[Python] Psycopg 2.5 released

[Daniele Varrazzo]

We are happy to announce the release 2.5 of Psycopg. For a detailed 
list
of the release highlights please check the article at
<http://initd.org/psycopg/articles/2013/04/07/psycopg-25-released/>.

- Download: 
http://initd.org/psycopg/tarballs/PSYCOPG-2-5/psycopg2-2.5.tar.gz
- Signature: 
http://initd.org/psycopg/tarballs/PSYCOPG-2-5/psycopg2-2.5.tar.gz.asc

New features:

- Added JSON adaptation.
- Added support for PostgreSQL 9.2 range types .
- 'connection' and 'cursor' objects can be used in "with" statements
   as context managers as specified by a recent DBAPI  extension.
- Added 'Diagnostics' object to get extended info from a database 
error.
   Many thanks to Matthew Woodcraft for the implementation (ticket 
#149).
- Added 'connection.cursor_factory' attribute to customize the default
   object returned by 'cursor()'.
- Added support for backward scrollable cursors. Thanks to Jon Nelson
   for the initial patch (ticket #108).
- Added a simple way to customize casting of composite types into
   Python objects other than namedtuples.  Many thanks to Ronan Dunklau
   and Tobias Oberstein for the feature development.
- 'connection.reset()' implemented using 'DISCARD ALL' on server
   versions supporting it.

Bug fixes:

- Properly cleanup memory of broken connections (ticket #148).
- Fixed bad interaction of 'setup.py' with other dependencies in
   Distribute projects on Python 3 (ticket #153).

Other changes:

- Added support for Python 3.3.
- Dropped support for Python 2.4. Please use Psycopg 2.4.x if you
   need it.
- 'errorcodes' map updated to PostgreSQL 9.2.
- Dropped Zope adapter from source repository. ZPsycopgDA now has its
   own project at <http://github.com/psycopg/ZPsycopgDA>.


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Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python
programming language. At its core it fully implements the Python DB
API 2.0 specifications. Several extensions allow access to many of the
features offered by PostgreSQL.