently accepting".
• Fixed wsgi.WSGIServer to reply with 500 error immediatelly if the application raises an error (58). Thanks to Jon Aslund.
• Added monkey.patch_httplib function which is disabled by default.
• Added httplib parameter to monkey.patch_all (defaults to False).
• Added write <core.buffer.write> method to core.buffer.
• Fixed OverflowError that could happen in core.event.__str__.
• Made http_request.get_input_headers return header names in lower case.
• Fixed StreamServer to accept ciphers as an SSL argument.
• Added build_exc --cython= option to setup.py. Patch by Ralf Schmitt.
• Updated local <gevent.local.local> to raise AttributeError if __dict__ attribute is set or deleted.

Release 0.13.1 (Sep 23, 2010)

Release highlights:

• Fixed monkey to patch socket.create_connection <gevent.socket.create_connection>.
• Updated gevent.ssl module to fully match the functionality of ssl on Python 2.7.
• Fixed Group.join to handle raise_error=True properly, it used to raise TypeError (36). Thanks to by David Hain.
• Fixed gevent.wsgi and gevent.pywsgi to join multiple Cookie headers (40).
• Fixed select <gevent.select.select> to recognize long arguments in addition to int.
• Fixed Semaphore.acquire to return False when timeout expires instead of raising AssertionError (39). Patch by Erik Näslund.
• Fixed JoinableQueue.join to return immediatelly if queue is already empty (45). Patch by Dmitry Chechik.
• Deprecated gevent.sslold module.

gevent.socket module:

• Overrode socket.shutdown method to interrupt read/write operations on socket.
• Fixed possible NameError in socket.connect_ex method. Patch by Alexey Borzenkov.
• Fixed socket leak in create_connection function.
• Made gevent.socket import all public items from stdlib socket that do not do I/O.

gevent.ssl module:

• Imported a number of patches from stdlib by Antoine Pitrou:
  • Calling makefile method on an SSL object would prevent the underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed (Python issue #5238).
  • SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block indefinitely if the other end didn't respond (Python issue #5103).
  • When calling getpeername in SSLSocket.__init__, only silence exceptions caused by the "socket not connected" condition.
• Added support for ciphers argument.
• Updated SSLSocket.send and SSLSocket.recv methods to match the behavior of stdlib ssl better.
• Fixed ssl.SSLObject to delete events used by other greenlets when closing the instance (34).

Miscellaneous:

• Made BaseServer accept long values as pool argument in addition to int.
• Made http._requests attribute public.
• Updated webchat example to use file on disk rather than in-memory sqlite database to avoid OperationalError.
• Fixed webproxy.py example to be runnable under external WSGI server.
• Fixed bogus failure in test__exc_info.py.
• Added new test to check PEP8 conformance: xtest_pep8.py.
• Fixed BackdoorServer close the connection on SystemExit and simplified the code.
• Made Pool raise ValueError when initialized with size=0.
• Updated setup.py --libevent to configure and make libevent if it's not built already.
• Updated setup.py to use setuptools if present and add dependency on greenlet.
• Fixed doc/mysphinxext.py to work with Sphinx 1. Thanks by Örjan Persson.

Release 0.13.0 (Jul 14, 2010)

Release highlights:

• Added gevent.server module with StreamServer class for easy implementing of TCP and SSL servers.
• Added gevent.baseserver module with BaseServer class.
• Added new implementation of gevent.pywsgi based on gevent.server. Contributed by Ralf Schmitt.
• Added gevent.local module. Fixed 24. Thanks to Ted Suzman.
• Fixed a number of bugs in gevent.wsgi module.
• Fixed 26: closing a socket now interrupts all pending read/write operations on it.
• Implemented workaround that prevents greenlets from leaking exc_info.
• Fixed socket.sendall to use buffer object to prevent string copies.
• Made the interfaces of gevent.wsgi and gevent.pywsgi much more similar to each other.
• Fixed compilation on Windows with libevent-2.
• Improved Windows compatibility. Fixed 30. Thanks to Luigi Pugnetti.
• Fixed compatibility with Python 2.7.

