From 639fac78b310f3d7ce49cb6ed604bc3afc018e28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian <adrian@zyte.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 17:02:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Cover the signature change of scrape_func (#7875)

---
 docs/news.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 670843e0e..a5cc6c723 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -2042,6 +2042,13 @@ Backward-incompatible changes
     ``process_start_requests()`` has been replaced by ``process_start()``.
     (:issue:`6729`)
 
+-   The ``scrape_func`` callable passed to
+    ``scrapy.core.spidermw.SpiderMiddlewareManager.scrape_response()`` is now
+    called with 2 parameters, ``response`` and ``request``, instead of 3, and
+    must return a :class:`~twisted.internet.defer.Deferred` instead of an
+    iterable.
+    (:issue:`6787`)
+
 -   The now-deprecated ``start_requests()`` method, when it returns an iterable
     instead of being defined as a generator, is now executed *after* the
     :ref:`scheduler <topics-scheduler>` instance has been created.