Changes in PyZMQ

This is a coarse summary of changes in pyzmq versions. For a full changelog, consult the git log.

26

26.4

pyzmq 26.4

New features:

Changes:

  • Removed some supposedly dead code for unsupported libzmq < 3.2

  • Modernized some Cython that users hopefully shouldn’t notice

Fixes:

  • Fix building bundled libzmq with cmake 4. You can workaround this with -C cmake.args="-DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.14" in earlier versions

26.3

pyzmq 26.3 drops support for Python 3.7 and adds wheels for PyPy 3.11

The cffi backend can now be built on CPython by setting PYZMQ_BACKEND=cffi, e.g.

PYZMQ_BACKEND=cffi pip install --no-binary pyzmq cffi pyzmq

This is not fully supported, but can be used for testing.

26.2.1

26.2.1 is a tiny bugfix release

  • Update bundled libsodium to 1.0.20

  • Some typing-related fixes for pyright and newer mypy versions

  • Fix PYZMQ_NO_BUNDLE option name when specified via cmake instead of environment variable

  • Fix missing socket.context reference when shadowing existing Sockets

  • Various updates to documentation and examples, especially discouraging use of insecure recv_pyobj without message authentication. recv_pyobj is NOT deprecated, but it is discouraged.

26.2

26.2 fixes some regressions introduced by the new build system in 26.0:

These changes all match the behavior of pyzmq 25.1.2:

  • include libzmq location in rpath when building from source

  • restore libsodium randombytes_close fix for bundled libzmq

  • Disable sometimes-broken IPC/EPOLL on Windows

Installing pyzmq from source on Windows should build with IPC enabled by default, but the Windows wheels on PyPI have it disabled because it produces unavoidable crashes for some users.

IPC support via epoll on Windows was disabled in pyzmq 24 due to crashes, this was reintroduced somewhat unintentionally via the new build system in 26.0 (there was a chance libzmq 4.3.5 would fix it), but unfortunately the crashes remain, so IPC is disabled again in 26.2. See issue #1981 for more details.

26.1.1

Windows wheels now statically link msvcp instead of bundling msvcp.dll, which could cause compatibility problems.

26.1.0

26.1.0 is the first release with wheels for CPython 3.13. Free-threading support in CPython 3.13 is experimental, but since libzmq sockets themselves aren’t threadsafe, pyzmq sockets should still be handled with locks.

  • pyzmq tests are no longer distributed as part of the package

  • fix CFFI backend compilation with -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types

26.0.3

  • Add Cython as build dependency for non-pypy, non-cpython implementations (fixes install on pyston)

26.0.2

  • When bundling libsodium, download from libsodium’s releases on GitHub instead of download.libsodium.org, which appears to error frequently.

26.0.1

  • Fix install from source with cmake < 3.21

26.0.0

pyzmq 26 is a small release, but with some big changes hopefully nobody will notice, except for some users (especially on Windows) where pyzmq releases did not work.

The highlights are:

  • The Cython backend has been rewritten using Cython 3’s pure Python mode.

  • The build system has been rewritten to use CMake via scikit-build-core instead of setuptools (setup.py is gone!).

  • Bundled libzmq is updated to 4.3.5, which changes its license from LGPL to MPL.

This means:

  1. Cython >=3.0 is now a build requirement (if omitted, source distributions should still build from Cython-generated .c files without any Cython present)

  2. pyzmq’s Cython backend is a single extension module, which should improve install size, import time, compile time, etc.

  3. pyzmq’s Cython backend is now BSD-licensed, matching the rest of pyzmq.

  4. The license of the libzmq library (included in pyzmq wheels) starting with 4.3.5 is now Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0).

  5. when building pyzmq from source and it falls back on bundled libzmq, libzmq and libsodium are built as static libraries using their own build systems (CMake for libzmq, autotools for libsodium except on Windows where it uses msbuild) rather than bundling libzmq with tweetnacl as a Python Extension.

  6. Using pyzmq with the legacy libzmq 2.x is no longer supported. The minimum required libzmq is 3.2.2.

Since the new build system uses libzmq and libsodium’s own build systems, evaluated at install time, building pyzmq with bundled libzmq from source should be much more likely to succeed on a variety of platforms than the previous method, where their build system was skipped and approximated as a Python extension. But I would also be very surprised if I didn’t break anything in the process of replacing 14 years of setup.py from scratch, especially cases like cross-compiling. Please report any issues you encounter building pyzmq.

See build docs for more info.

New:

  • Experimental support for wheels on windows-arm64

  • Socket.bind('tcp://ip:0') can be used as a context manager to bind to a random port. The resulting URL can be retrieved as socket.last_endpoint.

  • Add SyncSocket and SyncContext type aliases for the default Socket/Context implementations, since the base classes are Generics, type-wise. These are type aliases only to be used in type checking, not actual classes.

