diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 python/psutil/HISTORY --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/python/psutil/HISTORY Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,574 @@ +Bug tracker at http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues + + +1.0.1 - 2013-07-12 +------------------ + +BUG FIXES + + * #405: network_io_counters(pernic=True) no longer works as intended in 1.0.0. + + +1.0.0 - 2013-07-10 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #18: Solaris support (yay!) (thanks Justin Venus) + * #367: Process.get_connections() 'status' strings are now constants. + * #380: test suite exits with non-zero on failure. (patch by floppymaster) + * #391: extensively use unittest2 module in unit tests and provide + workarounds if this is not installed on python < 2.7. + +BUG FIXES + + * #374: [Windows] negative memory usage reported when processes use a lot of + memory. + * #379: [Linux] Process.get_memory_maps() may raise ValueError. + * #394: [OSX] Mapped memory regions report incorrect file name. + * #404: [Linux] sched_*affinity() are implicitly declared. (patch by Arfrever) + +API CHANGES + + * Process.get_connections() 'status' field is no longer a string but a constant + object (psutil.CONN_*). + * Process.get_connections() 'local_address' and 'remote_address' fields renamed + to 'laddr' and 'raddr'. + * psutil.network_io_counters() renamed to psutil.net_io_counters(). + + +0.7.1 - 2013-05-03 +------------------ + +BUG FIXES: + + * #325: [BSD] psutil.virtual_memory() can raise SystemError. + (patch by Jan Beich) + * #370: [BSD] Process.get_connections() requires root. (patch by John Baldwin) + * #372: [BSD] different process methods raise NoSuchProcess instead of + AccessDenied. + + +0.7.0 - 2013-04-12 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #233: code migrated to Mercurial (yay!) + * #246: psutil.error module is deprecated and scheduled for removal. + * #328: [Windows] process IO nice/priority support. + * #359: psutil.get_boot_time() + * #361: [Linux] psutil.cpu_times() now includes new 'steal', 'guest' and + 'guest_nice' fields available on recent Linux kernels. + Also, psutil.cpu_percent() is more accurate. + * #362: cpu_times_percent() (per-CPU-time utilization as a percentage) + +BUG FIXES + + * #234: [Windows] disk_io_counters() fails to list certain disks. + * #264: [Windows] use of psutil.disk_partitions() may cause a message box to + appear. + * #313: [Linux] psutil.virtual_memory() and psutil.swap_memory() can crash on + certain exotic Linux flavors having an incomplete /proc interface. + If that's the case we now set the unretrievable stats to 0 and raise a + RuntimeWarning. + * #315: [OSX] fix some compilation warnings. + * #317: [Windows] cannot set process CPU affinity above 31 cores. + * #319: [Linux] process get_memory_maps() raises KeyError 'Anonymous' on Debian + squeeze. + * #321: [UNIX] Process.ppid property is no longer cached as the kernel may set + the ppid to 1 in case of a zombie process. + * #323: [OSX] disk_io_counters()'s read_time and write_time parameters were + reporting microseconds not milliseconds. (patch by Gregory Szorc) + * #331: Process cmdline is no longer cached after first acces as it may change. + * #333: [OSX] Leak of Mach ports on OS X (patch by rsesek@google.com) + * #337: [Linux] process methods not working because of a poor /proc + implementation will raise NotImplementedError rather than RuntimeError + and Process.as_dict() will not blow up. (patch by Curtin1060) + * #338: [Linux] disk_io_counters() fails to find some disks. + * #339: [FreeBSD] get_pid_list() can allocate all the memory on system. + * #341: [Linux] psutil might crash on import due to error in retrieving system + terminals map. + * #344: [FreeBSD] swap_memory() might return incorrect results due to + kvm_open(3) not being called. (patch by Jean Sebastien) + * #338: [Linux] disk_io_counters() fails to find some disks. + * #351: [Windows] if psutil is compiled with mingw32 (provided installers for + py2.4 and py2.5 are) disk_io_counters() will fail. (Patch by m.malycha) + * #353: [OSX] get_users() returns an empty list on OSX 10.8. + * #356: Process.parent now checks whether parent PID has been reused in which + case returns None. + * #365: Process.set_nice() should check PID has not been reused by another + process. + * #366: [FreeBSD] get_memory_maps(), get_num_fds(), get_open_files() and + getcwd() Process methods raise RuntimeError instead of AccessDenied. + +API CHANGES + + * Process.cmdline property is no longer cached after first access. + * Process.ppid property is no longer