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0.20 (2013-11-08)
-----------------
0.20.0 (released 2013-11-08)
----------------------------
Enhancements
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- New Selector's API including CSS selectors (:issue:`395` and :issue:`426`),
- Add `cssselect`_ python package as install dependency
- Request/Response url/body attributes are now immutable
(modifying them had been deprecated for a long time)
- :setting:`ITEM_PIPELINES` is now defined as a dict (instead of a list)
- Drop libxml2 and multi selector's backend support, `lxml`_ is required from now on.
- Sitemap spider can fetch alternate URLs (:issue:`360`)
- `Selector.remove_namespaces()` now remove namespaces from element's attributes. (:issue:`416`)
- Dropped Python 2.6 support (:issue:`448`)
- Paved the road for Python 3.3+ (:issue:`435`, :issue:`436`, :issue:`431`, :issue:`452`)
- New item exporter using native python types with nesting support (:issue:`366`)
- Tuned HTTP1.1 pool size so it matches concurrency defined by settings (:commit:`b43b5f575`)
- Tune HTTP1.1 pool size so it matches concurrency defined by settings (:commit:`b43b5f575`)
- scrapy.mail.MailSender now can connect over TLS or upgrade using STARTTLS (:issue:`327`)
- New FilesPipeline with functionality factored out from ImagesPipeline (:issue:`370`, :issue:`409`)
- Recommend Pillow instead of PIL for image handling (:issue:`317`)
- Added debian packages for Ubuntu quantal and raring (:commit:`86230c0`)
- Increased minimum required Twisted version to 10.0.0, dropped Twisted 8.0 support.
- Mock server (used for tests) can listen for HTTPS requests (:issue:`410`)
- Remove multi spider support from multiple core components
(:issue:`422`, :issue:`421`, :issue:`420`, :issue:`419`, :issue:`423`, :issue:`418`)
- Travis-CI now tests Scrapy changes against development versions of `w3lib` and `queuelib` python packages.
- Add pypy 2.1 to continous integration tests (:commit:`ecfa7431`)
- Pylinted, pep8 and removed old-style exceptions from source (:issue:`430`, :issue:`432`)
- Running test suite now requires `mock` python library (:issue:`390`)
- Use importlib for parametric imports (:issue:`445`)
- Handle a regression introduced in Python 2.7.5 that affects XmlItemExporter (:issue:`372`)
- Bugfix crawling shutdown on SIGINT (:issue:`450`)
- Do not submit `reset` type inputs in FormRequest.from_response (:commit:`b326b87`)
- Do not silence download errors when request errback raises an exception (:commit:`684cfc0`)
Bugfixes
~~~~~~~~
- Fix tests under Django 1.6 (:commit:`b6bed44c`)
- Lot of bugfixes to retry middleware under disconnections using HTTP 1.1 download handler
- Fix inconsistencies among Twisted releases (:issue:`406`)
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- Document `bindaddress` request meta (:commit:`37c24e01d7`)
- Improve `Request` class documentation (:issue:`226`)
Other
~~~~~
- Dropped Python 2.6 support (:issue:`448`)
- Add `cssselect`_ python package as install dependency
- Drop libxml2 and multi selector's backend support, `lxml`_ is required from now on.
- Minimum Twisted version increased to 10.0.0, dropped Twisted 8.0 support.
- Running test suite now requires `mock` python library (:issue:`390`)
Thanks
~~~~~~
Thanks to everyone who contribute to this release!
List of contributors sorted by number of commits::
69 Daniel Graña <dangra@...>
37 Pablo Hoffman <pablo@...>
13 Mikhail Korobov <kmike84@...>
9 Alex Cepoi <alex.cepoi@...>
9 alexanderlukanin13 <alexander.lukanin.13@...>
8 Rolando Espinoza La fuente <darkrho@...>
8 Lukasz Biedrycki <lukasz.biedrycki@...>
6 Nicolas Ramirez <nramirez.uy@...>
3 Paul Tremberth <paul.tremberth@...>
2 Martin Olveyra <molveyra@...>
2 Stefan <misc@...>
2 Rolando Espinoza <darkrho@...>
2 Loren Davie <loren@...>
2 irgmedeiros <irgmedeiros@...>
1 Stefan Koch <taikano@...>
1 Stefan <cct@...>
1 scraperdragon <dragon@...>
1 Kumara Tharmalingam <ktharmal@...>
1 Francesco Piccinno <stack.box@...>
1 Marcos Campal <duendex@...>
1 Dragon Dave <dragon@...>
1 Capi Etheriel <barraponto@...>
1 cacovsky <amarquesferraz@...>
1 Berend Iwema <berend@...>
0.18.4 (released 2013-10-10)
----------------------------
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.. _ClientForm: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/old/ClientForm/
.. _resource: http://docs.python.org/library/resource.html
.. _queuelib: https://github.com/scrapy/queuelib
.. _cssselect: https://github.com/SimonSapin/cssselect