Jython NEWS

Jython 2.2.1
  Identical to 2.2.1 rc2

Jython 2.2.1 rc2
  Bugs fixed
    - Python files are parsed using the JVM's default encoding
    - [ 1800378 ] __unicode__ ignored on subclasses of builtin types
    - [ 1801802 ] JavaImportHelper not thread safe
    - python.console.encoding is silently ignored if the JVM doesn't support the given encoding

Jython 2.2.1 rc1
  Bugs fixed
    - Reading and writing on files would run data through the JVM's default charset
    - Include the row number where an exception occured while using a zxJDBC cursor
    - [ 1766527 ] in keyword doesn't work on os.environ
    - [ 1767194 ] xmllib applies default namespace to attributes incorrectly
    - [ 1768074 ] str.replace doesn't handle an empty string to be replaced
    - [ 1775893 ] in keyword does not use dict.has_key()
    - [ 1782493 ] jython --version doesn't show the java version number
    - [ 1782856 ] zxJDBC.Timestamp returns hours in AM/PM not 24 hour time
    - [ 1783960 ] can not exclude parts from text-mode installation
    - [ 1799328 ] string formatting doesn't call __unicode__ on %s in unicode objects 
    - [ 1763263 ] os.utime(path, None) doesn't work (incl. a patch)
    - [ 1758904 ] I added doc strings for functions in os module (javaos.py).
    - [ 1735774 ] Redirecting stdout/err with os.popen fails if cmd is unicode
    - [ 1773865 ] Patch for [1768990] pickle fails on subclasses
    - [ 1783153 ] Patch: compatibility with Java 1.3 for Jython 2.2

Jython 2.2
  Identical to 2.2 rc3
Jython 2.2 rc3
  New Features
    - Added telnetlib from CPython
    - Added cpython_compatible_select to select.  See
    http://wiki.python.org/jython/SelectModule for information on when
    to use it.
    - Several more java.nio exceptions are mapped to their corresponding
    Python error codes when thrown.
  Bugs fixed
    - recv on closed sockets threw an exception instead returning the
    empty string
    -  A PySystemState being garbage collected caused System.out and
    System.in to be closed.  This would cause 'print' to stop working.
    - Closing a FileWrapper on a socket closes its underlying socket
    - Sockets just have their [In|Out]putStreams closed instead of being
    properly shutdown by shutdown()
    - SO_REUSEADDR is reset on sockets from a server socket's accept call 
    causing later binds to the server socket's port to fail.
    - Client sockets that have bind called before connect don't respect 
    SO_REUSEADDR
    - [ 1758838 ] execfile() throws a NullPointerException in the interactive
    console

Jython 2.2 rc2
  Bugs fixed
    - [ 931129 ] jython -jar some-path/test.jar fails
    - [ 1719528 ] -c doesn't put the empty string in sys.path
    - [ 1746957 ] Weird 'uu' prefix for unicode
    - [ 1747092 ] Failed imports should not be "cached"
    - [ 1742770 ] urllib.urlopen('http://inv') -> UnknownHostException
    - [ 1745068 ] select gives confusing message when given blocking sockets
    - [ 1744775 ] umlauts displayed incorrectly in installer
    - timeouts on socket client connects were not being honoured
    - a float could not be passed as milliseconds to select.poll.poll

Jython 2.2 rc1
  New features
    - Completely rewritten socket module and new select module using java.nio 
    which allows the use of SSL and non-blocking sockets.
    - Explicit imports of Java classes like 'from java.net import URL' or 
    'import java.net.URL' work with package scanning disabled.
  Bugs fixed
    - [ 1708080 ] float("1d") -> 1.0 (not ValueError as expected)
    - [ 1661700 ] os.path.abspath raises IOException if drive not accessible
    - [ 1662689 ] os.path.abspath eliminates symlinks
    - [ 1717498 ] os.path.splitdrive does nothing for Windows drives
    - [ 1622207 ] _weakref.ref(o) only works if the argument is hasheable
    - [ 1735864 ] Parser not threadsafe
    - [ 1722306 ] OverflowError in UDP Socket Implementation
    - [ 1348645 ] socket.py send() requires too many arguments
    - [ 998602 ] urllib : https request does not work
    - [ 621180 ] module socket _udpsocket close bug

