Changelog — pyudev 0.24.4 documentation

# Changelog

## 0.24.4

Recommended development release: Fedora 41

- Add device attributes unset(): https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/525

- Remove license classifier deprecated by PEP 639: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/522

- Tidies and Maintenance: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/529 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/528 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/526 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/524 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/521 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/520 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/518 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/512 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/511

## 0.24.3

Recommended development release: Fedora 40

## 0.24.2

Recommended development release: Fedora 40

- Update release infrastructure: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/508

- Tidies and Maintenance: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/507 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/506 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/505 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/503 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/498 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/497 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/492 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/491 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/489

## 0.24.1

Recommended development release: Fedora 37

- Add support for PySide6: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/487

- Add missing ‘priority’ argument for GLib.to_add_watch() https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/479

- Tidies and Maintenance: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/486 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/485 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/484 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/481 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/480 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/477 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/474

## 0.24.0

Recommended development release: Fedora 36

- Remove a bunch of Python 2 code: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/468 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/460 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/455 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/358

- Tidies and Maintenance: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/471 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/466 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/465 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/464 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/462 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/461 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/459 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/458 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/456 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/454 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/447 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/445

## 0.23.2

Recommended development release: Fedora 35

- New release: 0.23.2: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/444

- Tidies and Maintenance: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/445 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/443 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/442

## 0.23.1

Recommended development release: Fedora 34

- Update to version 0.23.1: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/440

- Check for existence of _hasattr attribute in Context.__del__ method: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/issues/421 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/439

- Tidies and Maintenance: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/438

## 0.23.0

Recommended development release: Fedora 34

- Update to version 0.23.0: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/427

- Officially drop support for Python 2: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/414

- Remove external mock dependency: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/409

- Enable GLib unit tests: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/400

- Switch to new style gi.repository.GLib imports: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/399

- Tidies and Maintenance: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/432 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/430 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/429 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/428 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/424 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/423 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/418 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/415 https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/413

## 0.22.0 (Jan, 2020)

- Add a six-enabled move for collections move imports: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/386

- Fix any newly introduced pylint errors

- Numerous improvements or updates to the test infrastructure

- A number of test updates

- Require yapf 0.21.0 for Python formatting

- Various documentation fixes and updates

## 0.21.0 (July 20, 2016)

- Deprecate use of Device object as mapping from udev property names to values.

- Add a Properties class and a Device.properties() method for udev properties.

- Fix places where Device object was incorrectly used in a boolean context.

- Return an empty string, not None, if the property value is an empty string.

- Exceptions re-raised from libudev calls now have a message string.

- Insert a warning about using a Device in a boolean context in docs.

- Infrastructure for vagrant tests is removed.

- Various internal refactorings.

- Extensive test improvements.

- Numerous documentation fixes.

## 0.20.0 (April 29, 2016)

- Remove parsing code added in previous release.

- No longer do CI for Python 2.6.

- Eliminate all wildcard imports and __all__ statements.

- No longer use deprecated Device.from_sys_path() method.

- Minor pylint induced changes.

- Documentation fixes.

## 0.19.0 (Feb 3, 2016)

- Restore raising KeyError by Attributes.as* methods when attribute not found.

- Explicitly require six module.

- Never raise a DeviceNotFoundError when iterating over a device enumeration.

- Device.subsystem() now returns None if device has no subsystem.

- Add DeprecationWarnings to deprecated Device methods.

- Replace “/” with “!” in Device.from_name() sys_name parameter.

- Add some unstable classes for parsing some kinds of values.

- Make version info more like Python’s including micro numbers and levels.

- Refactor some internal modules into subdirectories.

- Work on tests and reproducers.

## 0.18 (Dec 1, 2015)

- DeviceNotFoundError is no longer a subtype of LookupError

- Added support for pyqt5 monitor observer

- Added discover module, which looks up a device on limited information

- Attributes class no longer extends Mapping, extends object instead

- Attributes class no longer inherits [] operator, Mapping methods

- Attributes class objects are no longer iterable

- Attributes.available_attributes property added

- Attributes.get() method, with usual semantics, defined

- Device.from_* methods are deprecated, uses Devices.from_* methods instead

- Device.from_device_file() now raises DeviceNotFoundByFileError

- Device.from_device_number() now raises DeviceNotFoundByNumberError

- Devices.from_interface_index() method added

- Devices.from_kernel_device() method added

- Numerous testing infrastructure changes

## 0.17 (Aug 26, 2015)

- #52: Remove global libudev object

- #57: Really start the monitor on `pyudev.Monitor.poll()`

- #60: Do not use `select.select()` to avoid hitting its file descriptor limit

- #58: Force non-blocking IO in `pyudev.Monitor` to avoid blocking on receiving the device

- #63: Set proper flags on pipe fds.

