Replace the VERSION placeholder with 2.18.0

docs/news.rst

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
-Scrapy VERSION (unreleased)
----------------------------
+Scrapy 2.18.0 (unreleased)
+--------------------------
 
 Highlights:
 

docs/topics/api.rst

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ how you :ref:`configure the downloader middlewares
     :attr:`request_fingerprinter` and :attr:`stats` attributes get their value
     when the crawl starts, and raise :exc:`RuntimeError` when read before that.
 
-    .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+    .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
         Those attributes used to be ``None`` before getting their value.
 
     .. attribute:: request_fingerprinter

docs/topics/download-handlers.rst

@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ Per-request ``bindaddress`` Yes
 TLS implementation          ``pyOpenSSL``/``cryptography``
 =========================== ================================================
 
-.. versionchanged:: VERSION
+.. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
    Bad header lines with no colon in them are now skipped, instead of making
    the whole response impossible to download.
 

docs/topics/exporters.rst

@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ BaseItemExporter
           :class:`dict` items, which have no declared fields, the key order of
           each item is used instead.
 
-          .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+          .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
              Fields of non-\ :class:`dict` items used to be exported in the
              order in which they had been populated, except in
              :class:`CsvItemExporter`, which has always used declaration order.

docs/topics/feed-exports.rst

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ FTPS
 The feeds are stored in a FTP server, over a TLS connection, with the
 certificate of the server verified.
 
-.. versionadded:: VERSION
+.. versionadded:: 2.18.0
 
 -   URI scheme: ``ftps``
 -   Example URI: ``ftps://user:pass@ftp.example.com/path/to/export.csv``

docs/topics/item-pipeline.rst

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Additionally, they may also implement the following methods:
 
    This method is called when the spider is opened.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
       Added support for :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider`.
 
    It may raise :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider` to close the spider before

docs/topics/settings.rst

@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ Endpoint URL used for S3-like storage, for example Minio or s3.scality.
 AWS_MAX_POOL_CONNECTIONS
 ------------------------
 
-.. versionadded:: VERSION
+.. versionadded:: 2.18.0
 
 Default: ``None``
 

docs/topics/signals.rst

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ spider_opened
     reserve per-spider resources, but can be used for any task that needs to be
     performed when a spider is opened.
 
-    .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+    .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
        Added support for :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider`.
 
     You may raise a :exc:`~scrapy.exceptions.CloseSpider` exception to close the
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ spider_error
     Sent when a spider callback or the :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.start` method of a
     spider generates an error (i.e. raises an exception).
 
-    .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+    .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
        Exceptions from :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.start` are also reported, see
        :ref:`start-error`.
 
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ robots_parsed
 .. signal:: robots_parsed
 .. function:: robots_parsed(robotparser, request)
 
-    .. versionadded:: VERSION
+    .. versionadded:: 2.18.0
 
     Sent by
     :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.robotstxt.RobotsTxtMiddleware` after it

docs/topics/spiders.rst

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ scrapy.Spider
        :class:`~scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware` is
        enabled.
 
-       .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+       .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
           Changes to this attribute during a crawl are now taken into account.
 
        Let's say your target url is ``https://www.example.com/1.html``,
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ sends the :signal:`spider_error` signal, and, once the already scheduled
 requests are done, closes the spider with the ``start_error``
 :stat:`finish_reason`.
 
-.. versionchanged:: VERSION
+.. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
    The close reason used to be ``finished``, and neither the
    :signal:`spider_error` signal nor the :stat:`spider_exceptions/count` stat
    reported the exception.

scrapy/exceptions.py

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class CloseSpider(Exception):
     """Raised from a :ref:`spider callback <topics-spiders>`, or while the
     spider is starting, to request the spider to be closed/stopped.
 
-    .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+    .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
        Added support for raising it while the spider is starting.
 
     *reason* is a string with the reason for closing.

scrapy/http/request/__init__.py

@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ class Request(object_ref):
         Inverse of :meth:`from_curl`. See also
         :func:`scrapy.utils.request.request_to_curl`.
 
-        .. versionadded:: VERSION
+        .. versionadded:: 2.18.0
         """
         # Imported here to avoid a circular import.
         from scrapy.utils.request import request_to_curl  # noqa: PLC0415

scrapy/http/response/text.py

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class TextResponse(Response):
     def json(self) -> Any:
         """Deserialize a JSON document to a Python object.
 
-        .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+        .. versionchanged:: 2.18.0
            Bodies that cannot be decoded as UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32, as the
            JSON specification requires, are now decoded using
            :attr:`TextResponse.encoding` instead of raising

scrapy/robotstxt.py

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class RobotParser(metaclass=ABCMeta):
         of seconds, or ``None`` if it is not set or the backend does not support
         it.
 
-        .. versionadded:: VERSION
+        .. versionadded:: 2.18.0
         """
         return None
 

scrapy/spidermiddlewares/depth.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class DepthMiddleware(BaseSpiderMiddleware):
     depth_reset
     -----------
 
-    .. versionadded:: VERSION
+    .. versionadded:: 2.18.0
 
     :attr:`~scrapy.Request.meta` key that, set to ``True``, gives a request
     depth 0 instead of the depth of its source response plus 1, e.g. to keep

scrapy/utils/asyncio.py

@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ class CallLaterResult:
 async def sleep(seconds: float) -> None:
     """Sleep for *seconds*.
 
-    .. versionadded:: VERSION
+    .. versionadded:: 2.18.0
 
     This uses either :func:`asyncio.sleep` or
     :func:`~twisted.internet.task.deferLater`, depending on whether asyncio