cached after first access. + * [Linux] Process methods not working because of a poor /proc implementation + will raise NotImplementedError instead of RuntimeError. + * psutil.error module is deprecated and scheduled for removal. + + +0.6.1 - 2012-08-16 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #316: process cmdline property now makes a better job at guessing the process + executable from the cmdline. + +BUG FIXES + + * #316: process exe was resolved in case it was a symlink. + * #318: python 2.4 compatibility was broken. + +API CHANGES + + * process exe can now return an empty string instead of raising AccessDenied. + * process exe is no longer resolved in case it's a symlink. + + +0.6.0 - 2012-08-13 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #216: [POSIX] get_connections() UNIX sockets support. + * #220: [FreeBSD] get_connections() has been rewritten in C and no longer + requires lsof. + * #222: [OSX] add support for process cwd. + * #261: process extended memory info. + * #295: [OSX] process executable path is now determined by asking the OS + instead of being guessed from process cmdline. + * #297: [OSX] the Process methods below were always raising AccessDenied for + any process except the current one. Now this is no longer true. Also + they are 2.5x faster. + - name + - get_memory_info() + - get_memory_percent() + - get_cpu_times() + - get_cpu_percent() + - get_num_threads() + * #300: examples/pmap.py script. + * #301: process_iter() now yields processes sorted by their PIDs. + * #302: process number of voluntary and involuntary context switches. + * #303: [Windows] the Process methods below were always raising AccessDenied + for any process not owned by current user. Now this is no longer true: + - create_time + - get_cpu_times() + - get_cpu_percent() + - get_memory_info() + - get_memory_percent() + - get_num_handles() + - get_io_counters() + * #305: add examples/netstat.py script. + * #311: system memory functions has been refactorized and rewritten and now + provide a more detailed and consistent representation of the system + memory. New psutil.virtual_memory() function provides the following + memory amounts: + - total + - available + - percent + - used + - active [POSIX] + - inactive [POSIX] + - buffers (BSD, Linux) + - cached (BSD, OSX) + - wired (OSX, BSD) + - shared [FreeBSD] + New psutil.swap_memory() provides: + - total + - used + - free + - percent + - sin (no. of bytes the system has swapped in from disk (cumulative)) + - sout (no. of bytes the system has swapped out from disk (cumulative)) + All old memory-related functions are deprecated. + Also two new example scripts were added: free.py and meminfo.py. + * #312: psutil.network_io_counters() namedtuple includes 4 new fields: + errin, errout dropin and dropout, reflecting the number of packets + dropped and with errors. + +BUGFIXES + + * #298: [OSX and BSD] memory leak in get_num_fds(). + * #299: potential memory leak every time PyList_New(0) is used. + * #303: [Windows] potential heap corruption in get_num_threads() and + get_status() Process methods. + * #305: [FreeBSD] psutil can't compile on FreeBSD 9 due to removal of utmp.h. + * #306: at C level, errors are not checked when invoking Py* functions which + create or manipulate Python objects leading to potential memory related + errors and/or segmentation faults. + * #307: [FreeBSD] values returned by psutil.network_io_counters() are wrong. + * #308: [BSD / Windows] psutil.virtmem_usage() wasn't actually returning + information about swap memory usage as it was supposed to do. It does + now. + * #309: get_open_files() might not return files which can not be accessed + due to limited permissions. AccessDenied is now raised instead. + +API CHANGES + + * psutil.phymem_usage() is deprecated (use psutil.virtual_memory()) + * psutil.virtmem_usage() is deprecated (use psutil.swap_memory()) + * psutil.phymem_buffers() on Linux is deprecated (use psutil.virtual_memory()) + * psutil.cached_phymem() on Linux is deprecated (use psutil.virtual_memory()) + * [Windows and BSD] psutil.virtmem_usage() now returns information about swap + memory instead of virtual memory. + + +0.5.1 - 2012-06-29 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #293: [Windows] process executable path is now determined by asking the OS + instead of being guessed from process cmdline. + +BUGFIXES + + * #292: [Linux] race condition in process files/threads/connections. + * #294: [Windows] Process CPU affinity is only able to set CPU #0. + + +0.5.0 - 2012-06-27 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #195: [Windows] number of handles opened by