Backward-incompatible changes:

• Blocking is now the default behaviour for the Greenlet.kill method and other kill* methods.
• Changed the inteface of http.HTTPServer to match the interface of other servers.
• Changed Pool's spawn method to block until there's a free slot.
• Removed deprecated backdoor.backdoor_server function.
• Removed deprecated functions in socket module:
  • socket_bind_and_listen
  • set_reuse_addr
  • connect_tcp
  • tcp_server
• Removed deprecated socket.fd property.
• Deprecated use of negative numbers to indicate infinite timeout in core.event.add and socket.wait_read and similar. Use None from now on, which is compatible with the previous versions.
• Derived backdoor.BackdoorServer from StreamServer rather than from Greenlet. This adds lots of new features and removes a few old ones.
• Removed non-standard balance property from Semaphore.
• Removed start, set_cb and set_gencb from core.http.
• Removed set_closecb from core.http_connection. It is now used internally to detach the requests of the closed connections.
• Deprecated rawgreenlet module.
• Deprecated util.lazy_property.
• Renamed GreenletSet to Group. The old name is currently available as an alias.

gevent.socket module:

• Fixed issues 26 and 34: closing the socket while reading/writing/connecting is now safe. Thanks to Cyril Bay.
• Imported getfqdn from socket module.
• The module now uses sys.platform to detect Windows rather than platform module.
• Fixed 27: getaddrinfo used to handle the case when socktype or proto were equal to 0. Thanks to Randall Leeds.

gevent.coros module:

• Added RLock class.
• Added DummySemaphore class.
• Fixed BoundedSemaphore class to behave like threading.BoundedSemaphore behaves.

gevent.event module:

• Made Event.wait return internal flag instead of None.
• Made AsyncResult.wait return its value instead of None.
• Added ready method as an alias for is_set.

gevent.wsgi module:

• Removed wsgi.buffer_proxy.

gevent.pywsgi module:

• Rewritten to use server and not to depend on BaseHTTPServer.
• Changed the interface to match wsgi module. Removed server function, add Server class, added WSGIServer class.
• Renamed HttpProtocol to WSGIHandler.
• Fixed compatibility with webob by allowing an optional argument to readline.

gevent.core module:

• Fixed reference leaks in event class.
• Avoid Python name lookups when accessing EV* constants from Cython code. Patch by Daniele Varrazzo.
• Added persist argument to read_event, write_event and readwrite_event.
• Made all of the event loop callbacks clear the exception info before exiting.
• Added flags_str property to event. It is used by __str__ and __repr__.
• buffer <core.buffer>:
  • Added detach method.
  • Implemented iterator protocol.
  • Fixed readline and readlines methods.
• http_request:
  • Fixed detach to detach input and output buffers too.
  • Changed the response to send 500 error upon deallocation, if no response was sent by the user.
  • Made input_buffer and output_buffer store and reuse the buffer object they create.
  • Fixed __str__ and meth:__repr__ to include spaces where needed.
  • http class no longer has set_cb and set_gencb. Instead its contructor accepts handle which will be called on each request.

gevent.http and gevent.wsgi modules:

• Made HTTPServer use "Connection: close" header by default.
• Class HTTPServer now derives from baseserver.BaseServer. Thus its start method no longer accepts socket to listen on, it must be passed to the contructor.
• The spawn argument now accepts a Pool instance. While the pool is full, the server replies with 503 error.
• The server no longer links to the greenlets it spawns to detect errors. Instead, it relies on http_request which will send 500 reply when deallocated if the user hasn't send any.

Miscellaneous:

• Changed gevent.thread to use Greenlet instead of raw greenlets. This means monkey patched thread will become Greenlet too.
• Added started property to Greenlet.
• Put common server code in gevent.baseserver module. All servers in gevent package are now derived from BaseServer.
• Fixed 20: sleep now raises IOError if passed a negative argument.
• Remove the code related to finding out libevent version from setup.py as macro USE_LIBEVENT_? is no longer needed to build gevent.core.
• Increased default backlog in all servers (from 5 to 256). Thanks to Nicholas Piël.
• Fixed doc/conf.py to work in Python older than 2.6. Thanks to Örjan Persson.
• Silenced SystemError raised in backdoor when a client typed quit().
• If importing greenlet failed with ImportError, keep the original error message, because sometimes the error originates in setuptools.
• Changed select.select to return all the file descriptors signalled, not just the first one.
• Made thread (and thus monkey patched threads) to spawn Greenlet instances, rather than raw greenlets.

