Changelog#

v2.9.2#

Release Date: 2022-12-26

  • Feature

    • Extend customization by http method to shared_limit decorator

v2.9.1#

Release Date: 2022-12-26

  • Chores

    • Update documentation quick start

    • Refresh documentation for class based views

v2.9.0#

Release Date: 2022-12-24

  • Features

    • Allow using limit & shared_limit decorators on pure functions that are not decorated as routes. The functions when called from within a request context will get rate limited.

    • Allow using limit as a context manager to rate limit a code block explicitly within a request

  • Chores

    • Updated development dependencies

    • Fix error running tests depending on docker locally

    • Update internals to use dataclasses

v2.8.1#

Release Date: 2022-11-15

  • Chores

    • Add sponsorship banner to rtd

    • Update documentation dependencies

v2.8.0#

Release Date: 2022-11-13

  • Breaking changes

    • Any exception raised when calling an on_breach callback will be re-raised instead of being absorbed unless swallow_errors is set. In the case of swallow_errors the exception will now be logged at ERROR level instead of WARN

    • Reduce log level of rate limit exceeded log messages to INFO

v2.7.0#

Release Date: 2022-10-25

  • Bug Fix

    • Add default value for RateLimitExceeded optional parameter

    • Fix suppression of errors when using conditional deduction (Issue 363)

v2.6.3#

Release Date: 2022-09-22

  • Compatibility

    • Ensure typing_extensions dependency has a minimum version

  • Chores

    • Documentation tweaks

    • Update CI to use 3.11 rc2

v2.6.2#

Release Date: 2022-08-24

  • Chores

    • Improve quick start documentation

v2.6.1#

Release Date: 2022-08-23

  • Usability

    • Emit warning when in memory storage is used as a default when no storage uri is provided

v2.6.0#

Release Date: 2022-08-11

  • Feature

    • Expand use of on_breach callback to return a Response object that will be used as the error response on rate limits being exceeded

v2.5.1#

Release Date: 2022-08-05

  • Compatibility

    • Migrate use of flask._request_ctx_stack to flask.globals.request_ctx to support Flask 2.2+

  • Chores

    • Expand CI matrix to test against Flask 2.0,2.1 & 2.2

    • Make tests compatible with Flask 2.2.+

v2.5.0#

Release Date: 2022-07-07

  • Features

    • Ensure multiple extension instances registered on a single application exercise before/after request hooks

  • Chores

    • Improve documentation

v2.4.6#

Release Date: 2022-06-06

  • Chore

    • Add python 3.11 to CI matrix

v2.4.5.1#

Release Date: 2022-04-22

  • Chore

    • Automate github releases

v2.4.5#

Release Date: 2022-04-21

  • Chore

    • Automate github releases

v2.4.4#

Release Date: 2022-04-21

  • Chore

    • Automate github releases

v2.4.3#

Release Date: 2022-04-21

  • Chore

    • Second attempt to generate release notes

v2.4.2#

Release Date: 2022-04-21

  • Chore

    • Test for automating github release notes

v2.4.1#

Release Date: 2022-04-21

  • Chore

    • Automate github releases

v2.4.0#

Release Date: 2022-04-20

  • Feature

    • Add CLI for inspecting & clearing rate limits

  • Bug Fix

    • Ensure exempt decorator can be used with flags for view functions

  • Chores

    • Refactor rate limit resolution to limit manager

v2.3.3#

Release Date: 2022-04-20

  • Bug Fix

    • Ensure request.blueprint is actually registered on the current app before using it for blueprint limits or exemptions. (Issue 336)

v2.3.2#

Release Date: 2022-04-17

  • Feature

    • Extend cost parameter to default & application limits

  • Chore

    • Improve type strictness / checking

    • Improve documentation on landing page

v2.3.1#

Release Date: 2022-04-14

  • Bug Fixes

    • Add missing extras requirements for installation

    • Add py.typed for PEP 561 compliance

v2.3.0#

Release Date: 2022-04-11

  • Features

    • Expose option to register a callback for rate limit breaches of default limits via the on_breach constructor parameter

    • Replace use of flask.g with request context for keeping track of extension state (#327)

    • Rework implementation of exempt() to accomodate nested blueprints. (#326)

  • Chores

    • Add python 3.11 to CI

    • Extract management and filtering of limits to LimitManager

    • Improve correctness of resolving inherited limits & extensions when working with Blueprints (especially nested ones)

v2.2.0#

Release Date: 2022-03-05

  • Feature

    • Allow a function to be used for the cost parameter to limiter decorators.

v2.1.3#

Release Date: 2022-01-30

  • Chore

    • Update documentation theme

v2.1#

Release Date: 2022-01-15

  • Feature

    • Add current_limit attribute to extension to allow clients to fetch the relevant current limit that was evaluated.