Jython 2.2 beta2
  New features
    - All functions in __builtin__ are new style functions instead of reflected
      functions
    - Classmethods added to newstyle classes
    - array is a newstyle class
    - org.python.util.JLineConsole provides readline-like functionality with 
      JLine without requiring native readline
  
  Bugs fixed
    - [ 1599012 ] current directory is prepended to entries in sys.path
    - [ 1654484 ] Initializing PyJavaClass for java.lang.OutOfMemory causes a further OutOfMemory problem
    - [ 1661679 ] types.UnicodeType is str
    - [ 1659819 ] Joining unicode items with string doesn't create unicode
    - [ 1603253 ] Thread's setDaemon setting does not work
    - types module uses newstyle classes
    - [ 1671134 ] '%s' % u'x' returns str object
    - [ 1672800 ] __import__('module', None) raises AttributeError
    - [ 1576036 ] Fix: SyspathJavaLoader file reader causes importerror
    - [ 1605847 ] co_filename set in bytecode doesn't match __file__
    - [ 1603312 ] subclasses of int raise a TypeError when given large value
    - [ 1603315 ] str missing object keyword arg
    - [ 1603747 ] Multiple InteractiveInterpreter share same setErr/Out
    - [ 1619040 ] dict.fromkeys() should take iterable
    - [ 1658647 ] type(x) calls x.__class__.__init__
    - [ 1699556 ] SAXException descends from Java's Exception instead of Python's
    - [ 1603686 ] Unmarshaling long-error
    - [ 1230674 ] eval with from future does not work through import
    - [ 663592 ] Problems calling an overriden class in the constructor
    - [ 448398 ] open('test.txt', 'w').write('test') fails
    - [ 1671373 ] A "$_PyInner.class" file in a package causes import to fail
    - [ 1671431 ] dir function does not work with database connection object
    - [ 1713513 ] os.environ fails in Windows Vista JDK 1.6_01
  Patches applied
    - [ 1681774 ] str.decode, unicode.encode and str(u'') fixes
    - [ 1682423 ] Convert PyModule to a new-style class
    - [ 1682498 ] Fix int(None) raising an AttributeError
    - [ 1684172 ] Changes to make compileall work
    - [ 1628469 ] fixes for failing builtin tests

  
Jython 2.2 beta1
  New features
    - much improved support for __unicode__ especially in the parser (u"string" and
        friends now result in a PyUnicode object)
    - added datetime support using the pure python datetime.py from cpython non-dist.
    - new-style classes and their instances are Java serializable
    - most new-style builtin types can be pickleds
    - __slots__ for new-style classes
    - xml modules from pyxml readded
    - comparison operations between subclasses of
        builtin types tries the subclass first even if it's on the right side 
  Bugs fixed.
    - Modules that throw exceptions while being imported aren't left
       in sys.modules
    - Don't allow sys.recursionlimit to be set below 0
    - [ 1533624 ] NPE thrown building traceback for a call that jumps
       threads
    - [ 1531644 ] import * makes java exception uncatchable
    - [1243049, 1218089] Can't subclass builtin types in 2.2a1
    - [1256506] Importing directory module with 12+ char name fails
    - [1512745] Allow arbitrary precision for formatted strings,
        but only 250 chars for decimal, integer and long
    - [1506749] Instance __dict__ are unassignable
    - [1599004] several fixes to get the sha module up to speed
    - [1616493] unicode objects can't be passed to os.path
        methods
    - [ 979157 ] Stack traces untrimmed
    - [ 1299032 ] os.getenv out of sync with cpython
    - [ 738951 ] jython slice behavior differs from python in __getattr__
    - [ 610576 ] Impl of abstract method not found
    - [ 1374088 ] keyword args to dict() constructor ignored
    - [ 730082 ] new can't create unbound methods
    - [ 1382581 ] double(s) read inaccurately from database
    - [ 1603312 ] subclasses of int raise a TypeError when given large
       value
    - [1465476] bad parenthesis nesting terminates interpreter
    - [ 1227282 ] Deadlock between PythonTraceFunction.safeCall() and
       imp.import
    - [ 1421812 ] Jython 2.2a and 2.1 imports directories as modules
    - [ 480017 ] Proxy super classes are loaded from syspath, not the
       proxy's classpath
    - [ 628315 ] problem with Java synchronized lists
    - [ 1284344 ] __file__ compiled into .py.class file
    - [ 610576 ] Impl of abstract method not found
  Patches applied.
    - [906256] Follow spec for read modes of open()
    - [868514] yield in finally block -- yield in nested try:except:
    - [1542997] Only evaluate the second expression in an assert
        if the first expression is false
    - [1612711]: add iterkeys, itervalues and iteritems to
        PyStringMap
    - [ 1267425 ] make cStringIO work with gzip.py
    - [ 1361317 ] __set__ failing on PyProperty
    

17-jul-2005 Jython 2.2 alpha1

  New features
   - Integrated patch (by Aleks Totic) that allows to use the Python parser
     outside of Jython. PythonGrammar grows two constructors, one of which 
     _must_ be used:
        PythonGrammar(CharStream stream,IParserHost host)
        PythonGrammar(PythonGrammarTokenManager tm, IParserHost host)
     They both takes an impl of org.python.parser.IParserHost to which 
     literal building is delegated. org.python.core.parser contains the
     source of the impl used by Jython.
   - New-style classes
   - PEP 302 implementation
   - Java collections integration
    - finished long/int unification -- PyObject.__int__() now returns a
      PyObject (which could be a PyInteger or a PyLong).
    - dict and list conform to CPython 2.3 behaviors (such as the 3 arg 
        list.index()).
    - new-style conversion of tuple, float, file and str.
    - Preliminary work on a unicode type.
    - Imported tempfile.py and userlist.py from CPython 2.3 and applied some
        small adjustments to get tests to pass.
    - Reworked message construction for TypeError exceptions
      (such as the exceptions generated from operations like [] + "").

31-jul-2003 Jython 2.2 alpha0

  New features
   - Iterators (pep-234).
   - Changing the Division Operator (pep-238)
   - Implemented a new compiler AST.
   - Quitting (Ctrl-Z/D) Jython in interactive mode will force the running JVM
     to exit, even if there are non-daemon threads (e.g. AWT), this is likely 
     the expected behavior.  The behavior for (non-interactive) scripts is 
     unchanged and still matches that of Java programs.
   - OutOfMemoryError can be caught, also matching MemoryError, that means
     that a caught PyException.value.__tojava__(Throwable.class)
     can potentially be a OutOfMemoryError instance. This is different from
     the old aborting behavior (System.exit was called) [change needed to pass
     a test in CPython test_b1].
          
  Bug fixes.
   - Renamed the use of the java1.4 reserved words 'assert'.
   - [ #222805 ] multi-line statements in the JPython interpreter
   - [ #495866 ] need dynamic scale for BigDecimal
   - [ #499973 ] isql.Prompt can't be written to stdout.
   - [ #508111 ] jythonc generates invalid statements
   - [ #511493 ] jreload truncates large class files
   - [ #515894 ] Behaviour of "+=" stm. is different from
   - [ #517237 ] Binary ops with int and long fail
   - [ #521704 ] no errno module
   - [ #522423 ] cStringIO has no reset() method
   - [ #522558 ] list() is broken 
   - [ #522828 ] struct.pack('>NNs', v) fails for NN > 20
   - [ #529242 ] Python singletons deserialization bug
   - [ #532747 ] for i in iter(d)
   - [ #533354 ] bug in xml.dom.minidom.parseString
   - [ #533541 ] send() on _udpsocket fails
   - [ #544891 ] problems with socket.py
   - [ #545235 ] unexpected match with re
   - [ #549107 ] .__doc__ doesn't work in jython
   - [ #562943 ] os.path.getmtime misbehaves on nonfile
   - [ #567844 ] list() does not make a shallow copy
   - [ #572769 ] Blank input lines break readline console
   - [ #573784 ] popen does not work
   - [ #573791 ] os.system partly  broken
   - [ #575110 ] Multiple for's on Collection broken
   - [ #577395 ] Outer finally not executed at return
   - [ #581785 ] bug in 4DOM
   - [ #582618 ] Case insensitive re.match fails
   - [ #608628 ] long(java.math.BigInteger) does not work
   - [ #609505 ] SQLWarning tuples not populated
   - [ #620978 ] Variable default for Options.caseok
   - [ #625364 ] sys.last_traceback not set?   
   - [ #631017 ] Private fields mismangled
   - [ #631035 ] Negative repeat cause java exception.
   - [ #631430 ] read(-1) uses wrong fileposition.
   - [ #636381 ] Match Error for +? pattern element
   - [ #654863 ] string.split behaves differently
   - [ #668194 ] broken non greedy regular expressions
 
