RevDB released, v5.4.1

Hi all,

The first beta version of RevDB is out! Remember that RevDB is a reverse debugger for Python. The idea is that it is a debugger that can run forward and backward in time, letting you more easily understand your subtle bug in your big Python program.

RevDB should work on almost any Python program. Even if you are normally only using CPython, trying to reproduce the bug with RevDB is similar to trying to run the program on a regular PyPy---usually it just works, even if not quite always.

News from the alpha version in the previous blog post include notably support for:

• Threads.
• CPyExt, the compatibility layer of PyPy that can run CPython C extension modules.

as well as many other improvements.

You need to build it yourself for now. It is tested on 64-bit Linux. 32-bit Linux, OS/X, and other POSIX platforms should all either work out of the box or be just a few fixes away (contributions welcome). Win32 support is a lot more involved but not impossible.

See https://bitbucket.org/pypy/revdb/ for more information!

Armin

PyPy 5.4.1 bugfix released

We have released a bugfix for PyPy2.7-v5.4.0, released last week, due to the following issues:

• Update list of contributors in documentation and LICENSE file, this was unfortunately left out of 5.4.0. My apologies to the new contributors
• Allow tests run with -A to find libm.so even if it is a script not a dynamically loadable file
• Bump sys.setrecursionlimit() when translating PyPy, for translating with CPython
• Tweak a float comparison with 0 in backendopt.inline to avoid rounding errors
• Fix for an issue for translating the sandbox
• Fix for and issue where unicode.decode('utf8', 'custom_replace') messed up the last byte of a unicode string sometimes
• Update built-in cffi to version 1.8.1
• Explicitly detect that we found as-yet-unsupported OpenSSL 1.1, and crash translation with a message asking for help porting it
• Fix a regression where a PyBytesObject was forced (converted to a RPython object) when not required, reported as issue #2395

Thanks to those who reported the issues.

What is PyPy?

PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for CPython 2.7. It's fast (PyPy and CPython 2.7.x performance comparison) due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler.

We also welcome developers of other dynamic languages to see what RPython can do for them.

This release supports:

• x86 machines on most common operating systems (Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 64, Windows 32, OpenBSD, FreeBSD),
• newer ARM hardware (ARMv6 or ARMv7, with VFPv3) running Linux,
• big- and little-endian variants of PPC64 running Linux,
• s390x running Linux

Please update, and continue to help us make PyPy better.

Cheers

The PyPy Team