    • Update extension constructor parameters to match flask config for header control

    • Add on_breach callback for limit and shared_limit decorators to be used as hooks for when a limit is breached

    • Add cost argument to limit and shared_limit to control how much is deducted when a hit occurs.

  • Chore

    • Improve documentation around configuration

  • Deprecation

    • Remove hacks for managing incorrectly ordered limit/route decorators

v2.0.4#

Release Date: 2021-12-22

  • Chore

    • Documentation theme upgrades

    • Integrate pytest-docker plugin

    • Mass linting

  • Deprecation

    • Removed deprecated RATELIMIT_GLOBAL config

    • Added deprecation doc for RATELIMIT_STORAGE_URL config

v2.0.3#

Release Date: 2021-12-15

Documentation & test tweaks

v2.0.2#

Release Date: 2021-11-28

  • Features

    • Pin Flask, limits to >= 2

    • Add type hints

v2.0.1#

Release Date: 2021-11-28

  • Deprecations

    • Remove deprecated get_ipaddr method

    • Remove use of six

    • Remove backward compatibility hacks for RateLimit exceptions

v2.0.0#

Release Date: 2021-11-27

Drop support for python < 3.7 & Flask < 2.0

v1.5#

Release Date: 2021-11-27

Final Release for python < 3.7

  • Features

    • Prepend key_prefix to extension variables attached to g

    • Expose g.view_limits

v1.4#

Release Date: 2020-08-25

  • Bug Fix

    • Always set headers for conditional limits

    • Skip init_app sequence when the rate limiter is disabled

v1.3.1#

Release Date: 2020-05-21

  • Bug Fix

    • Ensure headers provided explictely by setting _header_mapping take precedence over configuration values.

v1.3#

Release Date: 2020-05-20

  • Features

    • Add new deduct_when argument that accepts a function to decorated limits to conditionally perform depletion of a rate limit (Pull Request 248)

    • Add new default_limits_deduct_when argument to Limiter constructor to conditionally perform depletion of default rate limits

    • Add default_limits_exempt_when argument that accepts a function to allow skipping the default limits in the before_request phase

  • Bug Fix

    • Fix handling of storage failures during after_request phase.

  • Code Quality

    • Use github-actions instead of travis for CI

    • Use pytest instaad of nosetests

    • Add docker configuration for test dependencies

    • Increase code coverage to 100%

    • Ensure pyflake8 compliance

v1.2.1#

Release Date: 2020-02-26

  • Bug fix

    • Syntax error in version 1.2.0 when application limits are provided through configuration file (Issue 241)

v1.2.0#

Release Date: 2020-02-25

  • Add override_defaults argument to decorated limits to allow combinined defaults with decorated limits.

  • Add configuration parameter RATELIMIT_DEFAULTS_PER_METHOD to control whether defaults are applied per method.

  • Add support for in memory fallback without override (Pull Request 236)

  • Bug fix

    • Ensure defaults are enforced when decorated limits are skipped (Issue 238)

v1.1.0#

Release Date: 2019-10-02

v1.0.1#

Release Date: 2017-12-08

  • Bug fix

    • Duplicate rate limits applied via application limits (Issue 108)

v1.0.0#

Release Date: 2017-11-06

  • Improved documentation for handling ip addresses for applications behind proxiues (Issue 41)

  • Execute rate limits for decorated routes in decorator instead of before_request (Issue 67)

  • Bug Fix

    • Python 3.5 Errors (Issue 82)

    • RATELIMIT_KEY_PREFIX configuration constant not used (Issue 88)

    • Can’t use dynamic limit in default_limits (Issue 94)

    • Retry-After header always zero when using key prefix (Issue 99)

v0.9.5.1#

Release Date: 2017-08-18

  • Upgrade versioneer

v0.9.5#

Release Date: 2017-07-26

  • Add support for key prefixes

v0.9.4#

Release Date: 2017-05-01

  • Implemented application wide shared limits

v0.9.3#

Release Date: 2016-03-14

  • Allow reset of limiter storage if available

v0.9.2#

Release Date: 2016-03-04

  • Deprecation warning for default key_func get_ipaddr

  • Support for Retry-After header

v0.9.1#

Release Date: 2015-11-21

  • Re-expose enabled property on Limiter instance.

