pyVmomi SDK 8.0 Release Notes

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Maintenance Patch 1 for 8.0U2

Released 17 Nov 2023

What's New

Added PyPI classifiers for Python 3.10 and Python 3.11. Support for both versions is verified.

Resolved Issues

Fixed: #978 and #1053 - Fix SmartConnect()'s handling of IPv6 address with square brackets

vSphere 8.0U2 Release

Released 28 Sep 2023

What' New

• Updated bindings and type hints with support for vSphere 8.0U2. Includes updates to VIM, PBM, EAM, SMS and VSLM namespaces. For details, refer “What’s New in vSphere API 8.0U2?” section in the API reference guide: https://developer.vmware.com/apis/1720/vsphere

• New features of vSphere 8.0U2 based on REST APIs are available via the vSphere Automation SDK for Python https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python

Maintenance Patch 2 for 8.0U1

Released 19 Jul 2023

What's New

Added bindings and type hints for Virtual Storage Lifecycle Management for vSphere 8.0U1 - VSLM namespace.

Resolved Issues

• Fixed: #1021 - Switch to static imports for type info modules

• Fixed: #1022 - Support proxy authentication

• Add custom HTTP headers support to connect.SmartStubAdapter()

• Missing filters are no longer treated as task failures

• Various small fixes for docstrings and linter checks

• Type hints fixes:

  • Fixed: #1026 - Use the "from Y import X as X" format to re-export submodules

  • Fixed: #1030 - Use a fully qualified name when the type is from another namespace/package

• Tests

  • vcrpy dependency is updated to the latest version with Python 2 support

  • testtools dependency is removed

  • Travis CI is no longer used

  • Various test updates and fixes. All tests are enabled.

Maintenance Patch 1 for 8.0U1

Released 25 May 2023

Resolved Issues

• Added missing VMODL1 classes to the type hints

• Enum values now match the letter case of the values from typeinfo files

• Fixed: #1115 - Syntax error in vim/__init__pyi

• Fixed: #1117 - Type stubs: Writable properties are marked as read-only

• Fixed: #1118 - Type stubs: Missing vim.fault.* and vmodl.fault.* types

• Fixed: #1119 - Type stubs: Enum fields should also accept Literal[] str type

• Fixed: #1120 - Type stubs: Exception types must inherit from (Base)Exception

vSphere 8.0U1 Release

Released 6 May 2023

What's New

• Updated bindings with support for vSphere 8.0U1. Includes updates to VIM, PBM, EAM and SMS namespaces. For details, refer “What’s New in vSphere API 8.0U1?” section in the API reference guide: https://developer.vmware.com/apis/1639/vsphere

• New features of vSphere 8.0U1 based on REST APIs are available via the vSphere Automation SDK for Python https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python

• Added support for type hints

• #892 - Allow passing ssl_context when login in with a token

Resolved Issues

• Fixed: #750 - Bumped vcrpy tests dependency to 2.1

• Fixed: #812 - Fix exception leaks

• Fixed: #1004 - Fix SmartConnect()'s SOAP and OAuth token login

Maintenance Patch 2 for 8.0

Released 18 Jan 2023

What's New

• This release restores the legacy behavior when retrieving managed properties and array of instances of ManagedObject

Resolved Issues

• Fixed: #995 - 8.0.0.1 breaks Ansible vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template folder lookup

Maintenance Patch 1 for 8.0

Released 16 Dec 2022

What's New

• Replace publicVersions with ltsVersions

• Updated VIM namespace for the next vSphere 8.0 patch release

Resolved Issues

• Fixed: #993 - WaitForTask broken on version >8.0.0

• Fixed: #994 - Pyvomi module failing in connect method

vSphere 8.0 Release

Released 24 Nov 2022

What's New

• Bindings

  • Updated bindings with support for vSphere 8.0. Includes updates to VIM, PBM, EAM, SMS and QUERY namespaces. For details, refer “What’s New in vSphere API 8.0.0.1?” section in the API reference guide: https://developer.vmware.com/apis/1355/vsphere

  • New features of vSphere 8.0 based on REST APIs are available via the vSphere Automation SDK for Python https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python

• Breaking Changes

  • Minimum Python 2 requirement is 2.7.9

  • DynamicTypeManagerHelper.py is removed

  • ManagedMethodExecutorHelper.py is removed

  • connect.ConnectNoSSL() and connect.SmartConnectNoSSL()are removed. Use connect.Connect(disableSslCertValidation=True) and connect.SmartConnect(disableSslCertValidation=True)

  • VmomiSupport.UncallableManagedMethod is renamed to VmomiSupport.UnknownManagedMethod

• New Modules

  • Security.py A new module is added to handle thumbprint verification. There is a predefined set of available crypto functions to verify the certificate thumbprints. Its possible to configure during runtime which of the available crypto functions are allowed.

  • Feature.pyA new module related to pyVmomi development within VMware.

  • VmomiJSONEncoder.py The VmomiJSONEncoder is moved into a dedicated module.

• Miscellaneous

  • A new binaryIsBytearray setting is added to select the base type for the binary type. By default, the binary type is str for Python 2 and bytes for Python 3. If binaryIsBytearray is True, the binary type for Python 2 is set to bytearray. Required for VmomiJSONEncoder to work properly.

  • The license note is removed from the Python files. LICENSE.txt holds the Apache 2 license note.

  • pyVmomi now uses relative imports

  • Dependency on “requests” is removed

  • Added support for SAML token authentication

  • Added timeout for HTTP requests

  • Added option to set the maximum amount of time a task is allowed to run. On timeout, an exception is generated if raiseOnError is True.

  • Add option to get all updates for the task.

  • Add option to use a logger instead of the standard output

  • Various bug fixes

  • Code style improvements

Deprecated

• connect.OpenUrlWithBasicAuth()

• connect.OpenPathWithStub()