- Added support for injecting HTTPConnection into Request and WebSocket handlers and exported WebSocketDisconnect with a new docs example.
- Breaking changes: now requires Pydantic >=1.0.0 and drops support for Pydantic 0.32.2; updated FastAPI/APIRouter decorators and jsonable_encoder defaults (removed skip_defaults, changed exclude_unset default to None), and removed the und...
- Documentation improvements (added TestDriven.io course link, fixed empty log message, gender‑neutral wording) and internal updates (Flake8 linting, disabled broken Gitter bot).
0.61.0
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