Bleach changes¶

Version 6.1.0 (October 6th, 2023)¶

Backwards incompatible changes

Dropped support for Python 3.7. (#709)

Security fixes

None

Bug fixes

Add support for Python 3.12. (#710)
Fix linkify with arrays in querystring (#436)
Handle more cases with < followed by character data (#705)
Fix entities inside a tags in linkification (#704)
Update cap for tinycss2 to <1.3 (#702)
Updated Sphinx requirement
Add dependabot for github actions and update github actions

Version 6.0.0 (January 23rd, 2023)¶

Backwards incompatible changes

bleach.clean, bleach.sanitizer.Cleaner, bleach.html5lib_shim.BleachHTMLParser: the tags and protocols arguments were changed from lists to sets.

Old pre-6.0.0:

bleach.clean(
    "some text",
    tags=["a", "p", "img"],
    #    ^               ^ list
    protocols=["http", "https"],
    #         ^               ^ list
)

New 6.0.0 and later:

bleach.clean(
    "some text",
    tags={"a", "p", "img"},
    #    ^               ^ set
    protocols={"http", "https"},
    #         ^               ^ set
)

bleach.linkify, bleach.linkifier.Linker: the skip_tags and recognized_tags arguments were changed from lists to sets.

Old pre-6.0.0:

bleach.linkify(
    "some text",
    skip_tags=["pre"],
    #         ^     ^ list
)

linker = Linker(
    skip_tags=["pre"],
    #         ^     ^ list
    recognized_tags=html5lib_shim.HTML_TAGS + ["custom-element"],
    #                                       ^ ^                ^ list
    #                                       |
    #                                       | list concatenation
)

New 6.0.0 and later:

bleach.linkify(
    "some text",
    skip_tags={"pre"},
    #         ^     ^ set
)

linker = Linker(
    skip_tags={"pre"},
    #         ^     ^ set
    recognized_tags=html5lib_shim.HTML_TAGS | {"custom-element"},
    #                                       ^ ^                ^ set
    #                                       |
    #                                       | union operator
)

bleach.sanitizer.BleachSanitizerFilter: strip_allowed_elements is now strip_allowed_tags. We now use “tags” everywhere rather than a mishmash of “tags” in some places and “elements” in others.

Security fixes

None

Bug fixes

Add support for Python 3.11. (#675)
Fix API weirness in BleachSanitizerFilter. (#649)

We’re using “tags” instead of “elements” everywhere–no more weird overloading of “elements” anymore.

Also, it no longer calls the superclass constructor.
Add warning when css_sanitizer isn’t set, but the style attribute is allowed. (#676)
Fix linkify handling of character entities. (#501)
Rework dev dependencies to use requirements-dev.txt and requirements-flake8.txt instead of extras.
Fix project infrastructure to be tox-based so it’s easier to have CI run the same things we’re running in development and with flake8 in an isolated environment.
Update action versions in CI.
Switch to f-strings where possible. Make tests parametrized to be easier to read/maintain.

Version 5.0.1 (June 27th, 2022)¶

Security fixes

None

Bug fixes

Add missing comma to tinycss2 require. Thank you, @shadchin!
Add url parse tests based on wpt url tests. (#688)
Support scheme-less urls if “https” is in allow list. (#662)
Handle escaping < in edge cases where it doesn’t start a tag. (#544)
Fix reference warnings in docs. (#660)
Correctly urlencode email address parts. Thank you, @larseggert! (#659)

Version 5.0.0 (April 7th, 2022)¶

Backwards incompatible changes

clean and linkify now preserve the order of HTML attributes. Thank you, @askoretskly! (#566)
Drop support for Python 3.6. Thank you, @hugovk! (#629)
CSS sanitization in style tags is completely different now. If you’re using Bleach clean to sanitize css in style tags, you’ll need to update your code and you’ll need to install the css extras:
```
pip install 'bleach[css]'
```
See the documentation on sanitizing CSS for how to do it. (#633)

Security fixes

None

Bug fixes

Rework dev dependencies. We no longer have requirements-dev.in/requirements-dev.txt. Instead, we’re using dev extras.

