zeroconf2 0.19.2

python-zeroconf (Fork of last Python 2.x supported version)
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For original:
* PyPI page https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zeroconf
* GitHub project https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf

Changelog
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0.19.2
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* Bugfix: allow underscores in instance name prefix (RFC 6763 - 4.1.1)

0.19.1
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* Allowed installation with netifaces >= 0.10.6 (a bug that was concerning us
got fixed)

0.19.0
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* Technically backwards incompatible - restricted netifaces dependency version to
work around a bug, see https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf/issues/84 for
details

0.18.0
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* Dropped Python 2.6 support
* Improved error handling inside code executed when Zeroconf object is being closed

0.17.7
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* Better Handling of DNS Incoming Packets parsing exceptions
* Many exceptions will now log a warning the first time they are seen
* Catch and log sendto() errors
* Fix/Implement duplicate name change
* Fix overly strict name validation introduced in 0.17.6
* Greatly improve handling of oversized packets including:

- Implement name compression per RFC1035
- Limit size of generated packets to 9000 bytes as per RFC6762
- Better handle over sized incoming packets

* Increased test coverage to 95%

0.17.6
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* Many improvements to address race conditions and exceptions during ZC()
startup and shutdown, thanks to: morpav, veawor, justingiorgi, herczy,
stephenrauch
* Added more test coverage: strahlex, stephenrauch
* Stephen Rauch contributed:

- Speed up browser startup
- Add ZeroconfServiceTypes() query class to discover all advertised service types
- Add full validation for service names, types and subtypes
- Fix for subtype browsing
- Fix DNSHInfo support

0.17.5
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* Fixed OpenBSD compatibility, thanks to Alessio Sergi
* Fixed race condition on ServiceBrowser startup, thanks to gbiddison
* Fixed installation on some Python 3 systems, thanks to Per Sandström
* Fixed "size change during iteration" bug on Python 3, thanks to gbiddison

0.17.4
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* Fixed support for Linux kernel versions < 3.9 (thanks to Giovanni Harting
and Luckydonald, GitHub pull request #26)

0.17.3
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* Fixed DNSText repr on Python 3 (it'd crash when the text was longer than
10 bytes), thanks to Paulus Schoutsen for the patch, GitHub pull request #24

0.17.2
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* Fixed installation on Python 3.4.3+ (was failing because of enum34 dependency
which fails to install on 3.4.3+, changed to depend on enum-compat instead;
thanks to Michael Brennan for the original patch, GitHub pull request #22)

0.17.1
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* Fixed EADDRNOTAVAIL when attempting to use dummy network interfaces on Windows,
thanks to daid

0.17.0
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* Added some Python dependencies so it's not zero-dependencies anymore
* Improved exception handling (it'll be quieter now)
* Messages are listened to and sent using all available network interfaces
by default (configurable); thanks to Marcus Müller
* Started using logging more freely
* Fixed a bug with binary strings as property values being converted to False
(https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf/pull/10); thanks to Dr. Seuss
* Added new ``ServiceBrowser`` event handler interface (see the examples)
* PyPy3 now officially supported
* Fixed ServiceInfo repr on Python 3, thanks to Yordan Miladinov

0.16.0
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* Set up Python logging and started using it
* Cleaned up code style (includes migrating from camel case to snake case)

0.15.1
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* Fixed handling closed socket (GitHub #4)

0.15
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* Forked by Jakub Stasiak
* Made Python 3 compatible
* Added setup script, made installable by pip and uploaded to PyPI
* Set up Travis build
* Reformatted the code and moved files around
* Stopped catching BaseException in several places, that could hide errors
* Marked threads as daemonic, they won't keep application alive now

0.14
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* Fix for SOL_IP undefined on some systems - thanks Mike Erdely.
* Cleaned up examples.
* Lowercased module name.

0.13
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* Various minor changes; see git for details.
* No longer compatible with Python 2.2. Only tested with 2.5-2.7.
* Fork by William McBrine.

0.12
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* allow selection of binding interface
* typo fix - Thanks A. M. Kuchlingi
* removed all use of word 'Rendezvous' - this is an API change

0.11
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* correction to comments for addListener method
* support for new record types seen from OS X
- IPv6 address
- hostinfo

* ignore unknown DNS record types
* fixes to name decoding
* works alongside other processes using port 5353 (e.g. on Mac OS X)
* tested against Mac OS X 10.3.2's mDNSResponder
* corrections to removal of list entries for service browser

0.10
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* Jonathon Paisley contributed these corrections:

- always multicast replies, even when query is unicast
- correct a pointer encoding problem
- can now write records in any order
- traceback shown on failure
- better TXT record parsing
- server is now separate from name
- can cancel a service browser

* modified some unit tests to accommodate these changes

0.09
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* remove all records on service unregistration
* fix DOS security problem with readName

0.08
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* changed licensing to LGPL

0.07
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* faster shutdown on engine
* pointer encoding of outgoing names
* ServiceBrowser now works
* new unit tests

0.06
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* small improvements with unit tests
* added defined exception types
* new style objects
* fixed hostname/interface problem
* fixed socket timeout problem
* fixed add_service_listener() typo bug
* using select() for socket reads
* tested on Debian unstable with Python 2.2.2

0.05
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* ensure case insensitivty on domain names
* support for unicast DNS queries

0.04
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* added some unit tests
* added __ne__ adjuncts where required
* ensure names end in '.local.'
* timeout on receiving socket for clean shutdown


License
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LGPL, see COPYING file for details.