Enhancements:

  • repr(Frame) now produces a nice repr, summarizing Frame contents (without getting too large), e.g. <zmq.Frame(b'abcdefghijkl'...52B)>

Breaking changes:

  • str(Frame) no longer returns the whole frame contents interpreted as utf8-bytes. Instead, it returns the new summarized repr, which produces more logical results with print, etc. bytes(Frame) remains unchanged, and utf-8 text strings can still be produced with: bytes(Frame).decode("utf8"), which works in all versions of pyzmq and does the same thing.

  • Stop building Python 3.7 wheels for manylinux1, which reached EOL in January, 2022. The new build system doesn’t seem to be able to find cmake in that environment.

25

25.1.2

  • Fix builds with some recent compilers and bundled libzmq

  • Fix builds with upcoming Cython 3.1

25.1.1

25.1.1 is the first stable release with Python 3.12 wheels.

Changes:

  • Allow Cython 0.29.35 to build Python 3.12 wheels (no longer require Cython 3)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fix builds on Solaris by including generated platform.hpp

  • Cleanup futures in Socket.poll() that are cancelled and never return

  • Fix builds with -j when numpy is present in the build env

25.1.0

pyzmq 25.1 mostly changes some packaging details of pyzmq, including support for installation from source on Python 3.12 beta 1.

Enhancements:

  • Include address in error message when bind/connect fail.

Packaging changes:

  • Fix inclusion of some test files in source distributions.

  • Add Cython as a build-time dependency in build-system.requires metadata, following current recommendations of the Cython maintainers. We still ship generated Cython sources in source distributions, so it is not a strict dependency for packagers using --no-build-isolation, but pip will install Cython as part of building pyzmq from source. This makes it more likely that past pyzmq releases will install on future Python releases, which often require an update to Cython but not pyzmq itself. For Python 3.12, Cython >=3.0.0b3 is required.

25.0.2

  • Fix handling of shadow sockets in ZMQStream when the original sockets have been closed. A regression in 25.0.0, seen with jupyter-client 7.

25.0.1

Tiny bugfix release that should only affect users of PUBHandler or pyzmq repackagers.

  • Fix handling of custom Message types in PUBHandler

  • Small lint fixes to satisfy changes in mypy

  • License files have been renamed to more standard LICENSE.BSD, LICENSE.LESSER to appease some license auto-detect tools.

25.0.0

New:

  • Added socket_class argument to zmq.Context.socket()

  • Support shadowing sockets with socket objects, not just via address, e.g. zmq.asyncio.Socket(other_socket). Shadowing an object preserves a reference to the original, unlike shadowing via address.

  • in zmq.auth, CredentialsProvider callbacks may now be async.

  • ZMQStream callbacks may now be async.

  • Add zmq.ReconnectStop draft constants.

  • Add manylinux_2_28 wheels for x86_64 CPython 3.10, 3.11, and PyPy 3.9 (these are in addition to not instead of the manylinux_2014 wheels).

Fixed:

  • When ZMQStream is given an async socket, it now warns and hooks up events correctly with the underlying socket, so the callback gets the received message, instead of sending the callback the incorrect arguments.

  • Fixed toml parse error in pyproject.toml, when installing from source with very old pip.

  • Removed expressed dependency on py when running with pypy, which hasn’t been used in some time.

Deprecated:

  • zmq.auth.ioloop.IOLoopAuthenticator is deprecated in favor of zmq.auth.asyncio.AsyncioAuthenticator

  • As part of migrating toward modern pytest, zmq.tests.BaseZMQTestCase is deprecated and should not be used outside pyzmq.

  • python setup.py test is deprecated as a way to launch the tests. Just use pytest.

Removed:

  • Bundled subset of tornado’s IOLoop (deprecated since pyzmq 17) is removed, so ZMQStream cannot be used without an actual install of tornado.

  • Remove support for tornado 4, meaning tornado is always assumed to run on asyncio.

24

24.0.1

  • Fix several possible resource warnings and deprecation warnings when cleaning up contexts and sockets, especially in pyzmq’s own tests and when implicit teardown of objects is happening during process teardown.

24.0.0

pyzmq 24 has two breaking changes (one only on Windows), though they are not likely to affect most users.

Breaking changes:

  • Due to a libzmq bug causing unavoidable crashes for some users, Windows wheels no longer bundle libzmq with AF_UNIX support. In order to enable AF_UNIX on Windows, pyzmq must be built from source, linking an appropriate build of libzmq (e.g. libzmq-v142). AF_UNIX support will be re-enabled in pyzmq wheels when libzmq published fixed releases.

  • Using a zmq.Context as a context manager or deleting a context without closing it now calls zmq.Context.destroy() at exit instead of zmq.Context.term(). This will have little effect on most users, but changes what happens when user bugs result in a context being implicitly destroyed while sockets are left open. In almost all cases, this will turn what used to be a hang into a warning. However, there may be some cases where sockets are actively used in threads, which could result in a crash. To use sockets across threads, it is critical to properly and explicitly close your contexts and sockets, which will always avoid this issue.

23.2.1

Improvements:

  • First release with wheels for Python 3.11 (thanks cibuildwheel!).

