v0.14 (2012-04-22)

• Add pykka.__version__ to conform with PEP 396. This deprecates pykka.VERSION and pykka.get_version().

• Add pykka.ActorRef.tell() method in favor of now deprecated pykka.ActorRef.send_one_way().

• Add pykka.ActorRef.ask() method in favor of now deprecated pykka.ActorRef.send_request_reply().

• pykka.ThreadingFuture.set() no longer makes a copy of the object set on the future. The setter is urged to either only pass immutable objects through futures or copy the object himself before setting it on the future. This is a less safe default, but it removes unnecessary overhead in speed and memory usage for users of immutable data structures. For example, the Mopidy test suite of about 1000 tests, many of which are using Pykka, is still passing after this change, but the test suite runs approximately 20% faster.

v0.13 (2011-09-24)

• 10x speedup of traversable attribute access by reusing proxies.

• 1.1x speedup of callable attribute access by reusing proxies.

v0.12.4 (2011-07-30)

• Change and document order in which pykka.ActorRegistry.stop_all() stops actors. The new order is the reverse of the order the actors were started in. This should make stop_all() work for programs with simple dependency graphs in between the actors. For applications with more complex dependency graphs, the developer still needs to pay attention to the shutdown sequence. (Fixes: #8)

v0.12.3 (2011-06-25)

• If an actor that was stopped from pykka.Actor.on_start(), it would unregister properly, but start the receive loop and forever block on receiving incoming messages that would never arrive. This left the thread alive and isolated, ultimately blocking a clean shutdown of the program. The fix ensures that the receive loop is never executed if the actor is stopped before the receive loop is started.

• Set the thread name of any pykka.ThreadingActor to PykkaActorThread-N instead of the default Thread-N. This eases debugging by clearly labeling actor threads in e.g. the output of threading.enumerate().

• Add utility method pykka.ActorRegistry.broadcast() which broadcasts a message to all registered actors or to a given class of registered actors. (Fixes: #7)

• Allow multiple calls to pykka.ActorRegistry.unregister() with the same pykka.actor.ActorRef as argument without throwing a ValueError. (Fixes: #5)

• Make the pykka.ActorProxy's reference to its pykka.ActorRef public as pykka.ActorProxy.actor_ref. The ActorRef instance was already exposed as a public field by the actor itself using the same name, but making it public directly on the proxy makes it possible to do e.g. proxy.actor_ref.is_alive() without waiting for a potentially dead actor to return an ActorRef instance you can use. (Fixes: #3)

v0.12.2 (2011-05-05)

• Actors are now registered in pykka.registry.ActorRegistry before they are started. This fixes a race condition where an actor tried to stop and unregister itself before it was registered, causing an exception in ActorRegistry.unregister.

v0.12.1 (2011-04-25)

• Stop all running actors on BaseException instead of just KeyboardInterrupt, so that sys.exit(1) will work.

v0.12 (2011-03-30)

• First stable release, as Pykka now is used by the Mopidy project. From now on, a changelog will be maintained and we will strive for backward compatibility.