Changelog

0.24.3

Recommended development release: Fedora 40

0.24.2

Recommended development release: Fedora 40

0.24.1

Recommended development release: Fedora 37

0.24.0

Recommended development release: Fedora 36

0.23.2

Recommended development release: Fedora 35

0.23.1

Recommended development release: Fedora 34

0.23.0

Recommended development release: Fedora 34

0.22.0 (Jan, 2020)

  • Add a six-enabled move for collections move imports: https://github.com/pyudev/pyudev/pull/386

  • Fix any newly introduced pylint errors

  • Numerous improvements or updates to the test infrastructure

  • A number of test updates

  • Require yapf 0.21.0 for Python formatting

  • Various documentation fixes and updates

0.21.0 (July 20, 2016)

  • Deprecate use of Device object as mapping from udev property names to values.

  • Add a Properties class and a Device.properties() method for udev properties.

  • Fix places where Device object was incorrectly used in a boolean context.

  • Return an empty string, not None, if the property value is an empty string.

  • Exceptions re-raised from libudev calls now have a message string.

  • Insert a warning about using a Device in a boolean context in docs.

  • Infrastructure for vagrant tests is removed.

  • Various internal refactorings.

  • Extensive test improvements.

  • Numerous documentation fixes.

0.20.0 (April 29, 2016)

  • Remove parsing code added in previous release.

  • No longer do CI for Python 2.6.

  • Eliminate all wildcard imports and __all__ statements.

  • No longer use deprecated Device.from_sys_path() method.

  • Minor pylint induced changes.

  • Documentation fixes.

0.19.0 (Feb 3, 2016)

  • Restore raising KeyError by Attributes.as* methods when attribute not found.

  • Explicitly require six module.

  • Never raise a DeviceNotFoundError when iterating over a device enumeration.

  • Device.subsystem() now returns None if device has no subsystem.

  • Add DeprecationWarnings to deprecated Device methods.

  • Replace “/” with “!” in Device.from_name() sys_name parameter.

  • Add some unstable classes for parsing some kinds of values.

  • Make version info more like Python’s including micro numbers and levels.

  • Refactor some internal modules into subdirectories.

  • Work on tests and reproducers.

0.18 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • DeviceNotFoundError is no longer a subtype of LookupError

  • Added support for pyqt5 monitor observer

  • Added discover module, which looks up a device on limited information

  • Attributes class no longer extends Mapping, extends object instead

  • Attributes class no longer inherits [] operator, Mapping methods

  • Attributes class objects are no longer iterable

  • Attributes.available_attributes property added

  • Attributes.get() method, with usual semantics, defined

  • Device.from_* methods are deprecated, uses Devices.from_* methods instead

  • Device.from_device_file() now raises DeviceNotFoundByFileError

  • Device.from_device_number() now raises DeviceNotFoundByNumberError

  • Devices.from_interface_index() method added

  • Devices.from_kernel_device() method added

  • Numerous testing infrastructure changes

0.17 (Aug 26, 2015)

  • #52: Remove global libudev object

  • #57: Really start the monitor on pyudev.Monitor.poll()

  • #60: Do not use select.select() to avoid hitting its file descriptor limit

  • #58: Force non-blocking IO in pyudev.Monitor to avoid blocking on receiving the device

  • #63: Set proper flags on pipe fds.

  • #65: Handle irregular polling events properly.

  • #50: Add pyudev.wx.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.wx.WxUDevMonitorObserver

  • #50: Add pyudev.glib.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver

  • #50: Add pyudev.pyqt4.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver

  • #50: Add pyudev.pyside.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.pyside.QUDevMonitorObserver

  • Add a wrapper function to retry interruptible system calls.

0.16.1 (Aug 02, 2012)

  • #53: Fix source distribution

  • #54: Fix typo in test

0.16 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • Remove pyudev.Monitor.from_socket().

  • Deprecate pyudev.Device.traverse() in favor of pyudev.Device.ancestors.

  • #47: Deprecate pyudev.Monitor.receive_device() in favor of pyudev.Monitor.poll.

  • #47: Deprecate pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving in favor of pyudev.Monitor.start.

  • #47: Deprecate pyudev.Monitor.__iter__ in favor of explicit looping or pyudev.MonitorObserver.

  • #49: Deprecate event_handler to pyudev.MonitorObserver in favour of callback argument.

  • #46: Continuously test pyudev on Travis-CI.

  • Add pyudev.Device.ancestors.

  • Add pyudev.Device.action.

  • #10: Add pyudev.Device.sequence_number.

  • #47: Add pyudev.Monitor.poll().

  • #47: Add pyudev.Monitor.started.

  • #49: Add callback argument to pyudev.Monitor.

  • pyudev.Monitor.start() can be called repeatedly.

  • #45: Get rid of 2to3

  • #43: Fix test failures on Python 2.6

  • Fix signature in declaration of udev_monitor_set_receive_buffer_size.

  • #44: Test wrapped signatures with help of gccxml.

  • Fix compatibility with udev 183 and newer in pyudev.Context.

  • pyudev.MonitorObserver.stop() can be called from the observer thread.

0.15 (Mar 1, 2012)

  • #20: Add remove_filter().

  • #40: Add user guide to the documentation.

  • #39: Add pyudev.Device.from_device_file().

