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Changes

Unreleased - 2021-xx-xx

4.0.0-beta.15 - 2021-12-17

Added

• Method on Responder trait (customize) for customizing responders and CustomizeResponder struct. #2510
• Implement Debug for DefaultHeaders. #2510

Changed

• Align DefaultHeader method terminology, deprecating previous methods. #2510
• Response service types in ErrorHandlers middleware now use ServiceResponse<EitherBody<B>> to allow changing the body type. #2515
• Both variants in ErrorHandlerResponse now use ServiceResponse<EitherBody<B>>. #2515
• Rename test::{default_service => simple_service}. Old name is deprecated. #2518
• Rename test::{read_response_json => call_and_read_body_json}. Old name is deprecated. #2518
• Rename test::{read_response => call_and_read_body}. Old name is deprecated. #2518
• Relax body type and error bounds on test utilities. #2518

Removed

• Top-level EitherExtractError export. #2510
• Conversion implementations for either crate. #2516
• test::load_stream and test::load_body; replace usage with body::to_bytes. #2518

4.0.0-beta.14 - 2021-12-11

Added

• Methods on AcceptLanguage: ranked and preference. #2480
• AcceptEncoding typed header. #2482
• Range typed header. #2485
• HttpResponse::map_into_{left,right}_body and HttpResponse::map_into_boxed_body. #2468
• ServiceResponse::map_into_{left,right}_body and HttpResponse::map_into_boxed_body. #2468
• Connection data set through the HttpServer::on_connect callback is now accessible only from the new HttpRequest::conn_data() and ServiceRequest::conn_data() methods. #2491
• HttpRequest::{req_data,req_data_mut}. #2487
• ServiceResponse::into_parts. #2499

Changed

• Rename Accept::{mime_precedence => ranked}. #2480
• Rename Accept::{mime_preference => preference}. #2480
• Un-deprecate App::data_factory. #2484
• HttpRequest::url_for no longer constructs URLs with query or fragment components. #2430
• Remove B (body) type parameter on App. #2493
• Add B (body) type parameter on Scope. #2492
• Request-local data container is no longer part of a RequestHead. Instead it is a distinct part of a Request. #2487

Fixed

• Accept wildcard * items in AcceptLanguage. #2480
• Re-exports dev::{BodySize, MessageBody, SizedStream}. They are exposed through the body module. #2468
• Typed headers containing lists that require one or more items now enforce this minimum. #2482

Removed

• ConnectionInfo::get. #2487

4.0.0-beta.13 - 2021-11-30

Changed

• Update actix-tls to 3.0.0-rc.1. #2474

4.0.0-beta.12 - 2021-11-22

Changed

• Compress middleware's response type is now AnyBody<Encoder<B>>. #2448

Fixed

• Relax Unpin bound on S (stream) parameter of HttpResponseBuilder::streaming. #2448

Removed

• dev::ResponseBody re-export; is function is replaced by the new dev::AnyBody enum. #2446

4.0.0-beta.11 - 2021-11-15

Added

• Re-export dev::ServerHandle from actix-server. #2442

Changed

• ContentType::html now produces text/html; charset=utf-8 instead of text/html. #2423
• Update actix-server to 2.0.0-beta.9. #2442

4.0.0-beta.10 - 2021-10-20

Added

• Option to allow Json extractor to work without a Content-Type header present. #2362
• #[actix_web::test] macro for setting up tests with a runtime. #2409

Changed

• Associated type FromRequest::Config was removed. #2233
• Inner field made private on web::Payload. #2384
• Data::into_inner and Data::get_ref no longer requires T: Sized. #2403
• Updated rustls to v0.20. #2414
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.52.

Removed

• Useless ServiceResponse::checked_expr method. #2401

4.0.0-beta.9 - 2021-09-09

Added

• Re-export actix-service ServiceFactory in dev module. #2325

Changed

• Compress middleware will return 406 Not Acceptable when no content encoding is acceptable to the client. #2344
• Move BaseHttpResponse to dev::Response. #2379
• Enable TestRequest::param to accept more than just static strings. #2172
• Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.51.

