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urllib3 v1.16 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-06-11 // almost 8 years ago

    • Disable IPv6 DNS when IPv6 connections are not possible. (Issue #840)

    • Provide key_fn_by_scheme pool keying mechanism that can be overridden. (Issue #830)

    • Normalize scheme and host to lowercase for pool keys, and include source_address. (Issue #830)

    • 👉 Cleaner exception chain in Python 3 for _make_request. (Issue #861)

    • 🛠 Fixed installing urllib3[socks] extra. (Issue #864)

    • 🛠 Fixed signature of ConnectionPool.close so it can actually safely be called by subclasses. (Issue #873)

    • 🚀 Retain release_conn state across retries. (Issues #651, #866)

    • ➕ Add customizable HTTPConnectionPool.ResponseCls, which defaults to HTTPResponse but can be replaced with a subclass. (Issue #879)