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= Additional information
+include::migrating_from_2.4.asciidoc[Migrating from Cowboy 2.4 to 2.5]
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include::migrating_from_2.3.asciidoc[Migrating from Cowboy 2.3 to 2.4]
include::migrating_from_2.2.asciidoc[Migrating from Cowboy 2.2 to 2.3]
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+[appendix]
+== Migrating from Cowboy 2.4 to 2.5
+
+Cowboy 2.5 focused on making the test suites pass. A
+variety of new features, fixes and improvements have
+also been worked on.
+
+=== Features added
+
+* Add option `linger_timeout` to control how long
+ Cowboy will wait before closing the socket when
+ shutting down the connection. This helps avoid
+ the TCP reset problem HTTP/1.1 suffers from. The
+ default is now 1000 ms.
+
+* It is now possible to stream a response body
+ without using chunked transfer-encoding when the
+ protocol is HTTP/1.1. To enable this behavior,
+ simply pass the content-length header with the
+ expected size when initiating the streamed response.
+
+* Update Ranch to 1.6.1
+
+* Update Cowlib to 2.5.1
+
+=== Experimental features added
+
+* Websocket handlers now feature a commands-based interface.
+ The return value from the callbacks can now take the form
+ `{Commands, State}` where `Commands` can be frames to be
+ sent or commands yet to be introduced. New commands will
+ be available only through this new interface.
+
+* Add the protocol option `logger` that allows configuring
+ which logger module will be used. The logger module must
+ follow the interface of the new `logger` module in Erlang/OTP 21,
+ or be set to `error_logger` to keep the old behavior. A
+ similar transport option exists in Ranch 1.6; both options
+ are necessary to override Cowboy's default behavior completely.
+
+* Add the `{log, Level, Format, Args}` stream handler command.
+ Making it a command rather than a direct call will simplify
+ silencing particular log messages.
+
+=== New functions
+
+* The function `cowboy_req:stream_events/3` streams one or more
+ text/event-stream events, encoding them automatically.
+
+* The functions `cowboy_req:read_and_match_urlencoded_body/2,3`
+ can be used to read, parse and match application/x-www-form-urlencoded
+ request bodies, in a similar way to `cowboy_req:match_qs/2`.
+
+=== Bugs fixed
+
+* Fix Erlang/OTP 21 warnings.
+
+* Ensure that the port number is always defined in the
+ Req object. When it is not provided in the request,
+ the default port number for the protocol being used
+ will be set.
+
+* Ensure stream handlers can run after `cowboy_stream_h`.
+
+* Honor the SETTINGS_ENABLE_PUSH HTTP/2 setting: don't
+ send PUSH frames to clients that disabled it.
+
+* Fix HTTP/2 `settings_timeout` option when the value
+ is set to `infinity`.
+
+* HTTP/1.1 responses will no longer include a trailer header
+ when the request had no te header.
+
+* HTTP/1.1 204 responses no longer send the transfer-encoding
+ header when `cowboy_req:stream_reply/2,3` is used to send
+ a response.
+
+* Improve HTTP/1.1 keepalive handling to avoid processing
+ requests that follow the final request that will receive
+ a response.
+
+* Improve the validation of HTTP/1.1 absolute-form requests.
+
+* Errors that occur when a callback returned by
+ `content_types_provided` does not exist have been improved.
+
+* Prevent annoying error logs when using sendfile in
+ Erlang/OTP 20 and lower.
+
+* Add missing frame types to `websocket_handle`.
+
+* A test suite has been added for RFC8297 to ensure that
+ 103 informational responses can be sent.
+
+* Numerous test cases have been fixed, improved or removed in order
+ to make the test suites pass. Most of the failures were caused
+ by broken tests.
+
+* Some misguiding or incorrect statements in the documentation
+ have been removed or clarified.