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ActivePython 2.7.2.5 Release Notes
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Release History and Changes (2.7)
What's New in ActivePython-2.7.2.5
Release date: June-2011
New Features & Upgrades
- Upgrade to Python 2.7.2 (release notes)
- Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8r
- [Windows] pythonselect for windows TODO -- release to pypm
- [Windows] Upgrade to PyWin32 CVS snapshot as of 2011-01-16
- Upgrade to pythonselect 1.3 which supports Windows
- Upgrade to PyPM 1.3.4:
- [Windows] Bug #89474:
automatically expand %APPDATA%PythonScripts
- Bug #90382: --no-ignore option to fail immediately for missing packages
- Upgraded the following packages:
- Distribute-0.6.19
- pip-1.0.1
- virtualenv-1.6.1
Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes
- PyPM:
- Upgrade to six 1.0.0
- Bug #89540: uninstall command now properly removes symlinks
- Bug #89648: shebang fixer skips symlinks
- Include SQLAlchemy in the private area (pypm/external/{2,3}/sqlalchemy)
What's New in ActivePython-2.7.1.4
Release date: 14-Feb-2011
New Features & Upgrades
- Upgrade to PyPM 1.3.1:
- Programmatic use via pypm.cmd(['install', 'foo'])
- Support for postinstall and conditional user-notes
- Upgraded the following packages:
Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes
- PyPM bug fixes:
- Bug #88791: fail immediately for missing dependencies
- Fix needless truncation of output when piping (eg: pypm list | less)
- Respect download cache of *.pypm packages (don't redownload)
What's New in ActivePython-2.7.1.3
Release date: 6-Dec-2010
New Features & Upgrades
- Upgrade to Python 2.7.1 (release notes)
- Upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 (changes)
- Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8q
- [MacOSX] Tkinter now requires ActiveTcl 8.5 64-bit (not Apple's Tcl/Tk 8.5 on
OSX)
- Upgrade to PyPM 1.2.6; noteworthy changes:
- New command 'pypm log' to view log entries for last operation
- Faster startup (performance) especially on Windows.
- Rewrite of an improved dependency algorithm (#88038)
- install/uninstall now accepts the --nodeps option
- 'pypm install <url>' to directly download and install a .pypm file
- 'pypm show' improvements
- 'pypm show' shows other installed packages depending on the shown package
- 'pypm show' accepts --rdepends to show the list of dependents
- 'pypm show' shows extra dependencies (for use in the 'install' cmd)
- 'pypm show' lists all available versions in the repository
- 'pypm freeze' to dump installed packages as requirements (like 'pip freeze')
- Support for pip-stye requirements file ('pypm install -r requirements.txt')
- Upgraded the following packages:
- Distribute-0.6.14
- pip-0.8.2
- SQLAlchemy-0.6.5
- virtualenv-1.5.1
Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes
- Bug #87951: Exclude PyPM install db to prevent overwriting user's database.
- Bug #87600: create a idleX.Y script on unix
- [Windows] Installer upgrade: automatically uninstall previous versions - Bug #87783
- [Windows] Renamed "python27.exe" to "python2.7.exe" (Unix like)
- [Windows] Include "python2.exe"
- PyPM bug fixes:
- Bug #88882: Fix pickle incompatability (sqlite) on Python 3.x
- Bug #87764: 'pypm upgrade' will not error out for missing packages
- Bug #87902: fix infinite loops with cyclic package dependencies (eg: plone)
- Bug #88370: Handle file-overwrite conflicts (implement --force)
What's New in ActivePython-2.7.0.2
Release date: 25-Aug-2010
New Features & Upgrades
- Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8o
- Upgrade to PyPM 1.1.1; noteworthy changes:
- Custom config file support w/ new repository settings (-R free,be instead of
-L)
- Support for installing a local package, eg: pypm install
/path/to/foo.pypm
- Bug #87687: Prevent partial downloading of repo index cache
- Upgraded the following packages:
- Distribute-0.6.14
- pip-0.8
- SQLAlchemy-0.6.3
Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes
- [MacOSX] Fix Help index on Snow Leopard (10.6) - Bug #87290
- [Windows] Add file extension to Toolsscripts2to3.py - Bug #87465
What's New in ActivePython-2.7.0.1
Release date: 07-Jul-2010
New Features & Upgrades
- Upgrade to Python 2.7 (release notes)
- [MacOSX] 64-bit support; uses Tcl/Tk 8.5
- [MacOSX] readline support via Apple's libedit library
- Upgrade to PyPM 1.0.2
- 'pypm search' now also shows if a package is installed and upgradeable
- 'pypm info' now prints a concise representation by default
- 'pypm list --short' will show only packages names; for scripting purposes
Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes
- [MacOSX] Fix uninstall on Snow Leopard (10.6)
- [Windows] Include IDLE in the Start Menu shortcut, instead of PythonWin
What's New in ActivePython-2.7.0c1.0
Release date: 10-Jun-2010
New Features & Upgrades
- Include PyPM for Python 2.7
- Upgrade to Python 2.7c1 (release notes)
- Upgrade to sqlite 3.6.21
This section lists known issues with ActivePython and Python.
- The following Microsoft knowledge base articles may be helpful in solving
MSI problems:
- ActivePython 2.5 64-bit does not include PyWin32 and SSL support.
- ActivePython 2.5 does not include documentation (Bug #90508)
- The hashlib module may not import on certain versions of RHEL and
CentOS
with SELinux
enabled. See Bug
#88464 for a workaround.