  • errno.EINVAL from underlying libudev functions causes ValueError instead of EnvironmentError.

  • pyudev.MonitorObserver calls pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving() when started.

  • #20: pyudev.Monitor.filter_by() and pyudev.Monitor.filter_by_tag() can be called after pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving().

0.14 (Feb 10, 2012)

  • Host documentation at http://pyudev.readthedocs.org (thanks to the readthedocs.org team for this service)

  • #37: Add pyudev.wx.WxUDevMonitorObserver for wxPython (thanks to Tobias Eberle).

  • Add pyudev.MonitorObserver.

  • Add pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver.enabled, pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver.enabled and pyudev.pyside.QUDevMonitorObserver.enabled.

0.13 (Nov 4, 2011)

  • #36: Add pyudev.Monitor.set_receive_buffer_size() (thanks to Rémi Rérolle).

  • Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_parent().

  • Add parent keyword argument to pyudev.Enumerator.match().

  • #31: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_attribute().

  • Add nomatch argument to pyudev.Enumerator.match_subsystem() and pyudev.Enumerator.match_attribute().

  • Remove pyudev.Enumerator.match_children() in favour of pyudev.Enumerator.match_parent().

  • #34: pyudev.Device.tags returns a pyudev.Tags object.

  • pyudev.Device.children requires udev version 172 now

0.12 (Aug 31, 2011)

  • #32: Fix memory leak.

  • #33: Fix Python 3 support for pyudev.glib.

  • Fix license header in pyudev._compat.

0.11 (Jun 26, 2011)

  • #30: Add pyudev.Device.sys_number.

  • #29: Add pyudev.Device.from_device_number()

  • #29: Add pyudev.Device.device_number.

  • Support PyPy.

0.10 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • Add pyudev.__version_info__

  • Add pyudev.Device.device_type

  • pyudev.Context, pyudev.Enumerator, pyudev.Device and pyudev.Monitor can directly be passed to ctypes-wrapped functions.

  • #24: Add pyudev.Context.run_path.

0.9 (Mar 09, 2011)

  • #21: Add pyudev.Device.find_parent().

  • #22: Add pyudev.Monitor.filter_by_tag().

  • Add pyudev.Context.log_priority.

  • Improve error reporting, if libudev is missing.

0.8 (Jan 08, 2011)

  • #16: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match().

  • Add keyword arguments to pyudev.Context.list_devices().

  • #19: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_sys_name().

  • #18: Add pyudev.udev_version().

  • #17: Add pyudev.Device.is_initialized.

  • #17: Add pyudev.Device.time_since_initialized.

  • #17: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_is_initialized()

  • Fix support for earlier releases of udev.

  • Document minimum udev version for all affected attributes.

0.7 (Nov 15, 2010)

  • #15: Add pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver.

0.6 (Oct 03, 2010)

  • #8: Add pyudev.Device.tags.

  • #8: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_tag().

  • #11: Add pyudev.Device.from_environment()

  • #5: Add pyudev.pyside

  • #14: Remove apipkg dependency.

  • #14: Require explicit import of pyudev.pyqt4.

  • Fix licence headers in source files.

0.5 (Sep 06, 2010)

  • Support Python 3.

  • #6: Add pyudev.Device.attributes (thanks to Daniel Lazzari).

  • #6: Add pyudev.Attributes (thanks to Daniel Lazzari).

  • #7: pyudev.Device.context and pyudev.Monitor.context are part of the public API.

  • #9: Add pyudev.Device.driver.

  • #12: Add pyudev.Device.from_name().

  • Rename pyudev.NoSuchDeviceError to pyudev.DeviceNotFoundError.

  • pyudev.Device.from_sys_path() raises pyudev.DeviceNotFoundAtPathError.

  • #13: Fix AttributeError in pyudev.Device.device_node.

  • Improve and extend documentation.

  • Add more tests.

0.4 (Aug 23, 2010)

API changes

  • #3: Rename udev to pyudev.

  • #3: Rename qudev to pyudev.pyqt4.

  • Add pyudev.Device.from_path().

  • pyudev.Device.from_sys_path() raises pyudev.NoSuchDeviceError.

  • pyudev.Monitor.receive_device() raises EnvironmentError.

  • errno, strerror and filename attributes of EnvironmentError exceptions have meaningful content.

  • Fix NameError in pyudev.Monitor.from_socket()

  • subsystem argument to pyudev.Monitor.filter_by() is mandatory.

  • Delete underlying C objects if pyudev.Device is garbage-collected.

  • Fix broken signal emitting in pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver.

0.3 (Jul 28, 2010)

  • #1: Fix documentation to reflect the actual behaviour of the underlying API

  • Raise TypeError if udev.Device are compared with >, >=, < or <=.

  • Add udev.Enumerator.match_children().

  • Add udev.Device.children.

  • Add qudev.QUDevMonitorObserver.deviceChanged().

  • Add qudev.QUDevMonitorObserver.deviceMoved().

0.2 (Jun 28, 2010)

  • Add udev.Monitor.

  • Add udev.Device.asbool().

  • Add udev.Device.asint().

  • Remove type magic in udev.Device.__getitem__().

  • Add qudev.

0.1 (May 03, 2010)

  • Initial release.

  • Add udev.Context.

  • Add udev.Device.

  • Add udev.Enumerator.