What's Changed

• docs: fix simple typo, resvere -> reverse by @timgates42 in #700
• Remove unreachable code. by @iredmail in #698
• TEMPLATE_BUILTIN_NAMES: Add Python builtin round() by @cclauss in #701
• MANIFEST.in: include LICENSE.txt by @ffontaine in #709
• Optimize badge resolution by @PSSF23 in #716
• test: pin dbutils to >= 2.0.0 by @dhruvmanila in #711
• add GitHub URL for PyPi by @andriyor in #724
• Blacken the codebase by @cclauss in #723
• Set daemon attribute instead of using setDaemon method that was deprecated in Python 3.10. by @tirkarthi in #726
• refactor: remove python2 compatibility codes for using super by @aisk in #727
• chore: remove unnecessary files in generated python package by @aisk in #729
• Update README.md by @cxtruong70 in #733
• Upgrade to MySQL 8.0 and Python 3.11-dev by @cclauss in #736
• Pre commit autoupdate by @cclauss in #741
• fix: pypy3 support by @aisk in #731
• refactor: run pyupgrade on exists codes by @aisk in #730
• pre-commit: Add isort --profile=black by @cclauss in #742
• Migrate from setup.py to pyproject.toml by @cclauss in #745
• pre-commit: Add pyupgrade --py36-plus by @cclauss in #743
• Test on Python 3.11 production release by @cclauss in #749
• Add Python 3.12-dev to the testing by @cclauss in #753
• Travis CI is no longer used by @cclauss in #760
• Replace flake8, isort, and pyupgrade with ruff by @cclauss in #759
• pre-commit autoupdate 2023-04-20 by @cclauss in #765
• ruff --select=UP032 --fix . by @cclauss in #772
• Remove cgi.FieldStorage (based on #769) by @scottbarnes in #773
• Upgrade GitHub Actions by @cclauss in #774
• web.py release v0.70 by @cclauss in #775
• Fix storify and multipart by @scottbarnes in #778
• Fix: update deprecated sqlite3 datetime and timestamp adapters by @scottbarnes in #786
• Keep GitHub Actions up to date with Dependabot by @cclauss in #787
• Fix: enable Python 3.12 to parse templates by @scottbarnes in #785
• Propagate field notes by @gjdv in #790
• Automate PyPI release on new tag push by @pjkundert in #797
• Fix: disable accessing special variables from template by @anandology in #803
• Address CVE-2025-3818 by @mekarpeles in #807
• pre-commit run --all-files, fix SQLQuery by @cclauss in #808
• Fix query for #807 and #808 by @mekarpeles in #809
• Remove required Python version limit by @Hyvi in #805
• refactor: remove python2 compatible import usages by @aisk in #728
• Allow python v3.14.x by @pjz in #822
• Document development setup by @Mirochill in #823
• Fix session.py to allow suppression of the cookie by @bobintetley in #737

Bot Changes

• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #788
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #812
• Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #814
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #817

New Contributors

• @timgates42 made their first contribution in #700
• @ffontaine made their first contribution in #709
• @PSSF23 made their first contribution in #716
• @dhruvmanila made their first contribution in #711
• @andriyor made their first contribution in #724
• @tirkarthi made their first contribution in #726
• @aisk made their first contribution in #727
• @cxtruong70 made their first contribution in #733
• @scottbarnes made their first contribution in #773
• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #788
• @gjdv made their first contribution in #790
• @pjkundert made their first contribution in #797
• @mekarpeles made their first contribution in #807
• @Hyvi made their first contribution in #805
• @Mirochill made their first contribution in #823
• @bobintetley made their first contribution in #737

Full Changelog: 0.62...v0.76

• Fixed: application.load() assumes ctx.path will be a latin1 string #687
• Fixed: can not reset session data to same value as initialized. #683
• Fixed: can not set session expire time. #655
• Fixed: not export session store MemoryStore.

• Add python_requires=">=3.5" in setup.py #662
• Fix incorrect content in MANIFEST.in file.

Changes:

• Python-2 support has been completely dropped. Welcome to Python 3.
• Fixed: session store DiskStore doesn't return correctly if session
  directory doesn't exist. #652
• Fixed: incorrect str/bytes type of session data. #644 #645
• Fixed: db.query("insert... returning") fails to commit. #648 #649

Update setup.py to pack tests directory and publish to pypi.

• New session store MemoryStore, used to save a session in memory.
  Should be useful where there are limited fs writes to the disk, like
  flash memories. #174
• Fixed: not support samesite=none. #592
• Fixed Python-3 compatibility issues: #574, #576.
• Support tuple and set in sqlquote().
• Drop support for SQL driver pgdb. It was dead, you cannot even find its
  website or download link.
• Drop support for SQL driver psycopg. The latest version was released in
  2006 (14 years ago), please use psycopg2 instead.
• Removed function web.safemarkdown. if it's used in your application, you
  can install the Markdown module from pypi
  (https://pypi.org/project/Markdown/), then replace web.safemarkdown() by
  markdown.markdown().

Note: 0.40 is the last release which supports Python 2. Future releases will drop support for Python 2.

• Fixed lots of Python-3 compatibility issues.
• Drop support for Python < 2.7.
• Allow to get form data from http PATCH request (fixes #259, tx @kufd)
• Only store new session data if the data is non-default (fixes #161, tx @shish)
• Supports SameSite cookie attribute (fixes #61 #99 #337)
• Cookie expire time is now set to same as session timeout (fixes #409 #410)
• Supports url for SQLite database like sqlite:///mydb.sqlite,
  sqlite:////absolute/path/mydb.sqlite (fixes #209, tx @iamFIREcracker)
• Allow HTML5 form input elements in web.form.Input() (fixes #440, tx @jimgregory)
• Add more form classes for different types: Email, Url, Number, Range,
  Color, Search, Telephone and Datalist (fixes #98 #497, tx @faruken @gjdv)
• Return body for NoMethod error handler (fixes #240, tx @waldhol)
• Directory experimental/ has been removed, it's not used and out of date.
• Module web/webopenid.py has been removed, it uses old python-openid
  module which was released 9 years ago. If you need openid support, consider
  python-openid2 or other packages available on https://pypi.org/.
• Fixed unicode in request url (fixes #461, tx @schneidersoft)
• Fixed inline comment in Templator which leads to unexpected behavior (fixes #432, tx @lucylqe)
• Fixed missing exception (ValueError) for socket.inet_pton to be compatible
  with twisted patched socket.inet_pton (fixes #464, tx @tclh123)
• Fixed incorrect order of arguments for sending email with boto (fixes #204, tx @asldevi)
• Fixed notfound message is not utf-8 charset (fixes #500, tx @By-Z)
• Fixed error in creating pooled PostgresDB with pgdb driver (fixes #255, tx @PriceChild)
• Fixed IP address which contains space should not pass validation (fixes #140, tx @chuangbo)
• Fixed incorrect returned row ids with multiple_insert() (fixes #263 #447)
• Fixed not correctly render the id attribute after changed (fixes #339, tx @jimgregory)
• Fixed DiskStore concurrency issue (fixes Fixes #83 #182 #191 #289 #470, tx @skawouter)
• Fixed app module isn't picked up by Reloader for first code change (fixes #438, tx @jzellman)