ParallelSSH/parallel-ssh 1.6.0

Release 1.6.0

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Changes

• Added scp_send and scp_recv functions to native clients for sending and receiving files via SCP respectively.
• Refactoring - clients moved to their own sub-package - pssh.clients - with backwards compatibility for imports from pssh.pssh_client and pssh.pssh2_client.
• Show underlying exception from native client library when raising parallel-ssh exceptions.
• host parameter added to all exceptions raised by parallel clients - #116
• Deprecation warning for client imports.
• Deprecation warning for default client changing from paramiko to native client from 2.0.0.
• Upgrade embedded libssh2 in binary wheels to latest version plus enhancements.
• Adds support for ECDSA host keys for native client.
• Adds support for SHA-256 host key fingerprints for native client.
• Added SSH agent forwarding to native client, defaults to on as per paramiko client - forward_ssh_agent keyword parameter.
• Windows wheels switched to OpenSSL back end for native client.
• Windows wheels include zlib and have compression enabled for native client.
• Added OSX 10.13 wheel build.

Fixes

• Windows native client could not connect to newer SSH servers - thanks Pavel.

Note - libssh2 changes apply to binary wheels only. For building from source, see documentation.