Twisted 9 is in the works, first pre-release is available

Hi all! I've done an initial pre-release of Twisted 9. I've made available a set of tarballs (The one called Twisted-9.0.0pre1.tar.bz2 is the main release) and the release notes.

Please try out this prerelease and tell us about any regressions or other release-related problems you find. If all goes well, we want to hear about that too.

New OS X build slave

As some of you may recall, Apple lent Twisted an Xserve G5 a few years back. This was invaluable in maintaining Twisted support for OS X. A few weeks ago we unfortunately lost the ability to host this machine. Fortunately, David Reid came through and very generously donated a

which is now set up and running the Twisted test suite continuously. Thanks, David!