- #65: Handle irregular polling events properly.

- #50: Add `pyudev.wx.MonitorObserver` and deprecate `pyudev.wx.WxUDevMonitorObserver`

- #50: Add `pyudev.glib.MonitorObserver` and deprecate `pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver`

- #50: Add `pyudev.pyqt4.MonitorObserver` and deprecate `pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver`

- #50: Add `pyudev.pyside.MonitorObserver` and deprecate `pyudev.pyside.QUDevMonitorObserver`

- Add a wrapper function to retry interruptible system calls.

## 0.16.1 (Aug 02, 2012)

- #53: Fix source distribution

- #54: Fix typo in test

## 0.16 (Jul 25, 2012)

- Remove `pyudev.Monitor.from_socket()`.

- Deprecate `pyudev.Device.traverse()` in favor of `pyudev.Device.ancestors`.

- #47: Deprecate `pyudev.Monitor.receive_device()` in favor of `pyudev.Monitor.poll`.

- #47: Deprecate `pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving` in favor of `pyudev.Monitor.start`.

- #47: Deprecate `pyudev.Monitor.__iter__` in favor of explicit looping or `pyudev.MonitorObserver`.

- #49: Deprecate `event_handler` to `pyudev.MonitorObserver` in favour of `callback` argument.

- #46: Continuously test pyudev on Travis-CI.

- Add `pyudev.Device.ancestors`.

- Add `pyudev.Device.action`.

- #10: Add `pyudev.Device.sequence_number`.

- #47: Add `pyudev.Monitor.poll()`.

- #47: Add `pyudev.Monitor.started`.

- #49: Add `callback` argument to `pyudev.Monitor`.

- `pyudev.Monitor.start()` can be called repeatedly.

- #45: Get rid of 2to3

- #43: Fix test failures on Python 2.6

- Fix signature in declaration of `udev_monitor_set_receive_buffer_size`.

- #44: Test wrapped signatures with help of `gccxml`.

- Fix compatibility with udev 183 and newer in `pyudev.Context`.

- `pyudev.MonitorObserver.stop()` can be called from the observer thread.

## 0.15 (Mar 1, 2012)

- #20: Add `remove_filter()`.

- #40: Add user guide to the documentation.

- #39: Add `pyudev.Device.from_device_file()`.

- `errno.EINVAL` from underlying libudev functions causes `ValueError` instead of `EnvironmentError`.

- `pyudev.MonitorObserver` calls `pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving()` when started.

- #20: `pyudev.Monitor.filter_by()` and `pyudev.Monitor.filter_by_tag()` can be called after `pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving()`.

## 0.14 (Feb 10, 2012)

- Host documentation at http://pyudev.readthedocs.org (thanks to the readthedocs.org team for this service)

- #37: Add `pyudev.wx.WxUDevMonitorObserver` for wxPython (thanks to Tobias Eberle).

- Add `pyudev.MonitorObserver`.

- Add `pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver.enabled`, `pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver.enabled` and `pyudev.pyside.QUDevMonitorObserver.enabled`.

## 0.13 (Nov 4, 2011)

- #36: Add `pyudev.Monitor.set_receive_buffer_size()` (thanks to Rémi Rérolle).

- Add `pyudev.Enumerator.match_parent()`.

- Add `parent` keyword argument to `pyudev.Enumerator.match()`.

- #31: Add `pyudev.Enumerator.match_attribute()`.

- Add `nomatch` argument to `pyudev.Enumerator.match_subsystem()` and `pyudev.Enumerator.match_attribute()`.

- Remove `pyudev.Enumerator.match_children()` in favour of `pyudev.Enumerator.match_parent()`.

- #34: `pyudev.Device.tags` returns a `pyudev.Tags` object.

- `pyudev.Device.children` requires udev version 172 now

## 0.12 (Aug 31, 2011)

- #32: Fix memory leak.

- #33: Fix Python 3 support for `pyudev.glib`.