  • linux aarch64 wheels now bundle the same libzmq (4.3.4) as all other builds, thanks to switching to native arm builds on CircleCI.

Fixes:

  • Some type annotation fixes in devices.

23.2.0

Improvements:

  • Use zmq.Event enums in parse_monitor_message for nicer reprs

Fixes:

  • Fix building bundled libzmq with ZMQ_DRAFT_API=1

  • Fix subclassing zmq.Context with additional arguments in the constructor. Subclasses may now have full control over the signature, rather than purely adding keyword-only arguments

  • Typos and other small fixes

23.1.0

Fixing some regressions in 23.0:

  • Fix global name of zmq.EVENT_HANDSHAKE_* constants

  • Fix constants missing when using import zmq.green as zmq

Compatibility fixes:

23.0.0

Changes:

  • all zmq constants are now available as Python enums (e.g. zmq.SocketType.PULL, zmq.SocketOption.IDENTITY), generated statically from zmq.h instead of at compile-time. This means that checks for the presence of a constant (hasattr(zmq, 'RADIO')) is not a valid check for the presence of a feature. This practice has never been robust, but it may have worked sometimes. Use direct checks via e.g. zmq.has() or zmq.zmq_version_info().

  • A bit more type coverage of Context.term and Context.socket

Compatibility fixes:

  • Remove all use of deprecated stdlib distutils

  • Update to Cython 0.29.30 (required for Python 3.11 compatibility)

  • Compatibility with Python 3.11.0b1

Maintenance changes:

  • Switch to myst for docs

  • Deprecate zmq.utils.strtypes, now unused

  • Updates to autoformatting, linting

  • New wheels for PyPy 3.9

  • Manylinux wheels for CPython 3.10 are based on manylinux2014

22.3.0

Fixes:

  • Fix strlcpy compilation issues on alpine, freebsd. Adds new build-time dependency on packaging.

  • In event-loop integration: warn instead of raise when triggering callback on a socket whose context has been closed.

  • Bundled libzmq in wheels backport a patch to avoid crashes due to inappropriate closing of libsodium’s random generator when using CurveZMQ.

Changes:

  • New ResourceWarnings when contexts and sockets are closed by garbage collection, which can be a source of hangs and leaks (matches open files)

22.2.1

Fix bundling of wepoll on Windows.

22.2.0

New features:

  • IPC support on Windows: where available (64bit Windows wheels and bundled libzmq when compiling from source, via wepoll), IPC should work on appropriate Windows versions.

  • Nicer reprs of contexts and sockets

  • Memory allocated by recv(copy=False) is no longer read-only

  • asyncio: Always reference current loop instead of attaching to the current loop at instantiation time. This fixes e.g. contexts and/or sockets instantiated prior to a call to asyncio.run.

  • ssh: $PYZMQ_PARAMIKO_HOST_KEY_POLICY can be used to set the missing host key policy, e.g. AutoAdd.

Fixes:

  • Fix memory corruption in gevent integration

  • Fix memoryview(zmq.Frame) with cffi backend

  • Fix threadsafety issue when closing sockets

Changes:

  • pypy Windows wheels are 64b-only, following an update in cibuildwheel 2.0

  • deprecate zmq.utils.jsonapi and remove support for non-stdlib json implementations in send/recv_json. Custom serialization methods should be used instead.

22.1.0

New features:

  • asyncio: experimental support for Proactor eventloop if tornado 6.1 is available by running a selector in a background thread.

Fixes:

  • Windows: fix type of socket.FD option in win-amd64

  • asyncio: Cancel timers when using HWM with async Sockets

Other changes:

  • Windows: update bundled libzmq dll URLs for Windows. Windows wheels no longer include concrt140.dll.

  • adopt pre-commit for formatting, linting

22.0.3

  • Fix fork-safety bug in garbage collection thread (regression in 20.0) when using subprocesses.

  • Start uploading universal wheels for ARM Macs.

22.0.2

  • Add workaround for bug in DLL loading for Windows wheels with conda Python >= 3.8

22.0.1

  • Fix type of Frame.bytes for non-copying recvs with CFFI backend (regression in 21.0)

  • Add manylinux wheels for pypy

22.0.0

This is a major release due to changes in wheels and building on Windows. Code changes from 21.0 are minimal.

  • Some typing fixes

  • Bump bundled libzmq to 4.3.4

  • Strip unused symbols in manylinux wheels, resulting in dramatically smaller binaries. This matches behavior in v20 and earlier.

  • Windows CPython wheels bundle public libzmq binary builds, instead of building libzmq as a Python Extension. This means they include libsodium for the first time.

  • Our own implementation of bundling libzmq into pyzmq on Windows is removed, instead relying on delvewheel (or installations putting dlls on %PATH%) to bundle dependency dlls.

  • The (new in 21.0) Windows wheels for PyPy likely require the Windows vcredist package. This may have always been the case, but the delvewheel approach doesn’t seem to work.

  • Windows + PyPy is now the only remaining case where a wheel has libzmq built as an Extension. All other builds ship libzmq built using its own tooling, which should result in better, more stable builds.

