Automatic decoding of unicode, based on HTTP Headers.
New decode_unicode setting
Removal of r.read/close methods
New r.faw interface for advanced response usage.*
Automatic expansion of parameterized headers

Beautiful requests.async module.

* International Domain Name Support!
* Access headers without fetching entire body (``read()``)
* Use lists as dicts for parameters
* Add Forced Basic Authentication
* Forced Basic is default authentication type
* ``python-requests.org`` default User-Agent header
* CaseInsensitiveDict lower-case caching
* Response.history bugfix

PATCH Support
Support for Proxies
HTTPBin Test Suite
Redirect Fixes
settings.verbose stream writing
Querystrings for all methods
URLErrors (Connection Refused, Timeout, Invalid URLs) are treated as explicity raised

Improved Redirection Handling
New 'allow_redirects' param for following non-GET/HEAD Redirects
Settings module refactoring

* Response.history: list of redirected responses
* Case-Insensitive Header Dictionaries!
* Unicode URLs

* Urllib2 HTTPAuthentication Recursion fix (Basic/Digest)
* Internal Refactor
* Bytes data upload Bugfix

* Request timeouts
* Unicode url-encoded data
* Settings context manager and module

Automatic Decompression of GZip Encoded Content
AutoAuth Support for Tupled HTTP Auth

* Automatic Authentication API Change
* Smarter Query URL Parameterization
* Allow file uploads and POST data together
* New Authentication Manager System
    - Simpler Basic HTTP System
    - Supports all build-in urllib2 Auths
    - Allows for custom Auth Handlers

Python 2.5 Support. PyPy-c v1.4 Support. Auto-Authentication tests. Improved Request object constructor.