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httpx v0.19.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-08-19 // about 2 months ago

  • ➕ Added

    • ➕ Add support for Client(allow_redirects=<bool>). (Pull #1790)
    • ➕ Add automatic character set detection, when no charset is included in the response Content-Type header. (Pull #1791)

    🔄 Changed

    • Event hooks are now also called for any additional redirect or auth requests/responses. (Pull #1806)
    • Strictly enforce that upload files must be opened in binary mode. (Pull #1736)
    • Strictly enforce that client instances can only be opened and closed once, and cannot be re-opened. (Pull #1800)
    • ⬇️ Drop mode argument from httpx.Proxy(..., mode=...). (Pull #1795)

Previous changes from v0.18.2

  • ➕ Added

    • 👌 Support for Python 3.10. (Pull #1687)
    • Expose httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT, used as the default to auth and timeout parameters in request methods. (Pull #1634)
    • 👌 Support HTTP/2 "prior knowledge", using httpx.Client(http1=False, http2=True). (Pull #1624)

    🛠 Fixed

    • ⚠ Clean up some cases where warnings were being issued. (Pull #1687)
    • Prefer Content-Length over Transfer-Encoding: chunked for content= cases. (Pull #1619)