Fixed: The quickstart/ad-hoc/play ZEO server relied on test dependencies. See issue 105.
Disallow passing strings as addresses to ClientStorage under Windows because string addresses are used for unix-domain sockets, which aren't supported on Windows. See issue 107.
Renamed all async attributes to async_ for compatibility with Python 3.7. See issue 104.
Fixed to work with some changes made in ZODB 5.4.0.
Client-side updates are incuded for ZODB 5.4.0 or databases that already had zodbpickle.binary OIDs. See issue 113.
ZEO now uses pickle protocol 3 for both Python 2 and Python 3. (Previously protocol 1 was used for Python 2.) This matches the change in ZODB 5.4.0.
Fix: ZEO didn't work with a change in ZODB 5.4.0.
(Allow zodbpickle.binary to be used in RPC requests, which is necessary for compatibility with ZODB 5.4.0 on Python 2. See issue 107.)
Fixed: ZEO needed changes to work with recent transaction changes.
ZEO now works with the latest versions of ZODB and transaction
Packaging-related doc fix
This is a major ZEO revision, which replaces the ZEO network protocol implementation.
New features:
SSL support
Optional client-side conflict resolution.
Lots of mostly internal clean ups.
ClientStorage``server-sync configuration option and server_sync constructor argument to force a server round trip at the beginning of transactions to wait for any outstanding invalidations at the start of the transaction to be delivered.
Client disconnect errors are now transient errors. When applications retry jobs that raise transient errors, jobs (e.g. web requests) with disconnect errors will be retried. Together with blocking synchronous ZEO server calls for a limited time while disconnected, this change should allow brief disconnections due to server restart to avoid generating client-visible errors (e.g. 500 web responses).
ClientStorage prefetch method to prefetch oids.
When oids are prefetched, requests are made at once, but the caller doesn't block waiting for the results. Rather, then the caller later tries to fetch data for one of the object ids, it's either delivered right away from the ZEO cache, if the prefetch for the object id has completed, or the caller blocks until the inflight prefetch completes. (No new request is made.)
Dropped features:
The ZEO authentication protocol.
This will be replaced by new authentication mechanims leveraging SSL.
The ZEO monitor server.
Full cache verification.
Client suppprt for servers older than ZODB 3.9
Server support for clients older than ZEO 4.2.0
Added the ability to pass credentials when creating client storages.
This is experimental in that passing credentials will cause connections to an ordinary ZEO server to fail, but it facilitates experimentation with custom ZEO servers. Doing this with custom ZEO clients would have been awkward due to the many levels of composition involved.
In the future, we expect to support server security plugins that consume credentials for authentication (typically over SSL).
Note that credentials are opaque to ZEO. They can be any object with a true value. The client mearly passes them to the server, which will someday pass them to a plugin.
Added a ClientStorage prefetch method to prefetch oids.
When oids are prefetched, requests are made at once, but the caller doesn't block waiting for the results. Rather, then the caller later tries to fetch data for one of the object ids, it's either delivered right away from the ZEO cache, if the prefetch for the object id has completed, or the caller blocks until the inflight prefetch completes. (No new request is made.)
Fixed: SSL clients of servers with signed certs didn't load default certs and were unable to connect.
This is a major ZEO revision, which replaces the ZEO network protocol implementation.
New features:
Dropped features:
The ZEO authentication protocol.
This will be replaced by new authentication mechanims leveraging SSL.
The ZEO monitor server.
Full cache verification.
Client suppprt for servers older than ZODB 3.9
Server support for clients older than ZEO 4.2.0
Changed loadBefore to operate more like load behaved, especially with regard to the load lock. This allowes ZEO to work with the upcoming ZODB 5, which used loadbefore rather than load.
Reimplemented load using loadBefore, thus testing loadBefore extensively via existing tests.
Other changes to work with ZODB 5 (as well as ZODB 4)
Fixed: the ZEO cache loadBefore method failed to utilize current data.
Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.2.
Fix AttributeError: 'ZEOServer' object has no attribute 'server' when StorageServer creation fails.
First (in a long time) separate ZEO release.
Since ZODB 3.10.5: