requests v2.28.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2022-06-29 // almost 4 years ago
  • 👌 Improvements

    • Speed optimization in iter_content with transition to yield from. (#6170)

    Dependencies

    • ➕ Added support for chardet 5.0.0 (#6179)
    • ➕ Added support for charset-normalizer 2.1.0 (#6169)

Previous changes from v2.28.0

  • 🗄 Deprecations

    • 👍 ⚠️ Requests has officially dropped support for Python 2.7. ⚠️ (#6091)
    • 👍 Requests has officially dropped support for Python 3.6 (including pypy3.6). (#6091)

    👌 Improvements

    • 🛰 Wrap JSON parsing issues in Request's JSONDecodeError for payloads without an encoding to make json() API consistent. (#6097)
    • 📜 Parse header components consistently, raising an InvalidHeader error in all invalid cases. (#6154)
    • ➕ Added provisional 3.11 support with current beta build. (#6155)
    • Requests got a makeover and we decided to paint it black. (#6095)

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • Fixed bug where setting CURL_CA_BUNDLE to an empty string would disable cert verification. All Requests 2.x versions before 2.28.0 are affected. (#6074)
    • 🛠 Fixed urllib3 exception leak, wrapping urllib3.exceptions.SSLError with requests.exceptions.SSLError for content and iter_content. (#6057)
    • 🛠 Fixed issue where invalid Windows registry entires caused proxy resolution to raise an exception rather than ignoring the entry. (#6149)
    • 🛠 Fixed issue where entire payload could be included in the error message for JSONDecodeError. (#6036)