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There's a new version of cffi available.
You are currently using 1.10.0. I have updated it to 1.11.1

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1.11.1

=======

  • Fix tests, remove deprecated C API usage
  • Fix (hack) for 3.6.0/3.6.1/3.6.2 giving incompatible binary extensions
    (cpython issue 29943_)
  • Fix for 3.7.0a1+

.. _29943: https://bugs.python.org/issue29943

1.11

=====

  • Support the modern standard types char16_t and char32_t.
    These work like wchar_t: they represent one unicode character, or
    when used as charN_t * or charN_t[] they represent a unicode
    string. The difference with wchar_t is that they have a known,
    fixed size. They should work at all places that used to work with
    wchar_t (please report an issue if I missed something). Note
    that with set_source(), you need to make sure that these types are
    actually defined by the C source you provide (if used in cdef()).
  • Support the C99 types float _Complex and double _Complex.
    Note that libffi doesn't support them, which means that in the ABI
    mode you still cannot call C functions that take complex numbers
    directly as arguments or return type.
  • Fixed a rare race condition when creating multiple FFI instances
    from multiple threads. (Note that you aren't meant to create many
    FFI instances: in inline mode, you should write ffi = cffi.FFI() at module level just after import cffi; and in
    out-of-line mode you don't instantiate FFI explicitly at all.)
  • Windows: using callbacks can be messy because the CFFI internal error
    messages show up to stderr---but stderr goes nowhere in many
    applications. This makes it particularly hard to get started with the
    embedding mode. (Once you get started, you can at least use
    ffi.def_extern(onerror=...) and send the error logs where it
    makes sense for your application, or record them in log files, and so
    on.) So what is new in CFFI is that now, on Windows CFFI will try to
    open a non-modal MessageBox (in addition to sending raw messages to
    stderr). The MessageBox is only visible if the process stays alive:
    typically, console applications that crash close immediately, but that
    is also the situation where stderr should be visible anyway.
  • Progress on support for callbacks in NetBSD__.
  • Functions returning booleans would in some case still return 0 or 1
    instead of False or True. Fixed.
  • ffi.gc()__ now takes an optional third parameter, which gives an
    estimate of the size (in bytes) of the object. So far, this is only
    used by PyPy, to make the next GC occur more quickly (issue 320).
    In the future, this might have an effect on CPython too (provided
    the CPython issue 31105
    is addressed).
  • Add a note to the documentation: the ABI mode gives function objects
    that are slower to call than the API mode does. For some reason it
    is often thought to be faster. It is not!

.. __: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/321/cffi-191-segmentation-fault-during-self
.. __: ref.htmlffi-gc
.. __: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/320/improve-memory_pressure-management
.. __: http://bugs.python.org/issue31105

1.10.1

=======

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There's a new version of [cffi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cffi) available.
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### Changelog
> 
>### 1.11.1

>=======

>* Fix tests, remove deprecated C API usage

>* Fix (hack) for 3.6.0/3.6.1/3.6.2 giving incompatible binary extensions
>  (cpython issue `29943`_)

>* Fix for 3.7.0a1+

>.. _`29943`: https://bugs.python.org/issue29943




>### 1.11

>=====

>* Support the modern standard types ``char16_t`` and ``char32_t``.
>  These work like ``wchar_t``: they represent one unicode character, or
>  when used as ``charN_t *`` or ``charN_t[]`` they represent a unicode
>  string.  The difference with ``wchar_t`` is that they have a known,
>  fixed size.  They should work at all places that used to work with
>  ``wchar_t`` (please report an issue if I missed something).  Note
>  that with ``set_source()``, you need to make sure that these types are
>  actually defined by the C source you provide (if used in ``cdef()``).

>* Support the C99 types ``float _Complex`` and ``double _Complex``.
>  Note that libffi doesn&#39;t support them, which means that in the ABI
>  mode you still cannot call C functions that take complex numbers
>  directly as arguments or return type.

>* Fixed a rare race condition when creating multiple ``FFI`` instances
>  from multiple threads.  (Note that you aren&#39;t meant to create many
>  ``FFI`` instances: in inline mode, you should write ``ffi =
>  cffi.FFI()`` at module level just after ``import cffi``; and in
>  out-of-line mode you don&#39;t instantiate ``FFI`` explicitly at all.)

>* Windows: using callbacks can be messy because the CFFI internal error
>  messages show up to stderr---but stderr goes nowhere in many
>  applications.  This makes it particularly hard to get started with the
>  embedding mode.  (Once you get started, you can at least use
>  ``ffi.def_extern(onerror=...)`` and send the error logs where it
>  makes sense for your application, or record them in log files, and so
>  on.)  So what is new in CFFI is that now, on Windows CFFI will try to
>  open a non-modal MessageBox (in addition to sending raw messages to
>  stderr).  The MessageBox is only visible if the process stays alive:
>  typically, console applications that crash close immediately, but that
>  is also the situation where stderr should be visible anyway.

>* Progress on support for `callbacks in NetBSD`__.

>* Functions returning booleans would in some case still return 0 or 1
>  instead of False or True.  Fixed.

>* `ffi.gc()`__ now takes an optional third parameter, which gives an
>  estimate of the size (in bytes) of the object.  So far, this is only
>  used by PyPy, to make the next GC occur more quickly (`issue 320`__).
>  In the future, this might have an effect on CPython too (provided
>  the CPython `issue 31105`__ is addressed).

>* Add a note to the documentation: the ABI mode gives function objects
>  that are *slower* to call than the API mode does.  For some reason it
>  is often thought to be faster.  It is not!

>.. __: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/321/cffi-191-segmentation-fault-during-self
>.. __: ref.htmlffi-gc
>.. __: https://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/issues/320/improve-memory_pressure-management
>.. __: http://bugs.python.org/issue31105




>### 1.10.1

>=======







*Got merge conflicts? Close this PR and delete the branch. I'll create a new PR for you.*

Happy merging! 🤖
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