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authorRobey Pointer <robey@lag.net>2005-07-18 06:40:30 +0000
committerRobey Pointer <robey@lag.net>2005-07-18 06:40:30 +0000
commit5a5cd201b787affcdf80dc5cf33eb5f7ba937138 (patch)
treeaacaf6b3c105329d6b92a04371f19db509908199 /README
parentd8ee5e2a4a0e425320204a56d2470d56e228acda (diff)
[project @ Arch-1:robey@lag.net--2005-master-shake%paramiko--dev--1--patch-47]
bump version number to 1.4 oddish
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diff --git a/README b/README
index b2cf76ef..beec3437 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-paramiko 1.3
-"marowak" release, 9 apr 2005
+paramiko 1.4
+"oddish" release, 17 jul 2005
Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Robey Pointer <robey@lag.net>
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ demo_simple.py
demo.py
same as demo_simple.py, but allows you to authenticiate using a
- private key, and uses the long form of some of the API calls.
+ private key, attempts to use an SSH-agent if present, and uses the long
+ form of some of the API calls.
forward.py
command-line script to set up port-forwarding across an ssh transport.
@@ -133,6 +134,17 @@ the best and easiest examples of how to use the SFTP class.
highlights of what's new in each release:
+v1.4 ODDISH
+* added SSH-agent support (for posix) from john rochester
+* added chdir() and getcwd() to SFTPClient, to emulate a "working directory"
+* added get() and put() to SFTPClient, to emulate ftp whole-file transfers
+* added check() to SFTPFile (a file hashing protocol extension)
+* fixed Channels and SFTPFiles (among others) to auto-close when GC'd
+* fixed Channel.fileno() for Windows, this time really
+* don't log socket errors as "unknown exception"
+* some misc. backward-compatible API improvements (like allowing
+ Transport.start_client() and start_server() to be called in a blocking way)
+
v1.3.1 NIDORAN
* added SFTPClient.close()
* fixed up some outdated documentation
@@ -237,11 +249,8 @@ v0.9 FEAROW
*** MISSING LINKS
* ctr forms of ciphers are missing (blowfish-ctr, aes128-ctr, aes256-ctr)
-
-* SFTPClient.from_url('sftp://robey@arch.lag.net/folder/filename', 'r+')
- keep cache of opened sftp clients by (host, port, username)
- how to auth? how to check host key?
- ... maybe just a util function that parses the url and returns components
+* SFTP url parsing function to return (user, pass, host, port, path)
+ components
* sftp protocol 6 support (ugh....) -- once it settles down more
* why are big files so slow to transfer? profiling needed...