- The asyncio reactor is now enabled by default
- Replaced
start_requests()
(sync) with :meth:~scrapy.Spider.start
(async) and changed how it is iterated. - Added the :reqmeta:
allow_offsite
request meta key - :ref:
Spider middlewares that don't support asynchronous spider output <sync-async-spider-middleware>
are deprecated - Added a base class for :ref:
universal spider middlewares <universal-spider-middleware>