PyGObject 3.3.1 released

This announcement comes very late (a week after release), but better late than never..

The first PyGObject 3.3 series release is now out, with lots of yummy fixes and improvements. Dieter, Sebastian, and I went through a round of bugzilla spring cleaning to clean up old bugs, fix simple bugs, and apply good patches that were waiting, so as a result the patch queue is now almost empty and PyGObject works better than ever.

There was also quite some work on the test suite: it became a lot stricter and robust, and now also enforces PEP8 compatibility and absence of pyflake errors of the code.

One small but handy new feature is that the freeze_notify() and handler_block() methods are now context managers, i. e. they automatically call the corresponding thaw_notify()/handler_unblock() at the end of the with statement in an exception-safe way. ((#672324)

There are almost no API changes in this release, so it should work fine with GNOME 3.4 and applications developed with pygobject 3.2. The one exception is the removal of the Gobject.get_data() and Gobject.set_data() methods. They were prone to errors and crashes as they are not safely bindable, and in Python you can and should just use normal Python object attributes instead.

Complete list of changes:

  • GSettings: allow extra keyword arguments (Giovanni Campagna) (#675105)
  • pygtkcompat: Correct Userlist module use (Jose Rostagno) (#675084)
  • Add release-news make rule (Martin Pitt)
  • Add “make check.nemiver” target (Martin Pitt)
  • Test flags and enums in GHash values (Martin Pitt) (#637466)
  • tests: Activate test_hash_in and apply workaround (Martin Pitt) (#666636)
  • Add special case for Gdk.Atom array entries from Python (Martin Pitt) (#661709)
  • test_gdbus: Call GetConnectionUnixProcessID() with correct signature (Martin Pitt) (#667954)
  • Add test case for Gtk.ListStore custom sort (Martin Pitt) (#674475)
  • GTK overrides: Add missing keyword arguments (Martin Pitt) (#660018)
  • Add missing override for TreeModel.iter_previous() (Martin Pitt) (#660018)
  • pygi-convert.py: Drop obsolete drag method conversions (Martin Pitt) (#652860)
  • tests: Replace deprecated assertEquals() with assertEqual() (Martin Pitt)
  • Plug tiny leak in constant_info_get_value (Paolo Borelli) (#642754)
  • Fix len_arg_index for array arguments (Bastian Winkler) (#674271)
  • Support defining GType properties from Python (Martin Pitt) (#674351)
  • Handle GType properties correctly (Bastian Winkler) (#674351)
  • Add missing GObject.TYPE_GTYPE (Martin Pitt)
  • Fix test_mainloop.py for Python 3 (Martin Pitt)
  • Make callback exception propagation test stricter (Martin Pitt) (#616279)
  • Add context management to freeze_notify() and handler_block(). (Simon Feltman) (#672324)
  • Add support for GFlags properties (Martin Pitt) (#620943)
  • Wrap GLib.Source.is_destroyed() method (Martin Pitt) (#524719)
  • Fix error message when trying to override a non-GI class (Martin Pitt) (#646667)
  • Fix segfault when accessing __grefcount__ before creating the GObject (Steve Frécinaux) (#640434)
  • Do not bind gobject_get_data() and gobject_set_data() (Steve Frécinaux) (#641944)
  • Add test case for multiple GLib.MainLoop instances (Martin Pitt) (#663068)
  • Add a ccallback type which is used to invoke callbacks passed to a vfunc (John (J5) Palmieri) (#644926)
  • Regression test: marshalling GValues in GHashTable (Alberto Mardegan) (#668903)
  • Update .gitignore (Martin Pitt)
  • Fix “distcheck” and tests with out-of-tree builds (Martin Pitt)
  • Add a pep8 check to the makefile (Johan Dahlin) (#672627)
  • PEP8 whitespace fixes (Johan Dahlin) (#672627)
  • PEP8: Remove trailing ; (Johan Dahlin) (#672627)
  • tests: Replace deprecated Python API (Martin Pitt)
  • Fail tests if they use or encounter deprecations (Martin Pitt)
  • Do not run tests in two phases any more (Martin Pitt)
  • test_overrides: Find local gsettings schema with current glib (Martin Pitt)
  • Add GtkComboBoxEntry compatibility (Paolo Borelli) (#672589)
  • Correct review comments from Martin (Johan Dahlin) (#672578)
  • Correct pyflakes warnings/errors (Johan Dahlin) (#672578)
  • Make tests fail on CRITICAL logs, too, and apply to all tests (Martin Pitt)
  • Support marshalling GI_TYPE_TAG_INTERFACE (Alberto Mardegan) (#668903)
  • Fix warnings on None values in added tree/list store rows (Martin Pitt) (#672463)
  • pygtkcompat test: Properly clean up PixbufLoader (Martin Pitt)
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