ANN: Twisted 8.2 released

[Christopher Armstrong]

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?format=raw


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/