release-notes.rst

Release notes for chevah.compat

1.3.0 - 2024-12-08

• Add support for running tests with pytest.

1.2.2 - 2024-11-03

• Allow cleaning testing filesystem inside the RUNNER_WORKSPACE environment variable path. This is for GitHub Action tests executed inside a container.

1.2.1 - 2024-11-03

• Allow cleaning testing filesystem inside the Python default temporary directory, tempfile.tempdir.

1.2.0 - 2024-10-26

• Include nose_randomly extension. The extension is no longer maintained upstream. It also removes the dependency on node.

1.1.2 - 2024-10-04

• Update for python 3.12.
• Fix tearDown error handling.

1.1.1 - 2024-07-05

• Fix long path handling in Windows for Windows Share paths.

1.1.0 - 2024-01-22

• Update support for Twisted 23.10.0

1.0.9 - 2023-07-04

• Update for python 3.11.

1.0.8 - 2023-05-23

• Remove getFileMD5Sum and co functions.
• Remove mk.md5
• Add initial support for long file names.

1.0.7 - 2023-04-08

• More unicode fixed after running more code on Windows.

1.0.6 - 2023-04-07

• Fix unidecode usage.
• Many py3 fixes on Windows.

1.0.5 - 2023-04-02

• Add skipOnPY3 for conditionals.

1.0.4 - 2023-04-01

• Fix getFileMD5Sum

0.71.2 - 2023-05-22

• Fix Unicode path returned on Windows for unlocked avatars.

0.71.1 - 2023-05-22

• Fix getAbsoluteReal path Windows not to return a path in long path format.

0.71.0 - 2023-05-20

• Add support for long paths in Windows.

0.70.3 - 2023-04-18

• getFileMD5Sum now always returns unicode.

0.70.2 - 2023-04-18

• ChevahTestCase.tempFile can now handle content as both bytes or unicode.

0.70.1 - 2023-04-06

• Remove support for remote_pdb
• Use distro instead of ld to have the same lib in py2 and py3.

0.70.0 - 2023-03-12

• Move to a non-namespace package.

0.65.5 - 2022-12-14

• openFile and openFileForReading can now open for reading a file that is already open for writing.

0.65.4 - 2022-12-14

• openFile and openFileForReading now raise a standard error when the file is not found.

0.65.3 - 2022-12-14

• openFile and openFileForReading now raise a standard error when the parent path for a file is not found.

0.65.2 - 2022-12-12

• Fix openFile when used in read-write mode.

0.65.1 - 2022-12-05

• Fix openFile when used in write-only mode.

0.65.0 - 2022-12-05

• Don't lock the file on Windows when opened for reading. This is valid for both openForReading` method and for the generic open method.

0.64.3 - 2022-09-14

• temp_segments on Windows now works for locked filesystems,

0.64.2 - 2022-09-14

• isAbsolutePath returns False for an empty string instead of raising an error.

0.64.1 - 2022-05-26

• Fix iterateFolderContent on Windows for unlocked accounts when listing the root.

0.64.0 - 2022-05-02

• Add ILocalFilesystem.isAbsolutePath API.
• Add conditionals.onOSVersion helper.
• Disable PAM for macOS.
• Fix handling for path on Windows when the current working directory is a drive path \?c:somedrive-path
• Make sure the temporary path for the LocalTestFilesystem is always accessible event for avatar that are locked inside their home folder and don't have access to the global temporary directory.

0.63.0 - 2021-08-09

• Disable PAM for Alpine.
• ChevahTestCase.os_version was updated for RHEL, CentOS and Oracle Linux to always return rhel-N as the Linux distribution name.

0.62.0 - 2021-07-22

• ChevahTestCase.assertEqual now checks inside collections for Unicode vs. bytestrings.

0.61.0 - 2021-06-28

• Add support for stacked test cleanups.

0.60.0 - 2021-04-28

• Update for Twisted 20.3.0
• Continue cleanup on error.

0.59.3 - 2021-04-01

• getGroupForUser raised ValueError also on Windows.

0.59.2 - 2021-04-01

• Use changes from 0.58.4.

0.59.1 - 2021-04-01

• getGroupForUser raised ValueError when the request groups for validation is an empty value or None.

0.59.0 - 2021-03-07

• Replace isUserInGroups with getGroupForUser so that you also know the name of the matched group.

0.58.4 - 2021-03-17

• Fix Unix and Windows path normalization to handle single quote characters.

0.58.3 - 2020-11-09

• Allow cryptography 3.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.2.

