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urllib3 v1.21 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-04-25 // about 7 years ago

    • 👌 Improved performance of certain selector system calls on Python 3.5 and later. (Pull #1095)

    • Resolved issue where the PyOpenSSL backend would not wrap SysCallError exceptions appropriately when sending data. (Pull #1125)

    • Selectors now detects a monkey-patched select module after import for modules that patch the select module like eventlet, greenlet. (Pull #1128)

    • ⬇️ Reduced memory consumption when streaming zlib-compressed responses (as opposed to raw deflate streams). (Pull #1129)

    • Connection pools now use the entire request context when constructing the pool key. (Pull #1016)

    • PoolManager.connection_from_* methods now accept a new keyword argument, pool_kwargs, which are merged with the existing connection_pool_kw. (Pull #1016)

    • ➕ Add retry counter for status_forcelist. (Issue #1147)

    • ➕ Added contrib module for using SecureTransport on macOS: urllib3.contrib.securetransport. (Pull #1122)

    • urllib3 now only normalizes the case of http:// and https:// schemes: for schemes it does not recognise, it assumes they are case-sensitive and leaves them unchanged. (Issue #1080)