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2.8.0

==================

Security
--------

Fixed the following security issues:

- The TLS configuration for HTTPS proxies could be ignored or overridden.
(High severity, `GHSA-8988-9cw3-xx77 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-8988-9cw3-xx77>`__)
- ``HTTPResponse.stream()`` and ``read_chunked()`` could buffer a chunk-size
line of unbounded length in memory. (High severity,
`GHSA-vxq7-64xx-v4gw <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-vxq7-64xx-v4gw>`__)
- Chunked Deflate streaming could enter an infinite loop. (Medium severity,
`GHSA-gh4c-6fx4-qh6g <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-gh4c-6fx4-qh6g>`__)

.. caution::

urllib3 2.8.0 fixes HTTPS proxy TLS configuration being ignored or
overridden by destination settings. Configurations relying on that
behavior may require changes.

Configure proxy CA certificates and client certificates in
``proxy_ssl_context``, and proxy identity checks with
``proxy_assert_hostname`` or ``proxy_assert_fingerprint``.
Destination client certificates and identity overrides no longer
apply to HTTPS forwarding proxy connections.


Deprecations & Removals
-----------------------

- Deprecated using an empty collection as the ``Retry`` option
``allowed_methods`` to retry any verb.
(`5044 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5044>`__)


Features
--------

- Added ``Url.auth_decoded`` and ``Url.auth_decoded_joined`` convenience
properties to the result of ``parse_url()``.
(`4945 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/4945>`__)
- Added ``basic_auth_encoding`` and ``proxy_basic_auth_encoding`` parameters to
``urllib3.util.make_headers()``.
(`5092 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5092>`__)


Bugfixes
--------

- Fixed response header handling to replace obsolete folded header lines
(`obs-fold`) with spaces in accordance with RFC 9112, preventing raw CRLF
sequences from appearing in header values such as ``Set-Cookie``.
(`1362 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1362>`__)
- Fixed usage of ``proxy_ssl_context`` with ``ProxyManager`` when
``use_forwarding_for_https=True``. Passing ``ssl_context`` instead of
``proxy_ssl_context`` for HTTPS proxies in this configuration now emits a
``FutureWarning`` and will raise an error in v3.0.
(`2577 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/2577>`__)
- Changed behavior of the default ``ConnectionPool.pool`` initialization.
``LifoQueue`` is now resolved from the ``queue`` module after the
``ConnectionPool`` is instantiated instead of using the default cached
``QueueCls`` class property. This is done because sometimes the
``queue.LifoQueue`` is monkey-patched late in the program, such as by gevent.
(`3289 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3289>`__)
- Raised ``UnrewindableBodyError`` instead of ``ValueError`` when retrying a
request whose body had ``tell()`` but not ``seek()``.
(`3779 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3779>`__)
- Decoded percent-encoded SOCKS proxy credentials before authenticating with
the proxy server.
(`3785 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3785>`__)
- Fixed ``HTTPResponse.drain_conn()`` to discard unread response data in 64 KiB
chunks (same as the default ``amt`` when doing ``HTTPResponse.stream(...)``).
(`5019 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5019>`__)
- Fixed ``is_ipaddress()`` to detect non-standard IPv4 forms accepted by
``socket.connect``, such as hex (``0x7f000001``), octal (``0177.0.0.1``), and
decimal integers (``2130706433``), ensuring SSL certificate verification uses
the correct mode for these addresses.
(`5029 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5029>`__)
- Fixed ``HTTPConnectionPool.urlopen`` raising a misleading ``FullPoolError``
instead of ``ValueError`` when called with an invalid ``timeout`` argument on
a pool created with ``block=True``.
(`5059 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5059>`__)
- Fixed port-zero handling to preserve explicit ``:0`` values instead of
substituting the default ports 80 or 443 in URL parsing, pool selection,
proxy configuration, ``connection_from_url()``, and HTTP/2 request authority.
(`5071 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5071>`__,
`5101 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5101>`__)
- Fixed a bug where ``PoolManager`` passed the ``assert_hostname`` and
``assert_fingerprint`` parameters to HTTP connection pools.
(`5077 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5077>`__)
- Fixed ``HTTPConnectionPool.urlopen()`` and HTTP proxy forwarding to strip URL
fragments from absolute request targets before sending requests.
(`5079 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5079>`__)
- Added safeguards to the proxy tunneling code to prevent potential security
issues when handling invalid characters in the proxy host and HTTP headers.
This change affects users of Python 3.10, Python 3.11, and Python 3.12 when
the standard library does not contain the fix; those on newer Python versions
should upgrade to 3.13.14+ or 3.14.5+ to get the same security fixes.
(`5091 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5091>`__)
- Fixed ``HTTPSConnection.connect()`` overriding ``ProxyConfig.ssl_context``'s
certificate policy and proxy identity checks with the target connection's TLS
settings when forwarding through an HTTPS proxy.