See development docs for more details. (#620)
Add newline when dropping block-level tags. Thank you, @jvanasco! (#369)

Version 4.1.0 (August 25th, 2021)¶

Features

Python 3.9 support

Security fixes

None

Bug fixes

Update sanitizer clean to use vendored 3.6.14 stdlib urllib.parse to fix test failures on Python 3.9. (#536)

Version 4.0.0 (August 3rd, 2021)¶

Backwards incompatible changes

Drop support for unsupported Python versions <3.6. (#520)

Security fixes

None

Features

fix attribute name in the linkify docs (thanks @CheesyFeet!)

Version 3.3.1 (July 14th, 2021)¶

Security fixes

None

Features

add more tests for CVE-2021-23980 / GHSA-vv2x-vrpj-qqpq
bump python version to 3.8 for tox doc, vendorverify, and lint targets
update bug report template tag
update vendorverify script to detect and fail when extra files are vendored
update release process docs to check vendorverify passes locally

Bug fixes

remove extra vendored django present in the v3.3.0 whl (#595)
duplicate h1 header doc fix (thanks Nguyễn Gia Phong / @McSinyx!)

Version 3.3.0 (February 1st, 2021)¶

Backwards incompatible changes

clean escapes HTML comments even when strip_comments=False

Security fixes

Fix bug 1621692 / GHSA-m6xf-fq7q-8743. See the advisory for details.

Features

None

Bug fixes

None

Version 3.2.3 (January 26th, 2021)¶

Security fixes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

fix clean and linkify raising ValueErrors for certain inputs. Thank you @Google-Autofuzz.

Version 3.2.2 (January 20th, 2021)¶

Security fixes

None

Features

Migrate CI to Github Actions. Thank you @hugovk.

Bug fixes

fix linkify raising an IndexError on certain inputs. Thank you @Google-Autofuzz.

Version 3.2.1 (September 18th, 2020)¶

Security fixes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

change linkifier to add rel=”nofollow” as documented. Thank you @mitar.
suppress html5lib sanitizer DeprecationWarnings (#557)

Version 3.2.0 (September 16th, 2020)¶

Security fixes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

html5lib dependency to version 1.1.0. Thank you Sam Sneddon.
update tests_website terminology. Thank you Thomas Grainger.

Version 3.1.5 (April 29th, 2020)¶

Security fixes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

replace missing setuptools dependency with packaging. Thank you Benjamin Peterson.

Version 3.1.4 (March 24th, 2020)¶

Security fixes

bleach.clean behavior parsing style attributes could result in a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

Calls to bleach.clean with an allowed tag with an allowed style attribute were vulnerable to ReDoS. For example, bleach.clean(..., attributes={'a': ['style']}).

This issue was confirmed in Bleach versions v3.1.3, v3.1.2, v3.1.1, v3.1.0, v3.0.0, v2.1.4, and v2.1.3. Earlier versions used a similar regular expression and should be considered vulnerable too.

Anyone using Bleach <=v3.1.3 is encouraged to upgrade.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623633

Backwards incompatible changes

Style attributes with dashes, or single or double quoted values are cleaned instead of passed through.

Features

None

Bug fixes

None

Version 3.1.3 (March 17th, 2020)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

Drop support for Python 3.4. Thank you, @hugovk!
Drop deprecated setup.py test support. Thank you, @jdufresne! (#507)

Features

Add support for Python 3.8. Thank you, @jdufresne!
Add support for PyPy 7. Thank you, @hugovk!
Add pypy3 testing to tox and travis. Thank you, @jdufresne!

Bug fixes

Add relative link to code of conduct. (#442)
Fix typo: curren -> current in tests/test_clean.py Thank you, timgates42! (#504)
Fix handling of non-ascii style attributes. Thank you, @sekineh! (#426)
Simplify tox configuration. Thank you, @jdufresne!
Make documentation reproducible. Thank you, @lamby!
Fix typos in code comments. Thank you, @zborboa-g!
Fix exception value testing. Thank you, @mastizada!
Fix parser-tags NoneType exception. Thank you, @bope!
Improve TLD support in linkify. Thank you, @pc-coholic!

Version 3.1.2 (March 11th, 2020)¶

Security fixes

bleach.clean behavior parsing embedded MathML and SVG content with RCDATA tags did not match browser behavior and could result in a mutation XSS.

