For original: * PyPI page https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zeroconf * GitHub project https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf

• Bugfix: allow underscores in instance name prefix (RFC 6763 - 4.1.1)

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

• Technically backwards incompatible - restricted netifaces dependency version to work around a bug, see python-zeroconf#84 for details

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

• 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%

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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 (python-zeroconf#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

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

• Fixed handling closed socket (GitHub #4)

• 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

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

• 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.

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

• 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

• 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

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

• changed licensing to LGPL

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

• 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

• ensure case insensitivty on domain names
• support for unicast DNS queries

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

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