``HTTPSConnection`` no longer applies target SNI, assertions, or client
credentials to forwarding proxy handshakes and continues to use its
``ssl_context`` as a fallback when an HTTPS proxy forwards an HTTP target.
(`5093 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5093>`__)
- Fixed URL parsing to more strictly enforce RFC 3986 host syntax, rejecting
invalid host input such as raw spaces and control characters, malformed
percent-encodings, and percent-encoded control characters in HTTP(S) hosts
and IPv6 zone identifiers, including proxy CONNECT tunnel targets. Host
normalization now also follows RFC 3986 normalization rules for
percent-encoded octets by decoding percent-encoded unreserved characters and
uppercasing the hexadecimal digits of retained percent-encoded octets.
(`5095 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5095>`__)
- Fixed an ``AttributeError`` on Python built with OpenSSL 4+, where
``ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1`` no longer exists.
(`5097 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5097>`__)
- Fixed ``urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl`` to use cryptography APIs when reading a
certificate subject and loading encrypted private keys, avoiding
``DeprecationWarning`` raised by pyOpenSSL 26.3.0+.
(`5103 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5103>`__)
- Fixed handling of HTTP 303 redirects for requests with chunked or file-like
bodies.
(`5161 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5161>`__)
- Fixed ``assert_fingerprint()`` to raise ``SSLError`` instead of
``binascii.Error`` when a fingerprint has a supported length but contains
non-hexadecimal characters.
(`5211 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5211>`__)


Misc
----

- Added a ``test`` dependency group containing the minimum dependencies needed
to run the test suite, intended for downstream packagers. The ``dev-base``
and ``mypy`` groups now include this new group via ``include-group``,
removing duplication.
(`3594 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3594>`__)
- Fixed test failures with pytest >= 9.1.
(`5094 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5094>`__)
- Enabled JSPI tests with Firefox in the Emscripten test suite.
(`5166 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5166>`__)
- Improved streamed response decoding performance.
(`5209 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5209>`__)
- Fixed flaky tests.
(`5232 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5232>`__,
`5234 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5234>`__,
`5239 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/5239>`__)

2.7.0

=======================

Security
--------

Addressed high-severity security issues.
Impact was limited to specific use cases detailed in the accompanying
advisories; overall user exposure was estimated to be marginal.

- Decompression-bomb safeguards of the streaming API were bypassed:

1. When ``HTTPResponse.drain_conn()`` was called after the response had been
read and decompressed partially.
2. During the second ``HTTPResponse.read(amt=N)`` or
``HTTPResponse.stream(amt=N)`` call when the response was decompressed
using the official `Brotli <https://pypi.org/project/brotli/>`__ library.

See `GHSA-mf9v-mfxr-j63j <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-mf9v-mfxr-j63j>`__
for details.

- HTTP pools created using ``ProxyManager.connection_from_url`` did not strip
sensitive headers specified in ``Retry.remove_headers_on_redirect`` when
redirecting to a different host.
(`GHSA-qccp-gfcp-xxvc <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-qccp-gfcp-xxvc>`__)


Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

- Used ``FutureWarning`` instead of ``DeprecationWarning`` for better
visibility of existing deprecation notices. Rescheduled the removal of
deprecated features to version 3.0.
(`3763 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3763>`__)
- Removed support for end-of-life Python 3.9.
(`3720 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3720>`__)
- Removed support for end-of-life PyPy3.10.
(`4979 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/4979>`__)
- Bumped the minimum supported pyOpenSSL version to 19.0.0.
(`3777 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3777>`__)


