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4 Version 0.5.2

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7 Bug-fix release. Thanks to Michał Górny, it looked like the library had

8 problem running under pypy, but actually there was a bug in the

9 PyArg_ParseTuple use of et# (signed vs. unsigned, and lack of compiler

10 warnings). This was fixed, and now the test suite passed with many

11 CPython versions and PyPy (version 1.9).

13 Version 0.5.1

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16 Bug-fix release. Thanks to Dave Malcolm and his cpychecker tool, a

17 number of significant bugs (refcount leaks and potential NULL-pointer

18 dereferences) have been fixed.

20 Furthermore, compatibility with Python 3 has been improved; this however

21 required changing the meaning of the ``namespace`` argument to the

22 functions: if passed, None is no longer a valid value; pass an empty

23 string if (due to the structure of your program) you have to pass this

24 argument but want to specify no namespace.

26 Also, the project home page has changed from SourceForge to GitHub, and

27 the documentation has been converted from epydoc-based to sphinx.

30 Version 0.5

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33 Implemented support for Python 3. This required a significant change to

34 the C module, hence the new version number.

36 Version 0.4

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39 API

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42 The old functions ({get,set,list,remove}xattr) are deprecated and replaced with

43 a new API that is namespace-aware and hopefully will allow other OSes (e.g.

44 FreeBSD) to be supported more naturally.

46 Both the old and the new API are supported in the 0.4 versions, however users

47 are encouraged to migrate to the new API.

49 New features

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52 A new bulk get function called get_all() has been added that should be somewhat

53 faster in case of querying files which have many attributes.

55 License

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58 Since LGPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 (which unfortunately I didn't realize

59 before), the license was changed to LGPLv2.1 or later.

61 Internals

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64 Unittest coverage was improved.

66 Version 0.3

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69 * changed licence from GPL to LGPL (3 or later)

70 * changed listxattr return type from tuple to a list

71 * developer-related: added unittests

73 Version 0.2.2

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76 * fixed listing symlink xattrs

78 Version 0.2.1

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81 * fixed a bug when reading symlink EAs (you weren't able to

82 do it, actually)

83 * fixed a possible memory leak when the actual read of the EA

84 failed but the call to get the length of the EA didn't

86 .. Local Variables:

87 .. mode: rst

88 .. fill-column: 72

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