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+[appendix]
+== Migrating from Cowboy 2.5 to 2.6
+
+Cowboy 2.6 greatly refactored the HTTP/2 code, a large
+part of which was moved to Cowlib and is now used by
+both the Cowboy server and the Gun client.
+
+A large number of tickets were also closed which
+resulted in many bugs fixed and many features and
+options added, although some of them are still
+experimental.
+
+=== Features added
+
+* Add support for the PROXY protocol header.
+ It can be enabled via the `proxy_header` option.
+ The proxy information can then be found under
+ the `proxy_info` key in the Req object.
+
+* Allow using sendfile tuples in `cowboy_req:stream_body/3`
+ and in the data command in stream handlers. The only
+ caveat is that when using `cowboy_compress_h` the
+ sendfile tuples may have to be converted to in-memory
+ data in order to compress them. This is the case for
+ gzip compression.
+
+* Add an `http10_keepalive` option to allow disabling
+ keep-alive for HTTP/1.0 connections.
+
+* Add an `idle_timeout` option for HTTP/2.
+
+* Add a `sendfile` option to both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
+ It allows disabling the sendfile syscall entirely for
+ all connections. It is recommended to disable sendfile
+ when using VirtualBox shared folders.
+
+* Add the `rate_limited/2` callback to REST handlers.
+
+* Add a `deflate_opts` option to Websocket handlers that
+ allows configuring deflate options for the
+ permessage-deflate extension.
+
+* Add a `charset` option to `cowboy_static`.
+
+* Add support for the SameSite cookie attribute.
+
+* Update Ranch to 1.7.0
+
+* Update Cowlib to 2.7.0
+
+=== Experimental features added
+
+* Add support for range requests (RFC7233) in REST handlers.
+ This adds two new callbacks: `ranges_accepted/2` and
+ `range_satisfiable/2` along with the user-specified
+ `ProvideRangeCallback/2`.
+
+* Add automatic handling of range requests to REST handlers
+ that return the callback `auto` from `ranges_accepted/2`.
+ Cowboy will call the configured `ProvideCallback` and
+ then split the ouput automatically for the ranged response.
+
+* Enable range requests support in `cowboy_static`.
+
+* Add the `{deflate, boolean()}` Websocket handler
+ command to disable permessage-deflate compression
+ temporarily.
+
+* Add the `compress_threshold` option which allows
+ configuring how much data must be present in a
+ response body to compress it. This only applies
+ to non-streamed bodies at this time.
+
+* Add the `compress_buffering` option which allows
+ controlling whether some buffering may be done
+ when streaming a response body. Change the default
+ behavior to not buffer to make sure it works by
+ default in all scenarios.
+
+* Add the `{set_options, map()}` command to stream
+ handlers and Websocket handlers. This can be used
+ to update options on a per-request basis. Allow
+ overriding the `idle_timeout` option for both
+ HTTP/1.1 and Websocket, and the `cowboy_compress_h`
+ options for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
+
+=== Bugs fixed
+
+* Do not send a content-length automatically with
+ 304 responses. This status code allows a content-length
+ that corresponds to what would have been sent for a 200
+ response, but is never followed by a body.
+
+* HTTP/2 streams are now terminated once the body
+ has been sent fully, instead of immediately once
+ the stop command is returned (by default when the
+ request process exits). Metrics will therefore
+ more accurately represent when a stream ended.
+
+* Terminate connection processes gracefully when the
+ parent process exists or when sys:terminate/2,3
+ is called.
+
+* Automatically ignore the boundary parameter of multipart
+ media types when using REST handlers. This is a special
+ parameter that may change with all requests and cannot
+ be predicted.
+
+* Fix parsing of the accept header when it contains charset
+ parameters. They are case insensitive and will now be
+ lowercased, like for accept-charset and content-type.
+
+* Handle the charset parameter using `charsets_provided`
+ when it is present in the accept header when using
+ REST handlers.
+
+* Don't select charsets when the q-value is 0 in REST
+ handlers.
+
+* Handle accept-charset headers that include a wildcard
+ in REST handlers.
+
+* Only send a charset header when the content-type
+ negotiated is of type text in REST handlers.
+
+* Remove the default charset iso-8859-1 from REST
+ handlers when no other is provided. This has been
+ removed from the HTTP specifications for a long time.
+
+* Many cases where a content-type header was sent
+ unnecessarily in the REST handlers response have
+ been fixed.
+
+* Handle error_response commands in `cowboy_metrics_h`.
+
+* A number of types and function specifications were
+ fixed or improved. Dialyzer is now run against both
+ the code and tests to help uncover issues.
+
+* An undefined `cowboy_router` behavior has been
+ documented.