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 =============
  0.10 series
 =============
 
 Release 0.10.1
 ==============
 
 IPython 0.10.1 was released October 11, 2010, over a year after version 0.10.
 This is mostly a bugfix release, since after version 0.10 was released, the
 development team's energy has been focused on the 0.11 series.  We have
 nonetheless tried to backport what fixes we could into 0.10.1, as it remains
 the stable series that many users have in production systems they rely on.
 
 Since the 0.11 series changes many APIs in backwards-incompatible ways, we are
 willing to continue maintaining the 0.10.x series.  We don't really have time
 to actively write new code for 0.10.x, but we are happy to accept patches and
 pull requests on the IPython `github site`_.  If sufficient contributions are
 made that improve 0.10.1, we will roll them into future releases.  For this
 purpose, we will have a branch called 0.10.2 on github, on which you can base
 your contributions.
 
 .. _github site: http://github.com/ipython
 
 For this release, we applied approximately 60 commits totaling a diff of over
 7000 lines::
 
     (0.10.1)amirbar[dist]> git diff --oneline rel-0.10.. | wc -l
     7296
 
 Highlights of this release:
 
 - The only significant new feature is that IPython's parallel computing
   machinery now supports natively the Sun Grid Engine and LSF schedulers.  This
   work was a joint contribution from Justin Riley, Satra Ghosh and Matthieu
   Brucher, who put a lot of work into it.  We also improved traceback handling
   in remote tasks, as well as providing better control for remote task IDs.
 
-- New IPython Sphinx directive.  You can use this directive to mark blocks in
-  reSructuredText documents as containig IPython syntax (including figures) and
-  the will be executed during the build::
+- New IPython Sphinx directive contributed by John Hunter.  You can use this
+  directive to mark blocks in reSructuredText documents as containig IPython
+  syntax (including figures) and the will be executed during the build::
 
   .. ipython::
 
       In [2]: plt.figure()  # ensure a fresh figure
 
       @savefig psimple.png width=4in
       In [3]: plt.plot([1,2,3])
       Out[3]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x9b74d8c>]
 
 - Various fixes to the standalone ipython-wx application.
 
 - We now ship internally the excellent argparse library, graciously licensed
   under BSD terms by Steven Bethard.  Now (2010) that argparse has become part
   of Python 2.7 this will be less of an issue, but Steven's relicensing allowed
   us to start updating IPython to using argparse well before Python 2.7.  Many
   thanks!
 
 - Robustness improvements so that IPython doesn't crash if the readline library
   is absent (though obviously a lot of functionality that requires readline
   will not be available).
 
 - Improvements to tab completion in Emacs with Python 2.6.
 
 - Logging now supports timestamps (see ``%logstart?`` for full details).
 
 - A long-standing and quite annoying bug where parentheses would be added to
   ``print`` statements, under Python 2.5 and 2.6, was finally fixed.
 
 - Improved handling of libreadline on Apple OSX.
 
 - Fix ``reload`` method of IPython demos, which was broken.
 
 - Fixes for the ipipe/ibrowse system on OSX.
 
 - Fixes for Zope profile.
 
 - Fix %timeit reporting when the time is longer than 1000s.
 
 - Avoid lockups with ? or ?? in SunOS, due to a bug in termios.
 
 - The usual assortment of miscellaneous bug fixes and small improvements.
 
 The following people contributed to this release (please let us know if we
 omitted your name and we'll gladly fix this in the notes for the future):
 
 * Beni Cherniavsky
 * Boyd Waters.
 * David Warde-Farley
 * Fernando Perez
 * Gökhan Sever
+* John Hunter
 * Justin Riley
 * Kiorky
 * Laurent Dufrechou
 * Mark E. Smith
 * Matthieu Brucher
 * Satrajit Ghosh
 * Sebastian Busch
 * Václav Šmilauer
 
 Release 0.10
 ============
 
 This release brings months of slow but steady development, and will be the last
 before a major restructuring and cleanup of IPython's internals that is already
 under way.  For this reason, we hope that 0.10 will be a stable and robust
 release so that while users adapt to some of the API changes that will come
 with the refactoring that will become IPython 0.11, they can safely use 0.10 in
 all existing projects with minimal changes (if any).
 
 IPython 0.10 is now a medium-sized project, with roughly (as reported by David
 Wheeler's :command:`sloccount` utility) 40750 lines of Python code, and a diff
 between 0.9.1 and this release that contains almost 28000 lines of code and
 documentation.  Our documentation, in PDF format, is a 495-page long PDF
 document (also available in HTML format, both generated from the same sources).
 
