7 *released Thu, 30 Apr 2015*
9 Fix memory leaks on some of the error-handling paths of the `get()`
15 *released Fri, 23 May 2014*
17 Small optimisations release:
19 * ari edelkind contributed a speed-up optimisation for handling of files
20 without xattrs (which is, in general, the expected case)
21 * Jonas Borgström contributed a behaviour change to the handling of file
22 names: under Python 3 and up, unicode paths are encoded/decoded using
23 the 'surogatee' handler, instead of the 'strict' handler; while this
24 can hide encoding errors, it mirrors what Python libraries do
25 (e.g. see os.fsencode/fsdecode)
26 * Sean Patrick Santos contributed improvements to the test suite so that
27 it can be used even on files systems which have built-in attributes
28 (e.g. when using SELinux, or NFSv4); to enable this, define the
29 attributes in the TEST_IGNORE_XATTRS environment variable
34 *released Thu, 03 Jan 2013*
36 Bug-fix release. Thanks to Michał Górny, it looked like the library had
37 problem running under pypy, but actually there was a bug in the
38 PyArg_ParseTuple use of et# (signed vs. unsigned, and lack of compiler
39 warnings). This was fixed, and now the test suite passed with many
40 CPython versions and PyPy (version 1.9).
45 *released Wed, 16 May 2012*
47 Bug-fix release. Thanks to Dave Malcolm and his cpychecker tool, a
48 number of significant bugs (refcount leaks and potential NULL-pointer
49 dereferences) have been fixed.
51 Furthermore, compatibility with Python 3 has been improved; this however
52 required changing the meaning of the ``namespace`` argument to the
53 functions: if passed, None is no longer a valid value; pass an empty
54 string if (due to the structure of your program) you have to pass this
55 argument but want to specify no namespace.
57 Also, the project home page has changed from SourceForge to GitHub, and
58 the documentation has been converted from epydoc-based to sphinx.
64 *released Sun, 27 Dec 2009*
66 Implemented support for Python 3. This required a significant change to
67 the C module, hence the new version number.
72 *released Mon, 30 Jun 2008*
77 The old functions ({get,set,list,remove}xattr) are deprecated and replaced with
78 a new API that is namespace-aware and hopefully will allow other OSes (e.g.
79 FreeBSD) to be supported more naturally.
81 Both the old and the new API are supported in the 0.4 versions, however users
82 are encouraged to migrate to the new API.
87 A new bulk get function called get_all() has been added that should be somewhat
88 faster in case of querying files which have many attributes.
93 Since LGPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 (which unfortunately I didn't realize
94 before), the license was changed to LGPLv2.1 or later.
99 Unittest coverage was improved.
104 *released Sun, 09 Mar 2008*
106 * changed licence from GPL to LGPL (3 or later)
107 * changed listxattr return type from tuple to a list
108 * developer-related: added unittests
113 *released Sun, 01 Jul 2007*
115 * fixed listing symlink xattrs
120 *released Sat, 11 Feb 2006*
122 * fixed a bug when reading symlink EAs (you weren't able to
124 * fixed a possible memory leak when the actual read of the EA
125 failed but the call to get the length of the EA didn't
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