ANN: Twisted 0.15.5

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

== Get Twisted ==

Main Twisted site: http://www.twistedmatrix.com

Mirror for downloads: http://twisted.coopweb.org

The latest Twisted, v0.15.5, is available now in Debian sid
("unstable"): http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/twisted.html


== What's New? ==

There have a been a lot of changes since out last c.l.p.a anouncement:

  - Win32 event loop support
  - A new GTK+ instant messaging client
  - Much improved DNS support, including the beginning of a server
  - Instant messaging server had many improvements
  - SOCKSv4 proxy server
  - Much improved mail server
  - Many more services can be configured via the web
  - ECO, a small lisp implementation
  - Log rotation for log files
  - More testing code (lots more, in fact)
  - Bug fixes, API improvements

and much more.


== What is Twisted? ==

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications.  It
includes a web server, a telnet server, a multiplayer RPG engine, a
generic client and server for remote object access, and APIs for
creating new protocols and services. Twisted supports integration of the
Tk, GTK  or wxPython event loop with its main event loop. The Win32
event loop is also supported, as is basic support for running servers on
top of Jython.

Twisted currently supports the following protocols, all implemented in
pure python, most of them as both servers and clients:

     - FTP
     - HTTP
     - SOCKSv4
     - SMTP
     - IRC
     - telnet
     - POP3
     - AOL's instant messaging TOC
     - OSCAR, used by AOL-IM as well as ICQ (client only)
     - DNS
     - LDAP (client only)
     - finger
     - Echo, discard, chargen and friends
     - Twisted Perspective Broker