21.0.2

  • Fix wheels on macOS older than 10.15 (sets MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 10.9, matching wheel ABI tag).

21.0.1

pyzmq-21.0.1 only changes CI configuration for Windows wheels (built with VS2017 instead of VS2019), fixing compatibility with some older Windows on all Pythons and removing requirement of VC++ redistributable package on latest Windows and Python < 3.8.

There still appears to be a compatibility issue with Windows 7 that will be fixed ASAP. Until then, you can pin pip install pyzmq<21.

There are no changes from 21.0.0 for other platforms.

21.0

pyzmq 21 is a major version bump because of dropped support for old Pythons and some changes in packaging. CPython users should not face major compatibility issues if installation works at all :) PyPy users may see issues with the new implementation of send/recv. If you do, please report them!

The big changes are:

  • drop support for Python 3.5. Python >= 3.6 is required

  • mypy type stubs, which should improve static analysis of pyzmq, especially for dynamically defined attributes such as zmq constants. These are new! Let us know if you find any issues.

  • support for zero-copy and sending bufferables with cffi backend. This is experimental! Please report issues.

  • More wheels!

    • linux-aarch64 on Python 3.7-3.9

    • wheels for pypy36, 37 on Linux and Windows (previously just mac)

We’ve totally redone the wheel-building setup, so let us know if you start seeing installation issues!

Packaging updates:

  • Require Python >= 3.6, required for good type annotation support

  • Wheels for macOS no longer build libzmq as a Python Extension, instead ‘real’ libzmq is built and linked to libsodium, bundled with delocate. This matches the longstanding behavior of Linux wheels, and should result in better performance.

  • Add manylinux wheels for linux-aarch64. These bundle an older version of libzmq than the rest.

  • Build wheels for python3.8, 3.9 with manylinux2010 instead of manylinux1. Wheels for older Pythons will still be built on manylinux1.

  • rework cffi backend in setup.py

  • All wheels are built on GitHub Actions (most with cibuildwheel) instead of Min’s laptop (finally!).

New features:

  • zero-copy support in CFFI backend (send(copy=False) now does something).

  • Support sending any buffer-interface-providing objects in CFFI backend.

Bugs fixed:

  • Errors during teardown of asyncio Sockets

  • Missing MSVCP140.dll in Python 3.9 wheels on Windows, causing vcruntime-redist package to be required to use the Python 3.9 wheels for pyzmq 20.0

20.0

20.0 is a major version bump because of dropped support for old Pythons and some changes in packaging, but there are only small changes for users with relatively recent versions of Python.

Packaging updates:

  • Update bundled libzmq to 4.3.3

  • Drop support for Python < 3.5 (all versions of Python < 3.6 are EOL at time of release)

  • Require setuptools to build from source

  • Require Cython 0.29 to build from version control (sdists still ship .c files, so will never need Cython)

  • Respect $PKG_CONFIG env for finding libzmq when building from source

New features:

Fixes:

  • Better error when libzmq is bundled and fails to be loaded.

  • Hold GIL while calling zmq_curve_ functions, which may fix apparent threadsafety issues.

19.0.2

  • Regenerate Cython sources with 0.29.21 in sdists for compatibility with Python 3.9

  • Handle underlying socket being closed in ZMQStream with warning instead of error

  • Improvements to socket cleanup during process teardown

  • Fix debug-builds on Windows

  • Avoid importing ctypes during startup on Windows

  • Documentation improvements

  • Raise AttributeError instead of ZMQError(EINVAL) on attempts to read write-only attributes, for compatibility with mocking

19.0.1

  • Fix TypeError during garbage collection

  • Fix compilation with some C++ compilers

  • Fixes in tests and examples

19.0

  • Cython backend: Build Cython extensions with language level “3str” (requires Cython 0.29)

  • Cython backend: You can now cimport zmq

  • Asyncio: Fix memory leak in Poller

  • Log: Much improved logging in zmq.log.handlers (see Asynchronous Logging via PyZMQ)

  • Log: add python -m zmq.log entrypoint

  • Sources generated with Cython 0.29.15

18.1.1

  • Fix race condition when shutting down ZAP thread while events are still processing (only affects tests)

  • Publish wheels for Python 3.8 on all platforms

  • Stop publishing wheels for Python 3.4 on Windows

  • Sources generated with Cython 0.29.14

18.1.0

  • Compatibility with Python 3.8 release candidate by regenerating Cython courses with Cython 0.29.13

  • bump bundled libzmq to 4.3.2

  • handle cancelled futures in asyncio

  • make zmq.Context.instance() fork-safe

  • fix errors in zmq.Context.destroy() when opening and closing many sockets

18.0.2

  • Compatibility with Python 3.8 prerelease by regenerating Cython sources with Cython 0.29.10.

  • Fix language_level=2 in Cython sources, for compatibility with Cython 0.30

  • Show missing path for ENOENT errors on ipc connections.

18.0.1

Fixes installation from source on non-unicode locales with Python 3. There are no code changes in this release.

