Changes
1.10.1 (2015-02-10)
Pools can be used as context managers. (Issue #545)
Don’t re-use connections which experienced an SSLError. (Issue #529)
Don’t fail when gzip decoding an empty stream. (Issue #535)
Add sha256 support for fingerprint verification. (Issue #540)
Fixed handling of header values containing commas. (Issue #533)
1.10 (2014-12-14)
Disabled SSLv3. (Issue #473)
Add Url.url property to return the composed url string. (Issue #394)
Fixed PyOpenSSL + gevent WantWriteError. (Issue #412)
MaxRetryError.reason will always be an exception, not string. (Issue #481)
Fixed SSL-related timeouts not being detected as timeouts. (Issue #492)
Py3: Use ssl.create_default_context() when available. (Issue #473)
Emit InsecureRequestWarning for every insecure HTTPS request. (Issue #496)
Emit SecurityWarning when certificate has no subjectAltName. (Issue #499)
Close and discard sockets which experienced SSL-related errors. (Issue #501)
Handle body param in .request(...). (Issue #513)
Respect timeout with HTTPS proxy. (Issue #505)
PyOpenSSL: Handle ZeroReturnError exception. (Issue #520)
1.9.1 (2014-09-13)
Apply socket arguments before binding. (Issue #427)
More careful checks if fp-like object is closed. (Issue #435)
Fixed packaging issues of some development-related files not getting included. (Issue #440)
Allow performing only fingerprint verification. (Issue #444)
Emit SecurityWarning if system clock is waaay off. (Issue #445)
Fixed PyOpenSSL compatibility with PyPy. (Issue #450)
Fixed BrokenPipeError and ConnectionError handling in Py3. (Issue #443)
1.9 (2014-07-04)
Shuffled around development-related files. If you’re maintaining a distro package of urllib3, you may need to tweak things. (Issue #415)
Unverified HTTPS requests will trigger a warning on the first request. See our new security documentation for details. (Issue #426)
New retry logic and urllib3.util.retry.Retry configuration object. (Issue #326)
All raised exceptions should now wrapped in a urllib3.exceptions.HTTPException-extending exception. (Issue #326)
All errors during a retry-enabled request should be wrapped in urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError, including timeout-related exceptions which were previously exempt. Underlying error is accessible from the .reason propery. (Issue #326)
urllib3.exceptions.ConnectionError renamed to urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError. (Issue #326)
Errors during response read (such as IncompleteRead) are now wrapped in urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError. (Issue #418)
Requesting an empty host will raise urllib3.exceptions.LocationValueError. (Issue #417)
Catch read timeouts over SSL connections as urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError. (Issue #419)
Apply socket arguments before connecting. (Issue #427)
1.8.3 (2014-06-23)
Fix TLS verification when using a proxy in Python 3.4.1. (Issue #385)
Add disable_cache option to urllib3.util.make_headers. (Issue #393)
Wrap socket.timeout exception with urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError. (Issue #399)
Fixed proxy-related bug where connections were being reused incorrectly. (Issues #366, #369)
Added socket_options keyword parameter which allows to define setsockopt configuration of new sockets. (Issue #397)
Removed HTTPConnection.tcp_nodelay in favor of HTTPConnection.default_socket_options. (Issue #397)
Fixed TypeError bug in Python 2.6.4. (Issue #411)
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