Alpha Release Announcement: v1.0.0a

[Daniel Farina]

Install v1.0.0a in a python3.4 or python3.5 installation:

  $ pip --version

  pip 8.1.2 from ... (python 3.5)

  $ pip install --pre wal-e[aws,azure,google,swift]==1.0.0a1

The release notes follow:

Release v1.0.0 contains the conversion WAL-E from a Python 2.7 to a

Python 3.4 and Python 3.5 project.  It also adds support for Google

Cloud Storage (Matt Wright, Daniel Farina, Samuel Kohonen).

In addition, all WAL-E storage backends have been made optional. Thus,

running ``pip install wal-e`` does not install any backends by

default.  One must instead write a command akin to ``pip install

wal-e[aws]``.  The valid options are:

* aws

* azure

* google

* swift

Finally, there are some detailed adjustments:

* Default parallelism for ``wal-push``/``wal-fetch`` has been

  increased to 32.

* 404 messages have been demoted to "INFO" rather than "WARNING"

  because they can happen routinely and continuously, particularly

  with ``standby_mode=on`` (earsdown).

* Top-level backups in Azure no longer create a nameless "directory"

  (Andrew Marks).

* WAL-E start-up log message has been suppressed in some noisy cases:

  ``wal-fetch``, ``wal-push``, ``wal-prefetch``.