0.9.0

• Removed official support for Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6, and added official
  support for Python 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11.

• Deprecated SplashJsonResponse.body_as_unicode(), to be replaced by
  SplashJsonResponse.text.

• Removed calls to obsolete to_native_str, removed in Scrapy 2.8.

0.8.0

• Security bug fix:

  If you use HttpAuthMiddleware (i.e. the http_user and http_pass spider attributes) for Splash authentication, any non-Splash request will expose your credentials to the request target. This includes robots.txt requests sent by Scrapy when the ROBOTSTXT_OBEY setting is set to True.

  Use the new SPLASH_USER and SPLASH_PASS settings instead to set your Splash authentication credentials safely.

• Responses now expose the HTTP status code and headers from Splash as response.splash_response_status and response.splash_response_headers (#158)

• The meta argument passed to the scrapy_splash.request.SplashRequest constructor is no longer modified (#164)

• Website responses with 400 or 498 as HTTP status code are no longer handled as the equivalent Splash responses (#158)

• Cookies are no longer sent to Splash itself (#156)

• scrapy_splash.utils.dict_hash now also works with obj=None (225793b)

• Our test suite now includes integration tests (#156) and tests can be run in parallel (6fb8c41)

• There’s a new ‘Getting help’ section in the README.rst file (#161, #162), the documentation about SPLASH_SLOT_POLICY has been improved (#157) and a typo as been fixed (#121)

• Made some internal improvements (ee5000d, 25de545, 2aaa79d)