1.0.9
--------------------------------

- add gw.reconfigure() to configure per gateway options.  Currently supported:
  py2str_as_py3str and py3str_as_py2str to configure string deserialization

- channel.makefile() objects now have a isatty() returning False

- group.allocate_id(spec) allows to early-determine an (automatic) id
  
- internal refactorings and cleanups (thanks Ronny Pfannschmidt):
  - refactor message types into received handler functions
  - refactor b(chr(opcode)) to bchr(opcode)
  - reorder Message ctor args, rename msgtype to msgcode
  - refactor gateway.send to take message's init args instead of a message
  - inline and remove Message.writeto/readfrom
  - refactor collection loading to avoid the indirection over tuple
  - remove the unused NamedThreadPool


1.0.8
--------------------------------

- new ``gateway.remote_exec(func, **kwargs)`` style fo executing
  a pure function with parameters.  The function on the remote
  side also needs to accept a ``channel`` which allows it to
  communicate back and forth.  Thanks to Ronny Pfannschmidt
  for implementing it with special kudos to Maciej Fijalkowski
  for writing a "pure-function" checker so that on Python2.6
  onwards non-pure functions will be rejected.

- enhance rsyncing to also sync permissions (stat().st_mode) 
  of directories and files. 
  (should also resolve http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/py-trunk/issue/68/)

- fix rsyncing of symlinks, thanks to Charles Solar 
  (should also resolve http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/py-trunk/issue/70/)

- update internal usage of apipkg to 1.0b6

- remote_exec(module) now makes sure that the linecache is updated
  before reading and sending the source.  thanks Ronny, Matt. 

- removed all trailing whitespace from source files

1.0.7
--------------------------------

- try to avoid a random KeyboardInterrupt Error when threads
  are ending. 

- extend xspec syntax to allow for one or multiple "env:NAME=value" 
  environment variable settings which will be set on the remote side. 
  (thanks Jakub Gustak)

1.0.6
--------------------------------

- fix jython/windows interactions 
- fix waitclose/callback-with-endmarker race condition
- fix race condition where multiple threads sending data over channels
  would crash the serializer and process 

1.0.5
--------------------------------

- more care during receiver-thread finalization during interp-shutdown,
  should get rid of annoying and meaningless exceptions
- fix glitch in ssh-fileserver example 
- experimentally add "setup.py test" support - will run py.test 

1.0.4
--------------------------------

- try to deal more cleanly with interpreter shutdown setting globals to
  None. this avoids (hopefully) some bogus tracebacks at process exit. 

1.0.3
--------------------------------

- refine termination some more: CTRL-C and gateway.exit will 
  now try harder to interrupt remote execution.  this 
  helps to avoid left-over ssh-processes.
- fix read-on-non-blocking-files issue probably related to jython only:  
  the low-level read on subprocess pipes may be non-blocking, returning 
  less bytes than requested - so we now loop.
- Windows/python2.4: fix bug that killing subprocesses would fail
- make RemoteError and TimeoutError available directly on execnet namespace

- fix some doc and test issues (thanks thm and ronny), add ssh_fileserver example
- update internal copy of apipkg
- always skip remote tests if no ssh specs given

1.0.2 
--------------------------------

- generalize channel-over-channel sending: you can now have channels 
  anywhere in a data structure (i.e. as an item of a container type).
  Add according examples.

- automatically close a channel when a remote callback raises 
  an exception, makes communication more robust because until 
  now failing callbacks rendered the receiverthread unuseable 
  leaving the remote side in-accessible.

- internally split socket gateways, speeds up popen-gateways
  by 10% (now at <50 milliseconds per-gateway on a 1.5 GHZ machine) 

- fix bug in channel.receive() that would wrongly raise a TimeoutError 
  after 1000 seconds (thanks Ronny Pfannschmidt) 

1.0.1
--------------------------------

- revamp and better structure documentation

- new method: gateway.hasreceiver() returns True 
  if the gateway is still receive-active. remote_status
  now only carries information about remote execution status.

- new: execnet.MultiChannel provides basic iteration/contain interface

- new: execnet.Group can be indexed by integer

- new: group.makegateway() uses group.default_spec if no spec is given
  and the execnet.default_group uses ``popen`` as a default spec. 

- have popen-gateways use imports instead of source-strings,
  also improves debugging/tracebacks, as a side effect
  popen-gateway startup can be substantially faster (>30%)

- refine internal gateway exit/termination procedure
  and introduce group.terminate(timeout) which will
  attempt to kill all subprocesses that did not terminate
  within time.

- EOFError on channel.receive/waitclose if the other
  side unexpectedly went away.  When a gateway exits 
  it now internally sends an explicit termination message
  instead of abruptly closing.  

- introduce a timeout parameter to channel.receive() 
  and default to periodically internally wake up
  to let KeyboardInterrupts pass through.

- EXECNET_DEBUG=2 will cause tracing to go to stderr,
  which with popen slave gateways will relay back 
  tracing to the instantiator process.
  

1.0.0
--------------------------------

* introduce execnet.Group for managing gateway creation 
  and termination.  Introduce execnet.default_group through which 
  all "global" calls are routed.  cleanup gateway termination.
  All Gateways get an id through which they can be 
  retrieved from a group object.

* deprecate execnet.XYZGateway in favour of direct makegateway() calls.

* refine socketserver-examples, experimentally introduce a
  way to indirectly setup a socket server ("installvia")
  through a gateway url.

* refine and automatically test documentation examples 

1.0.0b3
--------------------------------

* fix EXECNET_DEBUG to work with win32 
* add support for serializing longs, sets and frozensets  (thanks
  Benjamin Peterson) 
* introduce remote_status() method which on the low level gives
  information about the remote side of a gateway
* disallow explicit close in remote_exec situation
* perform some more detailed tracing with EXECNET_DEBUG

1.0.0b2
--------------------------------

* make internal protocols more robust against serialization failures

* fix a seralization bug with nested tuples containing empty tuples
  (thanks to ronny for discovering it)

* setting the environment variable EXECNET_DEBUG will generate per
  process trace-files for debugging

1.0.0b1
----------------------------

* added new examples for NumPy, Jython, IronPython
* improved documentation
* include apipkg.py for lazy-importing
* integrated new serializer code from Benjamin Peterson
* improved support for Jython-2.5.1

1.0.0alpha2 
----------------------------

* improve documentation, new website

* use sphinx for documentation, added boilerplate files and setup.py 

* fixes for standalone usage, adding boilerplate files

* imported py/execnet and made it work standalone