0.58.2 - 2020-08-05

• Fix directory attributes returned for virtual folders.

0.58.1 - 2020-06-23

• Fix executing reactor to wait for currently executed threads, and not only for the queued threads.

0.58.0 - 2020-06-23

• Fix running from Unicode path on Linux/macOS.

0.57.3 - 2020-06-15

• Fix unicode conversion in error messages.

0.57.2 - 2020-06-15

• Use windows-1252 encoding when running on non-English Windows.

0.57.1 - 2020-06-15

• Fix compat when running on non-English Windows.

0.57.0 - 2020-06-12

• Don't copy permissions on local file copy.
• Copy file and don't create symlink on local copy.

0.56.2 - 2020-05-18

• Explicitly set permissions after PID file is created.

0.56.1 - 2020-05-17

• Fix testing code.

0.56.0 - 2020-05-15

• Remove openFileForUpdating.

• Remove utf8 argument from openFileForReading, openFileForWriting,

  and openFileForAppending.

• Add mode argument from openFileForWriting, and openFileForAppending.
• DEFAULT_FILE_MODE was removed.
• The Unix daemon will now delete the PID file on exit.

0.55.4 - 22/08/2019

• Update for short os names in brink.

0.55.3 - 21/08/2019

• Fix py3 exception in nose_runner script.

0.55.2 - 21/08/2019

• Remove support for Contains.
• Fix print function in nose_runner script.

0.55.1 - 17/06/2019

• system_users.userExist now raised a CompatError when it fails to check the existence of an user.

0.55.0 - 12/05/2019

• Updated testing text generator to include upper and lower characters.

0.54.1 - 08/05/2019

• Remove TODOs for Solaris/AIX/HPUX as there is no plan to fix them.
• Fix test case teardown.

0.54.0 - 15/04/2019

• Fix reactor debug mode.
• Fix assertEqual str vs unicode check.

0.53.0 - 03/04/2019

• Fix command line argument parsing when using multiprocessiong.

0.52.5 - 26/03/2019

• Fix previous base version on Chevah PyPi.

0.52.4 - 24/03/2019

• getHomeFolder now always returns a path without the trailing separater.
• Update Twisted reactor cleanup code to show the tasks from the queue.

0.52.3 - 04/10/2018

• Use same modified date on Windows for folder iteration as with getAttributes.

0.52.2 - 04/10/2018

• Virtual folders always shadow the real folders.

0.52.1 - 03/10/2018

• Don't follow links when getting the attributes for iterated folder.
• Use impersonation when getting the attributes during the folder iteration.

0.52.0 - 03/10/2018

• Return attributes in folder iterator.

0.51.1 - 20/09/2018

• Add path to more OSError raised on Windows.

0.51.0 - 19/09/2018

• When opening a file, if the OS error has no associated path, add the path the the exception.

0.50.6 - 26/06/2018

• Use start of current year for date of virtual folders.

0.50.5 - 22/06/2018

• Fix detection of virtual path for nested virtual paths.
• Add macOS on the list of case-insensitive path handling.

0.50.4 - 21/06/2018

• Disable the filesystem overlay functionality. You can no longer mix virtual with non-virtual paths.
• The LocalFilesystem now fails to initialized if a virtual path overlaps an existing folder.
• Operation will fail if they are executed on a path which looks like a virtual path but has no direct mapping.
• Add case insensitive behaviour for Windows.

0.50.3 - 17/06/2018

• Fix getAttributes and getStatus operations for root segments.

0.50.2 - 16/06/2018

• Restrict any mutating operation on the virtual path itself or for parts of the virtual path.
• Fix listing of deep virtual path which are not overlaid.

0.50.1 - 15/06/2018

• Fix listing of virtual path which are overlaid
• Fix folder iteration with unicode.

0.50.0 - 15/06/2018

• Add support for virtual directories as a way to allow explicit access to selected folders outside of the locked home folder.
• Fix skipOnCondition to run the tests when condition is meet.

0.49.3 - 08/05/2018

• Fix ILocalFilesystem.getSegmentsFromRealPath on Windows when dealing with long UNC paths for locked filesystems. In previous releases a long UNC was erroneously considered outside of the base path.

0.49.2 - 02/05/2018

• ILocalFilesystem.getAttributes on Windows raise an error for broken links and return the size and modified date of the linked file.

0.49.1 - 02/05/2018

• ILocalFilesystem.exist no longer follows links.

0.49.0 - 30/04/2018

• Add support for working with UNC paths and symbolic links to Windows shares.

