What’s new in Tornado 6.1.0

What’s new in Tornado 6.1.0

Oct 30, 2020

Deprecation notice

  • This is the last release of Tornado to support Python 3.5. Future versions will require Python 3.6 or newer.

General changes

  • Windows support has been improved. Tornado is now compatible with the proactor event loop (which became the default in Python 3.8) by automatically falling back to running a selector in a second thread. This means that it is no longer necessary to explicitly configure a selector event loop, although doing so may improve performance. This does not change the fact that Tornado is significantly less scalable on Windows than on other platforms.

  • Binary wheels are now provided for Windows, MacOS, and Linux (amd64 and arm64).

tornado.gen

  • coroutine now has better support for the Python 3.7+ contextvars module. In particular, the ContextVar.reset method is now supported.

tornado.http1connection

  • HEAD requests to handlers that used chunked encoding no longer produce malformed output.

  • Certain kinds of malformed gzip data no longer cause an infinite loop.

tornado.httpclient

  • Setting decompress_response=False now works correctly with curl_httpclient.

  • Mixing requests with and without proxies works correctly in curl_httpclient (assuming the version of pycurl is recent enough).

  • A default User-Agent of Tornado/$VERSION is now used if the user_agent parameter is not specified.

  • After a 303 redirect, tornado.simple_httpclient always uses GET. Previously this would use GET if the original request was a POST and would otherwise reuse the original request method. For curl_httpclient, the behavior depends on the version of libcurl (with the most recent versions using GET after 303 regardless of the original method).

  • Setting request_timeout and/or connect_timeout to zero is now supported to disable the timeout.

tornado.httputil

  • Header parsing is now faster.

  • parse_body_arguments now accepts incompletely-escaped non-ASCII inputs.

tornado.iostream

  • ssl.CertificateError during the SSL handshake is now handled correctly.

  • Reads that are resolved while the stream is closing are now handled correctly.

tornado.log

  • When colored logging is enabled, logging.CRITICAL messages are now recognized and colored magenta.

tornado.netutil

  • EADDRNOTAVAIL is now ignored when binding to localhost with IPv6. This error is common in docker.

tornado.platform.asyncio

  • AnyThreadEventLoopPolicy now also configures a selector event loop for these threads (the proactor event loop only works on the main thread)

tornado.platform.auto

  • The set_close_exec function has been removed.

tornado.testing

  • ExpectLog now has a level argument to ensure that the given log level is enabled.

tornado.web

  • RedirectHandler.get now accepts keyword arguments.

  • When sending 304 responses, more headers (including Allow) are now preserved.

  • reverse_url correctly handles escaped characters in the regex route.

  • Default Etag headers are now generated with SHA-512 instead of MD5.

tornado.websocket

  • The ping_interval timer is now stopped when the connection is closed.

  • websocket_connect now raises an error when it encounters a redirect instead of hanging.