Reports / August 2020

Django REST framework

I’ve started drawing up the release notes for 3.12. It’s likely that we’ll issue a release within the next two weeks, since there’s plenty of new functionality that’s waiting for release right now.

HTTPX

Our latest HTTPX releases include a number of refinements and bugfixes, as well as some new functionality:

• Default headers such as User-Agent are now set on client.headers, rather than constructed directly on the request instance, making it easier to remove or override them from all client requests.
• Unix Domain Socket support.
• Support for connecting via a specfic local address.
• When a client has auth=... set, we now support disabling auth on a per-request basis.

We’ve also made significant progress on a number of more major features, such as:

• Supporting connection retries with Client(retries=<int>).
• Supporting an event hooks API.
• Supporting async or sync authentication flows that require I/O.
• Preliminary work on an HTTPX command line tool.
• Allowing Request or Response instances to be used in wider contexts, such as for unit testing auth classes…
  • Only adding mandatory headers such as Host: ... when requests are instantiated directly.
  • Supporting usages like response = httpx.Response(content=..., text=..., html=..., json=...)

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Thanks as ever to all our sponsors, contributors, and users,

— Tom Christie, 3rd August, 2020.