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Bug fixes
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- The asynchronous internals now set the underlying causes
when assigning exceptions to the future objects
-- by :user:`webknjaz`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8089`.
- Treated values of ``Accept-Encoding`` header as case-insensitive when checking
for gzip files -- by :user:`steverep`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8104`.
- Improved the DNS resolution performance on cache hit -- by :user:`bdraco`.
This is achieved by avoiding an :mod:`asyncio` task creation in this case.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8163`.
- Changed the type annotations to allow ``dict`` on :meth:`aiohttp.MultipartWriter.append`,
:meth:`aiohttp.MultipartWriter.append_json` and
:meth:`aiohttp.MultipartWriter.append_form` -- by :user:`cakemanny`
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`7741`.
- Ensure websocket transport is closed when client does not close it
-- by :user:`bdraco`.
The transport could remain open if the client did not close it. This
change ensures the transport is closed when the client does not close
it.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8200`.
- Leave websocket transport open if receive times out or is cancelled
-- by :user:`bdraco`.
This restores the behavior prior to the change in 7978.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8251`.
- Fixed content not being read when an upgrade request was not supported with the pure Python implementation.
-- by :user:`bdraco`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8252`.
- Fixed a race condition with incoming connections during server shutdown -- by :user:`Dreamsorcerer`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8271`.
- Fixed ``multipart/form-data`` compliance with :rfc:`7578` -- by :user:`Dreamsorcerer`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8280`.
- Fixed blocking I/O in the event loop while processing files in a POST request
-- by :user:`bdraco`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8283`.
- Escaped filenames in static view -- by :user:`bdraco`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8317`.
- Fixed the pure python parser to mark a connection as closing when a
response has no length -- by :user:`Dreamsorcerer`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8320`.
Features
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- Upgraded *llhttp* to 9.2.1, and started rejecting obsolete line folding
in Python parser to match -- by :user:`Dreamsorcerer`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8146`, :issue:`8292`.
Deprecations (removal in next major release)
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- Deprecated ``content_transfer_encoding`` parameter in :py:meth:`FormData.add_field()
<aiohttp.FormData.add_field>` -- by :user:`Dreamsorcerer`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8280`.
Improved documentation
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- Added a note about canceling tasks to avoid delaying server shutdown -- by :user:`Dreamsorcerer`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8267`.
Contributor-facing changes
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- The pull request template is now asking the contributors to
answer a question about the long-term maintenance challenges
they envision as a result of merging their patches
-- by :user:`webknjaz`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8099`.
- Updated CI and documentation to use NPM clean install and upgrade
node to version 18 -- by :user:`steverep`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8116`.
- A pytest fixture ``hello_txt`` was introduced to aid
static file serving tests in
:file:`test_web_sendfile_functional.py`. It dynamically
provisions ``hello.txt`` file variants shared across the
tests in the module.
-- by :user:`steverep`
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8136`.
Packaging updates and notes for downstreams
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- Added an ``internal`` pytest marker for tests which should be skipped
by packagers (use ``-m 'not internal'`` to disable them) -- by :user:`Dreamsorcerer`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`8299`.
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