18.0.0

  • Update bundled libzmq to 4.3.1 (fixes CVE-2019-6250)

  • Added proxy_steerable() and zmq.devices.ProxySteerable

  • Added bind_{in|out|mon}_to_random_port variants for proxy device methods

  • Performance improvements for sends with asyncio

  • Fix sending memoryviews/bytearrays with cffi backend

17.1.3

  • Fix compatibility with tornado 6 (removal of stack_context)

17.1.2

  • Fix possible hang when working with asyncio

  • Remove some outdated workarounds for old Cython versions

  • Fix some compilation with custom compilers

  • Remove unneeded link of libstdc++ on PyPy

17.1.0

  • Bump bundled libzmq to 4.2.5

  • Improve tornado 5.0 compatibility (use current() instead of instance() to get default loops in ZMQStream and .IOLoopAuthenticator)

  • Add support for curve_public()

  • Remove delayed import of json in send/recv_json

  • Add Authenticator.configure_curve_callback()

  • Various build fixes

  • sdist sources generated with Cython 0.28.3

  • Stop building wheels for Python 3.4, start building wheels for Python 3.7

17.0.0

  • Add zmq.Socket.send_serialized() and zmq.Socket.recv_serialized() for sending/receiving messages with custom serialization.

  • Add zmq.Socket.copy_threshold and zmq.COPY_THRESHOLD. Messages smaller than this are always copied, regardless of copy=False, to avoid overhead of zero-copy bookkeeping on small messages.

  • Added visible deprecation warnings to bundled tornado IOLoop. Tornado eventloop integration shouldn’t be used without a proper tornado install since pyzmq 14.

  • Allow pyzmq asyncio/tornado integration to run without installing zmq_poll implementation. The following methods and classes are deprecated and no longer required:

    • zmq.eventloop.ioloop.install

    • zmq.eventloop.ioloop.IOLoop

    • zmq.asyncio.install

    • zmq.asyncio.ZMQEventLoop

  • Set RPATH correctly when building on macOS.

  • Compatibility fixes with tornado 5.0.dev (may not be quite enough for 5.0 final, which is not yet released as of pyzmq 17).

  • Draft support for CLIENT-SERVER routing_id and group.

    See also

    Working with libzmq DRAFT sockets

16.0.4

  • Regenerate Cython sources in sdists with Cython 0.27.3, fixing builds on CPython 3.7.

  • Add warning when using bundled tornado, which was deprecated too quietly in 14.x.

16.0.3

  • Regenerate Cython sources in sdists with Cython 0.27.2, fixing builds on CPython 3.7.

16.0.2

  • Workaround bug in libzmq-4.2.0 causing EINVAL on poll.

16.0.1

  • Fix erroneous EAGAIN that could happen on async sockets

  • Bundle libzmq 4.1.6

16.0

  • Support for Python 2.6 and Python 3.2 is dropped. For old Pythons, use pip install "pyzmq<16" to get the last version of pyzmq that supports these versions.

  • Include zmq.h

  • Deprecate zmq.Stopwatch. Native Python timing tools can be used instead.

  • Better support for using pyzmq as a Cython library

  • Updates to setup.py for Cython 0.25 compatibility

  • Various asyncio/future fixes:

    • support raw sockets in pollers

    • allow cancelling async sends

  • Fix IOLoop.current() in zmq.green

15.4

  • Load bundled libzmq extension with import rather than CDLL, which should fix some manifest issues in certain cases on Windows.

  • Avoid installing asyncio sources on Python 2, which confuses some tools that run python -m compileall, which reports errors on the Python 3-only files.

  • Bundle msvcp.dll in Windows wheels on CPython 3.5, which should fix wheel compatibility systems without Visual C++ 2015 redistributable.

  • zmq.Context.instance() is now threadsafe.

  • FIX: sync some behavior in zmq_poll and setting LINGER on close/destroy with the CFFI backend.

  • PERF: resolve send/recv immediately if events are available in async Sockets

  • Async Sockets (asyncio, tornado) now support send_json, send_pyobj, etc.

  • add preliminary support for zmq.DRAFT_API reflecting ZMQ_BUILD_DRAFT_API, which indicates whether new APIs in prereleases are available.

15.3

  • Bump bundled libzmq to 4.1.5, using tweetnacl for bundled curve support instead of libsodium

  • FIX: include .pxi includes in installation for consumers of Cython API

  • FIX: various fixes in new async sockets

  • Introduce zmq.decorators API for decorating functions to create sockets or contexts

  • Add zmq.Socket.subscribe() and zmq.Socket.unsubscribe() methods to sockets, so that assignment is no longer needed for subscribing. Verbs should be methods! Assignment is still supported for backward-compatibility.

  • Accept text (unicode) input to z85 encoding, not just bytes

  • zmq.Context.socket() forwards keyword arguments to the Socket constructor

15.2

  • FIX: handle multiple events in a single register call in zmq.asyncio

  • FIX: unicode/bytes bug in password prompt in zmq.ssh on Python 3

  • FIX: workaround gevent monkeypatches in garbage collection thread

  • update bundled minitornado from tornado-4.3.

