What’s new in Tornado 4.5

Apr 16, 2017

Backwards-compatibility warning

  • The tornado.websocket module now imposes a limit on the size of incoming messages, which defaults to 10MiB.

New module

General changes

  • Reduced the number of circular references, reducing memory usage and improving performance.

tornado.auth

  • The tornado.auth module has been updated for compatibility with a change to Facebook’s access_token endpoint. This includes both the changes initially released in Tornado 4.4.3 and an additional change to support the `session_expires field in the new format. The session_expires field is currently a string; it should be accessed as int(user['session_expires']) because it will change from a string to an int in Tornado 5.0.

tornado.autoreload

  • Autoreload is now compatible with the asyncio event loop.

  • Autoreload no longer attempts to close the IOLoop and all registered file descriptors before restarting; it relies on the CLOEXEC flag being set instead.

tornado.concurrent

  • Suppressed some “‘NoneType’ object not callback” messages that could be logged at shutdown.

tornado.gen

  • yield None is now equivalent to yield gen.moment. moment is deprecated. This improves compatibility with asyncio.

  • Fixed an issue in which a generator object could be garbage collected prematurely (most often when weak references are used.

  • New function is_coroutine_function identifies functions wrapped by coroutine or engine.

tornado.http1connection

  • The Transfer-Encoding header is now parsed case-insensitively.

tornado.httpclient

  • SimpleAsyncHTTPClient now follows 308 redirects.

  • CurlAsyncHTTPClient will no longer accept protocols other than http and https. To override this, set pycurl.PROTOCOLS and pycurl.REDIR_PROTOCOLS in a prepare_curl_callback.

  • CurlAsyncHTTPClient now supports digest authentication for proxies (in addition to basic auth) via the new proxy_auth_mode argument.

  • The minimum supported version of libcurl is now 7.22.0.

tornado.httpserver

  • HTTPServer now accepts the keyword argument trusted_downstream which controls the parsing of X-Forwarded-For headers. This header may be a list or set of IP addresses of trusted proxies which will be skipped in the X-Forwarded-For list.

  • The no_keep_alive argument works again.

tornado.httputil

  • url_concat correctly handles fragments and existing query arguments.

tornado.ioloop

  • Fixed 100% CPU usage after a callback returns an empty list or dict.

  • IOLoop.add_callback now uses a lockless implementation which makes it safe for use from __del__ methods. This improves performance of calls to add_callback from the IOLoop thread, and slightly decreases it for calls from other threads.

tornado.iostream

  • memoryview objects are now permitted as arguments to write.

  • The internal memory buffers used by IOStream now use bytearray instead of a list of bytes, improving performance.

  • Futures returned by write are no longer orphaned if a second call to write occurs before the previous one is finished.

tornado.log

  • Colored log output is now supported on Windows if the colorama library is installed and the application calls colorama.init() at startup.

  • The signature of the LogFormatter constructor has been changed to make it compatible with logging.config.dictConfig.

tornado.netutil

  • Worked around an issue that caused “LookupError: unknown encoding: latin1” errors on Solaris.

tornado.process

  • Subprocess no longer causes “subprocess still running” warnings on Python 3.6.

  • Improved error handling in cpu_count.

tornado.tcpclient

  • TCPClient now supports a source_ip and source_port argument.

  • Improved error handling for environments where IPv6 support is incomplete.

tornado.tcpserver

tornado.web

tornado.websocket

  • WebSocketHandler.on_message implementations may now be coroutines. New messages will not be processed until the previous on_message coroutine has finished.

  • The websocket_ping_interval and websocket_ping_timeout application settings can now be used to enable a periodic ping of the websocket connection, allowing dropped connections to be detected and closed.

  • The new websocket_max_message_size setting defaults to 10MiB. The connection will be closed if messages larger than this are received.

  • Headers set by RequestHandler.prepare or RequestHandler.set_default_headers are now sent as a part of the websocket handshake.

  • Return values from WebSocketHandler.get_compression_options may now include the keys compression_level and mem_level to set gzip parameters. The default compression level is now 6 instead of 9.

Demos

  • A new file upload demo is available in the file_upload directory.

  • A new TCPClient and TCPServer demo is available in the tcpecho directory.

  • Minor updates have been made to several existing demos, including updates to more recent versions of jquery.

Credits

The following people contributed commits to this release:

  • A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

  • Aaron Opfer

  • Akihiro Yamazaki

  • Alexander

  • Andreas Røsdal

  • Andrew Rabert

  • Andrew Sumin

  • Antoine Pietri

  • Antoine Pitrou

  • Artur Stawiarski

  • Ben Darnell

  • Brian Mego

  • Dario

  • Doug Vargas

  • Eugene Dubovoy

  • Iver Jordal

  • JZQT

  • James Maier

  • Jeff Hunter

  • Leynos

  • Mark Henderson

  • Michael V. DePalatis

  • Min RK

  • Mircea Ulinic

  • Ping

  • Ping Yang

  • Riccardo Magliocchetti

  • Samuel Chen

  • Samuel Dion-Girardeau

  • Scott Meisburger

  • Shawn Ding

  • TaoBeier

  • Thomas Kluyver

  • Vadim Semenov

  • matee

  • mike820324

  • stiletto

  • zhimin

  • 依云