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:release-date: 2013-02-07 05:00 P.M UTC
:release-by: Ask Solem
SQS: Now supports long polling (Issue 176).
The polling interval default has been changed to 0 and a new
transport option (``wait_time_seconds``) has been added.
This parameter specifies how long to wait for a message from
SQS, and defaults to 20 seconds, which is the maximum
value currently allowed by Amazon SQS.
Contributed by James Saryerwinnie.
- SQS: Now removes unpickleable fields before restoring messages.
- Consumer.__exit__ now ignores exceptions occurring while
canceling the consumer.
- Virtual: Routing keys can now consist of characters also used
in regular expressions (e.g. parens) (Issue 194).
- Virtual: Fixed compression header when restoring messages.
Fix contributed by Alex Koshelev.
- Virtual: ack/reject/requeue now works while using ``basic_get``.
- Virtual: Message.reject is now supported by virtual transports
(requeue depends on individual transport support).
- Fixed typo in hack used for static analyzers.
Fix contributed by Basil Mironenko.
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