This release brings small new features and improvements across the codebase. Some highlights:

• Google Cloud Storage is supported in FilesPipeline and ImagesPipeline.
• Crawling with proxy servers becomes more efficient, as connections to proxies can be reused now.
• Warnings, exception and logging messages are improved to make debugging easier.
• scrapy parse command now allows to set custom request meta via --meta argument.
• Compatibility with Python 3.6, PyPy and PyPy3 is improved; PyPy and PyPy3 are now supported officially, by running tests on CI.
• Better default handling of HTTP 308, 522 and 524 status codes.
• Documentation is improved, as usual.

Full changelog is in the docs.