Breaking changes:

• Drop support for EOL Python versions (3.8 and 3.9) #33
• Default to xxHash as the hashing algorithm (#32)
  • xxHash is faster and more uniform.

• Introduce GeventRingNode (#28)
  • Contains a breaking change: methods gevent_start and gevent_stop are gone, use the new GeventRingNode instead.
• Allow using the RingNode as a context manager (#30)

• Modernize this project (#24)
• API to get node count in ring (#25)
  • Contains breaking changes. Some public items were made private.
• Once a node is removed, it can't contain items (#26)

• Allow poll to end cleanly (#22)

The implementation of support for unpatched processes that use gevent released with v0.3.1 had a bug related to initialization of connections in PubSub objects. This version ships a different implementation (which closely resembles the one we had before v0.3.0).

Support for unpatched processes was removed when we introduced v0.3.0, but we found that that brought a lot of problems with it. We are reintroducing it in v0.3.1, and with a much simpler implementation!

This release introduces a breaking change: you cannot run this library with gevent unless you monkey-patch the process with gevent.monkey.patch_all() before importing redis or redis-hashring.

Drop support for redis-py 2 and introduce redis-py 3.

This release improves stability when hashring is started stopped and recreated repeatedly, for example in tests.