Examples:

• Updated echoserver.py to use StreamServer.
• Added geventsendfile.py.
• Added wsgiserver_ssl.py.

Thanks to Ralf Schmitt for pywsgi, a number of fixes for wsgi, help with baseserver and server modules, improving setup.py and various other patches and suggestions.

Thanks to Uriel Katz for pywsgi patches.

Release 0.12.2 (Mar 2, 2010)

• Fixed http server to put the listening socket into a non-blocking mode. Contributed by Ralf Schmitt.

Release 0.12.1 (Feb 26, 2010)

• Removed a symlink from the distribution (that causes pip to fail). Thanks to Brad Clements for reporting it.
• setup.py: automatically create symlink from build/lib.../gevent/core.so to gevent/core.so.
• gevent.socket: Improved compatibility with stdlib's socket:
  • Fixed socket <gevent.socket.socket> to raise timeout("timed out") rather than simply timeout.
  • Imported _GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT from standard socket module instead of creating a new object.

Release 0.12.0 (Feb 5, 2010)

Release highlights:

• Added gevent.ssl module.
• Fixed Windows compatibility (experimental).
• Improved performance of socket.recv, socket.send and similar methods.
• Added a new module - dns - with synchronous wrappers around libevent's DNS API.
• Added core.readwrite_event and socket.wait_readwrite functions.
• Fixed several incompatibilities of wsgi module with the WSGI spec.
• Deprecated pywsgi module.

gevent.wsgi module:

• Made env["REMOTE_PORT"] into a string.
• Fixed the server to close the iterator returned by the application.
• Made wsgi.input object iterable.

gevent.core module:

• Made DNS functions no longer accept/return IP addresses in dots-and-numbers format. They work with packed IPs now.
• Made DNS functions no longer accept additional arguments to pass to the callback.
• Fixed DNS functions to check the return value of the libevent functions and raise IOError if they failed.
• Added core.dns_err_to_string.
• Made core.event.cancel not to raise if event_del reports an error. instead, the return code is passed to the caller.
• Fixed minor issue in string representation of the events.

gevent.socket module:

• Fixed bug in socket.accept. It could return unwrapped socket instance if socket's timeout is 0.
• Fixed socket.sendall implementation never to call underlying socket's sendall.
• Fixed gethostbyname and getaddrinfo to call the stdlib if the passed hostname has no dots.
• Fixed getaddrinfo to filter the results using socktype and proto arguments.
• Removed getnameinfo as it didn't quite match the stdlib interface. Use dns.resolve_reverse for reverse resolutions.
• Fixed socket.connect_ex to use cooperative gethostbyname.
• Fixed socket.dup not to call underlying socket's dup (which is not available on Windows) but to use Python's reference counting similar to how the stdlib's socket implements dup
• Added _sock argument to socket's constructor. Passing the socket instance as first argument is no longer supported.
• Fixed socket.connect to ignore WSAEINVAL on Windows.
• Fixed socket.connect to use wait_readwrite instead of wait_write.
• Fixed socket.connect to consult SO_ERROR.
• Fixed socket.send and socket.sendall to support flags argument.
• Renamed socket_bind_and_listen to socket.bind_and_listen. The old name is still available as a deprecated alias.
• The underlying socket object is now stored as _sock property.
• Imported the constants and some utility functions from stdlib's socket into gevent.socket. (Thanks to Matt Goodall for the original patch).
• Renamed wrap_ssl to ssl. (the old name is still available but deprecated)
• Deprecated connect_tcp and tcp_server.
• Added sslerror to socket.__all__.
• Removed GreenSocket alias for socket class.
• Moved PyOpenSSL-based implementation of socket.ssl into gevent.oldssl module. It's imported into gevent.socket if importing gevent.ssl fails.