Calls to bleach.clean with strip=False and math or svg tags and one or more of the RCDATA tags script, noscript, style, noframes, iframe, noembed, or xmp in the allowed tags whitelist were vulnerable to a mutation XSS.

This security issue was confirmed in Bleach version v3.1.1. Earlier versions are likely affected too.

Anyone using Bleach <=v3.1.1 is encouraged to upgrade.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621692

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

None

Version 3.1.1 (February 13th, 2020)¶

Security fixes

bleach.clean behavior parsing noscript tags did not match browser behavior.

Calls to bleach.clean allowing noscript and one or more of the raw text tags (title, textarea, script, style, noembed, noframes, iframe, and xmp) were vulnerable to a mutation XSS.

This security issue was confirmed in Bleach versions v2.1.4, v3.0.2, and v3.1.0. Earlier versions are probably affected too.

Anyone using Bleach <=v3.1.0 is highly encouraged to upgrade.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615315

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

None

Version 3.1.0 (January 9th, 2019)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

Add recognized_tags argument to the linkify Linker class. This fixes issues when linkifying on its own and having some tags get escaped. It defaults to a list of HTML5 tags. Thank you, Chad Birch! (#409)

Bug fixes

Add six>=1.9 to requirements. Thank you, Dave Shawley (#416)
Fix cases where attribute names could have invalid characters in them. (#419)
Fix problems with LinkifyFilter not being able to match links across &. (#422)
Fix InputStreamWithMemory when the BleachHTMLParser is parsing meta tags. (#431)
Fix doctests. (#357)

Version 3.0.2 (October 11th, 2018)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

Merge Characters tokens after sanitizing them. This fixes issues in the LinkifyFilter where it was only linkifying parts of urls. (#374)

Version 3.0.1 (October 9th, 2018)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

Support Python 3.7. It supported Python 3.7 just fine, but we added 3.7 to the list of Python environments we test so this is now officially supported. (#377)

Bug fixes

Fix list object has no attribute lower in clean. (#398)
Fix abbr getting escaped in linkify. (#400)

Version 3.0.0 (October 3rd, 2018)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

A bunch of functions were moved from one module to another.

These were moved from bleach.sanitizer to bleach.html5lib_shim:
- convert_entity
- convert_entities
- match_entity
- next_possible_entity
- BleachHTMLSerializer
- BleachHTMLTokenizer
- BleachHTMLParser
These functions and classes weren’t documented and aren’t part of the public API, but people read code and might be using them so we’re considering it an incompatible API change.

If you’re using them, you’ll need to update your code.

Features

Bleach no longer depends on html5lib. html5lib==1.0.1 is now vendored into Bleach. You can remove it from your requirements file if none of your other requirements require html5lib.

This means Bleach will now work fine with other libraries that depend on html5lib regardless of what version of html5lib they require. (#386)

Bug fixes

Fixed tags getting added when using clean or linkify. This was a long-standing regression from the Bleach 2.0 rewrite. (#280, #392)
Fixed <isindex> getting replaced with a string. Now it gets escaped or stripped depending on whether it’s in the allowed tags or not. (#279)

Version 2.1.4 (August 16th, 2018)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

Dropped support for Python 3.3. (#328)

Features

None

Bug fixes

Handle ambiguous ampersands in correctly. (#359)

Version 2.1.3 (March 5th, 2018)¶

Security fixes

Attributes that have URI values weren’t properly sanitized if the values contained character entities. Using character entities, it was possible to construct a URI value with a scheme that was not allowed that would slide through unsanitized.

This security issue was introduced in Bleach 2.1. Anyone using Bleach 2.1 is highly encouraged to upgrade.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1442745

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

Fixed some other edge cases for attribute URI value sanitizing and improved testing of this code.

Version 2.1.2 (December 7th, 2017)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

Support html5lib-python 1.0.1. (#337)
Add deprecation warning for supporting html5lib-python < 1.0.
Switch to semver.

Version 2.1.1 (October 2nd, 2017)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

None

Features

None

Bug fixes

Fix setup.py opening files when LANG=. (#324)

Version 2.1 (September 28th, 2017)¶

Security fixes

Convert control characters (backspace particularly) to “?” preventing malicious copy-and-paste situations. (#298)

See https://github.com/mozilla/bleach/issues/298 for more details.

