This is the Blinker 1.9.0 feature release. A feature release may include new features, remove previously deprecated code, add new deprecations, or introduce potentially breaking changes. We encourage everyone to upgrade, and to use a tool such as pip-tools to pin all dependencies and control upgrades. Test with warnings treated as errors to be able to adapt to deprecation warnings early.

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/blinker/1.9.0/
Changes: https://blinker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#version-1-9-0
Milestone: https://github.com/pallets-eco/blinker/milestone/1?closed=1

• Drop support for Python 3.8. #175
• Remove previously deprecated __version__, receiver_connected, Signal.temporarily_connected_to and WeakNamespace. #172
• Skip weakref signal cleanup if the interpreter is shutting down. #173

This is the Blinker 1.8.2 fix release, which fixes bugs but does not otherwise change behavior and should not result in breaking changes.

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/blinker/1.8.2/
Changes: https://blinker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#version-1-8-2

• Simplify type for _async_wrapper and _sync_wrapper arguments. #156

This is the Blinker 1.8.1 fix release, which fixes bugs but does not otherwise change behavior and should not result in breaking changes.

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/blinker/1.8.1/
Changes: https://blinker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#version-1-8-1

• Restore identity handling for str and int senders. #148
• Fix deprecated blinker.base.WeakNamespace import. #149
• Fix deprecated blinker.base.receiver_connected import. #153
• Use types from collections.abc instead of typing. #150
• Fully specify exported types as reported by pyright. #152

This is the Blinker 1.8.0 feature release, which may include new features, remove previously deprecated code, or add new deprecations. The 1.8.x line is now the supported fix branch, support has ended for the 1.7.x line. We encourage everyone to upgrade, and to use a tool such as pip-tools to pin all dependencies and control upgrades. Test with warnings treated as errors to be able to adapt to deprecation warnings early.

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/blinker/1.8.0/
Changes: https://blinker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#version-1-8-0

• Deprecate the __version__ attribute. Use feature detection, or importlib.metadata.version("blinker"), instead. #128
• Specify that the deprecated temporarily_connected_to will be removed in the next version.
• Show a deprecation warning for the deprecated global receiver_connected signal and specify that it will be removed in the next version.
• Show a deprecation warning for the deprecated WeakNamespace and specify that it will be removed in the next version.
• Greatly simplify how the library uses weakrefs. This is a significant change internally but should not affect any public API. #144
• Expose the namespace used by signal() as default_namespace. #145

release version 1.6.3

Blinker has moved to Pallets-Eco, an organization for community maintenance of projects related to Pallets, Flask, etc. If you use Blinker and are interested in helping maintain the project, please join us in Discord Chat https://discord.gg/pallets.

This release fixes some compatibility with Python >= 3.7. Python < 3.7, including 2.7 and Jython, should still work for this release, but will no longer be supported in the next release.

The documentation has moved to Read the Docs https://blinker.readthedocs.io.