Fixed

• Fix quality parse error in Accept-Encoding header. #2344
• Re-export correct type at web::HttpResponse. #2379

4.0.0-beta.8 - 2021-06-26

Added

• Add ServiceRequest::parts_mut. #2177
• Add extractors for Uri and Method. #2263
• Add extractors for ConnectionInfo and PeerAddr. #2263
• Add Route::service for using hand-written services as handlers. #2262

Changed

• Change compression algorithm features flags. #2250
• Deprecate App::data and App::data_factory. #2271
• Smarter extraction of ConnectionInfo parts. #2282

Fixed

• Scope and Resource middleware can access data items set on their own layer. #2288

4.0.0-beta.7 - 2021-06-17

Added

• HttpServer::worker_max_blocking_threads for setting block thread pool. #2200

Changed

• Adjusted default JSON payload limit to 2MB (from 32kb) and included size and limits in the JsonPayloadError::Overflow error variant. [#2162] [#2162]: (actix#2162)
• ServiceResponse::error_response now uses body type of Body. #2201
• ServiceResponse::checked_expr now returns a Result. #2201
• Update language-tags to 0.3.
• ServiceResponse::take_body. #2201
• ServiceResponse::map_body closure receives and returns B instead of ResponseBody<B> types. #2201
• All error trait bounds in server service builders have changed from Into<Error> to Into<Response<AnyBody>>. #2253
• All error trait bounds in message body and stream impls changed from Into<Error> to Into<Box<dyn std::error::Error>>. #2253
• HttpServer::{listen_rustls(), bind_rustls()} now honor the ALPN protocols in the configuation parameter. [#2226]
• middleware::normalize now will not try to normalize URIs with no valid path #2246

Removed

• HttpResponse::take_body and old HttpResponse::into_body method that casted body type. #2201

4.0.0-beta.6 - 2021-04-17

Added

• HttpResponse and HttpResponseBuilder structs. #2065

Changed

• Most error types are now marked #[non_exhaustive]. #2148
• Methods on ContentDisposition that took T: AsRef<str> now take impl AsRef<str>.

4.0.0-beta.5 - 2021-04-02

Added

• Header extractor for extracting common HTTP headers in handlers. #2094
• Added TestServer::client_headers method. #2097

Fixed

• Double ampersand in Logger format is escaped correctly. #2067

Changed

• CustomResponder would return error as HttpResponse when CustomResponder::with_header failed instead of skipping. (Only the first error is kept when multiple error occur) #2093

Removed

• The client mod was removed. Clients should now use awc directly. 871ca5e4
• Integration testing was moved to new actix-test crate. Namely these items from the test module: TestServer, TestServerConfig, start, start_with, and unused_addr. #2112

4.0.0-beta.4 - 2021-03-09

Changed

• Feature cookies is now optional and enabled by default. #1981
• JsonBody::new returns a default limit of 32kB to be consistent with JsonConfig and the default behaviour of the web::Json<T> extractor. #2010

4.0.0-beta.3 - 2021-02-10

• Update actix-web-codegen to 0.5.0-beta.1.

4.0.0-beta.2 - 2021-02-10

Added

• The method Either<web::Json<T>, web::Form<T>>::into_inner() which returns the inner type for whichever variant was created. Also works for Either<web::Form<T>, web::Json<T>>. #1894
• Add services! macro for helping register multiple services to App. #1933
• Enable registering a vec of services of the same type to App #1933

Changed

• Rework Responder trait to be sync and returns Response/HttpResponse directly. Making it simpler and more performant. #1891
• ServiceRequest::into_parts and ServiceRequest::from_parts can no longer fail. #1893
• ServiceRequest::from_request can no longer fail. #1893
• Our Either type now uses Left/Right variants (instead of A/B) #1894
• test::{call_service, read_response, read_response_json, send_request} take &Service in argument #1905
• App::wrap_fn, Resource::wrap_fn and Scope::wrap_fn provide &Service in closure argument. #1905
• web::block no longer requires the output is a Result. #1957

Fixed

• Multiple calls to App::data with the same type now keeps the latest call's data. #1906

Removed

• Public field of web::Path has been made private. #1894
• Public field of web::Query has been made private. #1894
• TestRequest::with_header; use TestRequest::default().insert_header(). #1869
• AppService::set_service_data; for custom HTTP service factories adding application data, use the layered data model by calling ServiceRequest::add_data_container when handling requests instead. #1906

4.0.0-beta.1 - 2021-01-07

Added

• Compat middleware enabling generic response body/error type of middlewares like Logger and Compress to be used in middleware::Condition and Resource, Scope services. #1865

Changed

• Update actix-* dependencies to tokio 1.0 based versions. #1813
• Bumped rand to 0.8.
• Update rust-tls to 0.19. #1813
• Rename Handler to HandlerService and rename Factory to Handler. #1852
• The default TrailingSlash is now Trim, in line with existing documentation. See migration guide for implications. #1875
• Rename DefaultHeaders::{content_type => add_content_type}. #1875
• MSRV is now 1.46.0.

