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@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Managing open HTTP/1 connections relies on operations calculating whether there
 
 * fixing HTTP/1 protocol uncompliant exposing multiple values for the "Host" header (e435dd0534314508262184fb03d83124d89d2079).
 
+* Custom response finalizer introduced in 0.16.0 has been reverted. It was brought to my attention that `Tempfile` implementation already takes care of the file on GC (and `httpx` was duplicating), and the approach taken in `httpx` was buggy in several ways (not tolerant to forks, never recycled finalizers...) (aa3be21c890f92a41afcc7931f01dd24cc801f7c).
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 ## Chore
 
 RBS Typing improvements based on latest stdlib signatures additions, such as `openssl`, `digest`, `socket` and others.
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