CHANGES.txt

CHANGES
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0.18.0a0 (XX-XX-XXXX)
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- Use errors.HttpProcessingError.message as HTTP error reason and
  message #459

- Optimize cythonized multidict a bit

- Change repr's of multidicts and multidict views

- default headers in ClientSession are now case-insensitive

- Make '=' char and 'wss://' schema safe in urls #477

- `ClientResponse.close()` forces connection closing by default from now #479
  N.B. Backward incompatible change: was `.close(force=False)
  Using `force` parameter for the method is deprecated: use `.release()` instead.

- Properly requote URL's path #480

- add `skip_auto_headers` parameter for client API #486

- Properly parse URL path in aiohttp.web.Request #489

- Raise RuntimeError when chunked enabled and HTTP is 1.0 #488

- Fix a bug with processing io.BytesIO as data parameter for client API #500

- Skip auto-generation of Content-Type header #507

- Use sendfile facility for static file handling #503

- Default `response_factory` in `app.router.add_static` now is
  `StreamResponse`, not `None`. The functionality is not changed if
  default is not specified.

- Drop `ClientResponse.message` attribute, it was always implementation detail.

- Streams are optimized for speed and mostly memory in case of a big
  HTTP message sizes #496

- Fix a bug for server-side cookies for dropping cookie and setting it
  again without Max-Age parameter.

- Don't trim redirect URL in client API #499

- Extend precision of access log "D" to milliseconds #527

- Deprecate `StreamResponse.start()` method in favor of
  `StreamResponse.prepare()` coroutine #525

  `.start()` is still supported but responses begun with `.start()`
  doesn't call signal for response preparing to be sent. 

- Add `StreamReader.__repr__`