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geventhttpclient

What changed in geventhttpclient 2, from its official release notes, upgrade guides and advisories. Sources checked 2026-10-18.

9 breaking2 deprecations2 new APIs and options2 behavior and defaults5 fixes and other

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geventhttpclient 220 changes

check_hostname now defaults to True.
2.6.0release notes
The minimum required gevent version is now 25.9, the first release with wheels for Python 3.11–3.14.
2.6.0release notes
Header field names and values are now str instead of bytes.
2.6.0release notes
Headers.iget() has been removed.
2.6.0release notes
Headers.iteroriginal() has been removed.
2.6.0release notes
Multi-value headers now send one field line per element.
2.6.0release notes
The oauth2 extra has been removed.
2.6.0release notes
Redirect behavior was updated for HTTP conformance to RFC 9110, 3986, and 2965.
2.6.0release notes
Retries after a transmission error are now limited to idempotent methods.
2.6.0release notes

BasicAuth is now available as a first-class authentication feature.
2.6.0release notes
An httpx-compatible drop-in surface is now available.
2.6.0release notes

Request-head validation was updated as part of HTTP conformance work.
2.6.0release notes
The response surface is now requests-compatible.
2.6.0release notes

Python 3.15 is explicitly supported, with cp315 wheels built and shipped alongside wheels for Python 3.11–3.14.
2.6.1release notes
Empty responses through the httplib shim are fixed.
2.6.0release notes
Semicolon path parameters are preserved in requests and redirects.
2.6.0release notes
Requests with body=None are now treated as having no body, avoiding chunked transfer and a keep-alive delay caused by a separate terminating write.
2.5.1release notes
An explicitly requested chunked request with an empty body is sent with the request headers in a single sendall(), avoiding a Nagle stall.
2.5.1release notes