Miscellaneous:

• Fixed Greenlet.spawn_link* and GreenletSet.spawn_link* classmethods not to assume anything about their arguments. (Thanks to Marcus Cavanaugh for pointing that out).
• Fixed select <gevent.select.select> to clean up properly if event creation fails.
• Fixed select <gevent.select.select> to raise select.error instead of IOError.
• Fixed setup.py to proceed with compilation even if libevent version cannot be determined. 1.x.x is assumed in this case.
• Fixed compatibility of .pyx files with Cython 0.12.0.
• Renamed arguments for select.select to what they are called in the stdlib.
• Removed internal function getLinkedCompleted from gevent.greenlet.
• Remove #warning directives from libevent.h. They are not supported by vc90.
• Removed some deprecated stuff from coros.
• Internal class Waiter <gevent.hub.Waiter> now stores the value if no one's waiting for it.
• Added testrunner.py script that replaces a bunch of small scripts that were used before.
• Removed is_secure attribute from sockets and ssl objects.
• Made Greenlet not to print a traceback when a not-yet-started greenlet is killed.
• Added BackdoorServer class to backdoor. Removed backdoor function and deprecated backdoor_server function.
• Removed __getattr__ from socket class.
• Fixed monkey.patch_socket not to fail if socket.ssl is not present in gevent.socket.
• Added monkey.patch_ssl.
• Added aggressive argument to monkey.patch_all.
• Tests from stdlib no longer included in greentest package. Instead, there are number of stubs that import those tests from test package directly and run them in monkey patched environment.
• Added examples/process.py by Marcus Cavanaugh.

Release 0.11.2 (Dec 10, 2009)

• Fixed wsgi to unquote environ['PATH_INFO'] before passing to application.
• Added SERVER_SOFTWARE variable to wsgi environ.
• Fixed bug in JoinableQueue.task_done that caused ValueError to be raised incorrectly here.
• Fixed gevent.socket not to fail with ImportError if Python was not built with ssl support.

Release 0.11.1 (Nov 15, 2009)

• Fixed bug in select.select function. Passing non-empty list of write descriptors used to cause this function to fail.
• Changed setup.py to go ahead with the compilation even if the actual version of libevent cannot be determined (version 1.x.x is assumed in that case).

Contributed by Ludvig Ericson:

• Fixed wsgi's start_response to recognize exc_info argument.
• Fixed setup.py to look for libevent.dylib rather than .so on Darwin platforms.

Release 0.11.0 (Oct 9, 2009)

• Fixed timeout bug in joinall, Greenlet.join, pool.Pool.join: if timeout has expired it used to raise Timeout; now it returns silently.
• Fixed signal to run the signal handler in a new greenlet; it was run in the Hub greenlet before.
• Fixed Timeout.start_new: if passed a Timeout instance, it now calls its start <Timeout.start> method before returning it.
• Fixed gevent.monkey to patch threading.local properly.
• Fixed Queue.empty and Queue.full to be compatible with the standard Queue. It tried to take into account the greenlets currently blocking on get <Queue.get>/put <Queue.put> which was not useful and hard to reason about. Now it simply compares qsize <Queue.qsize> to maxsize, which what the standard Queue does too.
• Fixed Event to behave exactly like the standard threading.Event:
  • Event.set does not accept a parameter anymore; it's now either set or not.
  • Event.get method is gone.
  • Event.set(); Event.clear() used to be a no-op; now it properly wakes up all the waiters.
  • AsyncResult behaves exactly like before, but it does not inherit from Event anymore and does miss clear() method.
• Renamed internal helpers socket.wait_reader/socket.wait_writer to socket.wait_read/socket.wait_write.
• Renamed gevent.socket.GreenSocket to gevent.socket.socket. GreenSocket is still available as an alias but will be removed in the future.
• gevent.core now includes wrappers for evbuffer, evdns, evhttp.
• Renamed the old gevent.wsgi to gevent.pywsgi.
• Added a new HTTP server gevent.http module based on libevent-http wrappers.
• Added a new WSGI server gevent.wsgi module based on gevent.http.
• Added evdns wrappers to gevent.core and DNS functions to gevent.socket module. Contributed by Jason Toffaletti..
• Added a few a few options to setup.py to select a libevent library to compile against. Check them out with setup.py -h.
• Added __all__ to many modules that missed it.
• Converted the docstrings and the changelog to sphinx/rst markup.
• Added sphinx/rst documentation. It is available online at http://www.gevent.org.