Fixed

• Added the underlying parse error to test::read_body_json's panic message. #1812

Removed

• Public modules middleware::{normalize, err_handlers}. All necessary middleware structs are now exposed directly by the middleware module.
• Remove actix-threadpool as dependency. actix_threadpool::BlockingError error type can be imported from actix_web::error module. #1878

3.3.3 - 2021-12-18

Changed

• Soft-deprecate NormalizePath::default(), noting upcoming behavior change in v4. #2529

3.3.2 - 2020-12-01

Fixed

• Removed an occasional unwrap on None panic in NormalizePathNormalization. #1762
• Fix match_pattern() returning None for scope with empty path resource. #1798
• Increase minimum socket2 version. #1803

3.3.1 - 2020-11-29

• Ensure actix-http dependency uses same serde_urlencoded.

3.3.0 - 2020-11-25

Added

• Add Either<A, B> extractor helper. #1788

Changed

• Upgrade serde_urlencoded to 0.7. #1773

3.2.0 - 2020-10-30

Added

• Implement exclude_regex for Logger middleware. #1723
• Add request-local data extractor web::ReqData. #1748
• Add ability to register closure for request middleware logging. #1749
• Add app_data to ServiceConfig. [#1757]
• Expose on_connect for access to the connection stream before request is handled. #1754

Changed

• Updated actix-web-codegen dependency for access to new #[route(...)] multi-method macro.
• Print non-configured Data<T> type when attempting extraction. #1743
• Re-export bytes::Buf{Mut} in web module. #1750
• Upgrade pin-project to 1.0.

3.1.0 - 2020-09-29

Changed

• Add TrailingSlash::MergeOnly behaviour to NormalizePath, which allows NormalizePath to retain any trailing slashes. #1695
• Remove bound std::marker::Sized from web::Data to support storing Arc<dyn Trait> via web::Data::from #1710

Fixed

• ResourceMap debug printing is no longer infinitely recursive. #1708

3.0.2 - 2020-09-15

Fixed

• NormalizePath when used with TrailingSlash::Trim no longer trims the root path "/". #1678

3.0.1 - 2020-09-13

Changed

• middleware::normalize::TrailingSlash enum is now accessible. #1673

3.0.0 - 2020-09-11

• No significant changes from 3.0.0-beta.4.

3.0.0-beta.4 - 2020-09-09

Added

• middleware::NormalizePath now has configurable behavior for either always having a trailing slash, or as the new addition, always trimming trailing slashes. #1639

Changed

• Update actix-codec and actix-utils dependencies. #1634
• FormConfig and JsonConfig configurations are now also considered when set using App::data. #1641
• HttpServer::maxconn is renamed to the more expressive HttpServer::max_connections. #1655
• HttpServer::maxconnrate is renamed to the more expressive HttpServer::max_connection_rate. #1655

3.0.0-beta.3 - 2020-08-17

Changed

• Update rustls to 0.18

3.0.0-beta.2 - 2020-08-17

Changed

• PayloadConfig is now also considered in Bytes and String extractors when set using App::data. #1610
• web::Path now has a public representation: web::Path(pub T) that enables destructuring. #1594
• ServiceRequest::app_data allows retrieval of non-Data data without splitting into parts to access HttpRequest which already allows this. #1618
• Re-export all error types from awc. #1621
• MSRV is now 1.42.0.

Fixed

• Memory leak of app data in pooled requests. #1609

3.0.0-beta.1 - 2020-07-13

Added

• Re-export actix_rt::main as actix_web::main.
• HttpRequest::match_pattern and ServiceRequest::match_pattern for extracting the matched resource pattern.
• HttpRequest::match_name and ServiceRequest::match_name for extracting matched resource name.

Changed

• Fix actix_http::h1::dispatcher so it returns when HW_BUFFER_SIZE is reached. Should reduce peak memory consumption during large uploads. [#1550]
• Migrate cookie handling to cookie crate. Actix-web no longer requires ring dependency.
• MSRV is now 1.41.1

Fixed

• NormalizePath improved consistency when path needs slashes added and removed.

