psutil v4.2.0 Release Notes

  • 2016-05-14

    โœจ Enhancements

    • ๐Ÿ 795_, [Windows]: new APIs to deal with Windows services: win_service_iter()_ and win_service_get()_.
    • ๐Ÿง 800_, [Linux]: virtual_memory()_ returns a new shared memory field.
    • ๐Ÿง 819_, [Linux]: speedup /proc parsing: Process.ppid()_ +20% faster. Process.status()_ +28% faster. Process.name()_ +25% faster. Process.num_threads()_ +20% faster on Python 3.

    ๐Ÿ› Bug fixes

    • ๐Ÿง 797_, [Linux]: net_if_stats()_ may raise OSError for certain NIC cards.
    • 813_: Process.as_dict()_ should ignore extraneous attribute names which gets attached to the Process_ instance.