Release 0.10.0 (Aug 26, 2009)

• Changed Timeout API in a backward-incompatible way: Timeout.__init__ does not start the timer immediately anymore; Timeout.start must be called explicitly. A shortcut - Timeout.start_new - is provided that creates and starts a Timeout.
• Added gevent.Greenlet class which is a subclass of greenlet that adds a few useful methods join <Greenlet.join>/get <Greenlet.get>/kill <Greenlet.kill>/link <Greenlet.link>.

• spawn now returns Greenlet instance. The old spawn, which returns py.magic.greenlet instance, can be still accessed as spawn_raw.

  Note

  The implementation of Greenlet is an improvement on proc module, with these bugs fixed:

  • Proc was not a subclass of greenlet which makes getcurrent useless and using Procs as keys in dict impossible.
  • Proc executes links sequentially, so one could block the rest from being executed. Greenlet executes each link in a new greenlet by default, unless it is set up with Greenlet.rawlink method.
  • Proc cannot be easily subclassed. To subclass Greenlet, override its _run and __init__ methods.
• Added pool.Pool class with the methods compatible to the standard multiprocessing.pool: apply <Pool.apply>, map <Pool.map> and others. It also has spawn <Pool.spawn> method which is always async and returns a Greenlet instance.
• Added gevent.event module with 2 classes: Event and AsyncResult. Event is a drop-in replacement for threading.Event, supporting set <Event.set>/wait <Event.wait>/get methods. AsyncResult is an extension of Event that supports exception passing via set_exception <AsyncResult.set_exception> method.
• Added queue.JoinableQueue class with task_done <queue.JoinableQueue.task_done> and join <queue.JoinableQueue.join> methods.
• Renamed core.read and core.write classes to core.read_event and core.write_event.
• gevent.pywsgi: pulled Mike Barton's eventlet patches that fix double content-length issue.
• Fixed setup.py to search more places for system libevent installation. This fixes 64bit CentOS 5.3 installation issues, hopefully covers other platforms as well.

The following items were added to the gevent top level package:

• spawn_link
• spawn_link_value
• spawn_link_exception
• spawn_raw
• joinall
• killall
• Greenlet
• GreenletExit
• core

The following items were marked as deprecated:

• gevent.proc module (wrap_errors helper was moved to util module)
• gevent.coros.event
• gevent.coros.Queue and gevent.coros.Channel

Internally, gevent.greenlet was split into a number of modules:

• gevent.hub provides Hub class and basic utilities, like sleep; Hub is now a subclass of greenlet.
• gevent.timeout provides Timeout and with_timeout;
• gevent.greenlet provides Greenlet class and helpers like joinall and killall.
• gevent.rawgreenlet contains the old "polling" versions of joinall <rawgreenlet.joinall> and killall <rawgreenlet.killall> (they do not need link <Greenlet.link> functionality and work with any greenlet by polling their status and sleeping in a loop)

Thanks to Jason Toffaletti for reporting the installation issue and providing a test case for WSGI double content-length header bug.

Release 0.9.3 (Aug 3, 2009)

• Fixed all known bugs in the gevent.queue module and made it 2.4-compatible. LifoQueue and PriorityQueue are implemented as well. gevent.queue will deprecate both coros.Queue and coros.Channel.
• Fixed Timeout to raise itself by default. TimeoutError is gone. Silent timeout is now created by passing False instead of None.
• Fixed bug in gevent.select.select where it could silent the wrong timeout.
• spawn and spawn_later now avoid creating a closure and this decreases spawning time by 50%.
• kill's and killall's wait argument was renamed to block. The polling is now implemented by greenlet.join and greenlet.joinall functions and it become more responsive, with gradual increase of sleep time.
• Renamed proc.RunningProcSet to proc.ProcSet.
• Added shutdown function, which blocks until libevent has finished dispatching the events.
• The return value of event_add and event_del in core.pyx are now checked properly and IOError is raised if they have failed.
• Fixed backdoor.py, accidentally broken in the previous release.

