1.15.4

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of the quoter when all characters are safe -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1288.

• Improved performance of unquoting strings -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1292, #1293.

• Improved performance of calling :py:meth:~yarl.URL.build -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1297.

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1.15.3

Bug fixes

• Fixed :py:meth:~yarl.URL.build failing to validate paths must start with a / when passing authority -- by :user:bdraco.

  The validation only worked correctly when passing host.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1265.

Removals and backward incompatible breaking changes

• Removed support for Python 3.8 as it has reached end of life -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1203.

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of constructing :class:~yarl.URL when the net location is only the host -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1271.

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1.15.2

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of converting :class:~yarl.URL to a string -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1234.

• Improved performance of :py:meth:~yarl.URL.joinpath -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1248, #1250.

• Improved performance of constructing query strings from :class:~multidict.MultiDict -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1256.

• Improved performance of constructing query strings with int values -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1259.

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1.15.1

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of calling :py:meth:~yarl.URL.build -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1222.

• Improved performance of all :class:~yarl.URL methods that create new :class:~yarl.URL objects -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1226.

• Improved performance of :class:~yarl.URL methods that modify the network location -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1229.

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1.15.0

Bug fixes

• Fixed validation with :py:meth:~yarl.URL.with_scheme when passed scheme is not lowercase -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1189.

Features

• Started building armv7l wheels -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1204.

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of constructing unencoded :class:~yarl.URL objects -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1188.

• Added a cache for parsing hosts to reduce overhead of encoding :class:~yarl.URL -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1190.

• Improved performance of constructing query strings from :class:~collections.abc.Mapping -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1193.

• Improved performance of converting :class:~yarl.URL objects to strings -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1198.

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1.14.0

Packaging updates and notes for downstreams

• Switched to using the :mod:propcache <propcache.api> package for property caching
  -- by :user:bdraco.

  The :mod:propcache <propcache.api> package is derived from the property caching
  code in :mod:yarl and has been broken out to avoid maintaining it for multiple
  projects.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1169.

Contributor-facing changes

• Started testing with Hypothesis -- by :user:webknjaz and :user:bdraco.

  Special thanks to :user:Zac-HD for helping us get started with this framework.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #860.

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of :py:meth:~yarl.URL.is_default_port when no explicit port is set -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1168.

• Improved performance of converting :class:~yarl.URL to a string when no explicit port is set -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1170.

• Improved performance of the :py:meth:~yarl.URL.origin method -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1175.

• Improved performance of encoding hosts -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1176.

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1.13.1

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of calling :py:meth:~yarl.URL.build with authority -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1163.

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1.13.0

Bug fixes

• Started rejecting ASCII hostnames with invalid characters. For host strings that
  look like authority strings, the exception message includes advice on what to do
  instead -- by :user:mjpieters.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #880, #954.

• Fixed IPv6 addresses missing brackets when the :class:~yarl.URL was converted to a string -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1157, #1158.

Features

• Added :attr:~yarl.URL.host_subcomponent which returns the :rfc:3986#section-3.2.2 host subcomponent -- by :user:bdraco.

  The only current practical difference between :attr:~yarl.URL.raw_host and :attr:~yarl.URL.host_subcomponent is that IPv6 addresses are returned bracketed.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1159.

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1.12.1

No significant changes.

This release was created because the signatures failed to upload for 1.12.0

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1.12.0

Features

• Added :attr:~yarl.URL.path_safe to be able to fetch the path without %2F and %25 decoded -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1150.

Removals and backward incompatible breaking changes

• Restore decoding %2F (/) in URL.path -- by :user:bdraco.

  This change restored the behavior before #1057.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1151.

Miscellaneous internal changes

• Improved performance of processing paths -- by :user:bdraco.

  Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:
  #1143.

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