Changelog for Falcon 1.3.0

.. falcon-release: 2017-09-06

Breaking Changes

(None)

Changes to Supported Platforms

• CPython 3.6 is now fully supported.
• Falcon appears to work well on PyPy3.5, but we are waiting until that platform is out of beta before officially supporting it.
• Support for both CPython 2.6 and Jython 2.7 is now deprecated and will be discontinued in Falcon 2.0.

New & Improved

• We added built-in resource representation serialization and deserialization, including input validation based on JSON Schema. (See also: :ref:Media <media>)
• URI template field converters are now supported. We expect to expand this feature over time. (See also: :ref:Field Converters <routing_field_converters>)
• A new method, :meth:~falcon.Request.get_param_as_datetime, was added to :class:~falcon.Request.
• A number of attributes were added to :class:~falcon.Request to make proxy information easier to consume. These include the :attr:~falcon.Request.forwarded, :attr:~falcon.Request.forwarded_uri, :attr:~falcon.Request.forwarded_scheme, :attr:~falcon.Request.forwarded_host, and :attr:~falcon.Request.forwarded_prefix attributes. The :attr:~falcon.Request.prefix attribute was also added as part of this work.
• A :attr:~falcon.Request.referer attribute was added to :class:~falcon.Request.
• We implemented __repr__() for :class:~falcon.Request, :class:~falcon.Response, and :class:~.HTTPError to aid in debugging.
• A number of Internet media type constants were defined to make it easier to check and set content type headers. (See also: :ref:Media Type Constants <media_type_constants>)
• Several new 5xx error classes were implemented. (See also: :ref:Error Handling <errors>)

Fixed

• If even a single cookie in the request to the server is malformed, none of the cookies will be parsed (all-or-nothing). Change the parser to simply skip bad cookies (best-effort).
• :class:~.API instances are not pickleable. Modify the default router to fix this.