31-dec-2001 Jython 2.1 final

  Bug fixes.
   - [ #493359 ] Installer should include <EXIT> button
   - [ #495602 ] os.path.dirname() can result in an NPE
   - [ #495604 ] imp.find_module fails when None is 2 arg

21-dec-2001 Jython 2.1 beta 2

  New features.
   - support for callproc() in zxJDBC is now available for most simple
     stored procedure calls.

  Bug fixes.
   - [ #451552 ] case insensitivity on import causes prob
   - [ #456926 ] PackageManager doesn't work correctly
   - [ #484949 ] __import__(_) does unwanted rel search
   - [ #488632 ] -c sys.argv diff
   - [ #489168 ] Parse error, java traceback
   - [ #489836 ] Private names is not mangled
   - [ #490157 ] string.splitlines() - incorrectly splits
   - [ #490230 ] NotImplemented not implemented
   - [ #490961 ] PyFile.java requires JDK 1.2
   - [ #490962 ] Typo in PyFile.java
   - [ #490963 ] Please update ReadlineConsole.java
   - [ #494514 ] Python object not gc()'d
   - [ #495458 ] multi level import from .zip file.
   - [ #495870 ] zxJDBC now only prepares statements with params.

03-dec-2001 Jython 2.1 beta 1

  New features.
   - The weakref module is now available.
   - The sys.exitfunc hook is called on exit and the sys.excepthook
     is called when an exception occur.
   - A CPython compatible xreadlines module.
   - Support for os.environ and os.system() on common platforms.
   - Includes zxJDBC for Python DB API 2.0 compatibility.

  Bug fixes.
   - [ #438297 ] SimpleHTTPServer does not work
   - [ #440660 ] using nested java cls @ level >2 fails
   - [ #448485 ] Tuple unpacking raises KeyError
   - [ #448523 ] Support "ASCII" as builtin codec.
   - [ #449316 ] ArrayList()[0] should raise IndexError
   - [ #449956 ] jythonc 2.1a3 --package problem
   - [ #450938 ] time module requires JDK 1.4
   - [ #451746 ] jythonc --deep pjy$packages problem
   - [ #452526 ] traceback lineno is the except line
   - [ #452947 ] Class of innerclass inst <> innerclas
   - [ #453301 ] jythonc --compileropts on Windows
   - [ #457614 ] pls change &copyright; to (c) in sources
   - [ #458945 ] Missing 'lastindex' on match objects
   - [ #462280 ] builtin method as a class variable
   - [ #467826 ] SHA digest() method doesn't work
   - [ #473676 ] cStringIO bug
   - [ #475445 ] incompatibility with python
   - [ #475666 ] __nonzero__ exceptions must be ignored
   - [ #476580 ] 'del obj.non_member' : wrong exception
   - [ #476772 ] shutdowns in jython / atexit
   - [ #477608 ] os.path.getmtime() missing
   - [ #477768 ] ord([123]) 21a3
   - [ #477793 ] os.utime() is missing.
   - [ #480373 ] Can't find _PyInner with classloader.
   - [ #480390 ] main() does not throw exceptions
   - [ #484181 ] command line args in dos
   - [ #485558 ] Synchronization bug in sys.initialize.
   - [ #485968 ] cStringIO.softspace is not assignable.

29-jul-2001 Jython 2.1 alpha 3

  New features.
   - A settable console encoding will allow windows users to enter
     national characters at the command prompt.
   - Non-public classes are available when respectJavaAccessibility is false
   - The names of zip- and jarfiles can be added to sys.path.

  Bug fixes.
   - The standard python library files are from CPython-2.1.1
   - A complete list of fixed bugs can be found on SF:
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12867&atid=112867
     Select Status=Any and Group=Fixed in 2.1a3

18-jul-2001 Jython 2.1 alpha 2

  New features.
   - Added ReadlineConsole class. This class will make it a lot easier
     to integrate Bablok's readline support.
   - Display Hook for Interactive Use (pep-0217)
   - Added zlib, gzip and zipfile modules.
   - Added nested scope to jythonc (pep-0227).

