• Syntax error in version 1.2.0 when application limits are provided through configuration file (Issue 241)

Features

• Add configuration parameter RATELIMIT_DEFAULTS_PER_METHOD to control whether defaults are applied per method.
• Add support for in memory fallback without override (Pull Request 236)

Bug fix

• Ensure defaults are enforced when decorated limits are skipped (Issue 238)

• Respect existing Retry-After header values (Pull Request 143)
• Documentation improvements

Release Date: 2017-12-08

• Bug fix

  • Duplicate rate limits applied via application limits (Issue 108)

Release Date: 2017-11-06

• Improved documentation for handling ip addresses for applications behind proxiues (Issue 41)

• Execute rate limits for decorated routes in decorator instead of before_request (Issue 67)

• Bug Fix

  • Python 3.5 Errors (Issue 82)

  • RATELIMIT_KEY_PREFIX configuration constant not used (Issue 88)

  • Can't use dynamic limit in default_limits (Issue 94)

  • Retry-After header always zero when using key prefix (Issue 99)

Release Date: 2017-08-18

• Upgrade versioneer

Release Date: 2017-07-26

• Add support for key prefixes

Release Date: 2017-05-01

• Implemented application wide shared limits

Release Date: 2016-03-14

• Allow reset of limiter storage if available

Release Date: 2016-03-04

• Deprecation warning for default key_func get_ipaddr

• Support for Retry-After header

Release Date: 2015-11-21

• Re-expose enabled property on Limiter instance.

Release Date: 2015-11-13

• In-memory fallback option for unresponsive storage

• Rate limit exemption option per limit

Release Date: 2015-10-05

• Bug fix for reported issues of missing (limits) dependency upon installation.

Release Date: 2015-10-03

• Documentation tweaks.

Release Date: 2015-09-17

• Remove outdated files from egg

Release Date: 2015-08-06

• Fixed compatibility with latest version of Flask-Restful

Release Date: 2015-06-07

• No functional change

Release Date: 2015-04-02

• Bug fix for case sensitive methods whitelist for limits decorator

Release Date: 2015-03-20

• Hotfix for dynamic limits with blueprints

• Undocumented feature to pass storage options to underlying storage backend.

Release Date: 2015-03-02

• methods keyword argument for limits decorator to specify specific http methods to apply the rate limit to.

Release Date: 2015-02-16

• Custom error messages.

Release Date: 2015-02-03

• Use Werkzeug TooManyRequests as the exception raised when available.

Release Date: 2015-01-30

• Bug Fix

  • Fix for version comparison when monkey patching Werkzeug

    (Issue 24)

Release Date: 2015-01-09

• Refactor core storage & ratelimiting strategy out into the limits package.

• Remove duplicate hits when stacked rate limits are in use and a rate limit is hit.

Release Date: 2015-01-09

• Refactoring of RedisStorage for extensibility (Issue 18)

• Bug fix: Correct default setting for enabling rate limit headers. (Issue 22)

Release Date: 2014-10-21

• Bug fix

  • Fix for responses slower than rate limiting window. (Issue 17.)

Release Date: 2014-10-01

• Bug fix: in memory storage thread safety

Release Date: 2014-08-31

• Support for manually triggering rate limit check

Release Date: 2014-08-26

• Header name overrides

Release Date: 2014-07-13

• Rate limiting for blueprints

Release Date: 2014-07-11

• per http method rate limit separation (Recipe)

• documentation improvements

Release Date: 2014-06-24

• Shared limits between routes

Release Date: 2014-06-13

• Request Filters

Release Date: 2014-06-13

• Bug fix

  • Werkzeug < 0.9 Compatibility (Issue 6.)

Release Date: 2014-06-12

• Hotfix : use HTTPException instead of abort to play well with other extensions.

Release Date: 2014-06-12

• Allow configuration overrides via extension constructor

Release Date: 2014-06-04

• Improved implementation of moving-window X-RateLimit-Reset value.

Release Date: 2014-05-28

• Rate limiting headers

Release Date: 2014-05-26

• Bug fix

  • Memory leak when using Limiter.storage.MemoryStorage (Issue 4.)

• Improved test coverage

Release Date: 2014-02-20

• Strict version requirement on six

• documentation tweaks

Release Date: 2014-02-19

• improved logging support for multiple handlers

• allow callables to be passed to Limiter.limit decorator to dynamically load rate limit strings.

• add a global kill switch in flask config for all rate limits.

• Bug fixes

  • default key function for rate limit domain wasn't accounting for X-Forwarded-For header.

Release Date: 2014-02-18

• add new decorator to exempt routes from limiting.

• Bug fixes

  • versioneer.py wasn't included in manifest.

  • configuration string for strategy was out of sync with docs.

Release Date: 2014-02-15

• python 2.6 support via counter backport

• source docs.

Release Date: 2014-02-15

• Implemented configurable strategies for rate limiting.

• Bug fixes

  • better locking for in-memory storage

  • multi threading support for memcached storage

Release Date: 2014-02-14

• Bug fixes

  • fix initializing the extension without an app

  • don't rate limit static files

Release Date: 2014-02-13

• first release.