3.0.0-alpha.3 - 2020-05-21

Added

• Add option to create Data<T> from Arc<T> #1509

Changed

• Resources and Scopes can now access non-overridden data types set on App (or containing scopes) when setting their own data. #1486
• Fix audit issue logging by default peer address #1485
• Bump minimum supported Rust version to 1.40
• Replace deprecated net2 crate with socket2

[3.0.0-alpha.2] - 2020-05-08

Changed

• {Resource,Scope}::default_service(f) handlers now support app data extraction. #1452
• Implement std::error::Error for our custom errors #1422
• NormalizePath middleware now appends trailing / so that routes of form /example/ respond to /example requests. #1433
• Remove the failure feature and support.

[3.0.0-alpha.1] - 2020-03-11

Added

• Add helper function for creating routes with TRACE method guard web::trace()
• Add convenience functions test::read_body_json() and test::TestRequest::send_request() for testing.

Changed

• Use sha-1 crate instead of unmaintained sha1 crate
• Skip empty chunks when returning response from a Stream #1308
• Update the time dependency to 0.2.7
• Update actix-tls dependency to 2.0.0-alpha.1
• Update rustls dependency to 0.17

[2.0.0] - 2019-12-25

Changed

• Rename HttpServer::start() to HttpServer::run()

• Allow to gracefully stop test server via TestServer::stop()

• Allow to specify multi-patterns for resources

[2.0.0-rc] - 2019-12-20

Changed

• Move BodyEncoding to dev module #1220

• Allow to set peer_addr for TestRequest #1074

• Make web::Data deref to Arc #1214

• Rename App::register_data() to App::app_data()

• HttpRequest::app_data<T>() returns Option<&T> instead of Option<&Data<T>>

Fixed

• Fix AppConfig::secure() is always false. #1202

[2.0.0-alpha.6] - 2019-12-15

Fixed

• Fixed compilation with default features off

[2.0.0-alpha.5] - 2019-12-13

Added

• Add test server, test::start() and test::start_with()

[2.0.0-alpha.4] - 2019-12-08

Deleted

• Delete HttpServer::run(), it is not useful with async/await

[2.0.0-alpha.3] - 2019-12-07

Changed

• Migrate to tokio 0.2

[2.0.0-alpha.1] - 2019-11-22

Changed

• Migrated to std::future

• Remove implementation of Responder for (). (#1167)

[1.0.9] - 2019-11-14

Added

• Add Payload::into_inner method and make stored def::Payload public. (#1110)

Changed

• Support Host guards when the Host header is unset (e.g. HTTP/2 requests) (#1129)

[1.0.8] - 2019-09-25

Added

• Add Scope::register_data and Resource::register_data methods, parallel to App::register_data.

• Add middleware::Condition that conditionally enables another middleware

• Allow to re-construct ServiceRequest from HttpRequest and Payload

• Add HttpServer::listen_uds for ability to listen on UDS FD rather than path, which is useful for example with systemd.

Changed

• Make UrlEncodedError::Overflow more informative

• Use actix-testing for testing utils

[1.0.7] - 2019-08-29

Fixed

• Request Extensions leak #1062

[1.0.6] - 2019-08-28

Added

• Re-implement Host predicate (#989)

• Form implements Responder, returning a application/x-www-form-urlencoded response

• Add into_inner to Data

• Add test::TestRequest::set_form() convenience method to automatically serialize data and set the header in test requests.

Changed

• Query payload made pub. Allows user to pattern-match the payload.

• Enable rust-tls feature for client #1045

• Update serde_urlencoded to 0.6.1

• Update url to 2.1

[1.0.5] - 2019-07-18

Added

• Unix domain sockets (HttpServer::bind_uds) #92

• Actix now logs errors resulting in "internal server error" responses always, with the error logging level

Fixed

• Restored logging of errors through the Logger middleware

[1.0.4] - 2019-07-17

Added

• Add Responder impl for (T, StatusCode) where T: Responder

• Allow to access app's resource map via ServiceRequest::resource_map() and HttpRequest::resource_map() methods.

Changed

• Upgrade rand dependency version to 0.7

[1.0.3] - 2019-06-28

Added

• Support asynchronous data factories #850

Changed

• Use encoding_rs crate instead of unmaintained encoding crate

[1.0.2] - 2019-06-17

Changed

• Move cors middleware to actix-cors crate.

