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  • v20.6.1 Changes

    June 10, 2020

    🔋 Features

    • ⬆️ gevent's CI is now tested on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic), an upgrade from 16.04 (Xenial). See :issue:1623.

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • On Python 2, the dnspython resolver can be used without having selectors2 installed. Previously, an ImportError would be raised. See :issue:issue1641.
    • Python 3 gevent.ssl.SSLSocket objects no longer attempt to catch ConnectionResetError and treat it the same as an SSLError with SSL_ERROR_EOF (typically by suppressing it).

    This was a difference from the way the standard library behaved (which is to raise the exception). It was added to gevent during early testing of OpenSSL 1.1 and TLS 1.3. See :issue:1637.

  • v20.6.0 Changes

    June 06, 2020

    🔋 Features

    • ➕ Add gevent.selectors containing GeventSelector. This selector implementation uses gevent details to attempt to reduce overhead when polling many file descriptors, only some of which become ready at any given time.

    This is monkey-patched as selectors.DefaultSelector by default.

    This is available on Python 2 if the selectors2 backport is installed. (This backport is installed automatically using the recommended extra.) When monkey-patching, selectors is made available as an alias to this module. See :issue:1532.

    • Depend on greenlet >= 0.4.16. This is required for CPython 3.9 and 3.10a0. See :issue:1627.
    • ➕ Add support for Python 3.9.

    No binary wheels are available yet, however. See :issue:1628.

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • gevent.socket.create_connection and gevent.socket.socket.connect no longer ignore IPv6 scope IDs.

    Any IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) is no longer subject to an extra call to getaddrinfo. Depending on the resolver in use, this is likely to change the number and order of greenlet switches. (On Windows, in particular test cases when there are no other greenlets running, it has been observed to lead to LoopExit in scenarios that didn't produce that before.) See :issue:1634.

  • v20.5.2 Changes

    May 28, 2020

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • Forking a process that had use the threadpool to run tasks that created their own hub would fail to clean up the threadpool by raising greenlet.error. See :issue:1631.

  • v20.5.1 Changes

    May 26, 2020

    🔋 Features

    • Waiters on Event and Semaphore objects that call wait() or acquire(), respectively, that find the Event already set, or the Semaphore available, no longer "cut in line" and run before any previously scheduled greenlets. They now run in the order in which they arrived, just as waiters that had to block in those methods do. See :issue:1520.
    • ⚡️ Update tested PyPy version from 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 on Linux. See :issue:1569.
    • 👉 Make zope.interface, zope.event and (by extension) setuptools required dependencies. The events install extra now does nothing and will be removed in 2021. See :issue:1619.
    • ⚡️ Update bundled libuv from 1.36.0 to 1.38.0. See :issue:1621.
    • ⚡️ Update bundled c-ares from 1.16.0 to 1.16.1.

    On macOS, stop trying to adjust c-ares headers to make them universal. See :issue:1624.

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 👉 Make gevent locks that are monkey-patched usually work across native threads as well as across greenlets within a single thread. Locks that are only used in a single thread do not take a performance hit. While cross-thread locking is relatively expensive, and not a recommended programming pattern, it can happen unwittingly, for example when using the threadpool and logging.

    Before, cross-thread lock uses might succeed, or, if the lock was contended, raise greenlet.error. Now, in the contended case, if the lock has been acquired by the main thread at least once, it should correctly block in any thread, cooperating with the event loop of both threads. In certain (hopefully rare) cases, it might be possible for contended case to raise LoopExit when previously it would have raised greenlet.error; if these cases are a practical concern, please open an issue.

    Also, the underlying Semaphore always behaves in an atomic fashion (as if the GIL was not released) when PURE_PYTHON is set. Previously, it only correctly did so on PyPy. See :issue:issue1437.

    • 📇 Rename gevent's C accelerator extension modules using a prefix to avoid clashing with other C extensions. See :issue:1480.
    • Using gevent.wait on an Event more than once, when that Event is already set, could previously raise an AssertionError.

    As part of this, exceptions raised in the main greenlet will now include a more complete traceback from the failing greenlet. See :issue:1540.

