From 70881801a54fc66ad2850f5f6ac05516f7fe6714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Iustin Pop Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 01:23:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS file for the 0.5.1 release --- NEWS | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ba9c883..aace59c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,27 @@ News ==== +Version 0.5.1 +------------- + +Bug-fix release. Thanks to Dave Malcolm and his cpychecker tool, a +number of significant bugs (refcount leaks and potential NULL-pointer +dereferences) have been fixed. + +Furthermore, compatibility with Python 3 has been improved; this however +required changing the meaning of the ``namespace`` argument to the +functions: if passed, None is no longer a valid value; pass an empty +string if (due to the structure of your program) you have to pass this +argument but want to specify no namespace. + +Also, the project home page has changed from SourceForge to GitHub, and +the documentation has been converted from epydoc-based to sphinx. + + Version 0.5 ----------- -Implemented support for python 3. This required a significant change to +Implemented support for Python 3. This required a significant change to the C module, hence the new version number. Version 0.4 -- 2.39.5