1.1.4 Release Notes

Channels 1.1.4 is a bugfix release for the 1.1 series, released on June 15th, 2017.

Major Changes

None.

Minor Changes & Bugfixes

  • Pending messages correctly handle retries in backlog situations
  • Workers in threading mode now respond to ctrl-C and gracefully exit.
  • request.meta['QUERY_STRING'] is now correctly encoded at all times.
  • Test client improvements
  • ChannelServerLiveTestCase added, allows an equivalent of the Django LiveTestCase.
  • Decorator added to check Origin headers (allowed_hosts_only)
  • New TEST_CONFIG setting in CHANNEL_LAYERS that allows varying of the channel layer for tests (e.g. using a different Redis install)

Backwards Incompatible Changes

None.