From 59a684e93129bb44ec34f91feeb40639c6d2fcf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bert Kleewein <bertk@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:02:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix python 2.7

Signed-off-by: Bert Kleewein <bertk@microsoft.com>
---
 src/paho/mqtt/client.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/paho/mqtt/client.py b/src/paho/mqtt/client.py
index 366bcb8c..1c0236e4 100644
--- a/src/paho/mqtt/client.py
+++ b/src/paho/mqtt/client.py
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@
 else:
     EAGAIN = errno.EAGAIN
 
+# Python 2.7 does not have BlockingIOError.  Fall back to IOError
+try:
+    BlockingIOError
+except NameError:
+    BlockingIOError  = IOError
+
 MQTTv31 = 3
 MQTTv311 = 4
 MQTTv5 = 5

From 1f3cd093b6c3ff96f3b63fb55744553381a2d663 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Roger A. Light" <roger@atchoo.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:04:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Doc update, bump version.

---
 ChangeLog.txt             | 6 ++++++
 src/paho/mqtt/__init__.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt
index 7ddccb83..ab57c1a8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.txt
+++ b/ChangeLog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+v1.6.1 - 2021-10-21
+===================
+
+- Fix Python 2.7 compatilibity.
+
+
 v1.6.0 - 2021-10-20
 ===================
 
diff --git a/src/paho/mqtt/__init__.py b/src/paho/mqtt/__init__.py
index 425488c9..0d349fc3 100644
--- a/src/paho/mqtt/__init__.py
+++ b/src/paho/mqtt/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "1.6.0"
+__version__ = "1.6.1"
 
 
 class MQTTException(Exception):