process. + * #209: psutil.disk_partitions() now provides also mount options. + * #229: list users currently connected on the system (psutil.get_users()). + * #238: [Linux, Windows] process CPU affinity (get and set). + * #242: Process.get_children(recursive=True): return all process + descendants. + * #245: [POSIX] Process.wait() incrementally consumes less CPU cycles. + * #257: [Windows] removed Windows 2000 support. + * #258: [Linux] Process.get_memory_info() is now 0.5x faster. + * #260: process's mapped memory regions. (Windows patch by wj32.64, OSX patch + by Jeremy Whitlock) + * #262: [Windows] psutil.disk_partitions() was slow due to inspecting the + floppy disk drive also when "all" argument was False. + * #273: psutil.get_process_list() is deprecated. + * #274: psutil no longer requires 2to3 at installation time in order to work + with Python 3. + * #278: new Process.as_dict() method. + * #281: ppid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties of Process class + are now cached after being accessed. + * #282: psutil.STATUS_* constants can now be compared by using their string + representation. + * #283: speedup Process.is_running() by caching its return value in case the + process is terminated. + * #284: [POSIX] per-process number of opened file descriptors. + * #287: psutil.process_iter() now caches Process instances between calls. + * #290: Process.nice property is deprecated in favor of new get_nice() and + set_nice() methods. + +BUGFIXES + + * #193: psutil.Popen constructor can throw an exception if the spawned process + terminates quickly. + * #240: [OSX] incorrect use of free() for Process.get_connections(). + * #244: [POSIX] Process.wait() can hog CPU resources if called against a + process which is not our children. + * #248: [Linux] psutil.network_io_counters() might return erroneous NIC names. + * #252: [Windows] process getcwd() erroneously raise NoSuchProcess for + processes owned by another user. It now raises AccessDenied instead. + * #266: [Windows] psutil.get_pid_list() only shows 1024 processes. + (patch by Amoser) + * #267: [OSX] Process.get_connections() - an erroneous remote address was + returned. (Patch by Amoser) + * #272: [Linux] Porcess.get_open_files() - potential race condition can lead to + unexpected NoSuchProcess exception. Also, we can get incorrect reports + of not absolutized path names. + * #275: [Linux] Process.get_io_counters() erroneously raise NoSuchProcess on + old Linux versions. Where not available it now raises + NotImplementedError. + * #286: Process.is_running() doesn't actually check whether PID has been + reused. + * #314: Process.get_children() can sometimes return non-children. + +API CHANGES + + * Process.nice property is deprecated in favor of new get_nice() and set_nice() + methods. + * psutil.get_process_list() is deprecated. + * ppid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties of Process class are now + cached after being accessed, meaning NoSuchProcess will no longer be raised + in case the process is gone in the meantime. + * psutil.STATUS_* constants can now be compared by using their string + representation. + + +0.4.1 - 2011-12-14 +------------------ + +BUGFIXES + + * #228: some example scripts were not working with python 3. + * #230: [Windows / OSX] memory leak in Process.get_connections(). + * #232: [Linux] psutil.phymem_usage() can report erroneous values which are + different than "free" command. + * #236: [Windows] memory/handle leak in Process's get_memory_info(), + suspend() and resume() methods. + + +0.4.0 - 2011-10-29 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #150: network I/O counters. (OSX and Windows patch by Jeremy Whitlock) + * #154: [FreeBSD] add support for process getcwd() + * #157: [Windows] provide installer for Python 3.2 64-bit. + * #198: Process.wait(timeout=0) can now be used to make wait() return + immediately. + * #206: disk I/O counters. (OSX and Windows patch by Jeremy Whitlock) + * #213: examples/iotop.py script. + * #217: Process.get_connections() now has a "kind" argument to filter + for connections with different criteria. + * #221: [FreeBSD] Process.get_open_files has been rewritten in C and no longer + relies on lsof. + * #223: examples/top.py script. + * #227: examples/nettop.py script. + +BUGFIXES + + * #135: [OSX] psutil cannot create Process object. + * #144: [Linux] no longer support 0 special PID. + * #188: [Linux] psutil import error on Linux ARM architectures. + * #194: [POSIX] psutil.Process.get_cpu_percent() now reports a percentage over + 100 on multicore processors. + * #197: [Linux] Process.get_connections() is broken on platforms