[ANN] pyOpenSSL 0.15*.1*

Hynek Schlawack hs at ox.cx
Wed Apr 15 01:06:21 CEST 2015


Hello again,

since releasing software is so much fun, 0.15.1 is out on PyPI too.

It fixes a small regression that shouldn’t affect you in practice but 
breaks the Twisted test suite.

See https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/pull/225 for details.

Brown baggily yours,
—h

On 14 Apr 2015, at 12:54, Hynek Schlawack wrote:

> Greetings fellow Pythoneers,
>
> I'm happy to announce that pyOpenSSL 0.15 is now available.
>
> pyOpenSSL is a set of Python bindings for OpenSSL.  It includes some 
> low-level cryptography APIs but is primarily focused on providing an 
> API for using the TLS protocol from Python.
>
> Check out the PyPI page (<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL>) for 
> downloads.
>
> ***
>
> This is the last release under the stewardship of Jean-Paul Calderone 
> and the maintainership is now taken over by the Python Cryptography 
> Authority (PyCA) which has been developing the C-bindings for 
> pyOpenSSL for a while (aka cryptography).
>
> We’d like to thank him for his great work over the past years and 
> hope to be able to keep moving the project into a direction that will 
> make him only slightly sad.
>
> ***
>
> The highlights of this release include:
>
> - Support to ECDHE,
> - NPN and ALPN support,
> - …many bug fixes!
>
> It’s worth pointing out that OpenSSL functions generally work on 
> *byte strings* because they mirror OpenSSL APIs and OpenSSL is not 
> Unicode-aware.  Passing Unicode strings tends to accidentally work due 
> do implicit decodes on Python 2 but they emit a DeprecationWarning 
> now.  Please note that DeprecationWarnings are silenced by default on 
> Python 2.7.
>
> See the ChangeLog at 
> <https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/blob/0.15/ChangeLog> for more 
> details!
>
> On behalf of PyCA,
> Hynek Schlawack
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