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User-visible changes in "magic-wormhole":
## Release 0.7.5 (?)
* The CLI tools now use the Twisted-based library exclusively.
* The blocking-flavor "Transit" library has been removed. Transit is the
bulk-transfer protocol used by send-file/send-directory, and is no
longer used by the CLI tools (which have switched to twisted-flavor
Transit). Upcoming protocol improvements (both performance and
connectivity) proved too difficult to implement in a blocking fashion.
* The Twisted-flavor "Wormhole" library now uses WebSockets to connect,
rather than HTTP. The blocking-flavor library continues to use HTTP.
"Wormhole" is the one-message-at-a-time relay-based protocol, and is
used to set up Transit for the send-file and send-directory modes of
the CLI tool.
* Twisted-flavor input_code() now does readline-based code entry, with
tab completion.
* The code has been split into four separate importable packages:
* "wormhole", this contains the blocking library and shared code
* "txwormhole": twisted lbirary
* "wormhole_cli": CLI scripts
* "wormhole_server": code for the Rendezvous and Transit Relay servers
* The package now installs two executables: "wormhole" (for send and
receive), and "wormhole-server" (to start and manage the relay
servers).
* Packaging: magic-wormhole now depends upon "Twisted" and "autobahn".
Autobahn pulls in txaio (a future version of magic-wormhole may work
with txaio, but not yet). To work around a bug in autobahn, it also
(temporarily) depends upon "pytrie". This dependency will be removed
when the next autobahn release is available.
## Release 0.7.0 (28-Mar-2016)
* `wormhole send DIRNAME/` used to deal very badly with the trailing slash