This affects all previous versions of Bleach. Check the comments on that issue for ways to alleviate the issue if you can’t upgrade to Bleach 2.1.

Backwards incompatible changes

Redid versioning. bleach.VERSION is no longer available. Use the string version at bleach.__version__ and parse it with pkg_resources.parse_version. (#307)
clean, linkify: linkify and clean should only accept text types; thank you, Janusz! (#292)
clean, linkify: accept only unicode or utf-8-encoded str (#176)

Features

Bug fixes

bleach.clean() no longer unescapes entities including ones that are missing a ; at the end which can happen in urls and other places. (#143)
linkify: fix http links inside of mailto links; thank you, sedrubal! (#300)
clarify security policy in docs (#303)
fix dependency specification for html5lib 1.0b8, 1.0b9, and 1.0b10; thank you, Zoltán! (#268)
add Bleach vs. html5lib comparison to README; thank you, Stu Cox! (#278)
fix KeyError exceptions on tags without href attr; thank you, Alex Defsen! (#273)
add test website and scripts to test bleach.clean() output in browser; thank you, Greg Guthe!

Version 2.0 (March 8th, 2017)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

Removed support for Python 2.6. (#206)
Removed support for Python 3.2. (#224)
Bleach no longer supports html5lib < 0.99999999 (8 9s).

This version is a rewrite to use the new sanitizing API since the old one was dropped in html5lib 0.99999999 (8 9s).

If you’re using 0.9999999 (7 9s) upgrade to 0.99999999 (8 9s) or higher.

If you’re using 1.0b8 (equivalent to 0.9999999 (7 9s)), upgrade to 1.0b9 (equivalent to 0.99999999 (8 9s)) or higher.
bleach.clean and friends were rewritten

clean was reimplemented as an html5lib filter and happens at a different step in the HTML parsing -> traversing -> serializing process. Because of that, there are some differences in clean’s output as compared with previous versions.

Amongst other things, this version will add end tags even if the tag in question is to be escaped.
bleach.clean and friends attribute callables now take three arguments: tag, attribute name and attribute value. Previously they only took attribute name and attribute value.

All attribute callables will need to be updated.
bleach.linkify was rewritten

linkify was reimplemented as an html5lib Filter. As such, it no longer accepts a tokenizer argument.

The callback functions for adjusting link attributes now takes a namespaced attribute.

Previously you’d do something like this:
```
def check_protocol(attrs, is_new):
    if not attrs.get('href', '').startswith('http:', 'https:')):
        return None
    return attrs
```
Now it’s more like this:
```
def check_protocol(attrs, is_new):
    if not attrs.get((None, u'href'), u'').startswith(('http:', 'https:')):
        #            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        return None
    return attrs
```
Further, you need to make sure you’re always using unicode values. If you don’t then html5lib will raise an assertion error that the value is not unicode.

All linkify filters will need to be updated.
bleach.linkify and friends had a skip_pre argument–that’s been replaced with a more general skip_tags argument.

Before, you might do:
```
bleach.linkify(some_text, skip_pre=True)
```
The equivalent with Bleach 2.0 is:
```
bleach.linkify(some_text, skip_tags=['pre'])
```
You can skip other tags, too, like style or script or other places where you don’t want linkification happening.

All uses of linkify that use skip_pre will need to be updated.

Changes

Supports Python 3.6.
Supports html5lib >= 0.99999999 (8 9s).
There’s a bleach.sanitizer.Cleaner class that you can instantiate with your favorite clean settings for easy reuse.
There’s a bleach.linkifier.Linker class that you can instantiate with your favorite linkify settings for easy reuse.
There’s a bleach.linkifier.LinkifyFilter which is an htm5lib filter that you can pass as a filter to bleach.sanitizer.Cleaner allowing you to clean and linkify in one pass.
bleach.clean and friends can now take a callable as an attributes arg value.
Tons of bug fixes.
Cleaned up tests.
Documentation fixes.

Version 1.5 (November 4th, 2016)¶

Security fixes

None

Backwards incompatible changes

clean: The list of ALLOWED_PROTOCOLS now defaults to http, https and mailto.