  • improved inspection by setting binding=True in cython compile options

  • add asyncio Authenticator implementation in zmq.auth.asyncio

  • workaround overflow bug in libzmq preventing receiving messages larger than MAX_INT

15.1

  • FIX: Remove inadvertent tornado dependency when using zmq.asyncio

  • FIX: 15.0 Python 3.5 wheels didn’t work on Windows

  • Add GSSAPI support to Authenticators

  • Support new constants defined in upcoming libzmq-4.2.dev

15.0

PyZMQ 15 adds Future-returning sockets and pollers for both asyncio and tornado.concurrent.

  • add asyncio support via zmq.asyncio

  • add tornado.concurrent future support via zmq.eventloop.future

  • trigger bundled libzmq if system libzmq is found to be < 3. System libzmq 2 can be forced by explicitly requesting --zmq=/prefix/.

14.7.0

Changes:

  • Update bundled libzmq to 4.1.2.

  • Following the lead of Python 3.5, interrupted system calls will be retried.

Fixes:

  • Fixes for CFFI backend on Python 3 + support for PyPy 3.

  • Verify types of all frames in send_multipart() before sending, to avoid partial messages.

  • Fix build on Windows when both debug and release versions of libzmq are found.

  • Windows build fixes for Python 3.5.

14.6.0

Changes:

  • improvements in zmq.Socket.bind_to_random_port(): : - use system to allocate ports by default

    • catch EACCES on Windows

  • include libsodium when building bundled libzmq on Windows (includes wheels on PyPI)

  • pyzmq no longer bundles external libzmq when making a bdist. You can use delocate to do this.

Bugfixes:

  • add missing ndim on memoryviews of Frames

  • allow copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy() on Sockets, Contexts

14.5.0

Changes:

  • use pickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL by default in send_pickle

  • with the release of pip-6, OS X wheels are only marked as 10.6-intel, indicating that they should be installable on any newer or single-arch Python.

  • raise SSHException on failed check of host key

Bugfixes:

  • fix method name in utils.wi32.allow_interrupt

  • fork-related fixes in garbage collection thread

  • add missing import in zmq.__init__, causing failure to import in some circumstances

14.4.1

Bugfixes for 14.4

  • SyntaxError on Python 2.6 in zmq.ssh

  • Handle possible bug in garbage collection after fork

14.4.0

New features:

  • Experimental support for libzmq-4.1.0 rc (new constants, plus zmq.has()).

  • Update bundled libzmq to 4.0.5

  • Update bundled libsodium to 1.0.0

  • Fixes for SSH dialogs when using zmq.ssh.tunnel to create tunnels

  • More build/link/load fixes on OS X and Solaris

  • Get Frame metadata via dict access (libzmq 4)

  • Contexts and Sockets are context managers (term/close on __exit__)

  • Add zmq.utils.win32.allow_interrupt context manager for catching SIGINT on Windows

Bugs fixed:

  • Bundled libzmq should not trigger recompilation after install on PyPy

14.3.1

Note

pyzmq-14.3.1 is the last version to include bdists for Python 3.3

Minor bugfixes to pyzmq 14.3:

  • Fixes to building bundled libzmq on OS X < 10.9

  • Fixes to import-failure warnings on Python 3.4

  • Fixes to tests

  • Pull upstream fixes to zmq.ssh for ssh multiplexing

14.3.0

  • PyZMQ no longer calls Socket.close() or Context.term() during process cleanup. Changes to garbage collection in Python 3.4 make this impossible to do sensibly.

  • ZMQStream.close() closes its socket immediately, rather than scheduling a timeout.

  • Raise the original ImportError when importing zmq fails. Should be more informative than no module cffi....

Warning

Users of Python 3.4 should not use pyzmq < 14.3, due to changes in garbage collection.

14.2.0

New Stuff

  • Raise new ZMQVersionError when a requested method is not supported by the linked libzmq. For backward compatibility, this subclasses NotImplementedError.

Bugs Fixed

  • Memory leak introduced in pyzmq-14.0 in zero copy.

  • OverflowError on 32 bit systems in zero copy.

14.1.0

Security

The headline features for 14.1 are adding better support for libzmq’s security features.

  • When libzmq is bundled as a Python extension (e.g. wheels, eggs), libsodium is also bundled (excluding Windows), ensuring that libzmq security is available to users who install from wheels

  • New zmq.auth, implementing zeromq’s ZAP authentication, modeled on czmq zauth. For more information, see the examples.

Other New Stuff

  • Add PYZMQ_BACKEND for enabling use of backends outside the pyzmq codebase.

  • Add underlying property and shadow() method to Context and Socket, for handing off sockets and contexts. between pyzmq and other bindings (mainly pyczmq).

  • Add TOS, ROUTER_HANDOVER, and IPC_FILTER constants from libzmq-4.1-dev.

  • Add Context option support in the CFFI backend.

  • Various small unicode and build fixes, as always.

  • send_json() and recv_json() pass any extra kwargs to json.dumps/loads.

