[Py4j-users] Py4J 0.8 Released!

[Barthelemy D. <bar...@in...>]

After two years, Py4J 0.8 has just been released!

Although I merged pull requests and fixed bugs during these two years,
my Ph.D., wedding, and new job made it difficult to find the time to
make a proper release. All happy events that made me busy life busier
:-)

This release includes the following new features:

- Major fix to the Java byte[] support. Thanks to @agronholm for
spotting this subtle but major issue and thanks to @fdinto from The
Atlantic for providing a patch!

- Ability to fail early if the py4j.java_gateway.JavaGateway cannot
connect to the JVM.

- Added support for long primitives, BigDecimal, enum types, and inner
classes on the Java side.

- Set saner log levels

- Many small bug fixes and API enhancements (backward compatible).

- Wrote a section in the FAQ about security concerns and precautions
with Py4J (http://py4j.sourceforge.net/faq.html#are-there-any-security-concerns-with-py4j).

- Added support of Travis-CI and cleaned up the test suite to remove
hardcoded paths (https://travis-ci.org/bartdag/py4j).

The specific issues are discussed on GitHub
(https://github.com/bartdag/py4j/issues?milestone=7&page=1&state=closed).

Installing Py4J is one pip away: pip install py4j

Again, feel free to contact me or to write a feature request on GitHub!

Cheers,
Barthélémy