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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.

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)