ANN: M2Crypto 0.17beta1

[Heikki Toivonen]

First beta of M2Crypto 0.17 is available for testing. This is a pretty
minor release compared to the previous one. The planned release date is
December 15, 2006. Please try this beta out and let me know if there are
any issues.

Homepage has information on how to get the source and how to report
bugs: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/MeTooCrypto

Changelog:

0.17
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- Added m2urllib2, by James Bowes (python 2.4 and later, at least for now)
- Added CONNECT proxy for httpslib and m2urllib2, by James Bowes
- Added PKey.get_modulus, X509.get_fingerprint, X509_Name.as_der and
  m2.bn_to_hex, by Thomas Uram
- Fixed m2urllib.open_https to return the response headers, otherwise code
  that relied on that would break (for example msnlib-3.5), by Arno Bakker
- Fixed twisted wrapper to work with >16kb BIO buffers, by Martin Paljak
- Added support for remaining ECs, by Larry Bugbee
- Fixed DSA.save_key and DSA_.save_pub_key, by Larry Bugbee
- SSL.Context.load_verify_locations raises ValueError if cafile and capath
  are both None
- Fixed X509.check_purpose() (was always raising exceptions)
- smime_read_pkcs7 was changed to automatically call BIO_set_mem_eof_return
  on memory BIOs because otherwise the read would fail with
  "SMIME_Error: not enough data"

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen