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List:       postgresql-announce
Subject:    [ANNOUNCE] Psycopg 2.5 released
From:       Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-04-07 19:15:40
Message-ID: CA+mi_8aC294rEqwrR57m3X+xnbqK1TP7k2BHvn2iq_fMDq8Amw () mail ! gmail ! com
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We are happy to announce the release 2.5 of Psycopg. For a detailed list
of the release highlights please check the article at
<http://initd.org/psycopg/articles/2013/04/07/psycopg-25-released/>.

- Download: http://initd.org/psycopg/tarballs/PSYCOPG-2-5/psycopg2-2.5.tar.gz
- Signature: http://initd.org/psycopg/tarballs/PSYCOPG-2-5/psycopg2-2.5.tar.gz.asc

New features:

- Added JSON adaptation.
- Added support for PostgreSQL 9.2 range types .
- 'connection' and 'cursor' objects can be used in "with" statements
  as context managers as specified by a recent DBAPI  extension.
- Added 'Diagnostics' object to get extended info from a database error.
  Many thanks to Matthew Woodcraft for the implementation (ticket #149).
- Added 'connection.cursor_factory' attribute to customize the default
  object returned by 'cursor()'.
- Added support for backward scrollable cursors. Thanks to Jon Nelson
  for the initial patch (ticket #108).
- Added a simple way to customize casting of composite types into
  Python objects other than namedtuples.  Many thanks to Ronan Dunklau
  and Tobias Oberstein for the feature development.
- 'connection.reset()' implemented using 'DISCARD ALL' on server
  versions supporting it.

Bug fixes:

- Properly cleanup memory of broken connections (ticket #148).
- Fixed bad interaction of 'setup.py' with other dependencies in
  Distribute projects on Python 3 (ticket #153).

Other changes:

- Added support for Python 3.3.
- Dropped support for Python 2.4. Please use Psycopg 2.4.x if you
  need it.
- 'errorcodes' map updated to PostgreSQL 9.2.
- Dropped Zope adapter from source repository. ZPsycopgDA now has its
  own project at <http://github.com/psycopg/ZPsycopgDA>.


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Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python
programming language. At its core it fully implements the Python DB
API 2.0 specifications. Several extensions allow access to many of the
features offered by PostgreSQL.


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