v0.9#

Release Date: 2015-11-13

  • In-memory fallback option for unresponsive storage

  • Rate limit exemption option per limit

v0.8.5#

Release Date: 2015-10-05

  • Bug fix for reported issues of missing (limits) dependency upon installation.

v0.8.4#

Release Date: 2015-10-03

  • Documentation tweaks.

v0.8.2#

Release Date: 2015-09-17

  • Remove outdated files from egg

v0.8.1#

Release Date: 2015-08-06

  • Fixed compatibility with latest version of Flask-Restful

v0.8#

Release Date: 2015-06-07

  • No functional change

v0.7.9#

Release Date: 2015-04-02

  • Bug fix for case sensitive methods whitelist for limits decorator

v0.7.8#

Release Date: 2015-03-20

  • Hotfix for dynamic limits with blueprints

  • Undocumented feature to pass storage options to underlying storage backend.

v0.7.6#

Release Date: 2015-03-02

  • methods keyword argument for limits decorator to specify specific http methods to apply the rate limit to.

v0.7.5#

Release Date: 2015-02-16

v0.7.4#

Release Date: 2015-02-03

  • Use Werkzeug TooManyRequests as the exception raised when available.

v0.7.3#

Release Date: 2015-01-30

  • Bug Fix

    • Fix for version comparison when monkey patching Werkzeug

      (Issue 24)

v0.7.1#

Release Date: 2015-01-09

  • Refactor core storage & ratelimiting strategy out into the limits package.

  • Remove duplicate hits when stacked rate limits are in use and a rate limit is hit.

v0.7#

Release Date: 2015-01-09

  • Refactoring of RedisStorage for extensibility (Issue 18)

  • Bug fix: Correct default setting for enabling rate limit headers. (Issue 22)

v0.6.6#

Release Date: 2014-10-21

  • Bug fix

    • Fix for responses slower than rate limiting window. (Issue 17.)

v0.6.5#

Release Date: 2014-10-01

  • Bug fix: in memory storage thread safety

v0.6.4#

Release Date: 2014-08-31

  • Support for manually triggering rate limit check

v0.6.3#

Release Date: 2014-08-26

  • Header name overrides

v0.6.2#

Release Date: 2014-07-13

v0.6.1#

Release Date: 2014-07-11

  • per http method rate limit separation (Recipe)

  • documentation improvements

v0.6#

Release Date: 2014-06-24

v0.5#

Release Date: 2014-06-13

v0.4.4#

Release Date: 2014-06-13

  • Bug fix

    • Werkzeug < 0.9 Compatibility (Issue 6.)

v0.4.3#

Release Date: 2014-06-12

  • Hotfix : use HTTPException instead of abort to play well with other extensions.

v0.4.2#

Release Date: 2014-06-12

  • Allow configuration overrides via extension constructor

v0.4.1#

Release Date: 2014-06-04

  • Improved implementation of moving-window X-RateLimit-Reset value.

v0.4#

Release Date: 2014-05-28

v0.3.2#

Release Date: 2014-05-26

  • Bug fix

    • Memory leak when using Limiter.storage.MemoryStorage (Issue 4.)

  • Improved test coverage

v0.3.1#

Release Date: 2014-02-20

  • Strict version requirement on six

  • documentation tweaks

v0.3.0#

Release Date: 2014-02-19

  • improved logging support for multiple handlers

  • allow callables to be passed to Limiter.limit decorator to dynamically load rate limit strings.

  • add a global kill switch in flask config for all rate limits.

  • Bug fixes

    • default key function for rate limit domain wasn’t accounting for X-Forwarded-For header.

v0.2.2#

Release Date: 2014-02-18

  • add new decorator to exempt routes from limiting.

  • Bug fixes

    • versioneer.py wasn’t included in manifest.

    • configuration string for strategy was out of sync with docs.

v0.2.1#

Release Date: 2014-02-15

  • python 2.6 support via counter backport

  • source docs.

v0.2#

Release Date: 2014-02-15

  • Implemented configurable strategies for rate limiting.

  • Bug fixes

    • better locking for in-memory storage

    • multi threading support for memcached storage

v0.1.1#

Release Date: 2014-02-14

  • Bug fixes

    • fix initializing the extension without an app

    • don’t rate limit static files

v0.1.0#

Release Date: 2014-02-13

  • first release.