Version 8.2 of Twisted is now out (actually, it's been out for over a week now!). You can download it (in Windows, Mac, and source forms) at: http://twistedmatrix.com/ Twisted 8.2 is a major feature release, also including many important bug fixes: * twistd now has a --umask option for specifying the umask * Log observers can now be configured in .tac files * ProcessProtocols can now implement processExited to get reliable notification of a process exiting * FTPClient has many more convenience methods * Twisted.words now has a standalone XMPP router * Twisted.names now supports NAPTR records * Twisted.web can now deal with multi-value headers and supports the Range header in requests for static files There have been many additional improvements which you can read all about in the release notes: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-8.2.0/NEWS?forma... What is Twisted? From the web site: Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the MIT license. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, multicast, Unix sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others), and much more. See more at: http://twistedmatrix.com/ -- Christopher Armstrong http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/ http://planet-if.com/ http://canonical.com/