[Py4j-users] Py4J 0.7 Released

[Barthelemy D. <ba...@us...>]

Py4J 0.7 has just been released!

This release includes the following new features:

- Major refactoring to support Python 3. Thanks to Alex Grönholm for his 
patch.

- The build and setup files have been totally changed. Py4J no longer 
requires Paver to build and everything is done through ant. The setup.py 
file only uses distutils.

- Added support for Java byte[]: byte array are passed by value and 
converted to bytearray or bytes.

- Py4J package name changed from Py4J to py4j.

- Bug fixes in the Python callback server and unicode support.

The specific issues are discussed on GitHub:
https://github.com/bartdag/py4j/issues?labels=v0.7&sort=created&direction=desc&state=closed&page=1

Although I'm still using Py4J everyday, I do not need many more features 
so future development will be mostly driven by feature requests and bug 
reports. Feel free to contact me or to write a feature request on GitHub!

Cheers,
Barthélémy