- update to 1.13.1:
* :support:`256 backported` Convert API documentation to Sphinx, yielding a new
API docs website to replace the old Epydoc one.
* :bug:`-` Use constant-time hash comparison operations where possible, to
protect against `timing-based attacks
`_. Thanks to Alex Gaynor
for the patch.
* :feature:`58` Allow client code to access the stored SSH server banner via
`Transport.get_banner `. Thanks to
``@Jhoanor`` for the patch.
* :bug:`252` (`Fabric #1020 `_)
Enhanced the implementation of ``ProxyCommand`` to avoid a deadlock/hang
condition that frequently occurs at ``Transport`` shutdown time. Thanks to
Mateusz Kobos, Matthijs van der Vleuten and Guillaume Zitta for the original
reports and to Marius Gedminas for helping test nontrivial use cases.
* :bug:`268` Fix some missed renames of ``ProxyCommand`` related error classes.
Thanks to Marius Gedminas for catch & patch.
* :bug:`34` (PR :issue:`35`) Fix SFTP prefetching incompatibility with some
SFTP servers regarding request/response ordering. Thanks to Richard
Kettlewell.
* :bug:`193` (and its attentant PRs :issue:`230` & :issue:`253`) Fix SSH agent
problems present on Windows. Thanks to David Hobbs for initial report and to
Aarni Koskela & Olle Lundberg for the patches.
* :bug:`225 (1.12+)` Note ecdsa requirement in README. Thanks to Amaury
Rodriguez for the catch.
* :bug:`176` Fix AttributeError bugs in known_hosts file (re)loading. Thanks
to Nathan Scowcroft for the patch & Martin Blumenstingl for the initial test
case. (forwarded request 235923 from dirkmueller)