This has been a hard blog post to write; not in a technical sense (though blogging always is - it’s why I don’t do more of it!) but simply because Fabric 2 has been “coming soon” for what feels like ages, and putting it out in the open turns out to involve a lot of emotions.
But here we are: Fabric 2 is no longer private!
The next round of Paramiko releases is now out on PyPI, including – as previewed here – 2.0!
For some time now, plans to switch Paramiko’s crypto backend from PyCrypto to PyCA’s Cryptography have been in motion. (Sometimes, slow-motion. Sorry.) These efforts are drawing to a close, and because they represent a nontrivial change in install dependencies – even though there aren’t any public API changes – we’re going to call the result Paramiko 2.0.
A bunch of notes about Paramiko, Fabric and Invoke, such as their websites, their Python 3 support, and more! With copious exclamation points!
Life has continued to conspire against me, but this particular Friday I successfully wrested some time from other responsibilities and put out a couple of releases.
Deciding when to release software can be difficult. Releasing after every patch or merge is typically too much, though some argue otherwise: it depends how you define “often” in “release early, release often”.
The other options are “whenever you feel like it” and “have a specific schedule”.
Until now I’ve always gone with that middle option, waiting until a large-enough set of changes had piled up to merit a new release.
Some quick release-note style announcements for Fabric and Paramiko!
Just some quick announcements this time!
I run a handful of related open source projects, and two of them are merging. Specifically: the Python ‘ssh’ library is merging with Paramiko, of which it was a public fork. The bulk of the work for this merger is already done, and new releases of Paramiko and Fabric (the high level library which has over time used both Paramiko and ‘ssh’) will be out soon.
Implied by the above: I am now the maintainer of Paramiko! Huge thanks to Robey Pointer for creating it & maintaining the project for nearly a decade. I can only hope folks are still using software I wrote ten years out.