Reports / June 2019

## Django REST framework

We’re finally about ready to roll the 3.10 release. I’m planning to make a release in the first half of next week.

There’s been numerous tweaks, improvements and documentation fixes over the last few weeks.

HTTP3

The http3 package is now fully documented at https://www.encode.io/http3/

Work this month has included:

• Support for using directly with WSGI or ASGI apps. This allows for usage as a test client, or for service mocking.
• Concurrent reads/writes during the request/response cycle in order to properly handle HTTP endpoints that issue early responses, without having read the request body. Smart switchover between read and write timeouts.
• Improved protocol detection to include HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/0.9.
• Various changes to bring request headers closely in line with “requests”.
• Fixed default SSL cipher settings.
• Fixes for HTTP/2, including honoring stream flow control.
• Support for multipart file uploads.
• Support for either async or sync dispatchers.
• Various other bug fixes & minor improvements.

If we can find a good way forward I’d like this to end up as “requests3”, but that’s still an open ended conversation right now.

Starlette

• Work towards integrating http3 as the test client, in place of requests.
• Support for request.state, as a place to store arbitrary per-request state.
• Updates for ASGI 3, and various other minor changes.

Databases

The databases package is now fully documented at https://www.encode.io/databases/

• Connection locking during queries, in order to handle async concurrency safely.
• Iterations will now always implicitly occur within a transaction.
• Support for native decimal types in returned result records.

Uvicorn

• Support for ASGI raw_path.
• Various other bug fixes & minor improvements.

What’s next

The status of the various projects under the Encode banner currently looks like:

• django-rest-framework - Releasing 3.10, then dealing with any remaining OpenAPI schema issues.
• uvicorn - Working towards a 1.0 release.
• starlette - Working towards a 1.0 release.
• databases - Working towards a 1.0 release.
• http3 - Working towards a beta release. Determining if this will end up as “requests3” or not.
• typesystem - On hold, but to be revisited.
• orm - On hold, but to be revisited.
• apistar - To be determined. The API documentation generator, and schema-driven client library might fill an important bit of the ecosystem, once REST framework has moved to OpenAPI schema.

I’ve also started to explore how a Starlette-based admin interface might look.

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As ever thank you so much to all our sponsors, contributors, and users.

— Tom Christie, 4th July, 2019.