Python (2.5 and later) with statement::

db = ZODB.DB(...)
     with db.transaction() as conn:
          # ... do stuff with conn

This uses a private transaction manager for the connection.
  If control exists the block without an error, the transaction is
  committed, otherwise, it is aborted.

- Connections now have a public ``opened`` attribute that is true when
  the connection is open, and false otherwise.  When true, it is the
  seconds since the epoch (time.time()) when the connection was
  opened. This is a renaming of the previous ``_opened`` private
  variable.

output.

convenient way to open a connection to a database.  They open a
database and return a connection to it. When the connection is
closed, the database is closed as well.

messages.

the time zone definition, only worked on Unix.

under Python 2.6

using hashlib.sha1 if available in order to avoid DeprecationWarning
under Python 2.6

under Python 2.6

The zeopack script has gotten a numner of improvements:

- Simplified command-line interface. (The old interface is still
    supported, except that support for ZEO version 1 servers has been
    dropped.)

- Multiple storages can be packed in sequence.

- This simplifies pack scheduling on servers serving multiple
      databases.

- All storages are packed to the same time.

- You can now specify a time of day to pack to.

- The script will now time out if it can't connect to s storage in
    60 seconds.

- It now has a test. :)

- Connections from old ZEO clients weren't discarded when they were
  closed causing memory to leak and invalidations to become
  increasingly expensive over time.

- The monitor server didn't correctly report the actual number of
  clients.

Moved a blob related logging message to debug level, for the case of everything working as intended.

Changed the url in the package metadata to point to PyPi, this avoids easy_install querying eight zope.org pages before finding the download. Also removed references to download.zope.org.

  Packing could return spurious errors due to errors notifying
  disconnected clients of new database size statistics.

  Packing a blob-enabled file storage in a ZEO server caused blob data
  to be lost.

special cases involving undo of undo of undo of object additions.

connections unused after the given time interval should be garbage
colection.  This will provide a means of dealing with extra
connections that are created in rare circumstances and that would
consume an unreasonable amount of memory.