Version 0.18.0

[Kludex]

Checklist

• Additional headers for WS accept message. #1361
• Default WebSocket accept message headers to an empty list #1422
• Fix exception_handlers type hints #1360 Adjust type of exception_handlers to allow async callable #1423
• Implement EmptyResponse class #1270 Don't set headers for responses with 1xx, 204 and 304 status code #1397
• Fix md5_hexdigest wrapper on FIPS enabled systems #1410
• Allow env_options in `Jinja2Templates #1401
• Add reason to WebSocket closure #1417
• Allow Session scoped cookies. #1387

I've added many items above because they are supposedly very short i.e. it's just to make a decision on them.

If any other member wants to add any item on the checklist, feel free to do so.

EDIT: I've removed the checklist items, because it's taking too long to release.

[aminalaee]

It would be great if we could include these too:
#1385
#1400

[Kludex]

I've removed some of my requisites for this release to speed up things.

[Kludex]

Draft created: /~https://github.com/encode/starlette/releases
Changes for this release: 0.17.1...master

[aminalaee]

I've updated the Checklist, looks good, maybe we can update the changelog and release it.

[aminalaee]

Awesome. Just a reminder to update the release date 🎉

[adriangb]

Great job and thank you all!