Flask 0.12 released

written by Markus Unterwaditzer on 2016-12-21 in Releases

Flask 0.12 has been released. This is not as big a step as 0.11 has been, the only intentionally backwards-incompatible change is with regards to send_file's behavior, which, when invoked as send_file(f) with f being a file-like object, no longer guesses the MIME-type from f.name. You have to pass a filepath instead.

Special thanks to Kyle Lawlor for fixing up most documentation after the flask CLI got introduced.

Changelog

• the cli command now responds to --version.
• Mimetype guessing and ETag generation for file-like objects in send_file has been removed, as per issue #104. See pull request #1849.
• Mimetype guessing in send_file now fails loudly and doesn't fall back to application/octet-stream. See pull request #1988.
• Make flask.safe_join able to join multiple paths like os.path.join (pull request #1730).
• Revert a behavior change that made the dev server crash instead of returning a Internal Server Error (pull request #2006).
• Correctly invoke response handlers for both regular request dispatching as well as error handlers.
• Disable logger propagation by default for the app logger.
• Add support for range requests in send_file.
• app.test_client includes preset default environment, which can now be directly set, instead of per client.get.