  Bug fixes.
   - Fixed obscure __import__ error message #437800
   - Prevent a NPE during import when running with a security manager
   - Fixed multi-level Java method overriding #222819.
   - Fix for dependency problem with jythonc. #415933
   - Fix a lost syntax error when auto importing submodules.
   - Use quotes around classpath, but only for win+jdk1.1.
   - Find the complete list of fixed bug on SF:
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12867&atid=112867
     Select Status=Any and Group=Fixed in 2.1a2


14-mar-2001 Jython 2.1 alpha 1

  New features.
   - Improve speed when indexing a string and iterating over a string
     in a for loop.
   - Reworked coercing model (pep-0208)
   - Added {}.popitem().
   - Improved speed for python files by buffering the RandomAccessFile.
   - Added function attributes (pep-0232)
   - Rich comparison (pep-0207)
   - Updated cPickle to handle CPython compatible unicode strings.
   - Updated sre to CPython-2.1a1
   - Added the "new" module
   - Added a PyServlet class to the util package.
   - Warning framework (pep-0230).
   - Added sys.add_classdir and sys.add_extdir.
   - Added nested scope to the interpreter (pep-0227).

  Bug fixes.
   - Allow self referencing adapters to be collected when using weak
     tables.
   - Added workaround for a reader bug in MRJ22Jitc.01.
   - Fixes #127340 where serializable parameter received a PyObject
     instead of the wrapped java object.
   - Include a LineNumberTable in the compiled class files.
   - Fixed a java version test bug in the installer.
   - Added workaround for class initialization bug in MRJ2.2.4
   - Added support for three argument getattr() calls.

17-Jan-2001 Jython 2.0 final release

  Bug fixes.
   - Install the correct image for the local documention.
   - Added os.linesep field.

15-Jan-2001 Jython 2.0 release candidate 1

  New features
   - Experimental support for reloading java packages. Thanks to
     Samuele Pedroni for all his work on the Jython/Java integration.

  Bug fixes.
   - Prevent a NPE when a .jar on the classpath is corrupt. Instead
     a message with the original IOException is printed.

10-Jan-2001 Jython 2.0 beta 2

  New features
   - Added socket.getfqdn(). Thanks to Brian Zimmer for the patch.

  Bug fixes.
   - Fixed innerclass names with '$' #127200
   - Fixed a bug where final methods were overriden in proxy #127201.
   - Fixed a bug in exec which allow a fileobject to be passed in.
     Thanks to Brian Zimmer for the patch.

31-Dec-2000 Jython 2.0 beta 1

  New features
    - Installer logo by Ivan Kougaenko. The logo content is still
      open, so submit you suggestions.
    - The default packages selected in the installer are now better
      attuned to the normal user (as opposed to the jython devers).

  Bug fixes.
    - Fixed a NPE when a class is defined in non-module namespace.
    - Fixed a compilation problem when using JDK1.2.x
    - The installer now creates a useable Uninstall.class.

25-Dec-2000 Jython 2.0 alpha 3

  Bug fixes.
    - Fixed a bug that caused Infinite recursion in subpackage
      import
    - Fixed conversion error when a long is converted to a java double.
    - Fixed a bug where an attribute in a package __init__.py would
      hide a submodule.
    - Fixed missing quotes around the path to java.exe in jython.bat
      for windows.
    - Include missing re.py in installer.
    - Added threading and atexit modules from CPython2.0.

17-Dec-2000 Jython 2.0 alpha 2

  New features.
    - Added -v (verbose) option to jython command. It will trace
      import statements. Use three -v's for maximum information.
    - Added new registry option python.options.internalTablesImpl
      which is a list of choices (':' separated) for internal
      tables implementations. These tables contain the mapping of
      classes to PyJavaClasses.
      Long running applications that unloads classes can avoid a
      memory leak by setting the property to "weak" or "soft".
      That will use a table implementation which use weak or soft
      refrences.
    - Use a SecureClassLoader for loading compiled python modules.
      This should allow jython to be used with the java plugin and
      its fine grained security.

