Requests

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**Improvements**

- Requests now defers chunked requests to the urllib3 implementation to improve
standardization. (6226)
- Requests relaxes header component requirements to support bytes/str subclasses. (6356)

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**Dependencies**

- Requests now supports charset\_normalizer 3.x. (6261)

**Bugfixes**

- Updated MissingSchema exception to suggest https scheme rather than http. (6188)

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**Improvements**

- Speed optimization in `iter_content` with transition to `yield from`. (6170)

**Dependencies**

- Added support for chardet 5.0.0 (6179)
- Added support for charset-normalizer 2.1.0 (6169)

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**Deprecations**

- ⚠️ Requests has officially dropped support for Python 2.7. ⚠️ (6091)
- Requests has officially dropped support for Python 3.6 (including pypy3.6). (6091)

**Improvements**

- Wrap JSON parsing issues in Request's JSONDecodeError for payloads without
an encoding to make `json()` API consistent. (6097)
- Parse header components consistently, raising an InvalidHeader error in
all invalid cases. (6154)
- Added provisional 3.11 support with current beta build. (6155)
- Requests got a makeover and we decided to paint it black. (6095)

**Bugfixes**

- Fixed bug where setting `CURL_CA_BUNDLE` to an empty string would disable
cert verification. All Requests 2.x versions before 2.28.0 are affected. (6074)
- Fixed urllib3 exception leak, wrapping `urllib3.exceptions.SSLError` with
`requests.exceptions.SSLError` for `content` and `iter_content`. (6057)
- Fixed issue where invalid Windows registry entries caused proxy resolution
to raise an exception rather than ignoring the entry. (6149)
- Fixed issue where entire payload could be included in the error message for
JSONDecodeError. (6036)

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**Bugfixes**

- Fixed parsing issue that resulted in the `auth` component being
dropped from proxy URLs. (6028)

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**Improvements**

- Officially added support for Python 3.10. (5928)

- Added a `requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError` to unify JSON exceptions between
Python 2 and 3. This gets raised in the `response.json()` method, and is
backwards compatible as it inherits from previously thrown exceptions.
Can be caught from `requests.exceptions.RequestException` as well. (5856)

- Improved error text for misnamed `InvalidSchema` and `MissingSchema`
exceptions. This is a temporary fix until exceptions can be renamed
(Schema->Scheme). (6017)

- Improved proxy parsing for proxy URLs missing a scheme. This will address
recent changes to `urlparse` in Python 3.9+. (5917)

**Bugfixes**

- Fixed defect in `extract_zipped_paths` which could result in an infinite loop
for some paths. (5851)

- Fixed handling for `AttributeError` when calculating length of files obtained
by `Tarfile.extractfile()`. (5239)

- Fixed urllib3 exception leak, wrapping `urllib3.exceptions.InvalidHeader` with
`requests.exceptions.InvalidHeader`. (5914)

- Fixed bug where two Host headers were sent for chunked requests. (5391)

- Fixed regression in Requests 2.26.0 where `Proxy-Authorization` was
incorrectly stripped from all requests sent with `Session.send`. (5924)

- Fixed performance regression in 2.26.0 for hosts with a large number of
proxies available in the environment. (5924)

- Fixed idna exception leak, wrapping `UnicodeError` with
`requests.exceptions.InvalidURL` for URLs with a leading dot (.) in the
domain. (5414)

**Deprecations**

- Requests support for Python 2.7 and 3.6 will be ending in 2022. While we
don't have exact dates, Requests 2.27.x is likely to be the last release
series providing support.