Overview
Requests 2.28, released on June 30, 2022, adopts charset_normalizer as the default dependency replacing chardet.
Main Features
charset_normalizer default
charset_normalizer becomes the default dependency for encoding detection, offering better performance and an MIT license.
python
import requests
# charset_normalizer is used by default
r = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/html')
print(r.encoding) # detected by charset_normalizer
print(r.text[:100])Various improvements
Cookies and redirects are better handled, with security fixes for cross-origin redirect tracking.
python
import requests
# Improved session and cookie handling
session = requests.Session()
session.get('https://httpbin.org/cookies/set/token/abc123')
r = session.get('https://httpbin.org/cookies')
print(r.json()) # {'cookies': {'token': 'abc123'}}