Hi all. After months of work I'm please to announce the release of Stem 1.2.0! For those who aren't familiar with it, Stem is a Python library for interacting with Tor. With it you can script against your relay, descriptor data, or even write applications similar to arm and Vidalia. https://stem.torproject.org/ So what's new in this release? ============================================================ * Interactive Tor Interpreter The control interpreter is a new method for interacting with Tor's control interface that combines an interactive python interpreter with raw access similar to telnet. This adds several usability features, such as... * Irc-style commands like '/help'. * Tab completion for Tor's controller commands. * History scrollback by pressing up/down. * Transparently handles Tor authentication at startup. * Colorized output for improved readability. For a tutorial to get you started see... https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/down_the_rabbit_hole.html ============================================================ * New connect() Function This release of Stem provides a new, even easier method for establishing controllers. Connecting to Tor can now be as easy as... import sys from stem.connection import connect if __name__ == '__main__': controller = connect() if not controller: sys.exit(1) # unable to get a connection print 'Tor is running version %s' % controller.get_version() controller.close() ============================================================ For a rundown on the myriad of improvements and fixes in this release see... https://stem.torproject.org/change_log.html#version-1-2 Cheers! -Damian