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<p><% name %> version 1.0 released on 11/29/08</p>

<a id="Introduction"></a><h2>Introduction</h2>

<p>This release contains a few improvements and bugfixes, and it allows better

monitoring and handling of long-running threads in the ThreadedAppServer.</p>

<a id="NewFeatures"></a><h2>New Features</h2>

<ul>

<li>Instead of using the standard WebKit adapter mod_webkit, you can also

use any SCGI adapter such as mod_scgi (not part of Webware for Python).

For details, see the installation and configuration guides.</li>

<li>The ThreadedAppServer has got a new method <code>abortRequest()</code>

allowing the abortion of the worker thread processing a request specified by

its request id. This feature needs a recent version of <code>ctypes</code>

and Python (2.3 or higher). The <code>_canAbortRequest</code> attribute

tells you whether this feature is available.</li>

<li>The new AppServer.config setting 'MaxRequestTime' allows monitoring

long-running requests. All requests with an execution time longer than

'MaxRequestTime' seconds will be automatically aborted. This feature is

disabled by setting 'MaxRequestTime' to 0 or None.</li>

<li>The SMTP authentication when sending error emails has been improved,

and it is now possible to use SMTP after POP by adding the name of the POP

server to the ``ErrorEmailServer`` setting (Roger Haase).</li>

<li>HTTPRequests have got two new methods <code>scheme()</code> and

<code>hostAndPort()</code> returning the respective URL parts.</li>

</ul>

<a id="Improvements"></a><h2>Improvements and Refinements</h2>

<ul>

<li>If an exception occurs within a Task scheduled by the Application

task manager (obtained from <code>application.taskManager()</code>),

the exception will be handled by the Application's exception handler

(i.e. the exception will be logged and emailed if the appropriate

settings have been enabled within Application.config).</li>

<li>The <code>_action_</code> prefix for Webware actions can now be

changed by overriding <code>HTTPContent._actionPrefix</code>, or setting

this to None if you don't want to use actions at all.</li>

<li>The error email messages are now created using the email module instead

of using the deprecated MimeWriter module for Python 2.2 and higher.</li>

</ul>

<a id="Bugfixes"></a><h2>Bugfixes</h2>

<ul>

<li>ThreadedAppServer could crash with socket error during nmap scan on

NetBSD (reported by Patrick TJ McPhee), this should be fixed now.</li>

<li>Fixed bug with "Memory" Session configuration (as suggested by

Steve Schwarz).</li>

<li><code>HTTPResponse</code> created a Session for every request (bug

reported by Ben Parker).</li>

<li>In the case of nested transactions (when you use forwarding),

the session is now only awakened and put to sleep once by the outmost

transaction (as suggested by Ben Parker).</li>

<li>Made <code>Transaction.die()</code> work properly with Python 2.2

and higher, where <code>WebKit.Object</code> is a new-style class.</li>

<li>Changed the <code>urlRedirect</code> hook to behave as documented when

the <code>urlRedirect</code> dictionary has an empty string as key.</li>

<li><span class="filename">__init__.py</span> is not created any more if

<span class="filename">__init__.pyc</span> exists (Andrew Gaul).</li>

<li>The <code>UseAutomaticPathSessions</code> did not works with

Microsoft IIS (bug #494764 reported by Geoff Talvola).</li>

</ul>

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