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requests v2.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-10-05 // over 8 years ago

  • Minor Improvements (Backwards Compatible)

    • 👍 Requests now supports per-host proxies. This allows the proxies dictionary to have entries of the form {'<scheme>://<hostname>': '<proxy>'}. Host-specific proxies will be used in preference to the previously-supported scheme-specific ones, but the previous syntax will continue to work.
    • Response.raise_for_status now prints the URL that failed as part of the exception message.
    • requests.utils.get_netrc_auth now takes an raise_errors kwarg, defaulting to False. When True, errors parsing .netrc files cause exceptions to be thrown.
    • Change to bundled projects import logic to make it easier to unbundle requests downstream.
    • 0️⃣ Changed the default User-Agent string to avoid leaking data on Linux: now contains only the requests version.

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • The json parameter to post() and friends will now only be used if neither data nor files are present, consistent with the documentation.
    • We now ignore empty fields in the NO_PROXY environment variable.
    • 🛠 Fixed problem where httplib.BadStatusLine would get raised if combining stream=True with contextlib.closing.
    • Prevented bugs where we would attempt to return the same connection back to the connection pool twice when sending a Chunked body.
    • Miscellaneous minor internal changes.
    • 👍 Digest Auth support is now thread safe.

    ⚡️ Updates

    • ⚡️ Updated urllib3 to 1.12.