<commit_before>.. _news:

Release notes
=============

0.18 (unreleased)
-----------------

- moved persistent (on disk) queues to a separate project (queuelib_) which scrapy now depends on
- add scrapy commands using external libraries (:issue:`260`)
- added ``--pdb`` option to ``scrapy`` command line tool
- added :meth:`XPathSelector.remove_namespaces` which allows to remove all namespaces from XML documents for convenience (to work with namespace-less XPaths). Documented in :ref:`topics-selectors`.
- several improvements to spider contracts
- New default middleware named MetaRefreshMiddldeware that handles meta-refresh html tag redirections,
  MetaRefreshMiddldeware and RedirectMiddleware have different priorities to address #62

0.16.4 (released 2013-01-23)
----------------------------
<commit_msg>add benchmarking to 0.18 release notes<commit_after>.. _news:

Release notes
=============

0.18 (unreleased)
-----------------

- :ref:`benchmarking`
- moved persistent (on disk) queues to a separate project (queuelib_) which scrapy now depends on
- add scrapy commands using external libraries (:issue:`260`)
- added ``--pdb`` option to ``scrapy`` command line tool
- added :meth:`XPathSelector.remove_namespaces` which allows to remove all namespaces from XML documents for convenience (to work with namespace-less XPaths). Documented in :ref:`topics-selectors`.
- several improvements to spider contracts
- New default middleware named MetaRefreshMiddldeware that handles meta-refresh html tag redirections,
  MetaRefreshMiddldeware and RedirectMiddleware have different priorities to address #62

0.16.4 (released 2013-01-23)
----------------------------

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