    • Avoid closing the same Python libuv watcher IO object twice. Under some circumstances (only seen on Windows), that could lead to program crashes. See :issue:1587.
    • gevent can now be built using Cython 3.0a5 and newer. The PyPI distribution uses this version.

    The libev extension was incompatible with this. As part of this, certain internal, undocumented names have been changed.

    (Technically, gevent can be built with Cython 3.0a2 and above. However, up through 3.0a4 compiling with Cython 3 results in gevent's test for memory leaks failing. See this Cython issue <https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/3578>_.) See :issue:1599.

    • Destroying a hub after joining it didn't necessarily clean up all resources associated with the hub, especially if the hub had been created in a secondary thread that was exiting. The hub and its parent greenlet could be kept alive.

    Now, destroying a hub drops the reference to the hub and ensures it cannot be switched to again. (Though using a new blocking API call may still create a new hub.)

    Joining a hub also cleans up some (small) memory resources that might have stuck around for longer before as well. See :issue:1601.

    • 🛠 Fix some potential crashes under libuv when using gevent.signal_handler. The crashes were seen running the test suite and were non-deterministic. See :issue:1606.

  • v20.5.0 Changes

    May 01, 2020

    🔋 Features

    • ⚡️ Update bundled c-ares to version 1.16.0. Changes <https://c-ares.haxx.se/changelog.html>_. See :issue:1588.
    • ⚡️ Update all the bundled config.guess and config.sub scripts. See :issue:1589.
    • ⚡️ Update bundled libuv from 1.34.0 to 1.36.0. See :issue:1597.

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 👉 Use ares_getaddrinfo instead of a manual lookup.

    This requires c-ares 1.16.0.

    Note that this may change the results, in particular their order.

    As part of this, certain parts of the c-ares extension were adapted to use modern Cython idioms.

    A few minor errors and discrepancies were fixed as well, such as gethostbyaddr('localhost') working on Python 3 and failing on Python 2. The DNSpython resolver now raises the expected TypeError in more cases instead of an AttributeError. See :issue:1012.

    • The c-ares and DNSPython resolvers now raise exceptions much more consistently with the standard resolver. Types and errnos are substantially more likely to match what the standard library produces.

    Depending on the system and configuration, results may not match exactly, at least with DNSPython. There are still some rare cases where the system resolver can raise herror but DNSPython will raise gaierror or vice versa. There doesn't seem to be a deterministic way to account for this. On PyPy, getnameinfo can produce results when CPython raises socket.error, and gevent's DNSPython resolver also raises socket.error.

    In addition, several other small discrepancies were addressed, including handling of localhost and broadcast host names.

    .. note:: This has been tested on Linux (CentOS and Ubuntu), macOS, and Windows. It hasn't been tested on other platforms, so results are unknown for them. The c-ares support, in particular, is using some additional socket functions and defines. Please let the maintainers know if this introduces issues.

    See :issue:1459.

  • v20.04.0 Changes

    April 22, 2020

    🔋 Features

    • 🚀 Let CI (Travis and Appveyor) build and upload release wheels for Windows, macOS and manylinux. As part of this, (a subset of) gevent's tests can run if the standard library's test.support module has been stripped. See :issue:1555.
    • ⚡️ Update tested PyPy version from 7.2.0 on Windows to 7.3.1. See :issue:1569.

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 🛠 Fix a spurious warning about watchers and resource leaks on libuv on Windows. Reported by Stéphane Rainville. See :issue:1564.
    • 🚚 Make monkey-patching properly remove select.epoll and select.kqueue. Reported by Kirill Smelkov. See :issue:1570.
    • 👉 Make it possible to monkey-patch :mod:contextvars before Python 3.7 if a non-standard backport that uses the same name as the standard library does is installed. Previously this would raise an error. Reported by Simon Davy. See :issue:1572.
    • 🛠 Fix destroying the libuv default loop and then using the default loop again. See :issue:1580.
    • libuv loops that have watched children can now exit. Previously, the SIGCHLD watcher kept the loop alive even if there were no longer any watched children. See :issue:1581.

    🗄 Deprecations and Removals

    • PyPy no longer uses the Python allocation functions for libuv and libev allocations. See :issue:1569.

