Add a deprecation notice for the offsite spider middleware.

2025-06-29 00:45:26 +05:00 · 2025-06-29 00:45:26 +05:00 · 03fe7a6424
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@ -1219,6 +1219,17 @@ Security bug fixes

    .. _defusedxml: https://github.com/tiran/defusedxml

+Deprecations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-   ``scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware`` (a spider
+    middleware) is now deprecated and not enabled by default. The new
+    downloader middleware with the same functionality,
+    :class:`scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware`, is enabled
+    instead.
+    (:issue:`2241`, :issue:`6358`)
+
+
 Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~