title: “Release Apache SkyWalking Python 0.5.0” date: 2020-12-28 author: SkyWalking Team description: “Release Apache SkyWalking Python 0.5.0.”

SkyWalking Python 0.5.0 is released. Go to downloads page to find release tars.

  • New plugins

    • Pyramid Plugin (#102)
    • AioHttp Plugin (#101)
    • Sanic Plugin (#91)

  • API and enhancements

    • @trace decorator supports async functions
    • Supports async task context
    • Optimized path trace ignore
    • Moved exception check to Span.__exit__
    • Moved Method & Url tags before requests

  • Fixes:

    • BaseExceptions not recorded as errors
    • Allow pending data to send before exit
    • sw_flask general exceptions handled
    • Make skywalking logging Non-global

  • Chores and tests

    • Make tests really run on specified Python version
    • Deprecate 3.5 as it's EOL