Previously it was a long list of protocols something like ed2k, ftp, http, https, irc, mailto, news, gopher, nntp, telnet, webcal, xmpp, callto, feed, urn, aim, rsync, tag, ssh, sftp, rtsp, afs, data. (#149)

Changes

clean: Added protocols to arguments list to let you override the list of allowed protocols. Thank you, Andreas Malecki! (#149)
linkify: Fix a bug involving periods at the end of an email address. Thank you, Lorenz Schori! (#219)
linkify: Fix linkification of non-ascii ports. Thank you Alexandre, Macabies! (#207)
linkify: Fix linkify inappropriately removing node tails when dropping nodes. (#132)
Fixed a test that failed periodically. (#161)
Switched from nose to py.test. (#204)
Add test matrix for all supported Python and html5lib versions. (#230)
Limit to html5lib >=0.999,!=0.9999,!=0.99999,<0.99999999 because 0.9999 and 0.99999 are busted.
Add support for python setup.py test. (#97)

Version 1.4.3 (May 23rd, 2016)¶

Security fixes

None

Changes

Limit to html5lib >=0.999,<0.99999999 because of impending change to sanitizer api. #195

Version 1.4.2 (September 11, 2015)¶

Changes

linkify: Fix hang in linkify with parse_email=True. (#124)
linkify: Fix crash in linkify when removing a link that is a first-child. (#136)
Updated TLDs.
linkify: Don’t remove exterior brackets when linkifying. (#146)

Version 1.4.1 (December 15, 2014)¶

Changes

Consistent order of attributes in output.
Python 3.4 support.

Version 1.4 (January 12, 2014)¶

Changes

linkify: Update linkify to use etree type Treewalker instead of simpletree.
Updated html5lib to version >=0.999.
Update all code to be compatible with Python 3 and 2 using six.
Switch to Apache License.

Version 1.3¶

Used by Python 3-only fork.

Version 1.2.2 (May 18, 2013)¶

Pin html5lib to version 0.95 for now due to major API break.

Version 1.2.1 (February 19, 2013)¶

clean() no longer considers feed: an acceptable protocol due to inconsistencies in browser behavior.

Version 1.2 (January 28, 2013)¶

linkify() has changed considerably. Many keyword arguments have been replaced with a single callbacks list. Please see the documentation for more information.
Bleach will no longer consider unacceptable protocols when linkifying.
linkify() now takes a tokenizer argument that allows it to skip sanitization.
delinkify() is gone.
Removed exception handling from _render. clean() and linkify() may now throw.
linkify() correctly ignores case for protocols and domain names.
linkify() correctly handles markup within an <a> tag.

Version 1.1.5¶

Version 1.1.4¶

Version 1.1.3 (July 10, 2012)¶

Fix parsing bare URLs when parse_email=True.

Version 1.1.2 (June 1, 2012)¶

Fix hang in style attribute sanitizer. (#61)
Allow / in style attribute values.

Version 1.1.1 (February 17, 2012)¶

Fix tokenizer for html5lib 0.9.5.

Version 1.1.0 (October 24, 2011)¶

linkify() now understands port numbers. (#38)
Documented character encoding behavior. (#41)
Add an optional target argument to linkify().
Add delinkify() method. (#45)
Support subdomain whitelist for delinkify(). (#47, #48)

Version 1.0.4 (September 2, 2011)¶

Switch to SemVer git tags.
Make linkify() smarter about trailing punctuation. (#30)
Pass exc_info to logger during rendering issues.
Add wildcard key for attributes. (#19)
Make linkify() use the HTMLSanitizer tokenizer. (#36)
Fix URLs wrapped in parentheses. (#23)
Make linkify() UTF-8 safe. (#33)

Version 1.0.3 (June 14, 2011)¶

linkify() works with 3rd level domains. (#24)
clean() supports vendor prefixes in style values. (#31, #32)
Fix linkify() email escaping.

Version 1.0.2 (June 6, 2011)¶

linkify() supports email addresses.
clean() supports callables in attributes filter.

Version 1.0.1 (April 12, 2011)¶

linkify() doesn’t drop trailing slashes. (#21)
linkify() won’t linkify ‘libgl.so.1’. (#22)