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Posted in 2016

  1. New Process.oneshot(), caching shared syscalls and halving the cost of multi-field queries

  2. psutil 4.2.0 introduces win_service_iter() and win_service_get()

  3. Completing the BSD trio alongside FreeBSD and OpenBSD

  4. psutil 4.0.0 exposes USS, the memory that would actually be freed on process exit + Process.environ()