    Misc

    • 👀 See :issue:1367.

  • v1.5.0 Changes

    April 10, 2020
    • ⏱ Make gevent.lock.RLock.acquire accept the timeout parameter.
    • 🛠 Fix an AttributeError when wrapping gevent's FileObject around an opened text stream. Reported in :issue:1542 by dmrlawson.
    • 🛠 Fix compilation of libuv on AIX and Solaris 10. See :pr:1549 and :pr:1548 by Arnon Yaari.

  • v1.5.a4 Changes

    March 23, 2020

    ⚡️ Platform and Packaging Updates

    • ⚡️ Python version updates: gevent is now tested with CPython 3.6.10, 3.7.7 and 3.8.2. It is also tested with PyPy2 7.3 and PyPy 3.6 7.3.

    • The include directories used to compile the C extensions have been tweaked with the intent of making it easier to use older debug versions of Python. See :issue:1461.

    • 📦 The binary wheels and installed package no longer include generated C source files and headers. Also excluded are Cython .pxd files, which were never documented. Please file an issue if you miss these.

    ⚡️ Library and Dependency Updates

    • ⚡️ Upgrade libev from 4.25 to 4.31 and update its embedded config.guess to the latest. See :issue:1504.

    .. important::

     libev, when built with ``EV_VERIFY >= 2``, now performs
 verification of file descriptors when IO watchers are started
 *and* when they are stopped. If you first close a file descriptor
 and only then stop an associated watcher, libev will abort the
 process.

 Using the standard gevent socket and file objects handles this
 automatically, but if you're using the IO watchers directly,
 you'll need to watch out for this.

 The binary wheels gevent distributes *do not* set ``EV_VERIFY``
 and don't have this issue.

    • 👉 Make libuv and libev use the Python memory allocators. This assists with debugging. The event libraries allocate small amounts of memory at startup. The allocation functions have to take the GIL, but because of the limited amount of actual allocation that gets done this is not expected to be a bottleneck.

    • 🚀 Update the bundled tblib library to the unreleased 1.7.0 version. The only change is to add more attributes to Frame and Code objects for pytest compatibility. See :pr:1541.

    Potentially Breaking Changes

    • ✂ Remove the magic proxy object gevent.signal. This served as both a deprecated alias of gevent.signal_handler and the module gevent.signal. This made it confusing to humans and static analysis tools alike. The alias was deprecated since gevent 1.1b4. See :issue:1596.

    Other

    • 👉 Make gevent.subprocess.Popen.communicate raise exceptions raised by reading from the process, like the standard library. In particular, under Python 3, if the process output is being decoded as text, this can now raise UnicodeDecodeError. Reported in :issue:1510 by Ofer Koren.

    • 👉 Make gevent.subprocess.Popen.communicate be more careful about closing files. Previously if a timeout error happened, a second call to communicate might not close the pipe.

    • ➕ Add gevent.contextvars, a cooperative version of contextvars. This is available to all Python versions. On Python 3.7 and above, where contextvars is a standard library module, it is monkey-patched by default. See :issue:1407.

    • 0️⃣ Use selectors.PollSelector as the selectors.DefaultSelector after monkey-patching if select.poll was defined. Previously, gevent replaced it with selectors.SelectSelector, which has a different set of limitations (e.g., on certain platforms such as glibc Linux, it has a hardcoded limitation of only working with file descriptors < 1024). See :issue:1466 reported by Sam Wong.

    • 👉 Make the dnspython resolver work if dns python had been imported before the gevent resolver was initialized. Reported in :issue:1526 by Chris Utz and Josh Zuech.

  • v1.5.a3 Changes

    January 01, 2020

    • ⚡️ Python version updates: gevent is now tested with CPython 2.7.17, 3.5.9, 3.6.9, 3.7.5 and 3.8.0 (final). It is also tested with PyPy2 7.2 and PyPy 3.6 7.2

    • 🛠 Fix using monkey-patched threading.Lock and threading.RLock objects as spin locks by making them call sleep(0) if they failed to acquire the lock in a non-blocking call. This lets other callbacks run to release the lock, simulating preemptive threading. Using spin locks is not recommended, but may have been done in code written for threads, especially on Python 3. See :issue:1464.

    • 🛠 Fix Semaphore (and monkey-patched threading locks) to be fair. This eliminates the rare potential for starvation of greenlets. As part of this change, the low-level method rawlink of Semaphore, Event, and AsyncResult now always remove the link object when calling it, so unlink can sometimes be optimized out. See :issue:1487.

    • 👉 Make gevent.pywsgi support Connection: keep-alive in HTTP/1.0. Based on :pr:1331 by tanchuhan.

    • 🛠 Fix a potential crash using gevent.idle() when using libuv. See :issue:1489.

    • 🛠 Fix some potential crashes using libuv async watchers.

    • 👀 Make ThreadPool consistently raise InvalidThreadUseError when spawn is called from a thread different than the thread that created the threadpool. This has never been allowed, but was inconsistently enforced. On gevent 1.3 and before, this would always raise "greenlet error: invalid thread switch," or LoopExit. On gevent 1.4, it could raise LoopExit, depending on the number of tasks, but still, calling it from a different thread was likely to corrupt libev or libuv internals.

    • ✂ Remove some undocumented, deprecated functions from the threadpool module.

    • libuv: Fix a perceived slowness spawning many greenlets at the same time without yielding to the event loop while having no active IO watchers or timers. If the time spent launching greenlets exceeded the switch interval and there were no other active watchers, then the default IO poll time of about .3s would elapse between spawning batches. This could theoretically apply for any non-switching callbacks. This can be produced in synthetic benchmarks and other special circumstances, but real applications are unlikely to be affected. See :issue:1493.

    • 🛠 Fix using the threadpool inside a script or module run with python -m gevent.monkey. Previously it would use greenlets instead of native threads. See :issue:1484.

    • 🛠 Fix potential crashes in the FFI backends if a watcher was closed and stopped in the middle of a callback from the event loop and then raised an exception. This could happen if the hub's handle_error function was poorly customized, for example. See :issue:1482

    • 👉 Make gevent.killall stop greenlets from running that hadn't been run yet. This make it consistent with Greenlet.kill(). See :issue:1473 reported by kochelmonster.

    • 👉 Make gevent.spawn_raw set the loop attribute on returned greenlets. This lets them work with more gevent APIs, notably gevent.killall(). They already had dictionaries, but this may make them slightly larger, depending on platform (on CPython 2.7 through 3.6 there is no apparent difference for one attribute but on CPython 3.7 and 3.8 dictionaries are initially empty and only allocate space once an attribute is added; they're still smaller than on earlier versions though).

    File Object Changes

    .. caution:: There may be breaking changes here for applications that relied on the old behaviour. The old behaviour was under specified and inconsistent and really only worked consistently with 'wb' and 'rb' modes, so most applications shouldn't be affected.

    • The file objects (FileObjectPosix, FileObjectThread) now consistently support text and binary modes. If neither 'b' nor 't' is given in the mode, they will read and write native strings. If 't' is given, they will always work with unicode strings, and 'b' will always work with byte strings. (FileObjectPosix already worked this way.) See :issue:1441.

    • The file objects accept encoding, errors and newline arguments. On Python 2, these are only used if 't' is in the mode.

    • 0️⃣ The default mode for FileObjectPosix changed from rb to simply r, for consistency with the other file objects and the standard open and :func:io.open functions.

    • 🛠 Fix FileObjectPosix improperly being used from multiple greenlets. Previously this was hidden by forcing buffering, which raised RuntimeError.

  • v1.5.a2 Changes

    October 21, 2019

    • ➕ Add support for CPython 3.8.0. (Windows wheels are not yet available.)

    • ⚡️ Update to Cython 0.29.13 and cffi 1.12.3.

    • ➕ Add an --module option to gevent.monkey allowing to run a Python module rather than a script. See :pr:1440.

    • 👌 Improve the way joining the main thread works on Python 3.

    • Implement SSLSocket.verify_client_post_handshake() when available.

    • 🛠 Fix tests when TLS1.3 is supported.

    • Disable Nagle's algorithm in the backdoor server. This can improve interactive response time.

    • ✅ Test on Python 3.7.4. There are important SSL test fixes.