Fedora EPEL 5 Update: python26-boto-2.25.0-2.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0504
2014-02-11 17:15:36
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Name        : python26-boto
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 2.25.0
Release     : 2.el5
URL         : https://github.com/boto/boto
Summary     : A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
Description :
Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services.
It supports over thirty services, such as S3 (Simple Storage Service),
SQS (Simple Queue Service), and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) via their
REST and Query APIs.  The goal of boto is to support the full breadth
and depth of Amazon Web Services.  In addition, boto provides support
for other public services such as Google Storage in addition to private
cloud systems like Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Open Nebula.

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Update Information:

This update contains a fix that makes S3Connection.get_bucket use HEAD requests instead of GET requests, which reduces the price of those requests by 90%.  Code that parses error messages may require updating.  See the upstream release notes for version 2.25.0 additional details.

Another noteworthy change since version 2.5 is validating SSL certificates by default.  This change happened over a year ago; most applications are likely to support it now.  See the upstream release notes for version 2.6.0 for details on updating applications to work with this change.

This update also contains numerous bugfixes and support for new capabilities that AWS has added over the past several months.

The full release notes are available from upstream:

http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/#release-notes
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1064550 - update of python-boto breaks euca2ools
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064550
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update python26-boto' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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