Deprecations

  • Socket.socket_type is deprecated, in favor of Socket.type, which has been available since 2.1.

14.0.1

Bugfix release

  • Update bundled libzmq to current (4.0.3).

  • Fix bug in Context.destroy() with no open sockets.

  • Threadsafety fixes in the garbage collector.

  • Python 3 fixes in zmq.ssh.tunnel.

14.0.0

  • Update bundled libzmq to current (4.0.1).

  • Backends are now implemented in zmq.backend instead of zmq.core. This has no effect on public APIs.

  • Various build improvements for Cython and CFFI backends (PyPy compiles at build time).

  • Various GIL-related performance improvements - the GIL is no longer touched from a zmq IO thread.

  • Adding a constant should now be a bit easier - only zmq/sugar/constant_names should need updating, all other constant-related files should be automatically updated by setup.py constants.

  • add support for latest libzmq-4.0.1 (includes ZMQ_CURVE security and socket event monitoring).

New stuff

13.1.0

The main new feature is improved tornado 3 compatibility. PyZMQ ships a ‘minitornado’ submodule, which contains a small subset of tornado 3.0.1, in order to get the IOLoop base class. zmq.eventloop.ioloop.IOLoop is now a simple subclass, and if the system tornado is ≥ 3.0, then the zmq IOLoop is a proper registered subclass of the tornado one itself, and minitornado is entirely unused.

13.0.2

Bugfix release!

A few things were broken in 13.0.0, so this is a quick bugfix release.

  • FIXED EAGAIN was unconditionally turned into KeyboardInterrupt

  • FIXED we used totally deprecated ctypes_configure to generate constants in CFFI backend

  • FIXED memory leak in CFFI backend for PyPy

  • FIXED typo prevented IPC_PATH_MAX_LEN from ever being defined

  • FIXED various build fixes - linking with librt, Cython compatibility, etc.

13.0.1

defunct bugfix. We do not speak of this…

13.0.0

PyZMQ now officially targets libzmq-3 (3.2.2), 0MQ ≥ 2.1.4 is still supported for the indefinite future, but 3.x is recommended. PyZMQ has detached from libzmq versioning, and will just follow its own regular versioning scheme from now on. PyZMQ bdists will include whatever is the latest stable libzmq release (3.2.2 for pyzmq-13.0).

Note

set/get methods are exposed via get/setattr on all Context, Socket, and Frame classes. This means that subclasses of these classes that require extra attributes must declare these attributes at the class level.

Experiments Removed

  • The Threadsafe ZMQStream experiment in 2.2.0.1 was deemed inappropriate and not useful, and has been removed.

  • The zmq.web experiment has been removed, to be developed as a standalone project.

New Stuff

Bugs Fixed

  • Unicode fixes in log and monitored queue

  • MinGW, ppc, cross-compilation, and HP-UX build fixes

  • zmq.green should be complete - devices and tornado eventloop both work in gevent contexts.

2.2.0.1

This is a tech-preview release, to try out some new features. It is expected to be short-lived, as there are likely to be issues to iron out, particularly with the new pip-install support.

Experimental New Stuff

These features are marked ‘experimental’, which means that their APIs are not set in stone, and may be removed or changed in incompatible ways in later releases.

Threadsafe ZMQStream

With the IOLoop inherited from tornado, there is exactly one method that is threadsafe: add_callback(). With this release, we are trying an experimental option to pass all IOLoop calls via this method, so that ZMQStreams can be used from one thread while the IOLoop runs in another. To try out a threadsafe stream:

stream = ZMQStream(socket, threadsafe=True)

pip install pyzmq

PyZMQ should now be pip installable, even on systems without libzmq. In these cases, when pyzmq fails to find an appropriate libzmq to link against, it will try to build libzmq as a Python extension. This work is derived from pyzmq_static.

To this end, PyZMQ source distributions include the sources for libzmq (2.2.0) and libuuid (2.21), both used under the LGPL.

zmq.green

The excellent gevent_zeromq socket subclass which provides gevent compatibility has been merged as zmq.green.

See also

zmq.green

Bugs Fixed

  • TIMEO sockopts are properly included for libzmq-2.2.0

  • avoid garbage collection of sockets after fork (would cause assert (mailbox.cpp:79)).

2.2.0

Some effort has gone into refining the pyzmq API in this release to make it a model for other language bindings. This is principally made in a few renames of objects and methods, all of which leave the old name for backwards compatibility.

Note

As of this release, all code outside zmq.core is BSD licensed (where possible), to allow more permissive use of less-critical code and utilities.

Name Changes

  • The Message class has been renamed to Frame, to better match other zmq bindings. The old Message name remains for backwards-compatibility. Wherever pyzmq docs say “Message”, they should refer to a complete zmq atom of communication (one or more Frames, connected by ZMQ_SNDMORE). Please report any remaining instances of Message==MessagePart with an Issue (or better yet a Pull Request).

