From 4eeec3e42cf4a48dd3481e43ca064576a4a825d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Tremberth Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:59:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add preamble on why 1.3.0 comes so soon after 1.2.2 --- docs/news.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst index 02976fedf..09c47dc30 100644 --- a/docs/news.rst +++ b/docs/news.rst @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ Release notes Scrapy 1.3.0 (2016-12-XX) ------------------------- +This release comes rather soon after 1.2.2 for one main reason: +it was found out that releases since 0.18 up to 1.2.2 (included) use +some backported code from Twisted, even if newer Twisted modules are available. +Scrapy now uses ``twisted.web.client`` and ``twisted.internet.endpoints`` directly. + +As it is a major change, we wanted to get the bug fix out quickly +while not breaking any projects using the 1.2 series. + New Features ~~~~~~~~~~~~