Maintenance Patch 1 for 8.0U3

Changes

Fixed cyclic dependency in setup.py that broke 'pip install pyvmomi' (e4fd849)

vSphere 8.0U3 Release

Bindings

• Added support for vSAN Health APIs
• Updated bindings with support for the new vSphere 8.0U3 APIs. For details, refer to the API reference guide
• New features of vSphere 8.0U3 based on REST APIs are available via the vSphere Automation SDK for Python

Type Hints

• Added type stubs for vSAN APIs
• All type stubs are refactored

Added

• Python 3.12 compatibility (44d7b9f)
• Stub adapters allow the usage of an existing session (35f2743)
• Added pyVmomi version in the user-agent request header (5ad215f)
• Added certFile and certKeyFile attributes to SoapStubAdapter (2bbfb62)
• Added project wide variables to hold the current pyVmomi version - version_info and version_info_str (5ad215f)
• Added functions to VmomiSupport to list all types - ListManagedTypes(), ListDataTypes(), ListEnumTypes() (e43a287) (9e303c1)
• Added CHANGELOG file (c248b32)

Changes

• Dependency on "pywin32" is removed (4bc1f52)
• Doc: Non-remote ManagedObject and DataObject methods are documented (472bdfc)
• The support statement now reflects the Broadcom support policy (c68913e)
• Copyright switch from VMware to Broadcom (10c3732)

Breaking changes

• sso.SsoAuthenticator.get_bearer_saml_assertion_gss_api() is removed (11dc306)
• SSLTunnelConnection is trimmed down to handle only tunnel connections. The code that handles remote proxy doubles the HTTPProxyConnection logic and therefore is removed. (44d7b9f)

Deprecated

• 'publicVersions' and 'dottedVersions' aliases are deprecated (14b5ed2)
• pyVmomiSettings.py and related settings are deprecated - allowGetSet, allowCapitalizedNames, binaryIsBytearray, legacyThumbprintException
• Features.py and all pyVmomi feature states logic is deprecated
• pyVmomi.VmomiSupport.VmomiJSONEncoder is deprecated. Use pyVmomi.VmomiJSONEncoder.VmomiJSONEncoder
• pyVmomi.VmomiSupport.templateOf() is deprecated. Use pyVmomi.VmomiJSONEncoder.templateOf()
• pyVmomi.SoapAdapter.ThumbprintMismatchException is deprecated. Use pyVmomi.Security.ThumbprintMismatchException

Maintenance Patch 1 for 8.0U2

Changes:

• Fixed: #978 and #1053 - Fix SmartConnect()'s handling of IPv6 address with square brackets
• Added PyPI classifiers for Python 3.10 and Python 3.11. Support for both versions is verified.

vSphere 8.0U2 Release

Bindings:

• 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

Bindings:

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

Changes:

• 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

Type Hints Fixes:

• 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

Bindings:

• 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

Changes:

• Added support for type hints (code autocomplete)
• #892 - Allow passing ssl_context when login in with a token
• 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

Changes:

• Fixed: #995 - 8.0.0.1 breaks Ansible vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template folder lookup
• This release restores the legacy behavior when retrieving managed properties and array of instances of ManagedObject

Maintenance Patch 1 for 8.0

Changes:

• Fixed: #993 - WaitForTask broken on version >8.0.0
• Fixed: #994 - Pyvomi module failing in connect method
• Replace publicVersions with ltsVersions
• Updated VIM namespace for the next vSphere 8.0 patch release

vSphere 8.0 Release

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.py
A new module related to pyVmomi development within VMware.

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

More changes:

• 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()