Release 0.9.2 (Jul 20, 2009)

• Simplified gevent.socket's implementation and fixed SSL bug reported on eventletdev by Cesar Alaniz as well as failures in test_socket_ssl.py.
• Removed GreenSocket.makeGreenFile; Use socket.socket.makefile that returns _fileobject and is available on both GreenSocket <gevent.socket.socket> and GreenSSL <gevent.socket.GreenSSL>. The gevent.socket is still a work in progress.
• Added new core.active_event class that takes advantage of libevent's event_active function. core.active_event(func) schedules func to be run in this event loop iteration as opposed to core.timer(0, ...) which schedules an event to be run in the next iteration. active_event is now used throughout the library wherever core.timer(0, ....) was previously used. This results in spawn being at least 20% faster compared to release 0.9.1 and twice as fast compared to eventlet. (The results are obtained with bench_spawn.py script in greentest/ directory)
• Added boolean parameter wait to kill and killall functions. If set to True, it makes the function block until the greenlet(s) is actually dead. By default, kill and killall are asynchronous, i.e. they don't unschedule the current greenlet.
• Added a few new properties to gevent.core.event: fd <event.fd>, events <event.events>, events_str <event.events_str> and flags <event.flags>. It also has __enter__ <event.__enter__> and __exit__ <event.__exit__> now, so it can be used as a context manager. event's callback <event.callback> signature has changed from (event, fd, evtype) to (event, evtype).
• Fixed Hub's mainloop to never return successfully as this will screw up main greenlet's switch() call. Instead of returning it raises DispatchExit.
• Added reinit function - wrapper for libevent's event_reinit. This function is a must have at least for daemons, as it fixes epoll and some others eventloops to work after fork.
• Trying to use gevent in another thread will now raise an exception immediately, since it's not implemented.
• Added a few more convenience methods spawn_link[exception/value] to proc.RunningProcSet.
• Fixed setup.py not to depend on setuptools.
• Removed gevent.timeout. Use gevent.Timeout.

Release 0.9.1 (Jul 9, 2009)

• Fixed compilation with libevent-1.3. Thanks to Litao Wei for reporting the problem.
• Fixed Hub to recover silently after event_dispatch() failures (I've seen this happen after fork even though event_reinit() is called as necessary). The end result is that fork now works more reliably, as detected by test_socketserver.py - it used to fail occasionally, now it does not.
• Reorganized the package, most of the stuff from gevent/__init__.py was moved to gevent/greenlet.py. gevent/__init__.py imports some of it back but not everything.
• Renamed gevent.timeout to gevent.Timeout. The old name is available as an alias.
• Fixed a few bugs in queue.Queue. Added test_queue.py from standard tests to check how good is queue.Queue a replacement for a standard Queue (not good at all, timeouts in queue.Queue.put don't work yet)
• monkey now patches ssl module when on 2.6 (very limited support).
• Improved compatibility with Python 2.6 and Python 2.4.
• Greenlet installed from PyPI (without py.magic prefix) is properly recognized now.
• core.pyx was accidentally left out of the source package, it's included now.
• GreenSocket <socket.socket> now wraps a socket object from _socket module rather than from socket.

Release 0.9.0 (Jul 8, 2009)

Started as eventlet 0.8.11 fork, with the intention to support only libevent as a backend. Compared to eventlet, this version has a much simpler API and implementation and a few severe bugs fixed, namely

• Full duplex in sockets, i.e. read() and write() on the same fd do not cancel one another.
• The GreenSocket.close <socket.socket.close> method does not hang as it could with eventlet.

There's a test in my repo of eventlet that reproduces both of them: http://bitbucket.org/denis/eventlet/src/tip/greentest/test__socket.py

Besides having less bugs and less code to care about the goals of the fork are:

• Piggy-back on libevent as much as possible (use its http and dns code).
• Use the interfaces and conventions from the standard Python library where possible.