• Move identity middleware to actix-identity crate.

[1.0.1] - 2019-06-17

Added

• Add support for PathConfig #903

• Add middleware::identity::RequestIdentity trait to get_identity from HttpMessage.

Changed

• Move cors middleware to actix-cors crate.

• Move identity middleware to actix-identity crate.

• Disable default feature secure-cookies.

• Allow to test an app that uses async actors #897

• Re-apply patch from #637 #894

Fixed

• HttpRequest::url_for is broken with nested scopes #915

[1.0.0] - 2019-06-05

Added

• Add Scope::configure() method.

• Add ServiceRequest::set_payload() method.

• Add test::TestRequest::set_json() convenience method to automatically serialize data and set header in test requests.

• Add macros for head, options, trace, connect and patch http methods

Changed

• Drop an unnecessary Option<_> indirection around ServerBuilder from HttpServer. #863

Fixed

• Fix Logger request time format, and use rfc3339. #867

• Clear http requests pool on app service drop #860

[1.0.0-rc] - 2019-05-18

Added

• Add Query<T>::from_query() to extract parameters from a query string. #846
• QueryConfig, similar to JsonConfig for customizing error handling of query extractors.

Changed

• JsonConfig is now Send + Sync, this implies that error_handler must be Send + Sync too.

Fixed

• Codegen with parameters in the path only resolves the first registered endpoint #841

[1.0.0-beta.4] - 2019-05-12

Added

• Allow to set/override app data on scope level

Changed

• App::configure take an FnOnce instead of Fn
• Upgrade actix-net crates

[1.0.0-beta.3] - 2019-05-04

Added

• Add helper function for executing futures test::block_fn()

Changed

• Extractor configuration could be registered with App::data() or with Resource::data() #775

• Route data is unified with app data, Route::data() moved to resource level to Resource::data()

• CORS handling without headers #702

• Allow constructing Data instances to avoid double Arc for Send + Sync types.

Fixed

• Fix NormalizePath middleware impl #806

Deleted

• App::data_factory() is deleted.

[1.0.0-beta.2] - 2019-04-24

Added

• Add raw services support via web::service()

• Add helper functions for reading response body test::read_body()

• Add support for remainder match (i.e "/path/{tail}*")

• Extend Responder trait, allow to override status code and headers.

• Store visit and login timestamp in the identity cookie #502

Changed

• .to_async() handler can return Responder type #792

Fixed

• Fix async web::Data factory handling

[1.0.0-beta.1] - 2019-04-20

Added

• Add helper functions for reading test response body, test::read_response() and test::read_response_json()`

• Add .peer_addr() #744

• Add NormalizePath middleware

Changed

• Rename RouterConfig to ServiceConfig

• Rename test::call_success to test::call_service

• Removed ServiceRequest::from_parts() as it is unsafe to create from parts.

• CookieIdentityPolicy::max_age() accepts value in seconds

Fixed

• Fixed TestRequest::app_data()

[1.0.0-alpha.6] - 2019-04-14

Changed

• Allow using any service as default service.

• Remove generic type for request payload, always use default.

• Removed Decompress middleware. Bytes, String, Json, Form extractors automatically decompress payload.

• Make extractor config type explicit. Add FromRequest::Config associated type.

[1.0.0-alpha.5] - 2019-04-12

Added

• Added async io TestBuffer for testing.

Deleted

• Removed native-tls support

[1.0.0-alpha.4] - 2019-04-08

Added

• App::configure() allow to offload app configuration to different methods

• Added URLPath option for logger

• Added ServiceRequest::app_data(), returns Data<T>

• Added ServiceFromRequest::app_data(), returns Data<T>

Changed

• FromRequest trait refactoring

• Move multipart support to actix-multipart crate

Fixed

• Fix body propagation in Response::from_error. #760

[1.0.0-alpha.3] - 2019-04-02

Changed

• Renamed TestRequest::to_service() to TestRequest::to_srv_request()

• Renamed TestRequest::to_response() to TestRequest::to_srv_response()

• Removed Deref impls

Removed

• Removed unused actix_web::web::md()

[1.0.0-alpha.2] - 2019-03-29

Added

• Rustls support

Changed

• Use forked cookie

• Multipart::Field renamed to MultipartField

[1.0.0-alpha.1] - 2019-03-28

Changed

• Complete architecture re-design.

• Return 405 response if no matching route found within resource #538