httpx v0.23.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2022-05-23 // almost 2 years ago
  • 🔄 Changed

    • ⬇️ Drop support for Python 3.6. (#2097)
    • 📚 Use utf-8 as the default character set, instead of falling back to charset-normalizer for auto-detection. To enable automatic character set detection, see the documentation. (#2165)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fix URL.copy_with for some oddly formed URL cases. (#2185)
    • Digest authentication should use case-insensitive comparison for determining which algorithm is being used. (#2204)
    • 🛠 Fix console markup escaping in command line client. (#1866)
    • 👀 When files are used in multipart upload, ensure we always seek to the start of the file. (#2065)
    • Ensure that iter_bytes never yields zero-length chunks. (#2068)
    • ⬆️ Preserve Authorization header for redirects that are to the same origin, but are an http-to-https upgrade. (#2074)
    • 🖨 When responses have binary output, don't print the output to the console in the command line client. Use output like <16086 bytes of binary data> instead. (#2076)
    • 🛠 Fix display of --proxies argument in the command line client help. (#2125)
    • Close responses when task cancellations occur during stream reading. (#2156)
    • 🛠 Fix type error on accessing .request on HTTPError exceptions. (#2158)

Previous changes from v0.22.0

  • ➕ Added

    🛠 Fixed

    • Don't perform unreliable close/warning on __del__ with unclosed clients. (#2026)
    • 🛠 Fix Headers.update(...) to correctly handle repeated headers (#2038)