I read that at the time, but that was 7 years ago. Requests has been pretty much backward compatible for that whole time. They could still have active developm

I read that at the time, but that was 7 years ago. Requests has been pretty much backward compatible for that whole time. They could still have active developments available in pypi for people who need the newer features, but python has been dropping minor releases about once a year, that should be plenty fast for new features in requests.