News

0.3.0

  • Pass open file objects to lxml instead of filenames. Apparently lxml can segfault in some circumstances if you pass a filename for it to open multiple times. (kiorky)
  • Reorganized pyref documentation into a single document for easier reference.
  • Added a document on configuring Deliverance with Paste Deploy.

0.3c4

  • Characters <, >, and & are no longer escaped when they appear within a CDATA section in XHTML output mode.
  • The theme’s doctype is now given priority over the content doctype, to give users more control over the output format.

0.3c3

  • The paste.deploy configuration and middleware factory now accept a theme_uri parameter.

    If used, this will be the global default theme uri. It will be used if no theme is defined within the ruleset.

  • Internal subrequests that return non-200 response codes are now retried as external HTTP requests. (#16)

  • Request/response matching in <rule> elements now work. (#6)

  • <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type”> tags are no longer stripped from documents. Instead, they are always included in the output of Deliverance, with a default charset of ASCII. (#34)

  • CDATA sections in XHTML documents are left as-is instead of being incorrectly escaped. (#36)

  • Before applying the rules, Deliverance now moves the <meta> tag with a charset declaration to be the first child of the <head> element, if both are present. This ensures that non-ASCII characters in the <head> are converted to the correct HTML sequences. (#12)

  • There is now a garbage-collecting WSGI middleware deliverance.garbagecollect, disabled by default, which calls gc.collect() after every request. This was added after a report (unconfirmed) of potential memory leaks when using some versions of lxml. (#22)

    You can use it with deliverance-proxy –garbage-collect or, in paste.deploy configurations, filter your app with use = egg:Deliverance#garbagecollect.

0.3c2

  • FileRuleGetter now reloads the rules file on every request if Deliverance is initialized with debug=true.
  • If the content document declares an XHTML doctype, then the output will be valid XML. (#28)
  • If the content document declares any doctype, that doctype will be preserved in the output. Otherwise, the theme’s doctype will be used if present. If neither document has a doctype, the default is HTML 4.0 Transitional. (#28)
  • rule_uri can now be a file:// URI
  • You can now set execute_pyref=true in Paste Deploy .ini file to allow pyrefs in the rules when using the Deliverance middleware directly.
  • Fixed “join_attributes tries to join on list and set which is not valid” (#18)
  • Fixed util.filetourl breakage on Windows. (#13)
  • Added XInclude support in rules file.
  • Empty links in the theme like <a href=”“> both work now; in the last release Deliverance would throw an error when trying to parse these. (#31)
  • When fetching the content document, responses with Content-Length:0 will be passed through to the client. Previously these would cause an error. (#25)

0.3 prerelease

  • Add a monkeypatch for Paste to work around a long unsolved robustness bug.
  • Correctly handle in-document links in the theme. Patch from Michael Dunstan. This fixes #19 and #31.
  • Added deliverance.middleware:FileRuleGetter
  • Added Paste Deploy entry point (egg:Deliverance).
  • Plenty more

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