 Many users and developers contributed code, features, bug reports and ideas to
 this release.  Please do not hesitate in contacting us if we've failed to
 acknowledge your contribution here.  In particular, for this release we have
 contribution from the following people, a mix of new and regular names (in
 alphabetical order by first name):
 
 * Alexander Clausen: fix #341726.
 * Brian Granger: lots of work everywhere (features, bug fixes, etc).
 * Daniel Ashbrook: bug report on MemoryError during compilation, now fixed.
 * Darren Dale: improvements to documentation build system, feedback, design
   ideas.
 * Fernando Perez: various places.
 * Gaël Varoquaux: core code, ipythonx GUI, design discussions, etc. Lots...
 * John Hunter: suggestions, bug fixes, feedback.
 * Jorgen Stenarson: work on many fronts, tests, fixes, win32 support, etc.
 * Laurent Dufréchou: many improvements to ipython-wx standalone app.
 * Lukasz Pankowski: prefilter, `%edit`, demo improvements.
 * Matt Foster: TextMate support in `%edit`.
 * Nathaniel Smith: fix #237073.
 * Pauli Virtanen: fixes and improvements to extensions, documentation.
 * Prabhu Ramachandran: improvements to `%timeit`.
 * Robert Kern: several extensions.
 * Sameer D'Costa: help on critical bug #269966.
 * Stephan Peijnik: feedback on Debian compliance and many man pages.
 * Steven Bethard: we are now shipping his :mod:`argparse` module.
 * Tom Fetherston: many improvements to :mod:`IPython.demo` module.
 * Ville Vainio: lots of work everywhere (features, bug fixes, etc).
 * Vishal Vasta: ssh support in ipcluster.
 * Walter Doerwald: work on the :mod:`IPython.ipipe` system.
 
 Below we give an overview of new features, bug fixes and backwards-incompatible
 changes.  For a detailed account of every change made, feel free to view the
 project log with :command:`bzr log`.
 
 New features
 ------------
 
 * New `%paste` magic automatically extracts current contents of clipboard and
   pastes it directly, while correctly handling code that is indented or
   prepended with `>>>` or `...` python prompt markers.  A very useful new
   feature contributed by Robert Kern.
 
 * IPython 'demos', created with the :mod:`IPython.demo` module, can now be
   created from files on disk or strings in memory.  Other fixes and
   improvements to the demo system, by Tom Fetherston.
 
 * Added :func:`find_cmd` function to :mod:`IPython.platutils` module, to find
   commands in a cross-platform manner.
 
 * Many improvements and fixes to Gaël Varoquaux's :command:`ipythonx`, a
   WX-based lightweight IPython instance that can be easily embedded in other WX
   applications.  These improvements have made it possible to now have an
   embedded IPython in Mayavi and other tools.
 
 * :class:`MultiengineClient` objects now have a :meth:`benchmark` method.
 
 * The manual now includes a full set of auto-generated API documents from the
   code sources, using Sphinx and some of our own support code.  We are now
   using the `Numpy Documentation Standard`_  for all docstrings, and we have
   tried to update as many existing ones as possible to this format.
 
 * The new :mod:`IPython.Extensions.ipy_pretty` extension by Robert Kern
   provides configurable pretty-printing.
 
 * Many improvements to the :command:`ipython-wx` standalone WX-based IPython
   application by Laurent Dufréchou.  It can optionally run in a thread, and
   this can be toggled at runtime (allowing the loading of Matplotlib in a
   running session without ill effects).
 
 * IPython includes a copy of Steven Bethard's argparse_ in the
   :mod:`IPython.external` package, so we can use it internally and it is also
   available to any IPython user.  By installing it in this manner, we ensure
   zero conflicts with any system-wide installation you may already have while
   minimizing external dependencies for new users.  In IPython 0.10, We ship
   argparse version 1.0.
 
 * An improved and much more robust test suite, that runs groups of tests in
   separate subprocesses using either Nose or Twisted's :command:`trial` runner
   to ensure proper management of Twisted-using code.  The test suite degrades
   gracefully if optional dependencies are not available, so that the
   :command:`iptest` command can be run with only Nose installed and nothing
   else.  We also have more and cleaner test decorators to better select tests
   depending on runtime conditions, do setup/teardown, etc.
 
