build(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.6.1 to 2.6.3
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Bumps [urllib3](https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3) from 2.6.1 to 2.6.3.
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<summary>Release notes</summary>
<p><em>Sourced from <a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/releases">urllib3's releases</a>.</em></p>
<blockquote>
<h2>2.6.3</h2>
<h2>🚀 urllib3 is fundraising for HTTP/2 support</h2>
<p><a href="https://sethmlarson.dev/urllib3-is-fundraising-for-http2-support">urllib3 is raising ~$40,000 USD</a> to release HTTP/2 support and ensure long-term sustainable maintenance of the project after a sharp decline in financial support. If your company or organization uses Python and would benefit from HTTP/2 support in Requests, pip, cloud SDKs, and thousands of other projects <a href="https://opencollective.com/urllib3">please consider contributing financially</a> to ensure HTTP/2 support is developed sustainably and maintained for the long-haul.</p>
<p>Thank you for your support.</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a security issue where decompression-bomb safeguards of the streaming API were bypassed when HTTP redirects were followed. (CVE-2026-21441 reported by <a href="https://github.com/D47A"><code>@D47A</code></a>, 8.9 High, GHSA-38jv-5279-wg99)</li>
<li>Started treating <code>Retry-After</code> times greater than 6 hours as 6 hours by default. (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3743">urllib3/urllib3#3743</a>)</li>
<li>Fixed <code>urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection</code> on Emscripten. (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3752">urllib3/urllib3#3752</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h2>2.6.2</h2>
<h2>🚀 urllib3 is fundraising for HTTP/2 support</h2>
<p><a href="https://sethmlarson.dev/urllib3-is-fundraising-for-http2-support">urllib3 is raising ~$40,000 USD</a> to release HTTP/2 support and ensure long-term sustainable maintenance of the project after a sharp decline in financial support. If your company or organization uses Python and would benefit from HTTP/2 support in Requests, pip, cloud SDKs, and thousands of other projects <a href="https://opencollective.com/urllib3">please consider contributing financially</a> to ensure HTTP/2 support is developed sustainably and maintained for the long-haul.</p>
<p>Thank you for your support.</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed <code>HTTPResponse.read_chunked()</code> to properly handle leftover data in the decoder's buffer when reading compressed chunked responses. (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3734">urllib3/urllib3#3734</a>)</li>
</ul>
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<summary>Changelog</summary>
<p><em>Sourced from <a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/main/CHANGES.rst">urllib3's changelog</a>.</em></p>
<blockquote>
<h1>2.6.3 (2026-01-07)</h1>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a high-severity security issue where decompression-bomb safeguards of
the streaming API were bypassed when HTTP redirects were followed.
(<code>GHSA-38jv-5279-wg99 <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-38jv-5279-wg99></code>__)</li>
<li>Started treating <code>Retry-After</code> times greater than 6 hours as 6 hours by
default. (<code>[#3743](https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3743) <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3743></code>__)</li>
<li>Fixed <code>urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection</code> on Emscripten.
(<code>[#3752](https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3752) <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3752></code>__)</li>
</ul>
<h1>2.6.2 (2025-12-11)</h1>
<ul>
<li>Fixed <code>HTTPResponse.read_chunked()</code> to properly handle leftover data in
the decoder's buffer when reading compressed chunked responses.
