[PYTHON-CRYPTO] M2Crypto release 0.15

[Heikki Toivonen]

M2crypto release 0.15

In this M2Crypto release:

* Support for OpenSSL up to 0.9.8
* Support for SWIG 1.3.24
* Support for Python 2.4.1
* Twisted integration
* Safer defaults for SSL context and post connection check for clients
* Eliminated C pointers from interfaces (some may still remain in callbacks)
* Many cases where Python interpreter crashed have been fixed
* Improved thread safety of many callbacks
* Memory leak fixes
* And of course more of the OpenSSL API is covered, new docstrings and
tests have been written

To get the source:

svn co http://svn.osafoundation.org/m2crypto/tags/0.15 m2crypto-0.15

Enjoy!


Currently known M2Crypto bugs:

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/buglist.cgi?product=M2Crypto&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

This release has been tested and is known to work with:

* Windows XP
  - Cygwin 1.5.18
  - Cygwin OpenSSL 0.9.8
  - Cygwin SWIG 1.3.24
  - Cygwin Python 2.4

  and (Compiled with MS Visual C++ .NET 2003)

  - OpenSSL 0.9.7g
  - SWIG 1.3.24
  - Python 2.4.1

* Debian (testing)
  - OpenSSL 0.9.7e
  - SWIG 1.3.24
  - Python 2.3.5

* Ubuntu
  - OpenSSL 0.9.7g
  - SWIG 1.3.24
  - Python 2.4.1

* Fedora Core 2-4
  - OpenSSL 0.9.7g
  - SWIG 1.3.24
  - Python 2.4.1

* Mac OS 10.x
  - OpenSSL 0.9.7g
  - SWIG 1.3.24
  - Python 2.4.1

There have been reports that SWIG 1.3.25 and OpenSSL 0.9.7f should also
work. If you know of other combinations that work please post them to
python-crypto, and file bugs otherwise.

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen

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