[Twisted-Python] Twisted 15.4.0 Release Announcement

[Amber "Hawkie" Brown]

On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honoured to announce the release of Twisted 15.4, codenamed "Trial By Fire".

Twisted is continuing to forge ahead, with the highlights of this release being:

- twisted.positioning, the rest of twisted.internet.endpoints, KQueueReactor (for real this time), and twisted.web.proxy/guard have all been ported to Python 3.
- Trial has been ported to Python 3! This was made possible by a Python Software Foundation grant.
- Twisted officially supports several more platforms: Py3.4 on FreeBSD, Py2.7/Py3.4 on Fedora 21/22, and Py2.7 on RHEL7.
- Python 2.6 is no longer supported, and support for Debian 6, and RHEL6 has been removed because of this.
- Support for the EOL'd platforms of Fedora 17/18/19 has been removed.
- Twisted has moved to requiring setuptools for installation.
- twisted.python.failure.Failure's __repr__ now includes the exception message.
- 19 tickets in total closed!

You can find the downloads at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted (or alternatively http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads). The NEWS file can be found at https://github.com/twisted/twisted/blob/trunk/NEWS .

Many thanks to everyone who had a part in this release - the supporters of the Twisted Software Foundation, the developers who contributed code as well as documentation, and all the people building great things with Twisted!

Amber "Hawkie" Brown
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Post by Amber "Hawkie" Brown
On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honoured to announce the release of Twisted 15.4, codenamed "Trial By Fire".

Hooray Twisted! Hooray Amber!

Post by Amber "Hawkie" Brown
- Trial has been ported to Python 3! This was made possible by a Python Software Foundation grant.

If you've been wanting to port portions of Twisted over to Python 3 but have been stymied by primitive tooling and weird special cases, the fact that the full test runner is now available is a big deal. It should be a lot easier to onboard new contributors to help with porting tickets now, and I expect the rate of porting of Python 3 modules to accelerate considerably as a result. Thanks to everyone who made this happen.

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