Scrapy 1.1.0rc2 release candidate is out

[Paul Tremberth]

Hello, Scrapy users!

We are happy to announce that we just shipped Scrapy 1.1 release candidate 2, which fixes a handful of issues that were discovered with RC1 and Python 3.

Thanks to all contributors, and reporters of issues with 1.1rc1!

What's new in 1.1.0rc2:

- new HTTP(S) download handler with updated TLS "context factory" (it does not force TLS 1.0 anymore)
this should solve most of the open issues users had with HTTPS connections

(works best with Twisted>=14 and OpenSSL>=0.14)

Let us know if you're still having SSL errors with this release.
And if you really need to force a TLS protocol version, use the new DOWNLOADER_CLIENT_TLS_METHOD setting.

- support for S3 in Python 3 with the help of botocore (https://github.com/boto/botocore)

- default ACL policy for S3 uploads is now "private" (was "public" previously):
This is backward incompatible, yes, but we felt it's safer not to expose uploaded files by default.

Please check if you require uploaded files to S3 to be public (there's a new setting to change the ACL policy -- FILES_STORE_S3_ACL)

- sending non-ASCII emails (but still no Python3 support for sending emails)

See the rest of the changes between 1.1.0rc1 and 1.1.0rc2 at this URL:

https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/compare/1.1.0rc1...1.1.0rc2

Please give Scrapy 1.1.0rc2 a try, and report any problems at: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues

Install Scrapy 1.1.0rc2 via pip:

    $ pip install Scrapy==1.1.0rc2

Thank you, happy scraping!

Paul.

[Paul Tremberth]

Hello scrapy-users,

there was a hickup in the deployment to PyPI

source distribution is not available, and only the Python3 wheel is there

therefore,

pip install Scrapy==1.1.0rc2

will only work on Python3 until we fix it.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Stay tuned for updates.

[Paul Tremberth]

1.1rc2 is replaced by 1.1rc3: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scrapy-users/B9S50az5CUM/34BDHW6gFwAJ