0.10.3

• Ensure ObservedWatch.path is a string (#651)
• [inotify] Allow to monitor single file (#655)
• [inotify] Prevent raising an exception when a file in a monitored folder has no permissions (#669, #670)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @brant-ruan, @rec, @andfoy, @BoboTiG

0.10.2

• Fixed the build_ext command on macOS Catalina (#628)
• Fixed the installation of macOS requirements on non-macOS OSes (#635)
• Refactored dispatch() method of FileSystemEventHandler, PatternMatchingEventHandler and RegexMatchingEventHandler
• bsd] Improved tests support on non Windows/Linux platforms (#633, #639)
• [bsd] Added FreeBSD CI support (#532)
• [bsd] Restored full support (#638, #641)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @evilham, @danilobellini

0.10.1

• Fixed Python 2.7 to 3.6 installation when the OS locale is set to POSIX (#615)
• Fixed the build_ext command on macOS (#618, #620)
• Moved requirements to setup.cfg (#617)
• [mac] Removed old C code for Python 2.5 in the fsevents C implementation
• [snapshot] Added EmptyDirectorySnapshot (#613)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @Ajordat, @tehkirill, @BoboTiG

0.10.0

2020-01-26 • full history

Breaking changes

• Dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3
• Emitters that failed to start are now removed
• [snapshot] Removed the deprecated walker_callback argument, use stat instead
• [watchmedo] The utility is no more installed by default but via the extra watchdog[watchmedo]

Other Changes

• Fixed several Python 3 warnings
• Identify synthesized events with is_synthetic attribute (#369)
• Use os.scandir() to improve memory usage (#503)
• [bsd] Fixed flavors of FreeBSD detection (#529)
• [bsd] Skip unprocessable socket files (#509)
• [inotify] Fixed events containing non-ASCII characters (#516)
• [inotify] Fixed the way OSError are re-raised (#377)
• [inotify] Fixed wrong source path after renaming a top level folder (#515)
• [inotify] Removed delay from non-move events (#477)
• [mac] Fixed a bug when calling FSEventsEmitter.stop() twice (#466)
• [mac] Support for unscheduling deleted watch (#541)
• [mac] Fixed missing field initializers and unused parameters in watchdog_fsevents.c
• [snapshot] Don't walk directories without read permissions (#408)
• [snapshot] Fixed a race condition crash when a directory is swapped for a file (#513)
• [snasphot] Fixed an AttributeError about forgotten path_for_inode attr (#436)
• [snasphot] Added the ignore_device=False parameter to the ctor (#597)
• [watchmedo] Fixed the path separator used (#478)
• [watchmedo] Fixed the use of yaml.load() for yaml.safe_load() (#453)
• [watchmedo] Handle all available signals (#549)
• [watchmedo] Added the --debug-force-polling argument (#404)
• [windows] Fixed issues when the observed directory is deleted (#570 and #601)
• [windows] WindowsApiEmitter made easier to subclass (#344)
• [windows] Use separate ctypes DLL instances
• [windows] Generate sub created events only if recursive=True (#454)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @BoboTiG, @LKleinNux, @rrzaripov, @wildmichael, @TauPan, @segevfiner, @petrblahos, @QuantumEnergyE, @jeffwidman, @kapsh, @nickoala, @petrblahos, @julianolf, @tonybaloney, @mbakiev, @pR0Ps, @javaguirre, @skurfer, @exarkun, @joshuaskelly, @danilobellini, @Ajordat

0.9.0

2018-08-28 • full history

• Deleting the observed directory now emits a DirDeletedEvent event
• [bsd] Improved the platform detection (#378)
• [inotify] Fixed a crash when the root directory being watched by was deleted (#374)
• [inotify] Handle systems providing uClibc
• [linux] Fixed a possible DirDeletedEvent duplication when deleting a directory
• [mac] Fixed unicode path handling fsevents2.py (#298)
• [watchmedo] Added the --debug-force-polling argument (#336)
• [windows] Fixed the FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY constant (#376)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @vulpeszerda, @hpk42, @tamland, @senden9, @gorakhargosh, @nolsto, @mafrosis, @DonyorM, @anthrotype, @danilobellini, @pierregr, @ShinNoNoir, @adrpar, @gforcada, @pR0Ps, @yegorich, @dhke

0.8.3

2015-02-11 • full history

• Fixed the use of the root logger (#274)
• [inotify] Refactored libc loading and improved error handling in inotify_c.py
• [inotify] Fixed a possible unbound local error in inotify_c.py
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @mmorearty, @tamland, @tony, @gorakhargosh

0.8.2

2014-10-29 • full history

• Event emitters are no longer started on schedule if Observer is not already running
• [mac] Fixed usued arguments to pass clang compilation (#265)
• [snapshot] Fixed a possible race condition crash on directory deletion (#281)
• [windows] Fixed an error when watching the same folder again (#270)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @tamland, @apetrone, @Falldog, @theospears

0.8.1

2014-07-28 • full history

• Fixed anon_inode descriptors leakage (#249)
• [inotify] Fixed thread stop dead lock (#250)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @Witos, @adiroiban, @tamland

0.8.0

2014-07-02 • full history

• Fixed argh deprecation warnings (#242)
• [snapshot] Methods returning internal stats info were replaced by mtime(), inode() and path() methods
• [snapshot] Deprecated the walker_callback argument
• [watchmedo] Fixed auto-restart to terminate all children processes (#225)
• [watchmedo] Added the --no-parallel argument (#227)
• [windows] Fixed the value of INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE (#123)
• [windows] Fixed octal usages to work with Python 3 as well (#223)
• Thanks to our beloved contributors: @tamland, @Ormod, @berdario, @cro, @BernieSumption, @pypingou, @gotcha, @tommorris, @frewsxcv