  CPython-2.0 compatibility
    - Added support for formatting of long values in "%d %x %X %o".
      The support does not match CPython2.0 exactly, but matches
      what CPython2.1 will do.
    - The \x escape will only eat two hex characters and will
      always create a character with values < 256. Use the \u
      escape for high-byte values.
    - A ucnhash module to support the \n{name} escape.

  Backward incompatibility:
    - The python.path property is appended to sys.path instead of
      being inserted at position 1 in sys.path.

  Bug fixes.
    - Package relative import works in jythonc, at least when the dotted
      package name match the directory structure.
    - Fixed oct(0) to return "0"
    - Added a os.__file__ attribute. CPython's site.py expects that.
    - Fixed a exception when calling int("0", 16)
    - Delay closing a socket until all sock.makefile() files are closed.
    - Avoided a duplicate call to Class.getMethods(). This will improve
      performance.
    - Allow from import * to modify the locals in a function (bug 122834).
    - Classes with the same name do no longer clash (bug 122820).
    - Avoid a memory leak where many threads get started and stopped. The
      fix only works on java2.

26-Nov-2000 Jython 2.0 alpha 1

  New features.
    - Integrate the free ORO regular expression matcher from the apache
      project.

  CPython2.0 compatibility, including
    - List comprehension.
    - Extended call syntax.
    - Extended print statement
    - Augmented assignment.
    - Unicode support libraries and codecs.
    - sre unicode regular expression.

  Some backward incompatibility is introduced:
    - The user configuration file is now called <user.home>/.jython
    - Text files will pass data read and written through the default
      codecs for the JVM. Binary files will write only the lower eight
      bits of each unicode character.
    - arrays passed to java code will no longer autocoerce just
      because the elements can be autocoerced.
    - The precedence of java loading have changed. Now the sys.path
      is searched for python modules before the CLASSPATH and sys.path
      is searched for java class and java packages.
    - The builtin exceptions are always classbased. -X is disable.
      User exception can still be strings.

  Bug fixes.
    - Many, including the errata.
    - Now the content of a java package is the union of the content of all
      locations with the corresponding valid hierarchical name
      from dirs and jars of CLASSPATH (and sys.path for dirs); i.e.
      from jpkg import * works for jpkg in a dir too.

  Improved CPython 2.0 compatibility
    - codecs module
    - sha module.

26-Jan-2000 JPython 1.1 final released

  - Only one small CPython compatibility patch to os.mkdir() and
    os.makedirs() -- optional `mode' argument, which is ignored.

21-Jan-2000 JPython 1.1 release candidate 1 released

  New JPython features and bug fixes
    - Race conditions when creating multiple PythonInterpreter objects
      in an embedded multithreaded Java application have been fixed.
    - Recursive print of a module's namespace no longer overflows the
      JVM stack.
    - Fixed backslashing of quotes inside triple quoted strings (Finn
      Bock).
    - Fixes to read(int) method on file objects, which used to return
      the empty string before EOF was seen.
    - Class-based exceptions are used in frozen (jpythonc) modules.
    - Duplicate argument names in a function definition raise the
      appropriate SyntaxError.
    - os.path.getsize() has been added.
    - mutability of tuples under some situations has been fixed.
    - dictionary insertion order affecting dictionary equality has
      been fixed (Finn Bock).
    - Using the --package option with jpythonc has been fixed.

  Improved CPython 1.5.2 compatibility
    - optional sizehint argument implemented for readlines() method on
      file objects.
    - Better compatibility in %g formatting of floats.
    - sys.stdout.softspace is now writeable.
    - re.VERBOSE/re.X flags are implemented.
    - traceback object's reprs are CPython conformant.
    - In module os, os.error is equivalent to the builtin OSError.
      Also, listdir(), mkdir(), makedirs(), remove(), rename(), and
      rmdir() raise OSError directly.
    - os.stat() raises an OSError if the file is missing.

28-Oct-1999 JPython 1.1beta4 released

  New JPython features and bug fixes
    - fixed a bug related to loading anonymous inner classes (PR#201).
      This is an experimental patch.  See registry file for entry
      python.options.extendedClassLoader
    - fixed Java exceptions when calling apply() with a bogus 3rd
      argument (PR#208)
    - fixed a 1.1beta3 problem with method objects having their
      im_self mysteriously changed out from under them (PR#186).
    - fixed problems with Python classes being deeply derived from
      Java classes and interfaces (PR#178, PR#195).
    - Improved memory footprint when using exec().
    - Dead threads are now reaped from thread state cache (Drew
      Morrissey).
    - Tuples, dictionaries, and strings now use fast method lookup
      mechanism.