not supporting + IPv6. + * #200: [Linux] psutil.NUM_CPUS not working on armel and sparc architectures + and causing crash on module import. + * #201: [Linux] Process.get_connections() is broken on big-endian + architectures. + * #211: Process instance can unexpectedly raise NoSuchProcess if tested for + equality with another object. + * #218: [Linux] crash at import time on Debian 64-bit because of a missing line + in /proc/meminfo. + * #226: [FreeBSD] crash at import time on FreeBSD 7 and minor. + + +0.3.0 - 2011-07-08 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #125: system per-cpu percentage utilization and times. + * #163: per-process associated terminal (TTY). + * #171: added get_phymem() and get_virtmem() functions returning system + memory information (total, used, free) and memory percent usage. + total_* avail_* and used_* memory functions are deprecated. + * #172: disk usage statistics. + * #174: mounted disk partitions. + * #179: setuptools is now used in setup.py + +BUGFIXES + + * #159: SetSeDebug() does not close handles or unset impersonation on return. + * #164: [Windows] wait function raises a TimeoutException when a process + returns -1 . + * #165: process.status raises an unhandled exception. + * #166: get_memory_info() leaks handles hogging system resources. + * #168: psutil.cpu_percent() returns erroneous results when used in + non-blocking mode. (patch by Philip Roberts) + * #178: OSX - Process.get_threads() leaks memory + * #180: [Windows] Process's get_num_threads() and get_threads() methods can + raise NoSuchProcess exception while process still exists. + + +0.2.1 - 2011-03-20 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #64: per-process I/O counters. + * #116: per-process wait() (wait for process to terminate and return its exit + code). + * #134: per-process get_threads() returning information (id, user and kernel + times) about threads opened by process. + * #136: process executable path on FreeBSD is now determined by asking the + kernel instead of guessing it from cmdline[0]. + * #137: per-process real, effective and saved user and group ids. + * #140: system boot time. + * #142: per-process get and set niceness (priority). + * #143: per-process status. + * #147: per-process I/O nice (priority) - Linux only. + * #148: psutil.Popen class which tidies up subprocess.Popen and psutil.Process + in a unique interface. + * #152: [OSX] get_process_open_files() implementation has been rewritten + in C and no longer relies on lsof resulting in a 3x speedup. + * #153: [OSX] get_process_connection() implementation has been rewritten + in C and no longer relies on lsof resulting in a 3x speedup. + +BUGFIXES + + * #83: process cmdline is empty on OSX 64-bit. + * #130: a race condition can cause IOError exception be raised on + Linux if process disappears between open() and subsequent read() calls. + * #145: WindowsError was raised instead of psutil.AccessDenied when using + process resume() or suspend() on Windows. + * #146: 'exe' property on Linux can raise TypeError if path contains NULL + bytes. + * #151: exe and getcwd() for PID 0 on Linux return inconsistent data. + +API CHANGES + + * Process "uid" and "gid" properties are deprecated in favor of "uids" and + "gids" properties. + + +0.2.0 - 2010-11-13 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #79: per-process open files. + * #88: total system physical cached memory. + * #88: total system physical memory buffers used by the kernel. + * #91: per-process send_signal() and terminate() methods. + * #95: NoSuchProcess and AccessDenied exception classes now provide "pid", + "name" and "msg" attributes. + * #97: per-process children. + * #98: Process.get_cpu_times() and Process.get_memory_info now return + a namedtuple instead of a tuple. + * #103: per-process opened TCP and UDP connections. + * #107: add support for Windows 64 bit. (patch by cjgohlke) + * #111: per-process executable name. + * #113: exception messages now include process name and pid. + * #114: process username Windows implementation has been rewritten in pure + C and no longer uses WMI resulting in a big speedup. Also, pywin32 is no + longer required as a third-party dependancy. (patch by wj32) + * #117: added support for Windows 2000. + * #123: psutil.cpu_percent() and psutil.Process.cpu_percent() accept a + new 'interval' parameter. + * #129: per-process number of threads. + +BUGFIXES + + * #80: fixed warnings when installing psutil with easy_install. + * #81: psutil fails to compile with Visual Studio. + * #94: suspend() raises OSError instead of AccessDenied. + * #86: psutil didn't compile against FreeBSD 