VCF 9.0 Release

Bindings

• Updated bindings with support for the new vSphere 9.0 APIs. For details, refer to the API reference guide
• New features of vSphere 9.0 based on REST APIs are available via the vSphere Automation SDK for Python

Added

• SoapStubAdapter and the connect.py wrappers now allows passing a serverPemCert parameter (9a8956f)
• Added TOML config

Changes

• Dependency on pyOpenSSL is limited to '<24.3.0' because of breaking changes.
• Dependency on "six" is removed

Breaking changes

• SoapAdapter.HTTPProxyConnection is removed (9a8956f)
• SoapAdapter.SSLTunnelConnection is replaced by SoapAdapter._SSLTunnelConnection which inherits Python's standard HTTPSConnection (9a8956f)
• SoapAdapter.UnixSocketConnection is replaced by SoapAdapter._UnixSocketConnection which inherits Python's standard HTTPConnection (9a8956f)
• 'publicVersions' and 'dottedVersions' aliases are removed. Replaced by the 'ltsVersions' alias.
• pyVmomi.VmomiSupport.VmomiJSONEncoder is replaced by pyVmomi.VmomiJSONEncoder.VmomiJSONEncoder
• pyVmomi.VmomiSupport.templateOf() is replaced by pyVmomi.VmomiJSONEncoder.templateOf()
• pyVmomi.ThumbprintMismatchException is replaced by pyVmomi.Security.ThumbprintMismatchException
• pyVmomi.SoapAdapter.ThumbprintMismatchException is replaced by pyVmomi.Security.ThumbprintMismatchException
• Settings: 'legacyThumbprintException' is removed.
• Settings: 'binaryIsBytearray' is removed.
• Settings: 'allowGetSet' is removed. The behavior is set to match allowGetSet = True
• Settings: 'allowCapitalizedNames' is removed. The behavior is set to match allowCapitalizedNames = False
• pyVmomiSettings.py is deleted
• pyVmomi feature toggling is removed. Feature.py is deleted
• setup.py, setup.cfg, requirements.txt, test-requirements.txt and tox.ini are deleted. Replaced by pyproject.toml
• 'b64token' and 'mechanism' parameters are disabled for pyVim.Connect() and pyVim.SmartConnect(). Replaced by 'token' and 'tokenType'.