From 45b0e1a0e4c51a773b39be14334a999cc5f0fe56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikhail Korobov Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:33:43 +0500 Subject: [PATCH] DOC draft 1.5 release notes --- docs/news.rst | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst index 7ecf22470..df0f10a32 100644 --- a/docs/news.rst +++ b/docs/news.rst @@ -3,51 +3,97 @@ Release notes ============= -Scrapy 1.4.1 (2017-XX-XX) +Scrapy 1.5.0 (2017-XX-XX) ------------------------- +Supported Environments +---------------------- + +* Scrapy 1.5 drops support for Python 3.3; +* this release also improves Python 3.x support (especially 3.6); +* PyPy and PyPy3 are now supported officially, by running tests on CI. +* Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7.0 are baseline Linux distributions. + New features ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Support ```` tags in ``Response.follow`` (:issue:`2785`) - Support for ``ptpython`` REPL (:issue:`2654`) +- Google Cloud Storage support for FilesPipeline and ImagesPipeline + (:issue:`2923`). +- New ``--meta`` option of the "scrapy parse" command allows to pass additional + request.meta (:issue:`2883`) - Populate spider variable when using ``shell.inspect_response`` (:issue:`2812`) - Handle HTTP 308 Permanent Redirect (:issue:`2844`) - Add 522 and 524 to ``RETRY_HTTP_CODES`` (:issue:`2851`) - Log versions information at startup (:issue:`2857`) - Add template for a downloader middleware (:issue:`2755`) -- Explicit message for NotImplementedError when parse callback not defined (:issue:`2831`) +- Explicit message for NotImplementedError when parse callback not defined + (:issue:`2831`) +- Connections to proxy servers are reused (:issue:`2743`) +- CrawlerProcess got an option to disable installation of root log handler + (:issue:`2921`) +- LinkExtractor now ignores ``m4v`` extension by default +- ``scrapy.mail.MailSender`` now works in Python 3 (it requires Twisted 17.9.0) +- Better log messages for responses over :setting:`DOWNLOAD_WARNSIZE` and + :setting:`DOWNLOAD_MAXSIZE` limits (:issue:`2927`) +- Show warning when a URL is put to ``Spider.allowed_domains`` instead of + a domain (:issue:`2250`). + Bug fixes ~~~~~~~~~ -- Fix PyPy test failures (:issue:`2793`) -- Fix DNS resolver when ``DNSCACHE_ENABLED=False`` (:issue:`2811`) -- Add ``cryptography`` for Debian Jessie tox test env (:issue:`2848`) -- Add verification to check if Request callback is callable (:issue:`2766`) -- Port ``extras/qpsclient.py`` to Python 3 (:issue:`2849`) -- Use getfullargspec under the scenes for Python 3 to stop DeprecationWarning (:issue:`2862`) -- Update deprecated test aliases (:issue:`2876`) -- Fix ``SitemapSpider`` support for alternate links (:issue:`2853`) - Fix logging of settings overridden by ``custom_settings``; **this is technically backwards-incompatible** because the logger changes from ``[scrapy.utils.log]`` to ``[scrapy.crawler]``, so please update your log parsers if needed (:issue:`1343`) +- Default Scrapy User-Agent now uses https link to scrapy.org (:issue:`2983`). + **This is technically backwards-incompatible**; override + :setting:`USER_AGENT` if you relied on old value. +- Fix PyPy and PyPy3 test failures, support them officially + (:issue:`2793`, :issue:`2935`, :issue:`2990`, :issue:`3050`, :issue:`2213`, :issue:`3048`) +- Fix DNS resolver when ``DNSCACHE_ENABLED=False`` (:issue:`2811`) +- Add ``cryptography`` for Debian Jessie tox test env (:issue:`2848`) +- Add verification to check if Request callback is callable (:issue:`2766`) +- Port ``extras/qpsclient.py`` to Python 3 (:issue:`2849`) +- Use getfullargspec under the scenes for Python 3 to stop DeprecationWarning + (:issue:`2862`) +- Update deprecated test aliases (:issue:`2876`) +- Fix ``SitemapSpider`` support for alternate links (:issue:`2853`) + Docs ~~~~ -- Added missing bullet point for the ``AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY`` setting. (:issue:`2756`) -- Include references to Scrapy subreddit in the docs (:issue:`2762`) -- Use https:// for readthedocs links +- Added missing bullet point for the ``AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY`` + setting. (:issue:`2756`) +- Update Contributing docs, document new support channels + (:issue:`2762`, issue:`3038`) +- Include references to Scrapy subreddit in the docs +- Fix broken links; use https:// for external links + (:issue:`2978`, :issue:`2982`, :issue:`2958`) - Document CloseSpider extension better (:issue:`2759`) -- Use ``pymongo.collection.Collection.insert_one()`` in MongoDB example (:issue:`2781`) -- Spelling mistake and typos (:issue:`2828`, :issue:`2837`, :issue:`#2884`) +- Use ``pymongo.collection.Collection.insert_one()`` in MongoDB example + (:issue:`2781`) +- Spelling mistake and typos + (:issue:`2828`, :issue:`2837`, :issue:`#2884`, :issue:`2924`) - Clarify ``CSVFeedSpider.headers`` documentation (:issue:`2826`) -- Document ``DontCloseSpider`` exception and clarify ``spider_idle`` (:issue:`2791`) +- Document ``DontCloseSpider`` exception and clarify ``spider_idle`` + (:issue:`2791`) - Update "Releases" section in README (:issue:`2764`) - Fix rst syntax in ``DOWNLOAD_FAIL_ON_DATALOSS`` docs (:issue:`2763`) - Small fix in description of startproject arguments (:issue:`2866`) +- Clarify data types in Response.body docs (:issue:`2922`) +- Add a note about ``request.meta['depth']`` to DepthMiddleware docs (:issue:`2374`) +- Add a note about ``request.meta['dont_merge_cookies']`` to CookiesMiddleware + docs (:issue:`2999`) +- Up-to-date example of project structure (:issue:`2964`, :issue:`2976`) +- A better example of ItemExporters usage (:issue:`2989`) +- Document ``from_crawler`` methods for spider and downloader middlewares + (:issue:`3019`) + + Scrapy 1.4.0 (2017-05-18)