  • All foo_unicode methods are now called foo_string (_unicode remains for backwards compatibility). This is not only for cross-language consistency, but it makes more sense in Python 3, where native strings are unicode, and the _unicode suffix was wedded too much to Python 2.

Other Changes and Removals

  • prefix removed as an unused keyword argument from send_multipart().

  • ZMQStream send() default has been changed to copy=True, so it matches Socket send().

  • ZMQStream on_err() is deprecated, because it never did anything.

  • Python 2.5 compatibility has been dropped, and some code has been cleaned up to reflect no-longer-needed hacks.

  • Some Cython files in zmq.core have been split, to reduce the amount of Cython-compiled code. Much of the body of these files were pure Python, and thus did not benefit from the increased compile time. This change also aims to ease maintaining feature parity in other projects, such as pyzmq-ctypes.

New Stuff

  • Context objects can now set default options when they create a socket. These are set and accessed as attributes to the context. Socket options that do not apply to a socket (e.g. SUBSCRIBE on non-SUB sockets) will simply be ignored.

  • on_recv_stream() has been added, which adds the stream itself as a second argument to the callback, making it easier to use a single callback on multiple streams.

  • A Frame.more boolean attribute has been added to the Frame (née Message) class, so that frames can be identified as terminal without extra queries of Socket.rcvmore.

Experimental New Stuff

These features are marked ‘experimental’, which means that their APIs are not set in stone, and may be removed or changed in incompatible ways in later releases.

  • zmq.web added for load-balancing requests in a tornado webapp with zeromq.

2.1.11

  • remove support for LABEL prefixes. A major feature of libzmq-3.0, the LABEL prefix, has been removed from libzmq, prior to the first stable libzmq 3.x release.

    • The prefix argument to send_multipart() remains, but it continue to behave in exactly the same way as it always has on 2.1.x, simply prepending message parts.

    • recv_multipart() will always return a list, because prefixes are once again indistinguishable from regular message parts.

  • add zmq.Socket.poll() method, for simple polling of events on a single socket.

  • no longer require monkeypatching tornado IOLoop. The ioloop.ZMQPoller class is a poller implementation that matches tornado’s expectations, and pyzmq sockets can be used with any tornado application just by specifying the use of this poller. The pyzmq IOLoop implementation now only trivially differs from tornado’s.

    It is still recommended to use ioloop.install(), which sets both the zmq and tornado global IOLoop instances to the same object, but it is no longer necessary.

    Warning

    The most important part of this change is that the IOLoop.READ/WRITE/ERROR constants now match tornado’s, rather than being mapped directly to the zmq POLLIN/OUT/ERR. So applications that used the low-level IOLoop.add_handler code with POLLIN/OUT/ERR directly (used to work, but was incorrect), rather than using the IOLoop class constants will no longer work. Fixing these to use the IOLoop constants should be insensitive to the actual value of the constants.

2.1.10

  • Add support for libzmq-3.0 LABEL prefixes:

    Warning

    This feature has been removed from libzmq, and thus removed from future pyzmq as well.

    • send a message with label-prefix with:

      send_multipart([b"msg", b"parts"], prefix=[b"label", b"prefix"])

    • zmq.Socket.recv_multipart() returns a tuple of (prefix,msg) if a label prefix is detected

    • ZMQStreams and devices also respect the LABEL prefix

  • add czmq-style close&term as zmq.Context.destroy(), so that zmq.Context.term() remains threadsafe and 1:1 with libzmq.

  • zmq.Socket.close() takes optional linger option, for setting linger prior to closing.

  • add zmq_version_info() and pyzmq_version_info() for getting libzmq and pyzmq versions as tuples of numbers. This helps with the fact that version string comparison breaks down once versions get into double-digits.

  • ioloop changes merged from upstream Tornado 2.1

2.1.9

  • added zmq.ssh tools for tunneling socket connections, copied from IPython

  • Expanded sockopt support to cover changes in libzmq-4.0 dev.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented KeyboardInterrupt from being catchable.

  • Added attribute-access for set/getsockopt. Setting/Getting attributes of Sockets with the names of socket options is mapped to calls of set/getsockopt.

s.hwm = 10
s.identity = b"whoda"
s.linger
# -1

  • Terminating a Context closes the sockets it created, matching the behavior in czmq.

  • ThreadDevices use zmq.Context.instance() to create sockets, so they can use inproc connections to sockets in other threads.

  • fixed units error on zmq.select(), where the poll timeout was 1000 times longer than expected.

  • Add missing DEALER/ROUTER socket type names (currently aliases, to be replacements for XREP/XREQ).

  • base libzmq dependency raised to 2.1.4 (first stable release) from 2.1.0.

2.1.7.1

  • bdist for 64b Windows only. This fixed a type mismatch on the ZMQ_FD sockopt that only affected that platform.

2.1.7

  • Added experimental support for libzmq-3.0 API

  • Add zmq.eventloop.ioloop.install for using pyzmq’s IOLoop in a tornado application.

2.1.4

  • First version with binary distribution support

  • Added zmq.Context.instance() method for using a single Context throughout an application without passing references around.

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