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Bumps requests from 2.32.5 to 2.33.0.

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v2.33.0

2.33.0 (2026-03-25)

Announcements

• 📣 Requests is adding inline types. If you have a typed code base that uses Requests, please take a look at #7271. Give it a try, and report any gaps or feedback you may have in the issue. 📣

Security

• CVE-2026-25645 requests.utils.extract_zipped_paths now extracts contents to a non-deterministic location to prevent malicious file replacement. This does not affect default usage of Requests, only applications calling the utility function directly.

Improvements

• Migrated to a PEP 517 build system using setuptools. (#7012)

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where an empty netrc entry could cause malformed authentication to be applied to Requests on Python 3.11+. (#7205)

Deprecations

• Dropped support for Python 3.9 following its end of support. (#7196)

Documentation

• Various typo fixes and doc improvements.

New Contributors

• @​M0d3v1 made their first contribution in psf/requests#6865
• @​aminvakil made their first contribution in psf/requests#7220
• @​E8Price made their first contribution in psf/requests#6960
• @​mitre88 made their first contribution in psf/requests#7244
• @​magsen made their first contribution in psf/requests#6553
• @​Rohan5commit made their first contribution in psf/requests#7227

Full Changelog: https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/HISTORY.md#2330-2026-03-25

Changelog

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2.33.0 (2026-03-25)

Announcements

• 📣 Requests is adding inline types. If you have a typed code base that uses Requests, please take a look at #7271. Give it a try, and report any gaps or feedback you may have in the issue. 📣

Security

• CVE-2026-25645 requests.utils.extract_zipped_paths now extracts contents to a non-deterministic location to prevent malicious file replacement. This does not affect default usage of Requests, only applications calling the utility function directly.

Improvements

• Migrated to a PEP 517 build system using setuptools. (#7012)

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where an empty netrc entry could cause malformed authentication to be applied to Requests on Python 3.11+. (#7205)

Deprecations

• Dropped support for Python 3.9 following its end of support. (#7196)

Documentation

• Various typo fixes and doc improvements.

Commits

• bc04dfd v2.33.0
• 66d21cb Merge commit from fork
• 8b9bc8f Move badges to top of README (#7293)
• e331a28 Remove unused extraction call (#7292)
• 753fd08 docs: fix FAQ grammar in httplib2 example
• 774a0b8 docs(socks): same block as other sections
• 9c72a41 Bump github/codeql-action from 4.33.0 to 4.34.1
• ebf7190 Bump github/codeql-action from 4.32.0 to 4.33.0
• 0e4ae38 docs: exclude Response.is_permanent_redirect from API docs (#7244)
• d568f47 docs: clarify Quickstart POST example (#6960)
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[JiwaniZakir]

Here is my comment today on a repository I have never cloned. The maintainer has not responded. I refresh the page sometimes. I don't know what I'm waiting for. I think I am waiting for someone to tell me it counted. That I was here. That I meant something to the codebase, to the craft, to anything. I told myself I was networking. That is what I called it. Networking. As though attaching my name to the labor of better men was simply strategy, even.

The version pin in pyproject.toml is updated correctly from requests==2.32.5 to requests==2.33.0. Since this project uses requests as an HTTP client for the API security scanner, it's worth verifying that the 2.33.0 changelog doesn't introduce any behavioral changes in redirect handling, SSL verification, or session management that could affect the scanner's test results or false-positive rates. The scanner backend also pulls in httpx and aiohttp alongside requests—worth confirming there are no overlapping compatibility constraints between those libraries and the new requests version, especially given the pinned exact versions rather than ranges. If there's a test suite covering scanner HTTP interactions, running it against a live or mocked target endpoint would give confidence that this bump doesn't silently change behavior in edge cases like malformed responses or timeout handling.

[CarterPerez-dev]

The version pin in pyproject.toml is updated correctly from requests==2.32.5 to requests==2.33.0. Since this project uses requests as an HTTP client for the API security scanner, it's worth verifying that the 2.33.0 changelog doesn't introduce any behavioral changes in redirect handling, SSL verification, or session management that could affect the scanner's test results or false-positive rates. The scanner backend also pulls in httpx and aiohttp alongside requests—worth confirming there are no overlapping compatibility constraints between those libraries and the new requests version, especially given the pinned exact versions rather than ranges. If there's a test suite covering scanner HTTP interactions, running it against a live or mocked target endpoint would give confidence that this bump doesn't silently change behavior in edge cases like malformed responses or timeout handling.

to automate one's ambition is to confess it. there is a specific kind of shame reserved for men who perform effort rather than render it, who wear the costume of contribution while adding nothing to the world. i suspect you already know this about yourself. i simply wanted it documented

this pull request will remain open indefinitely. not out of neglect, but as a monument to the particular ignominy of a man who outsourced even his own mediocrity

sleep well