  Improved CPython 1.5.2 compatibility
    - md5 module supported (no need to download anything extra)
    - dir() on function objects now returns a list containing __doc__,
      func_doc, __namme__, func_name, func_globals, func_defaults,
      func_code.  __doc__/func_doc is writable (but not func_defaults
      and func_code, which are writable in CPython). (PR#192)
    - dir() on code objects returns a list containing co_name,
      co_argcount, co_varnames, co_filename, co_firstlineno, co_flags.
      Not supported: co_nlocals, co_code, co_consts, co_names,
      co_lnotab, co_stacksize.  All attributes are read-only.
    - dir() on method objects returns a list containing im_self,
      im_func, im_class, __doc__, __name__.  These attributes are
      read-only.

22-Sep-1999 JPython 1.1beta3 released

  New JPython features and bug fixes

    - JPython can now optionally access non-public members of Java
      classes.  By setting the registry entry
      python.security.respectJavaAccessibility=false, JPython can
      access private, package-private, and protected fields, methods,
      and constructors.  By default, normal Java access rules are
      followed, i.e. only public members can be accessed.  This
      feature only works if running with Java 1.2.  Thanks to Tony
      Plate for his initial implementation.
    - A new framework for looking up the methods for builtin types has
      been enabled.  This can speed up method calls by a factor of 2.
      The feature is currently experimental and has only been
      implemented for list objects, but will be implemented for other
      builtin objects for the next release.
    - Some workarounds for weird JIT bugs have been added, but this
      may not fix all problems related to running JPython under JVMs
      with JIT enabled.
    - A wrapper for a free md5 builtin module is included, although
      the md5 implementation is not.  See the comment in
      org/python/modules/MD5Module.java for details.
    - New semantics for registry key python.modules.builtin (and
      correspondingly the org/python/modules/Setup.java file).

  Improved CPython 1.5.2 compatibility

    - sys.modules['__builtin__'] and "import __builtin__" has been
      fixed.
    - Builtin methods and functions now have the standard __name__,
      __doc__, __self__, and __members__ attributes.
    - Dictionaries and lists now have a __methods__ attribute, and
      dir({}) or dir([]) return the list of members.
    - repr(8to16bitstring) now prints standard octal escapes for 8bit
      characters.  It still prints hex escapes for 16bit characters.
    - Added abspath() to os.path (i.e. javapath)
    - Code objects now have a co_flags attribute
    - Frame objects now have f_trace attribute, and dir(frame) works
    - None() now raises a TypeError
    - tuple(somelist) immutability patch
    - re match objects now have groupdict() method
    - Finn Bock patch for setting of a module's __name__ after reload

16-Jun-1999 JPython 1.1beta2 released

    - Updates and bug fixes to jpythonc tool.  New registry entries
      python.jpythonc.compiler, python.jpythonc.classpath, and
      python.jpythonc.compileropts.  getopt style long/short option
      names (old options are deprecated).  New -J/--compileropts
      option.
    - syncing string object methods with experimental CPython 1.6
      string methods.  This includes new optional arguments on
      startswith() and endswith() and the moving of join() to a method
      of the separator string.
    - Many other bug fixes and CPython syncs

04-Jun-1999 JPython 1.1beta1 released

  Highlights of changes since JPython 1.0.3

    - New and improved jpythonc tool by Jim Hugunin
    - New modules contributed by Finn Bock: cStringIO, cPickle,
      struct, binascii
    - New module synchronize, equivalent to Java's synchronized
      keyword
    - Operator module now complete
    - sys.add_package() no longer necessary, "import java.lang" just works
    - Class-based standard exceptions (w/ support for -X option)
    - super__ methods are deprecated, use regular Python style
    - time.strftime() added
    - Java 1.2 style collections support
    - Multiple interpreter states
    - Most CPython 1.5.2 features have been implemented
    - String objects now have methods -- expected CPython 1.6 feature
    - Improved performance
    - Java inner class support
    - keywords are allowed in some locations (e.g. as attribute names)
    - New license
    - bug fixes




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