Bugfixes
--------

- Fixed a bug where ``HTTPResponse.read(amt=None)`` was ignoring decompressed
data buffered from previous partial reads.
(`3636 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3636>`__)
- Fixed a bug where ``HTTPResponse.read()`` could cache only part of the
response after a partial read when ``cache_content=True``.
(`4967 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/4967>`__)
- Fixed ``HTTPResponse.stream()`` and ``HTTPResponse.read_chunked()`` to handle
``amt=0``.
(`3793 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3793>`__)
- Updated ``_TYPE_BODY`` type alias to include missing ``Iterable[str]``,
matching the documented and runtime behavior of chunked request bodies.
(`3798 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3798>`__)
- Fixed ``LocationParseError`` when paths resembling schemeless URIs were
passed to ``HTTPConnectionPool.urlopen()``.
(`3352 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3352>`__)
- Fixed ``BaseHTTPResponse.readinto()`` type annotation to accept
``memoryview`` in addition to ``bytearray``, matching the
``io.RawIOBase.readinto`` contract and enabling use with
``io.BufferedReader`` without type errors.
(`3764 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3764>`__)

2.6.3

Not secure
==================

- Fixed a high-severity security issue where decompression-bomb safeguards of
the streaming API were bypassed when HTTP redirects were followed.
(`GHSA-38jv-5279-wg99 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-38jv-5279-wg99>`__)
- Started treating ``Retry-After`` times greater than 6 hours as 6 hours by
default. (`3743 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3743>`__)
- Fixed ``urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection`` on Emscripten.
(`3752 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3752>`__)

2.6.2

Not secure
==================

- Fixed ``HTTPResponse.read_chunked()`` to properly handle leftover data in
the decoder's buffer when reading compressed chunked responses.
(`3734 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3734>`__)

2.6.1

Not secure
==================

- Restore previously removed ``HTTPResponse.getheaders()`` and
``HTTPResponse.getheader()`` methods.
(`3731 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3731>`__)

2.6.0

Not secure
==================

Security
--------

- Fixed a security issue where streaming API could improperly handle highly
compressed HTTP content ("decompression bombs") leading to excessive resource
consumption even when a small amount of data was requested. Reading small
chunks of compressed data is safer and much more efficient now.
(`GHSA-2xpw-w6gg-jr37 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-2xpw-w6gg-jr37>`__)
- Fixed a security issue where an attacker could compose an HTTP response with
virtually unlimited links in the ``Content-Encoding`` header, potentially
leading to a denial of service (DoS) attack by exhausting system resources
during decoding. The number of allowed chained encodings is now limited to 5.
(`GHSA-gm62-xv2j-4w53 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-gm62-xv2j-4w53>`__)

.. caution::
- If urllib3 is not installed with the optional `urllib3[brotli]` extra, but
your environment contains a Brotli/brotlicffi/brotlipy package anyway, make
sure to upgrade it to at least Brotli 1.2.0 or brotlicffi 1.2.0.0 to
benefit from the security fixes and avoid warnings. Prefer using
`urllib3[brotli]` to install a compatible Brotli package automatically.

- If you use custom decompressors, please make sure to update them to
respect the changed API of ``urllib3.response.ContentDecoder``.


Features
--------

- Enabled retrieval, deletion, and membership testing in ``HTTPHeaderDict`` using bytes keys. (`3653 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3653>`__)
- Added host and port information to string representations of ``HTTPConnection``. (`3666 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3666>`__)
- Added support for Python 3.14 free-threading builds explicitly. (`3696 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3696>`__)


Removals
--------

- Removed the ``HTTPResponse.getheaders()`` method in favor of ``HTTPResponse.headers``.
Removed the ``HTTPResponse.getheader(name, default)`` method in favor of ``HTTPResponse.headers.get(name, default)``. (`3622 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3622>`__)


Bugfixes
--------

- Fixed redirect handling in ``urllib3.PoolManager`` when an integer is passed
for the retries parameter. (`3649 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3649>`__)
- Fixed ``HTTPConnectionPool`` when used in Emscripten with no explicit port. (`3664 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3664>`__)
- Fixed handling of ``SSLKEYLOGFILE`` with expandable variables. (`3700 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3700>`__)


Misc
----

- Changed the ``zstd`` extra to install ``backports.zstd`` instead of ``zstandard`` on Python 3.13 and before. (`3693 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3693>`__)
- Improved the performance of content decoding by optimizing ``BytesQueueBuffer`` class. (`3710 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3710>`__)
- Allowed building the urllib3 package with newer setuptools-scm v9.x. (`3652 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3652>`__)
- Ensured successful urllib3 builds by setting Hatchling requirement to >= 1.27.0. (`3638 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3638>`__)

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