For newer changes please look at the comments for the Git tags: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker/tags
For more details the commit log for the master branch could be useful: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker/commits/master
1.5:
- Moved tests to prevent collisions with other packages
1.4:
- Added optional file open parameters
1.3:
- Improved documentation
- Added file handle to locking exceptions
1.2:
- Added signed releases and tags to PyPI and Git
1.1:
- Added support for Python 3.6+
- Using real time to calculate timeout
1.0:
- Complete code refactor.
- Splitting of code in logical classes
- 100% test coverage and change in API behaviour
- The default behavior of the Lock class has changed to append instead of write/truncate.
0.6:
- Added msvcrt support for Windows
0.5:
- Python 3 support
0.4:
Fixing a few bugs, added coveralls support, switched to py.test and added 100% test coverage.
- Fixing exception thrown when fail_when_locked is true
- Fixing exception "Lock object has no attribute '_release_lock'" when fail_when_locked is true due to the call to Lock._release_lock() which fails because _release_lock is not defined.
0.3:
- Now actually returning the file descriptor from the Lock class
0.2:
- Added Lock class to help prevent cache race conditions
0.1:
- Initial release