pecan/docs/source/changes.rst

0.5.0

• This release adds formal support for pypy.
• Added colored request logging to the pecan serve command.
• Added a scaffold for easily generating a basic REST API.
• Added the ability to pass arbitrary keyword arguments to pecan.testing.load_test_app.
• Fixed a recursion-related bug in the error document middleware.
• Fixed a bug in the gunicorn_pecan command that caused threading.local data to leak between eventlet/gevent green threads.
• Improved documentation through fixes and narrative tutorials for sample pecan applications.

0.4.5

• Fixed a trailing slash bug for RestController`s that have a _lookup` method.
• Cleaned up the WSGI app reference from the threadlocal state on every request (to avoid potential memory leaks, especially when testing).
• Improved pecan documentation and corrected intersphinx references.
• pecan supports Python 3.4.

0.4.4

• Removed memoization of certain controller attributes, which can lead to a memory leak in dynamic controller lookups.

0.4.3

• Fixed several bugs for RestController.
• Fixed a bug in security handling for generic controllers.
• Resolved a bug in _default handlers used in RestController.
• Persist pecan.request.context across internal redirects.

0.4.2

• Remove a routing optimization that breaks the WSME pecan plugin.

0.4.1

• Moved the project to StackForge infrastructure, including Gerrit code review, Jenkins continuous integration, and GitHub mirroring.
• Added a pecan plugin for the popular uwsgi server.
• Replaced the simplegeneric dependency with the new functools.singledispatch function in preparation for Python 3.4 support.
• Optimized pecan's core dispatch routing for notably faster response times.

0.3.2

• Made some changes to simplify how pecan.conf.app is passed to new apps.
• Fixed a routing bug for certain _lookup controller configurations.
• Improved documentation for handling file uploads.
• Deprecated the pecan.conf.requestviewer configuration option.

0.3.1

• on_error hooks can now return a Pecan Response objects.
• Minor documentation and release tooling updates.

0.3.0

• Pecan now supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, and 3.3.

0.2.4

• Add support for _lookup methods as a fallback in RestController.
• A variety of improvements to project documentation.

0.2.3

• Add a variety of optimizations to pecan.core that improve request handling time by approximately 30% for simple object dispatch routing.
• Store exceptions raised by abort in the WSGI environ so they can be accessed later in the request handling (e.g., by other middleware or pecan hooks).
• Make TransactionHook more robust so that it isn't as susceptible to failure when exceptions occur in other pecan hooks within a request.
• Rearrange quickstart verbiage so users don't miss a necessary step.

0.2.2

• Unobfuscate syntax highlighting JavaScript for debian packaging.
• Extract the scaffold-building tests into tox.
• Add support for specifying a pecan configuration file via the PECAN_CONFIG environment variable.
• Fix a bug in DELETE methods in two (or more) nested RestControllers.
• Add documentation for returning specific HTTP status codes.

0.2.1

• Include a license, readme, and requirements.txt in distributions.
• Improve inspection with dir() for pecan.request and pecan.response
• Fix a bug which prevented pecan applications from being mounted at WSGI virtual paths.

0.2.0

• Update base project scaffolding tests to be more repeatable.
• Add an application-level configuration option to disable content-type guessing by URL
• Fix the wrong test dependency on Jinja, it's Jinja2.
• Fix a routing-related bug in RestController. Fixes #156
• Add an explicit CONTRIBUTING.rst document.
• Improve visibility of deployment-related docs.
• Add support for a gunicorn_pecan console script.
• Remove and annotate a few unused (and py26 alternative) imports.
• Bug fix: don't strip a dotted extension from the path unless it has a matching mimetype.
• Add a test to the scaffold project buildout that ensures pep8 passes.
• Fix misleading output for $ pecan --version.

0.2.0b

• Fix a bug in SecureController. Resolves #131.
• Extract debug middleware static file dependencies into physical files.
• Improve a test that can fail due to a race condition.
• Improve documentation about configation format and app.py.
• Add support for content type detection via HTTP Accept headers.
• Correct source installation instructions in README.
• Fix an incorrect code example in the Hooks documentation.
• docs: Fix minor typo in *args Routing example.