manager. This fixed:

When threads were reused, transaction data could leak accross them,
  causing subtle application bugs.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/239086

- Transaction managers and the transaction module can be used with the
  with statement to define transaction boundaries, as in::

with transaction:
         ... do some things ...

See transaction/tests/convenience.txt for more details.

- There is a new iterator function that automates dealing with
  transient errors (such as ZODB confict errors). For example, in::

for attempt in transaction.attempts(5):
         with attempt:
             ... do some things ..

If the work being done raises transient errors, the transaction will
  be retried up to 5 times.

See transaction/tests/convenience.txt for more details.

* Fixed a bug that caused extra commit calls to be made on data
  managers under certain special circumstances.

https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2010-May/013329.html

Don't use $Id$.

it makes doing smarter formatting harder.

See LP #142464.

from a dict.

Normalize date to ISO format.

Rename setup.py-generated package to from 'zope.transaction' to 'transaction' for backwards compatibility.

Remove unit tests that depend on ZODB (they are integration tests).