changeset: 102887:b004da19b869 user: Martin Panter date: Wed Aug 24 07:51:36 2016 +0000 files: Misc/NEWS description: Issue #12319: Move NEWS under beta 1 heading diff -r 0effb34f3276 -r b004da19b869 Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS Wed Aug 24 06:33:33 2016 +0000 +++ b/Misc/NEWS Wed Aug 24 07:51:36 2016 +0000 @@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ Library ------- +- Issue #12319: Chunked transfer encoding support added to + http.client.HTTPConnection requests. The + urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler class does not enforce a Content-Length + header any more. If a HTTP request has a non-empty body, but no + Content-Length header, and the content length cannot be determined + up front, rather than throwing an error, the library now falls back + to use chunked transfer encoding. + - A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing: - Collection (only for 3.6) (Issue #27598) - Add FrozenSet to __all__ (upstream #261) @@ -160,14 +168,6 @@ then further affects other traceback display operations in the module). Patch by Emanuel Barry. -- Issue #12319: Chunked transfer encoding support added to - http.client.HTTPConnection requests. The - urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler class does not enforce a Content-Length - header any more. If a HTTP request has a non-empty body, but no - Content-Length header, and the content length cannot be determined - up front, rather than throwing an error, the library now falls back - to use chunked transfer encoding. - - Issue #27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor() the ability to specify a thread name prefix.