From: Martin Panter Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:51:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #12319: Move NEWS under beta 1 heading X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0b1~563 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=250d0e5f0a5e2782f1e8be16cdf2d3c8b9d853ab;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue #12319: Move NEWS under beta 1 heading --- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index e0cd71597e08..6d9ffa3288b8 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ Core and Builtins 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 @@ Library 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.