Twisted 2.5.0 released

Get Twisted: http://twistedmatrix.com/

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications which
works on Python 2.3.x, 2.4.x, and 2.5.x.

Twisted 2.5.0 is a major feature release, with several interesting new
developments and a great number of bug fixes. Some of the highlights
follow.

 * AMP, the Asynchronous Messaging Protocol, was introduced.  AMP is a
protocol which provides request/response semantics over a persistent
connection in a very simple and extensible manner.

 * An Epoll-based reactor was added, which can be used with twistd or
trial by passing "-r epoll" on the command line. This may improve
performance of certain high-traffic network applications.

 * The 'twistd' command can now accept sub-commands which name an
application to run. For example, 'twistd web --path .' will start a
web server serving files out of the current directory. This
functionality is meant to replace the old way of doing things with
'mktap' and 'twistd -f'.

 * Python 2.5 is now supported. Previous releases of Twisted were
broken by changes in the release of Python 2.5.

 * 'inlineCallbacks' was added, which allows taking advantage of the
new 'yield' expression syntax in Python 2.5 to avoid writing callbacks
for Deferreds.

 * Many improvements were made to the Jabber support in twisted.words.

Hit http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads to see what's new and
to get the latest downloads, including tarballs and Windows
installers.

Again thanks to Jean-Paul Calderone and Cory Dodt for helping get this
release out the door, and thanks to all the Twisted contributors whose
work went into Twisted 2.5.

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