httpx/doc/release_notes/0_8_0.md

0.8.0

Features

• keep_alive_timeout: for persistent connections, the keep alive timeout will set the connection to be closed if not reused for a request after the last received response;

Improvements

• using max_requests for HTTP/1 pipelining as well;
• retries plugin now works with plain HTTP responses (not just error responses);
• reduced the number of string allocations from log labels;
• performance: a lot of improvements were made to optimize the "waiting for IO events" phase, which dramatically reduced the CPU usage and make the performance of the library more on-par with other ruby HTTP gems for the 1-shot request scenario.

Bugfixes

• fixed HTTPX::Response#copy_to;
• fixed compression plugin not properly compressing request bodies using gzip;
• fixed compression plugin not handling content-encoding: identity payloads;
• do not overwrite user-defined max_requestson HTTP2 connection handshake;
• retries plugin: connection was blocking when a request with body was retried;
• alt-svc: clear response header was causing the process to hang;

Tests

• Code coverage improved to 91%;