➔ Scrapy 2.17.0 - Httpx Proxy and TLS Updates
Scrapy 2.17.0 was published on July 7, 2026, with a small but practical set of changes for Python web crawling teams. The main user visible update is HTTP/2 and SOCKS proxy support for HttpxDownloadHandler, which matters when spiders route traffic through modern proxy stacks or talk to servers that behave better over HTTP/2. The release also includes security bug fixes and improved TLS version settings, so operators should treat it as more than routine package churn.
➔ Scrapy This Week: Proxy Auth, Crawler Settings, and scrapy-lint
Scrapy landed 17 commits on master over the past week, touching 71 files with a net gain of about 400 lines. Most of the diff is test coverage, but a handful of changes matter if you run spiders behind proxies, pass prebuilt Crawler objects into runners, or rely on rel="nofollow" to stay off certain pages. The headline fix stops Proxy-Authorization from leaking into upstream requests when using the streaming download handlers.