0.48.0 - 15/04/2018

• Raise OSError when trying to set permissions on Windows, instead of AttributeError. This should have a behaviour closer to Unix.

0.47.0 - 08/03/2018

• Iterate the reactor with a timeout and not with None. When iterating with None we have observed that not all tasks are executed by the reactor, especially closing the connections.
• Add helper functions to create temporary file and folders with auto cleanup.
• Add helpers for spinning the reactor in various conditions.

0.46.0 - 19/12/2017

• Add option to ignore thread names during the tearDown of ChevahTestCase.

0.45.2 - 08/11/2017

• Fix getAttributes for broken link on Windows to return file not found.

0.45.1 - 27/10/2017

• Add removed methods in 0.45.0.

0.45.0 - 27/10/2017

• Remove usage of future and use six.

0.44.4 - 24/09/2017

• Fix cleanup to call the cleanups in reverse order which they were added.

0.44.3 - 06/08/2017

• Update MD5 checksum to match the changes in getFileMD5Sum.

0.44.2 - 06/08/2017

• Bump version due to strange behaviour of buildslaves.

0.44.1 - 06/08/2017

• Better version reporting for AIX.
• Update the build system for Alpine and to work better with test_remote.
• Use hexdigest in getFileMD5Sum.

0.44.0 - 01/08/2017

• Remove port listening helpers.
• Update to latest Solaris on 32bit.
• Add support for OS detection in test case and no longer use hostname to detect the OS.

0.43.3 - 08/05/2017

• Initialize the test case with a non-Unicode drop user name.

0.43.2 - 05/05/2017

• Fix OpenBSD/FreeBSD password authentication.

0.43.1 - 04/05/2017

• Fix bad shadow change in previous release.

0.43.0 - 04/05/2017

• Fix assertIsNotEmpty with deep Unicode data.
• Add minimal support for OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

0.42.1 - 01/05/2017

• Fix assertion in chevah testcase.

0.42.0 - 01/05/2017

• Remove HTTP context test helper.
• Add iterator for getting the members of a folder.

0.41.1 - 21/02/2017

• Fix cleanup code to not fail if a delayed called was already canceled.

0.41.0 - 09/02/2017

• The default timeout used to wait for a deferred is now defined by the test class instance.

0.40.0 - 27/01/2017

• Fix the mess created in 0.37.0 where compat as also installing the chevah.empirical namespace and conflicting with the empirical package.

0.39.0 - 27/01/2017

• Impersonating local accounts is determined by the availability of SeImpersonatePrivilege on Windows.

0.38.0 - 24/01/2017

• Add conditional for skipping tests depending on availability of administrator privileges
• Update empirical to the latest version

0.37.0 - 23/01/2017

• Move chevah.empirical to compat.

0.36.0 - 13/11/2016

• Add API for opening a file in write mode for updating. With seek enabled and without truncation.

0.35.0 - 17/05/2016

• Fix getStatus on Windows to support files that are kept open by other processes.

0.34.0 - 18/10/2015

• Add dedicated PAM method to authenticate based on username and password.

0.33.0 - 24/11/2015

• Fix checking password stored in /etc/passwd in AIX.

0.32.0 - 24/11/2015

• Remove dependencies from setup.py as we have POSIX only deps which fail on Windows.

0.31.2 - 17/11/2015

• Remove dependencies from setup.py as we have POSIX only deps which fail on Windows.

0.31.1 - 17/11/2015

• Refactor group impersonation to use initgroups() rather than getgroups/setgroups.

0.31.0 - 08/10/2015

• Add node_id, owner and group to IFileAttributes.
• Add comparison between IFileAttributes.

0.30.1 - 22/05/2015

• Fix userExists on Unix to not read /etc/passwd as root.

0.30.0 - 26/04/2015

• Initial code update for Python 3 support.

0.29.0 - 17/04/2015

• Populate sys.argv with Unicode values on Windows.

0.28.1 - 11/03/2015

• Add support for HP-UX in OS administration.
• Disable PAM support for HP-UX.

0.28.0 - 17/02/2015

• Update support for HP-UX.

0.27.1 - 15/02/2015

• Record dependencies in setup.py.

0.27.0 - 15/02/2015

• Remove twisted as a dependency.

0.26.0 - 02/12/2014

• Add touch and copyFile method to Filesystem.

0.25.2 - 13/11/2014

• Fix deleteFile on Windows to delete files which are read-only.

0.25.1 - 29/10/2014

• Fix deleteFolder(recursive) on Windows to delete files which are read-only.

