Changes in PyZMQ

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

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  • Remove some outdated workarounds for old Cython versions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:

  • 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 - bundle zmq.h when pyzmq bundles libzmq as an extension - add zmq.get_library_dirs() to find bundled libzmq
  • 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 inadvertant 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.

  • add asyncio support via zmq.asyncio
  • add tornado 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 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.

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).

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

  • Support for PyPy via CFFI backend (requires py, ctypes-configure, and cffi).
  • Add support for new APIs in libzmq-3
  • Setting and getting Socket.hwm sets or gets both SNDHWM/RCVHWM for libzmq-3.
  • Implementation splits core Cython bindings from pure-Python subclasses with sugar methods (send/recv_multipart). This should facilitate non-Cython backends and PyPy support [spoiler: it did!].

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: IOLoop.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

PyZMQ and gevent

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 more boolean attribute has been added to the Frame (née Message) class, so that frames can be identified as terminal without extra queires of 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 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'])

    • 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 ctx.destroy(), so that ctx.term() remains threadsafe and 1:1 with libzmq.

  • 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 KeyboardInterrupts 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 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

2.1.4

  • First version with binary distribution support
  • Added instance() method for using a single Context throughout an application without passing references around.