* Initial release notes for 2.14.0, up to ed63fa9.
* Cover 2.14 in the release notes up to 393d715.
* Cover 2.14 in the release notes up to eb49647.
* Cover 2.14 in the release notes up to 426aafd.
* Cover 2.14 in the release notes up to 1e8de24.
* Cover 2.14 in the release notes up to 5a7e132.
* Bump sphinx-lint.
* Finalize the 2.14.0 release notes.
* Drop more of the old versionadded directives.
* Address feedback.
* Add a test for not having pending tasks.
* Refactor TestFeedExporterSignals.
* Refactor FeedExporter.close_spider().
* More engine start/stop robustness.
* Refactor send_catch_log_async(), deprecate send_catch_log_deferred().
* Add pragma: no cover.
* Warn on signal handlers returning a Deferred.
* Make _pending_close_coros an instance attribute.
* Remove an unused function.
* Remove the outdated TODO.
* Add a crawler argument to MiddlewareManager.__init__().
* Deprecate the spider argument in some MiddlewareManager subclasses.
* Remove the spider argument from ExecutionEngine.open_spider_async().
* Remove the spider argument from Scraper.open_spider().
* Fix the Scraper.close_spider() type hint.
* Remove the spider argument from Downloader internals.
* Deprecate the spider arg of download_func.
* Deprecate the spider arg of Downloader.fetch().
* Deprecate the spider arg of ItemPipelineManager.process_item().
* Fix pylint.
* Tests for MiddlewareManager spider code.
* Deprecated spider arg handling for custom pipeline managers.
* Add a test for the deprecated spider arg in a custom downloader.
* Remove TODO.
* Fix pylint.
* added async_download()
* add case tests for ExecutionEngine download() and async_download()
* change async_download() to download_async() in Engine class and subsequent tests
* fixed reactor import in test_engine.py
* Simplify TestEngineDownloadAsync.
* replaced tearDown by self.engine.downloader.close in test_engine.py and replace @defer.inlineCallbacks by @inlineCallbacks
* Simplify ExecutionEngine.download().
* Remove an unneeded import.
* Refactor ExecutionEngine.download{,_async}() tests.
* Deprecate ExecutionEngine.download().
* Update doc examples to use download_async().
* Replace uses of download() with download_async().
* Fix test_downloadermiddleware_robotstxt.py.
* Remove a stray file.
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Co-authored-by: Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>
* Add a basic Crawler.crawl_async().
* Add custom loop tests for *CrawlerRunner.
* Add AsyncCrawlerProcess.
* Update related docs.
* Update practices.rst.
* Address test failures.
* Add a note about AsyncCrawler* to the docs about switching reactors.
* Address feedback.
* Update for TID253.
* Simplify test_crawler_crawl_async_twice_parallel_unsupported().
Adrian
Albert Eduardovich N.
Andrey Rakhmatullin
Felipe Benevolo
Adrián Chaves
Vsevolod Breus
LucasSD
Georgiy Zatserklianyi