urllib3 v2.0.0 is now generally available. urllib3 is 12 years old now, and is a common low-level dependency for packages like requests and httpx. The biggest new feature in v2 is a higher-level API: resp = urllib3.request(“GET”, “https://example.com”)—a very welcome addition to the library.
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