 * The new ipcluster now has a fully working ssh mode that should work on
   Linux, Unix and OS X.  Thanks to Vishal Vatsa for implementing this!
 
 * The wonderful TextMate editor can now be used with %edit on OS X.  Thanks
   to Matt Foster for this patch.
 
 * The documentation regarding parallel uses of IPython, including MPI and PBS,
   has been significantly updated and improved.
 
 * The developer guidelines in the documentation have been updated to explain
   our workflow using :command:`bzr` and Launchpad.
   
 * Fully refactored :command:`ipcluster` command line program for starting
   IPython clusters.  This new version is a complete rewrite and 1) is fully
   cross platform (we now use Twisted's process management), 2) has much
   improved performance, 3) uses subcommands for different types of clusters, 4)
   uses argparse for parsing command line options, 5) has better support for
   starting clusters using :command:`mpirun`, 6) has experimental support for
   starting engines using PBS.  It can also reuse FURL files, by appropriately
   passing options to its subcommands.  However, this new version of ipcluster
   should be considered a technology preview.  We plan on changing the API in
   significant ways before it is final.
 
 * Full description of the security model added to the docs.
 
 * cd completer: show bookmarks if no other completions are available.
 
 * sh profile: easy way to give 'title' to prompt: assign to variable
   '_prompt_title'. It looks like this::
       
         [~]|1> _prompt_title = 'sudo!'
         sudo![~]|2>
 
 * %edit: If you do '%edit pasted_block', pasted_block variable gets updated
   with new data (so repeated editing makes sense)
 
 .. _Numpy Documentation Standard: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines#docstring-standard
 
 .. _argparse: http://code.google.com/p/argparse/
 
 Bug fixes
 ---------
 
 * Fix #368719, removed top-level debian/ directory to make the job of Debian
   packagers easier.
   
 * Fix #291143 by including man pages contributed by Stephan Peijnik from the
   Debian project.
 
 * Fix #358202, effectively a race condition, by properly synchronizing file
   creation at cluster startup time.
 
 * `%timeit` now handles correctly functions that take a long time to execute
   even the first time, by not repeating them.
 
 * Fix #239054, releasing of references after exiting.
 
 * Fix #341726, thanks to Alexander Clausen.
 
 * Fix #269966.  This long-standing and very difficult bug (which is actually a
   problem in Python itself) meant long-running sessions would inevitably grow
   in memory size, often with catastrophic consequences if users had large
   objects in their scripts.  Now, using `%run` repeatedly should not cause any
   memory leaks.  Special thanks to John Hunter and Sameer D'Costa for their
   help with this bug.
 
 * Fix #295371, bug in `%history`.
 
 * Improved support for py2exe.
 
 * Fix #270856: IPython hangs with PyGTK
 
 * Fix #270998: A magic with no docstring breaks the '%magic magic'
 
 * fix #271684: -c startup commands screw up raw vs. native history
 
 * Numerous bugs on Windows with the new ipcluster have been fixed.
 
 * The ipengine and ipcontroller scripts now handle missing furl files
   more gracefully by giving better error messages.
 
 * %rehashx: Aliases no longer contain dots. python3.0 binary
   will create alias python30. Fixes:
   #259716 "commands with dots in them don't work"
 
 * %cpaste: %cpaste -r repeats the last pasted block.
   The block is assigned to pasted_block even if code
   raises exception.
 
 * Bug #274067 'The code in get_home_dir is broken for py2exe' was
   fixed.
 
 * Many other small bug fixes not listed here by number (see the bzr log for
   more info).
   
 Backwards incompatible changes
 ------------------------------
 
 * `ipykit` and related files were unmaintained and have been removed.
 
 * The :func:`IPython.genutils.doctest_reload` does not actually call
   `reload(doctest)` anymore, as this was causing many problems with the test
   suite.  It still resets `doctest.master` to None.
 
 * While we have not deliberately broken Python 2.4 compatibility, only minor
   testing was done with Python 2.4, while 2.5 and 2.6 were fully tested.  But
   if you encounter problems with 2.4, please do report them as bugs.
 
 * The :command:`ipcluster` now requires a mode argument; for example to start a
   cluster on the local machine with 4 engines, you must now type::
 
     $ ipcluster local -n 4
 
 * The controller now has a ``-r`` flag that needs to be used if you want to
   reuse existing furl files.  Otherwise they are deleted (the default).
 
 * Remove ipy_leo.py. You can use :command:`easy_install ipython-extension` to
   get it.  (done to decouple it from ipython release cycle)