diff --git a/docs/source/2023-news.rst b/docs/source/2023-news.rst index 80f022248..971cfef38 100644 --- a/docs/source/2023-news.rst +++ b/docs/source/2023-news.rst @@ -2,6 +2,28 @@ Changelog - 2023 ================ +22.0.0 - TBDTBDTBD +================== + +- fix numerous security vulnerabilites in HTTP parser (closing some request smuggling vectors) +- parsing additional requests is no longer attempted past unsupported request framing +- on HTTP versions < 1.1 support for chunked transfer is refused (only used in exploits) +- requests conflicting configured or passed SCRIPT_NAME now produce a verbose error +- Trailer fields are no longer inspected for headers indicating secure scheme + +** Breaking changes ** + +- the limitations on valid characters in the HTTP method have been bounded to Internet Standards +- requests specifying unsupported transfer coding (order) are refused by default (rare) +- HTTP methods are no longer casefolded by default (IANA method registry contains none affacted) +- HTTP methods containing the number sign (#) are no longer accepted by default (rare) +- HTTP versions < 1.0 or >= 2.0 are no longer accepted by default (rare, only HTTP/1.1 is supported) +- HTTP versions consisting of multiple digits or containing a prefix/suffix are no longer accepted +- HTTP header field names Gunicorn cannot safely map to variables are silently dropped, as in other software +- HTTP headers with empty field name are refused by default (no legitimate use cases, used in exploits) +- requests with both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length are refused by default (such a message might indicate an attempt to perform request smuggling) +- empty transfer codings are no longer permitted (reportedly seen with really old & broken proxies) + 21.2.0 - 2023-07-19 ===================