From f9862211b1533852b2272f3b570e65337f3feace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:16:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS for release 2.4 ordered in groups

---
 NEWS | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 267f61d5..bb2d69ec 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,29 +3,40 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.4
 
 * New features and changes:
 
-  - Added support for Python 3.1 and 3.2.
-  - Adapt types 'bytearray' (from Python 2.6), 'memoryview' (from Python 2.7)
-    and other objects implementing the "Revised Buffer Protocol" to 'bytea'
-    data type.
-  - Added 'register_composite()' function to cast PostgreSQL composite types
-    into Python tuples/namedtuples.
-  - More efficient iteration on named cursors, fetching 'itersize' records at
-    time from the backend.
-  - The named cursors name can be an invalid identifier.
-  - 'cursor.description' is provided in named tuples if available.
-  - Raise a clean exception instead of returning bad data when receiving bytea
-    in 'hex' format and the client libpq can't parse them.
-  - Connections and cursors are weakly referenceable.
-  - Added 'b' and 't' mode to large objects: write can deal with both bytes
-    strings and unicode; read can return either bytes strings or decoded
-    unicode.
-  - COPY sends Unicode data to files implementing 'io.TextIOBase'.
-  - The build script refuses to guess values if 'pg_config' is not found.
-  - Improved PostgreSQL-Python encodings mapping. Added a few
-    missing encodings: EUC_CN, EUC_JIS_2004, ISO885910, ISO885916,
-    LATIN10, SHIFT_JIS_2004.
-  - Dropped repeated dictionary lookups with unicode query/parameters.
-  - Empty lists correctly roundtrip Python -> PostgreSQL -> Python.
+  - Added support for Python 3.1 and 3.2. The conversion has also brought
+    several improvements:
+
+    - Added 'b' and 't' mode to large objects: write can deal with both bytes
+      strings and unicode; read can return either bytes strings or decoded
+      unicode.
+    - COPY sends Unicode data to files implementing 'io.TextIOBase'.
+    - Improved PostgreSQL-Python encodings mapping.
+    - Added a few missing encodings: EUC_CN, EUC_JIS_2004, ISO885910,
+      ISO885916, LATIN10, SHIFT_JIS_2004.
+    - Dropped repeated dictionary lookups with unicode query/parameters.
+
+  - Improvements to the named cusors:
+
+    - More efficient iteration on named cursors, fetching 'itersize' records at
+      time from the backend.
+    - The named cursors name can be an invalid identifier.
+
+  - Improvements in data handling:
+
+    - Added 'register_composite()' function to cast PostgreSQL composite types
+      into Python tuples/namedtuples.
+    - Adapt types 'bytearray' (from Python 2.6), 'memoryview' (from Python 2.7)
+      and other objects implementing the "Revised Buffer Protocol" to 'bytea'
+      data type.
+    - Raise a clean exception instead of returning bad data when receiving bytea
+      in 'hex' format and the client libpq can't parse them.
+    - Empty lists correctly roundtrip Python -> PostgreSQL -> Python.
+
+  - Other changes:
+
+    - 'cursor.description' is provided as named tuples if available.
+    - The build script refuses to guess values if 'pg_config' is not found.
+    - Connections and cursors are weakly referenceable.
 
 * Bug fixes: