vSphere 8.0U3 Release

Bindings

• Added support for vSAN Health APIs
• Updated bindings with support for the new vSphere 8.0U3 APIs. For details, refer to the API reference guide
• New features of vSphere 8.0U3 based on REST APIs are available via the vSphere Automation SDK for Python

Type Hints

• Added type stubs for vSAN APIs
• All type stubs are refactored

Added

• Python 3.12 compatibility (44d7b9f)
• Stub adapters allow the usage of an existing session (35f2743)
• Added pyVmomi version in the user-agent request header (5ad215f)
• Added certFile and certKeyFile attributes to SoapStubAdapter (2bbfb62)
• Added project wide variables to hold the current pyVmomi version - version_info and version_info_str (5ad215f)
• Added functions to VmomiSupport to list all types - ListManagedTypes(), ListDataTypes(), ListEnumTypes() (e43a287) (9e303c1)
• Added CHANGELOG file (c248b32)

Changes

• Dependency on "pywin32" is removed (4bc1f52)
• Doc: Non-remote ManagedObject and DataObject methods are documented (472bdfc)
• The support statement now reflects the Broadcom support policy (c68913e)
• Copyright switch from VMware to Broadcom (10c3732)

Breaking changes

• sso.SsoAuthenticator.get_bearer_saml_assertion_gss_api() is removed (11dc306)
• SSLTunnelConnection is trimmed down to handle only tunnel connections. The code that handles remote proxy doubles the HTTPProxyConnection logic and therefore is removed. (44d7b9f)

Deprecated

• 'publicVersions' and 'dottedVersions' aliases are deprecated (14b5ed2)
• pyVmomiSettings.py and related settings are deprecated - allowGetSet, allowCapitalizedNames, binaryIsBytearray, legacyThumbprintException
• Features.py and all pyVmomi feature states logic is deprecated
• pyVmomi.VmomiSupport.VmomiJSONEncoder is deprecated. Use pyVmomi.VmomiJSONEncoder.VmomiJSONEncoder
• pyVmomi.VmomiSupport.templateOf() is deprecated. Use pyVmomi.VmomiJSONEncoder.templateOf()
• pyVmomi.SoapAdapter.ThumbprintMismatchException is deprecated. Use pyVmomi.Security.ThumbprintMismatchException