Python logging (:issue:`1060`, :issue:`1235`, :issue:`1236`, :issue:`1240`,:issue:`1259`, :issue:`1278`, :issue:`1286`)
FEED_EXPORT_FIELDS option (:issue:`1159`, :issue:`1224`)
Dns cache size and timeout options (:issue:`1132`)
support namespace prefix in xmliter_lxml (:issue:`963`)
Reactor threadpool max size setting (:issue:`1123`)
Allow spiders to return dicts. (:issue:`1081`)
Add Response.urljoin() helper (:issue:`1086`)
look in ~/.config/scrapy.cfg for user config (:issue:`1098`)
handle TLS SNI (:issue:`1101`)
Selectorlist extract first (:issue:`624`, :issue:`1145`)
Added JmesSelect (:issue:`1016`)
add gzip compression to filesystem http cache backend (:issue:`1020`)
CSS support in link extractors (:issue:`983`)
httpcache dont_cache meta #19 #689 (:issue:`821`)
add signal to be sent when request is dropped by the scheduler
(:issue:`961`)
avoid download large response (:issue:`946`)
Allow to specify the quotechar in CSVFeedSpider (:issue:`882`)
Add referer to "Spider error processing" log message (:issue:`795`)
process robots.txt once (:issue:`896`)
GSoC Per-spider settings (:issue:`854`)
Add project name validation (:issue:`817`)
GSoC API cleanup (:issue:`816`, :issue:`1128`, :issue:`1147`,:issue:`1148`, :issue:`1156`, :issue:`1185`, :issue:`1187`, :issue:`1258`,:issue:`1268`, :issue:`1276`, :issue:`1285`, :issue:`1284`)
Be more responsive with IO operations (:issue:`1074` and :issue:`1075`)
Do leveldb compaction for httpcache on closing (:issue:`1297`)