0.25.0 - 04/10/2014

• Update Unix daemon to use instance variables for detach_process and preserve_standard_streams.

0.24.0 - 04/10/2014

• Update to support OS X again.

0.23.1 - 29/09/2014

• Fix setting GID for file replace operation in OS administration.

0.23.0 - 27/09/2014

• Refactor getAttributes to return a IFileAttributes object, instead of a tuple.
• getAttributes no longer allow filtering attributes. All attributes are populated in the returned object.

0.22.0 - 04/07/2014

• Re-enable support for Solaris 10.

0.21.2 - 29/05/2014

• Fix getFolderContent to raise ENOENT when folder does not exists on windows.
• Rename manufacture to mk.

0.21.1 - 22/05/2014

• getTestUser returns None if the user is not found (undefined),
• Treat error.filename as an optional attribute of WindowsError.

0.21.0 - 19/05/2014

• Remove test user home folders only when necessary.

0.20.2 - 14/05/2014

• Force converted IOError to OSError to have text encoded as UTF-8.

0.20.1 - 14/05/2014

• Fix conversion of IOError to OSError.

0.20.0 - 14/05/2014

• Unify errors for file operations on folder and for folder operations on files.

0.19.1 - 06/05/2014

• Report errors when removing test user's home folder and raise an exception.
• Cache Windows user token value.
• Security fix: getHomeFolder called with an invalid username/token combination.

0.19.0 - 17/04/2014

• Fix domain test account's home folder removal.
• Fix creating symbolic links on Windows when impersonating.
• Separate Windows OS administration helpers.
• Add support for granting/revoking user rights/privileges on Windows for the testing infrastructure.

0.18.1 - 24/03/2014

• LocalFilesystem.exists() now returns false on Windows for broken links.

0.18.0 - 24/03/2014

• Raise CompatError in getSegmentsFromRealPath if path is outside of home folder.

0.17.1 - 20/03/2014

• Update build system to latest buildbot.
• Convert WindowsError from deleteFile into OSError and convert error code for file not found.

0.17.0 - 04/03/2014

• Add support for reading symbolic links on Windows.

0.16.0 - 04/03/2014

• Add support for creating symbolic links on Windows.

0.15.0 - 04/03/2014

• Add support for detecting symbolic link capabilities.

0.14.0 - 04/03/2014

• Refactor file/folder/link attributes retrieval.
• Add 'link' and 'file' attributes to LocalFilesystem.getAttributes().
• Remove follow_symlinks from LocalFilesystem.getAttributes().
• Add LocalFilesystem.getStatus() method.

0.13.5 - 04/03/2014

• Use latest brink and linters.
• Fix cleanup on account administration on AIX and OSX.

0.13.4 - 13/01/2014

• Fix getSegmentsFromRealPath on Windows.

0.13.3 - 13/01/2014

• Fix ILocalFilesystem.openFile declaration.

0.13.2 - 13/01/2014

• Fix getSegmentsFromRealPath for locked filesystems.

0.13.1 - 18/12/2013

• Update to latest empirical.

0.13.0 - 16/12/2013

• Add os_type and os_family to process_capabilies.

0.12.3 - 10/12/2013

• Move TEST_ACCOUNT_USERNAME_TEMP to server as it is only used there.
• Fix creation of accounts with default primary group.
• Don't stop to teardown users and groups on first error.

0.12.2 - 10/12/2013

• Fix folder mask on AIX.

0.12.1 - 09/12/2013

• Use lazy loading of pam module do mitigate the side effects generated when load pam library on AIX.

0.12.0 - 09/12/2013

• Move os access control setup/teardown from empirical into compat.
• Fix support for AIX system.

0.11.0 - 01/12/2013

• Upgrade to unique temporary folders based on latest empirical.
• Fix temporary segments for impersonated accounts.

0.10.6 - 17/09/2013

• Wait 100 seconds for account creation.
• Wait 100 seconds for group creation.

0.10.5 - 17/09/2013

• Wait 30 seconds 2nd API call for getting a group.

0.10.4 - 17/09/2013

• Wait 10 seconds 2nd API call for getting a group.

0.10.3 - 17/09/2013

• Wait 5 seconds for 2nd API call for getting a group.

0.10.2 - 16/09/2013

• Try 2 different API calls to wait for group creation.

0.10.1 - 23/09/2013

• Sync 0.9.2 with latest changes from 0.10.0.

0.9.2 - 04/08/2013

• Wait 10 seconds for account creation.

0.9.1 - 04/08/2013

• Ignore KeyError exception when waiting for account creation.