To see the exhaustive list of pull requests included in this release see:
https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/milestone/6?closed=1

Highlights

• Allow a socket to be passed even when not multiprocessing #506 (Thanks to @zenixls2)
• Websockets! #469 (Thanks to @miguelgrinberg)
• Streaming content handlers #473 (Thanks to @subyraman)
• A gunicorn worker! #545 (Thanks to @messense)
• Setting configurations through environment variables #573
• Adding a way to pass in a custom request class #622 (Thanks to @aryeh)

Highlights

• Fixes issue #492, where users could not install the pip package with older versions of setuptools
• Fixes issue #494, where multiple handlers with the same route would not be registered correctly to the router.

To see the exhaustive list of pull requests included in this release see:
https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/milestone/5?closed=1

Highlights

• Content range (HTTP 1.1 feature) #378 (Thanks to @aquacash5)
• Added a loop property to app class for easier access #409 (Thanks to @r0fls)
• Middleware decorators now take explicit args #406 (Thanks to @agoose77)
• uvloop is now a soft dependency for Windows users #402 (Thanks to @agoose77)
• Event listeners (like `before_start, after_start etc.) are now handled through decorators #408 (Thanks to @agoose77)
• Ensure future added as a way to ensure execution of functions after an app starts #411 (Thanks to @r0fls)
• CompositionView now has tests! #416 (Thanks to @subyraman)
• Blueprints now support adding HTTPMethodView as routes #424 (Thanks to @growingdever)
• App object now has a flask-like test_client property #431 (Thanks to @subyraman)
• Request object now includes app which acts as the currently running app #476

Notes

This release may be a bit short-lived, we have a number of great pull requests that support features like websockets, HTTP pipelining, streaming content, and http2 support so 0.5.0 may come as early as next week.

To see the exhaustive list of pull requests included in this release see:
https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/milestone/4?closed=1

Highlights

• #199 Add methods to load configs from a file (Thanks to @Tim-Erwin)
• #362 We're on readthedocs! (Thanks to @channelcat)
• #360 Fixed dynamic route overloading
• #387 Added url_for method (Thanks to @subyraman)

New features galore!

To see the exhaustive list of pull requests included in this release see: https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/milestone/3?closed=1

Highlights

• Added in redirect method (#294, thanks to @pcdinh and @subyraman)
• Added rich HTML tracebacks for debug mode (#291, thanks to @subyraman)
• Fixes a write_error loop that could lead to stack overflows (#309, #307, #241)
• Route overloading! Multiple functions for different methods of routes! (#311, thanks to @youknowone)
• Greatly improved documentation along with sphinx compatibility (#229, thanks to @kdelwat)
• Function decorators now have `['GET'] as the default method (#316, thanks to @youknowone)
• Removed the multidict requirement with our own implementation of CIDict (#302, #328)
• Added an async run function to the app (#348)
• Removed loop as an argument for the app (#335)

This pull request encompasses a lot of bug fixes among other things.

To see the exhaustive list visit: https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/milestone/2?closed=1

Highlights:

• Multiprocessing fix #276 (Thank you to @r0fls)
• Updates to class based views to make them thread safe #274 (Thank you to @AntonDnepr)
• Adding support for virtual hosts through the main application and blueprints #285, #287
• Added methods to remove routes from api/router #243 (Thanks to @dutradda)

Next up on the table:

• Finishing up WSGI compliance (Maybe looking into ASGI compliance as well)
• Working to finish up live reload as highlighted in #168 (We have a prototype but it's not as efficient as I'd like it to be)
• Moving our documentation to Sphinx and publishing to readthedocs as highlighted in #229

PR's included in the milestone can be found here: https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/milestone/1?closed=1

Changes:

• Addition of Python 3.6 to tox tests and travis tests (We will eventually be using the tox.ini as our main travis testing script as well)
• New raising of error if an invalid response is returned
• Add in a way to encode objects that are un-encodable in response objects

Changelog:

• Added HTTPMethodView #167
• Added shared request storage #163
• Changed request timeout process #172
• Provide a default app name #159

Changelog:

• Static file support
• Lazy Cookie Setting (slight speed improvement when not setting cookies)

Changelog:

• Cookies
• Blueprint listeners and ordering
• Faster Router
• Fix: Incomplete file reads on medium+ sized post requests

Breaking:

• after_start and before_stop now pass sanic as their first argument. Current event listeners will need to be updated to accept the new argument