Bugfix release.

• Installs from the source tarball using the setup.py file generated by Poetry installed setup.cfg and tox.ini into site-packages. The workaround for this was to simply not include those files in the source tarball. (Fixes: #172)

Breaking changes

• Remove support for Python 3.6. It reached end-of-life in December 2021. (PR: #159)

Bug fixes

• Include docs, examples, and tests in the source release. (Fixes: #171)

Development environment

• Require mypy 0.960 and use the latest typing features, as these seem to work nicely even on Python 3.7, given that the typing information is in separate *.pyi files and that you have a recent mypy version.

Bugfix release.

• Add support for Python 3.10. Tests are now run on Python 3.10 too. No other changes required.
• Minor reorganization of docs.

Bugfix release.

• Use SPDX identifier for license in project metadata.
• Remove upper version boundary for importlib_metadata. (Fixes: #131)

Breaking changes

• Remove support for Python 2.7. It reached end-of-life in January 2020. (PR: #87)
• Remove support for Python 3.5. It reached end-of-life in September 2020. (PR: :#89)
• Remove support for running actors on top of eventlet. This was deprecated in Pykka 2.0.3. (PR: #111)
• Remove support for running actors on top of gevent. This was deprecated in Pykka 2.0.3 (PR: #111)
• Remove support for automatically upgrading the internal message format used by Pykka < 2.0 to the message types used by Pykka >= 2.0. (PR: #88)

Features

• Include complete type hint stubs for all public APIs in the PyPI distribution. (PR: #92)

Development environment

• Remove PyPy from the test matrix. There are no known changes that should cause Pykka to stop working on PyPy, but we will no longer spend any effort to keep CI for PyPy running. (PR: #113)

Bugfix release.

• Mark eventlet and gevent support as deprecated. The support will be removed in Pykka 3.0.

  These were somewhat interesting ways to implement concurrency in Python when Pykka was conceived in 2011. Today, it is unclear it these libraries still have any mindshare or if keeping the support for them just adds an unnecessary burden to Pykka's maintenance.

• Include Python 3.9 in the test matrix. (PR: #98)

• Add missing None default value for the timeout keyword argument to pykka.eventlet.EventletEvent.wait(), so that it matches the threading.Event API. (PR: #91)

Bugfix release.

• Fix test suite when executed with pytest-mocker >= 1.11.2. (Fixes: #85)

Bugfix release.

• Make pykka.ActorRef hashable.

Major feature release.

Dependencies

• Drop support for Python 2.6, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4. All have reached their end of life and do no longer receive security updates.

• Include CPython 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 pre-releases, and PyPy 3.5 in the test matrix.

• Include gevent and Eventlet tests in all environments. Since Pykka was originally developed, both have grown support for Python 3 and PyPy.

• On Python 3, import Callable and Iterable from collections.abc instead of collections. This fixes a deprecation warning on Python 3.7 and prepares for Python 3.8.

Actors

• Actor messages are no longer required to be dict objects. Any object type can be used as an actor message. (Fixes: #39, #45, PR: #79)

  For existing code, this means that pykka.Actor.on_receive() implementations should no longer assume the received message to be a
  dict, and guard with the appropriate amount of isinstance() checks. As an existing application will not observe any new message types before it starts using them itself, this is not marked as backward incompatible.

Proxies

• Backwards incompatible: Avoid accessing actor properties when creating a proxy for the actor. For properties with side effects, this is a major bug fix. For properties which do heavy work, this is a major startup performance improvement.

  This is backward incompatible if you in a property getter returned an object instance with the pykka_traversable marker. Previously, this would work just like a traversable attribute. Now, the property always returns a future with the property getter's return value.

• Fix infinite recursion when creating a proxy for an actor with an attribute or method replaced with a unittest.mock.Mock without a spec defined. (Fixes: #26, #27)

• Fix infinite recursion when creating a proxy for an actor with an attribute that was itself a proxy to the same actor. The attribute will now be ignored and a warning log message will ask you to consider making the self-proxy private. (Fixes: #48)

• Add pykka.CallableProxy.defer() to support method calls through a proxy with pykka.ActorRef.tell() semantics. (Contributed by Andrey Gubarev. Fixes: #63. PR: #72)

• Add pykka.traversable() for marking an actor's attributes as traversable when used through actor proxies. The old way of manually adding a pykka_traversable attribute to the object to be traversed still works, but the new function is recommended as it provides protection against typos in the marker name, and keeps the traversable marking in the actor class itself. (PR: #81)

Futures

• Backwards incompatible: pykka.Future.set_exception() no longer accepts an exception instance, which was deprecated in 0.15. The method can be called with either an exc_info tuple or None, in which case it will use sys.exc_info() to get information on the current exception.

• Backwards incompatible: pykka.Future.map() on a future with an iterable result no longer applies the map function to each item in iterable. Instead, the entire future result is passed to the map function. (Fixes: :issue:64)

  To upgrade existing code, make sure to explicitly apply the core of your map function to each item in the iterable:

  >>> f = pykka.ThreadingFuture()
  >>> f.set([1, 2, 3])
  >>> f.map(lambda x: x + 1).get()  # Pykka < 2.0
  [2, 3, 4]
  >>> f.map(lambda x: [i + 1 for i in x]).get()  # Pykka >= 2.0
  [2, 3, 4]

  This change makes it easy to use :meth:pykka.Future.map to extract a field from a future that returns a dict:

  >>> f = pykka.ThreadingFuture()
  >>> f.set({'foo': 'bar'})
  >>> f.map(lambda x: x['foo']).get()
  'bar'

  Because dict is an iterable, the now removed special handling of iterables made this pattern difficult to use.

• Reuse result from pykka.Future.filter(), pykka.Future.map(), and pykka.Future.reduce(). Recalculating the result on each call to pykka.Future.get() is both inconsistent with regular futures and can cause problems if the function is expensive or has side effects. (Fixes: #32)

• If using Python 3.5+, one can now use the await keyword to get the result from a future. (Contributed by Joshua Doncaster-Marsiglio. PR: #78)

Logging

• Pykka's use of different log levels has been documented.

• Exceptions raised by an actor that are captured into a reply future are now logged on the logging.INFO level instead of the logging.DEBUG level. This makes it possible to detect potentially unhandled exceptions during development without having to turn on debug logging, which can have a low signal-to-noise ratio. (Contributed by Stefan Möhl. Fixes: #73)

Gevent support

• Ensure that the original traceback is preserved when an exception is returned through a future from a Gevent actor. (Contributed by Arne Brutschy. Fixes: #74, PR: #75)

Internals

• Backwards incompatible: Prefix all internal modules with _. This is backward-incompatible if you have imported objects from other import paths than what is used in the documentation.

• Port tests to pytest.

• Format code with Black.

• Change internal messaging format from dict to namedtuple. (PR: #80)

• Increase log level of pykka.debug.log_thread_tracebacks() debugging helper from logging.INFO to logging.CRITICAL.

• Fix errors in docs examples. (PR: #29, #43)

• Fix typos in docs.

• Various project setup and development improvements.