- Fix license header in `pyudev._compat`.

## 0.11 (Jun 26, 2011)

- #30: Add `pyudev.Device.sys_number`.

- #29: Add `pyudev.Device.from_device_number()`

- #29: Add `pyudev.Device.device_number`.

- Support PyPy.

## 0.10 (Apr 20, 2011)

- Add `pyudev.__version_info__`

- Add `pyudev.Device.device_type`

- `pyudev.Context`, `pyudev.Enumerator`, `pyudev.Device` and `pyudev.Monitor` can directly be passed to `ctypes`-wrapped functions.

- #24: Add `pyudev.Context.run_path`.

## 0.9 (Mar 09, 2011)

- #21: Add `pyudev.Device.find_parent()`.

- #22: Add `pyudev.Monitor.filter_by_tag()`.

- Add `pyudev.Context.log_priority`.

- Improve error reporting, if libudev is missing.

## 0.8 (Jan 08, 2011)

- #16: Add `pyudev.Enumerator.match()`.

- Add keyword arguments to `pyudev.Context.list_devices()`.

- #19: Add `pyudev.Enumerator.match_sys_name()`.

- #18: Add `pyudev.udev_version()`.

- #17: Add `pyudev.Device.is_initialized`.

- #17: Add `pyudev.Device.time_since_initialized`.

- #17: Add `pyudev.Enumerator.match_is_initialized()`

- Fix support for earlier releases of udev.

- Document minimum udev version for all affected attributes.

## 0.7 (Nov 15, 2010)

- #15: Add `pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver`.

## 0.6 (Oct 03, 2010)

- #8: Add `pyudev.Device.tags`.

- #8: Add `pyudev.Enumerator.match_tag()`.

- #11: Add `pyudev.Device.from_environment()`

- #5: Add `pyudev.pyside`

- #14: Remove apipkg dependency.

- #14: Require explicit import of `pyudev.pyqt4`.

- Fix licence headers in source files.

## 0.5 (Sep 06, 2010)

- Support Python 3.

- #6: Add `pyudev.Device.attributes` (thanks to Daniel Lazzari).

- #6: Add `pyudev.Attributes` (thanks to Daniel Lazzari).

- #7: `pyudev.Device.context` and `pyudev.Monitor.context` are part of the public API.

- #9: Add `pyudev.Device.driver`.

- #12: Add `pyudev.Device.from_name()`.

- Rename `pyudev.NoSuchDeviceError` to `pyudev.DeviceNotFoundError`.

- `pyudev.Device.from_sys_path()` raises `pyudev.DeviceNotFoundAtPathError`.

- #13: Fix `AttributeError` in `pyudev.Device.device_node`.

- Improve and extend documentation.

- Add more tests.

## 0.4 (Aug 23, 2010)

### API changes

- #3: Rename `udev` to `pyudev`.

- #3: Rename `qudev` to `pyudev.pyqt4`.

- Add `pyudev.Device.from_path()`.

- `pyudev.Device.from_sys_path()` raises `pyudev.NoSuchDeviceError`.

- `pyudev.Monitor.receive_device()` raises `EnvironmentError`.

- `errno`, `strerror` and `filename` attributes of `EnvironmentError` exceptions have meaningful content.

- Fix `NameError` in `pyudev.Monitor.from_socket()`

- `subsystem` argument to `pyudev.Monitor.filter_by()` is mandatory.

- Delete underlying C objects if `pyudev.Device` is garbage-collected.

- Fix broken signal emitting in `pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver`.

## 0.3 (Jul 28, 2010)

- #1: Fix documentation to reflect the actual behaviour of the underlying API

- Raise `TypeError` if `udev.Device` are compared with `>`, `>=`, `<` or `<=`.

- Add `udev.Enumerator.match_children()`.

- Add `udev.Device.children`.

- Add `qudev.QUDevMonitorObserver.deviceChanged()`.

- Add `qudev.QUDevMonitorObserver.deviceMoved()`.

## 0.2 (Jun 28, 2010)

- Add `udev.Monitor`.

- Add `udev.Device.asbool()`.

- Add `udev.Device.asint()`.

- Remove type magic in `udev.Device.__getitem__()`.

- Add `qudev`.

## 0.1 (May 03, 2010)

- Initial release.

- Add `udev.Context`.

- Add `udev.Device`.

- Add `udev.Enumerator`.