This is a minor release. The primary reason for it is the amount of interest in the Python interface to libmosquitto. This release tidies up the Python interface considerably (it is now more "Pythonic" and easier to use), and significantly, brings the promised packages.
This release also provides a few fixes, including to the packaging and installation scripts. Unfortunately, it does also include a known bug that was fixed prior to release, but accidentally left unmerged. This affects mosquitto_pub client when using the -l option (publish line by line input from stdin), causing it to exhibit high cpu load. I'll make a new bug fix release in a few days with this and any other fixes that come up.
This release also provides improved packaging options. All of the available options are now packaged for Ubuntu, including the libmosquitto0-python package. Because there are now multiple packages, it is possible to provide some mosquitto functionality on distributions where the version of sqlite3 is too old. The packages available on these systems are listed as "clients only":
- Fedora 12, 13 (full support)
- openSUSE 11.3 (full support)
- openSUSE 11.1, 11.2 (clients only)
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 (clients only)
- CentOS 5 (clients only)
Details are available on the download page. Please note that some distributions have different naming schemes, so the Python module can be called both python-mosquitto and libmosquitto0-mosquitto for example.