Hi everyone, Another Twisted release is upon us -- this one is small, but has some nice to haves. In this release is: - twisted.application.internet.ClientService, a service that maintains a persistent outgoing endpoint-based connection -- a replacement for ReconnectingClientFactory that uses modern APIs; - A large (77% on one benchmark) performance improvement when using twisted.web's client on PyPy; - A few conch modules have been ported, in preparation for further porting of the SSH functionality; - Full support for OpenSSL 1.0.2f and above; - t.web.http.Request.addCookie now accepts Unicode and bytes keys/values; - `twistd manhole` no longer uses a hard-coded SSH host key, and will generate one for you on the fly (this adds a 'appdirs' PyPI dependency, installing with [conch] will add it automatically); - Over eighteen tickets overall closed since 16.0. As usual, you can get the NEWS file at https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/pre/16.1.0pre1/NEWS.txt and download the tarball from https://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/pre/16.1.0pre1/. Please test this release with your applications, and let me know if all goes smoothly. If there's no reported issues, the release will occur in roughly a week. - Amber