(<code>[#3734](https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3734) <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3734></code>__)</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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<summary>Commits</summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/0248277dd7ac0239204889ca991353ad3e3a1ddc"><code>0248277</code></a> Release 2.6.3</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/8864ac407bba8607950025e0979c4c69bc7abc7b"><code>8864ac4</code></a> Merge commit from fork</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/70cecb27ca99d56aaaeb63ac27ee270ef2b24c5c"><code>70cecb2</code></a> Fix Scorecard issues related to vulnerable dev dependencies (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3755">#3755</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/41f249abe1ef3e20768588969c4035aba060a359"><code>41f249a</code></a> Move "v2.0 Migration Guide" to the end of the table of contents (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3747">#3747</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/fd4dffd2fc544166b76151a2fa3d7b7c0eab540c"><code>fd4dffd</code></a> Patch <code>VerifiedHTTPSConnection</code> for Emscripten (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3752">#3752</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/13f0bfd55e4468fe1ea9c6f809d3a87b0f93ebab"><code>13f0bfd</code></a> Handle massive values in Retry-After when calculating time to sleep for (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3743">#3743</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/8c480bf87bcefd321b3a1ae47f04e908b6b2ed7b"><code>8c480bf</code></a> Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5.0.0 to 6.0.0 (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3748">#3748</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/4b40616e959c0a2c466e8075f2a785a9f99bb0c1"><code>4b40616</code></a> Bump actions/cache from 4.3.0 to 5.0.1 (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3750">#3750</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/82b8479663d037d220c883f1584dd01a43bb273b"><code>82b8479</code></a> Bump actions/download-artifact from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0 (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3749">#3749</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/34284cb01700bb7d4fdd472f909e22393e9174e2"><code>34284cb</code></a> Mention experimental features in the security policy (<a href="https://redirect.github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/3746">#3746</a>)</li>
<li>Additional commits viewable in <a href="https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/compare/2.6.1...2.6.3">compare view</a></li>
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| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
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| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as a duplicate of #5930. Dependabot acknowledged the closure and will stop notifying for this urllib3 release. The dependency update was handled by the referenced PR. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed as a duplicate of PR #5930. Dependabot acknowledged the closure and will stop notifying about this release. The urllib3 dependency update was handled through the referenced PR instead. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed as a duplicate of #5930. Dependabot acknowledged and will stop notifying for this release. The urllib3 update was superseded by the referenced PR. |
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| #2544 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.5.0 to 2.6.3 | charmcraft | closed | Bumping urllib3 from 2.5.0 to 2.6.3 was closed without merging. Dependabot confirmed it would stop notifying about this release, indicating the update was abandoned or superseded. No changes were applied. | |
| #1307 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.16 to 1.26.17 | charmcraft | closed | Closed as redundant. Dependabot proposed updating urllib3 to 1.26.17, but the bot noted the dependency is already up-to-date, rendering the PR unnecessary. | |
| #5562 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.20 to 2.5.0 in /docs/.sphinx | snapcraft | closed | Closed and abandoned after a maintainer noted the modified dependency file is unused. Dependabot acknowledged the closure and will stop notifying about this version. No changes were merged. | |
| #1336 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.17 to 1.26.18 | charmcraft | closed | The urllib3 dependency bump to 1.26.18 was closed and superseded because the project already updated to the latest version. The change was not merged as it became redundant. | |
| #108 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.5.0 to 2.6.3 | starflow | merged | Merged a Dependabot PR bumping urllib3 from 2.5.0 to 2.6.3. The update patches critical decompression bomb and DoS vulnerabilities, plus bug fixes. Approved by reviewers, passed all CI checks, and merged successfully. | |
| #4404 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.17 to 1.26.18 | snapcraft | merged | Merged a Dependabot update bumping urllib3 from 1.26.17 to 1.26.18. Approved by two reviewers and passing CI, the branch was recreated to resolve a rebase conflict before final merge. The update improves HTTP 303 redirect handling. | |
| #3532 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.4 to 1.26.5 | snapcraft | merged | Merged an automated Dependabot update bumping urllib3 from 1.26.4 to 1.26.5. The change was approved, passed CI checks, and updated two files without impacting test coverage. | |
| #4405 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.17 to 1.26.18 in /docs/.sphinx | snapcraft | merged | Dependabot PR bumping urllib3 from 1.26.17 to 1.26.18 in /docs/.sphinx was approved, passed CI, and merged. The update applies a security fix for HTTP 303 redirect handling. | |
| #4388 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.15 to 1.26.17 | snapcraft | merged | Merged Dependabot PR bumping urllib3 from 1.26.15 to 1.26.17. Update applies security patch GHSA-v845-jxx5-vc9f and fixes a PoolManager thread-safety issue. Approved by two reviewers, passed CI, and maintained coverage. | |
| #4859 build(deps): bump urllib3 from 1.26.18 to 1.26.19 | snapcraft | merged | Automated dependency update for urllib3 from 1.26.18 to 1.26.19 was approved, passed CI checks, and successfully merged. |