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requests v2.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-12-01 // over 9 years ago

  • 👌 Improvements

    • Allow usage of urllib3's Retry object with HTTPAdapters (#2216)
    • The iter_lines method on a response now accepts a delimiter with which to split the content (#2295)

    Behavioural Changes

    • 🗄 Add deprecation warnings to functions in requests.utils that will be removed in 3.0 (#2309)
    • Sessions used by the functional API are always closed (#2326)
    • Restrict requests to HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 (stop accepting HTTP/0.9) (#2323)

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 📜 Only parse the URL once (#2353)
    • Allow Content-Length header to always be overridden (#2332)
    • Properly handle files in HTTPDigestAuth (#2333)
    • Cap redirect_cache size to prevent memory abuse (#2299)
    • Fix HTTPDigestAuth handling of redirects after authenticating successfully (#2253)
    • Fix crash with custom method parameter to Session.request (#2317)
    • 📜 Fix how Link headers are parsed using the regular expression library (#2271)

    📚 Documentation

    • Add more references for interlinking (#2348)
    • ⚡️ Update CSS for theme (#2290)
    • ⚡️ Update width of buttons and sidebar (#2289)
    • Replace references of Gittip with Gratipay (#2282)
    • Add link to changelog in sidebar (#2273)