0.10.0

2020-01-26 • full history

Breaking changes

• Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3
• Emitters that failed to start are now removed
• [snapshot] Removed the deprecated walker_callback argument, use stat instead
• [watchmedo] The utility is no more installed by default but via the extra watchdog[watchmedo]

Other Changes

• Fixed several Python 3 warnings
• Identify synthesized events with is_synthetic attribute (#369)
• Use os.scandir() to improve memory usage (#503)
• [bsd] Fixed flavors of FreeBSD detection (#529)
• [bsd] Skip unprocessable socket files (#509)
• [inotify] Fixed events containing non-ASCII characters (#516)
• [inotify] Fixed the way OSError are re-raised (#377)
• [inotify] Fixed wrong source path after renaming a top level folder (#515)
• [inotify] Removed delay from non-move events (#477)
• [mac] Fixed a bug when calling FSEventsEmitter.stop() twice (#466)
• [mac] Support for unscheduling deleted watch (#541)
• [mac] Fixed missing field initializers and unused parameters in watchdog_fsevents.c
• [snapshot] Don't walk directories without read permissions (#408)
• [snapshot] Fixed a race condition crash when a directory is swapped for a file (#513)
• [snasphot] Fixed an AttributeError about forgotten path_for_inode attr (#436)
• [snasphot] Added the ignore_device=False parameter to the ctor (#597)
• [watchmedo] Fixed the path separator used (#478)
• [watchmedo] Fixed the use of yaml.load() for yaml.safe_load() (#453)
• [watchmedo] Handle all available signals (#549)
• [watchmedo] Added the --debug-force-polling argument (#404)
• [windows] Fixed issues when the observed directory is deleted (#570 and #601)
• [windows] WindowsApiEmitter made easier to subclass (#344)
• [windows] Use separate ctypes DLL instances
• [windows] Generate sub created events only if recursive=True (#454)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @LKleinNux, @rrzaripov, @wildmichael, @TauPan, @segevfiner, @petrblahos, @QuantumEnergyE, @jeffwidman, @kapsh, @nickoala, @petrblahos, @julianolf, @tonybaloney, @mbakiev, @pR0Ps, @javaguirre, @skurfer, @exarkun, @joshuaskelly, @danilobellini, @Ajordat