6.x. + * #102: orphaned process handles obtained by using OpenProcess in C were + left behind every time Process class was instantiated. + * #111: path and name Process properties report truncated or erroneous + values on UNIX. + * #120: cpu_percent() always returning 100% on OS X. + * #112: uid and gid properties don't change if process changes effective + user/group id at some point. + * #126: ppid, uid, gid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties are + no longer cached and correctly raise NoSuchProcess exception if the process + disappears. + +API CHANGES + + * psutil.Process.path property is deprecated and works as an alias for "exe" + property. + * psutil.Process.kill(): signal argument was removed - to send a signal to the + process use send_signal(signal) method instead. + * psutil.Process.get_memory_info() returns a nametuple instead of a tuple. + * psutil.cpu_times() returns a nametuple instead of a tuple. + * New psutil.Process methods: get_open_files(), get_connections(), + send_signal() and terminate(). + * ppid, uid, gid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties are no longer + cached and raise NoSuchProcess exception if process disappears. + * psutil.cpu_percent() no longer returns immediately (see issue 123). + * psutil.Process.get_cpu_percent() and psutil.cpu_percent() no longer returns + immediately by default (see issue 123). + + +0.1.3 - 2010-03-02 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #14: per-process username + * #51: per-process current working directory (Windows and Linux only) + * #59: Process.is_running() is now 10 times faster + * #61: added supoprt for FreeBSD 64 bit + * #71: implemented suspend/resume process + * #75: python 3 support + +BUGFIXES + + * #36: process cpu_times() and memory_info() functions succeeded also for + dead processes while a NoSuchProcess exception is supposed to be raised. + * #48: incorrect size for mib array defined in getcmdargs for BSD + * #49: possible memory leak due to missing free() on error condition on + * #50: fixed getcmdargs() memory fragmentation on BSD + * #55: test_pid_4 was failing on Windows Vista + * #57: some unit tests were failing on systems where no swap memory is + available + * #58: is_running() is now called before kill() to make sure we are going + to kill the correct process. + * #73: virtual memory size reported on OS X includes shared library size + * #77: NoSuchProcess wasn't raised on Process.create_time if kill() was + used first. + + +0.1.2 - 2009-05-06 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #32: Per-process CPU user/kernel times + * #33: Process create time + * #34: Per-process CPU utilization percentage + * #38: Per-process memory usage (bytes) + * #41: Per-process memory utilization (percent) + * #39: System uptime + * #43: Total system virtual memory + * #46: Total system physical memory + * #44: Total system used/free virtual and physical memory + +BUGFIXES + + * #36: [Windows] NoSuchProcess not raised when accessing timing methods. + * #40: test_get_cpu_times() failing on FreeBSD and OS X. + * #42: [Windows] get_memory_percent() raises AccessDenied. + + +0.1.1 - 2009-03-06 +------------------ + +NEW FEATURES + + * #4: FreeBSD support for all functions of psutil + * #9: Process.uid and Process.gid now retrieve process UID and GID. + * #11: Support for parent/ppid - Process.parent property returns a + Process object representing the parent process, and Process.ppid returns + the parent PID. + * #12 & 15: + NoSuchProcess exception now raised when creating an object + for a nonexistent process, or when retrieving information about a process + that has gone away. + * #21: AccessDenied exception created for raising access denied errors + from OSError or WindowsError on individual platforms. + * #26: psutil.process_iter() function to iterate over processes as + Process objects with a generator. + * #?: Process objects can now also be compared with == operator for equality + (PID, name, command line are compared). + +BUGFIXES + + * #16: [Windows] Special case for "System Idle Process" (PID 0) which + otherwise would return an "invalid parameter" exception. + * #17: get_process_list() ignores NoSuchProcess and AccessDenied + exceptions during building of the list. + * #22: [Windows] Process(0).kill() was failing with an unset exception. + * #23: Special case for pid_exists(0) + * #24: [Windows] Process(0).kill() now raises AccessDenied exception instead of + WindowsError. + * #30: psutil.get_pid_list() was returning two instances of PID 0 on OS + X and FreeBSD platforms. + + +0.1.0 - 2009-01-27 +------------------ + + * Initial release.