AsyncSSH 2.9.0 released!

[Ron Frederick]

AsyncSSH version 2.9.0 is now available on Github and PyPI, with some new features and bug fixes. Here’s a list of changes since 2.8.1:

* Added mypy-compatible type annotations to all AsyncSSH modules, and a
"py.typed" file to signal that annotations are now available for this
package.

* Added experimental support for SFTP versions 4-6. While AsyncSSH still
defaults to only advertising version 3 when acting as both a client and
a server, applications can explicitly enable support for later versions,
which will be used if both ends of the connection agree. Not all features
are fully supported, but a number of useful enhancements are now
available, including as users and groups specified by name, higher
resolution timestamps, and more granular error reporting.

* Updated documentation to make it clear that keys from a PKCS11 provider
or ssh-agent will be used even when client_keys is specified, unless
those sources are explicitly disabled.

* Improved handling of task cancellation in AsyncSSH to avoid triggering
an error of "Future exception was never retrieved". Thanks go to Krzysztof
Kotlenga for reporting this issue and providing test code to reliably
reproduce it.

* Changed implementation of OpenSSH keepalive handler to improve
interoperability with servers which don't expect a "success" response
when this message is sent.

Downloads can be found in the usual place:

Home page: http://asyncssh.readthedocs.io
PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncssh
GitHub: https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh

Please let me know if you have any questions or problems with this new release.
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Ron Frederick
ro...@timeheart.net