* fix: implement `close()` method for asgi static files

fixes #1963

* test: implement test...

* docs(user): add a skeleton for the upcoming FAQ entry

* docs(FAQ): add an entry on why a cr...

* docs(user): add a FAQ item skeleton about decoding raw URI (WiP)

* docs(FAQ): expand the FA...

* test(WSGI servers): add a failing test for byterange support in the TDD fashion

* feat(stat...

* chore: resurrect misc forgotten touchoups

* chore(faq.rst): remove trailing whitespace

* chore: add CI support for CPython 3.10 tooling, wheels

* refactor: work around `asyncio.get...

* Add a faq entry based on @vytas7 answer at
https://github.com/falconry/falcon/discussions/198...

* docs: fix and improve miscellaneous documentation issues

* docs: more docs polish

* docs...

* chore: prepare a changelog template for 3.1.0

* chore: actually add the new template for 3....

* feat(routing): Support range requests for static routes

While we're at it, tighten the rule...

This cleans up some deprecation warnings that look like

DeprecationWarning: non-integer ar...

* refactor: support `Path` arg in `App.add_static_route()`

* chore(static.py): update the TOD...

* docs: update faq.rst missing query params section

To reflect the current `keep_blank_qs_val...

* chore(CI): add CPython 3.10 beta gates

* chore(CI): test disabling incompatible testtools o...

* docs: correct trailing slash docs for change of default in v2.0

Fix docs which showed that ...

* chore: re-enable api_helpers deprecations

* style: make pep8 happy

This is very similar to Response.downloadable_as, but uses an inline
disposition type to displa...

* chore(Actions): add a dedicated CPython 3.5.2 gate

* chore(Actions): upgrade from pip==8.1....

* docs(hooks): fix a minor inconsistency in `falcon.after` docs

* chore(smoke-test): work aro...

* style: set flake8 max length to 88

* style: reformat missing file

* test: constrain aioredis to <2 in example requirements.

* docs(asgilook): pin "aioredis < 2...

* chore(CI): check vendored mimeparse (as opposed to any external modules)

* chore: rerun the...

* Add clarification to jsonhandler docs

* Remove stdlib json part when referencing partial

...

* style: run black

* style: fix multiline strings

* style: improve readability of examples...

* chore(setup): add pep517 support and cython autocompile if possible

* chore(setup): extract...

* fix(falcon.asgi): assume latin-1 encoding for incoming headers

* fix(ASGI): assume ISO-8859...

* docs(changelog): prepare Towncrier template for 3.0.1

* chore(changelog): try to adjust to ...

* doc: fix broken image links

* doc(README): fix img links for sponsors

* docs(README.rst): add Federico to the maintainers list

* docs(changelogs): add flokX to 3.0...

* doc(changelogs): add 3.0 summary

Closes #1835

* doc(changes): add missing "team" to 3.0 ...

(Cause he's been awesome.)

Partially implements #1835

Closes #1841

* doc(testing): fix reference to wrong method (#1852)

* fix(uri): change encode to escape per...

* tests: make WSGI server tests more resilient

* tests(test_wsgi_servers.py): clean up and cl...

Co-authored-by: Kurt Griffiths <[email protected]>

* fix(deprecation): do not rely on interpret-specific stack frame introspection

* tests: add ...

* dry create wheel workflow using a better action to upload wheels to release

* chore: verify...

* Added suffixed responders in docs and example in add_route doc_str

* docs(routing): Updated...

* perf(ASGI): WiP: tune ASGI request-response cycle performance
* perf(asgi.Request): hack away...

* chore: move flake8 configuration to setup.cfg, add per file ingores

* refactor: organize im...

* test(E2E): sketch an E2E skeleton

* test(E2E): improve static files and their serving (WiP)...

Avoid decoding of header names when possible, and delay value decoding until
it is necessary.
...

* doc: update sponsors

* doc(BACKERS.md): add Konstantinos and tweak headings

* doc(asgi): edit ASGI tutorial and related docs for clarity and accuracy

* doc(asgi-tutorial...

* docs(install): clarify uvicorn installation options

* docs(install,tutorial): improve WSGI ...

* chore: pin tox even for emulated s390x/arm64v8 tests

* chore: restore the default PR CI set...

* perf(asgi): Optimize media (de)serialization

This patch optimizes the media (de)serializati...

See also: https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1777

* doc(media): clarify the use of default media handlers

* doc(media): tweak wording and add m...

* tests(env): set the required Falcon envvars in conftest.py

* test(conftest.py): afford cust...

* perf(ASGI): cythonize ASGI application code

* perf(ASGI): cythonized more modules (followin...

* fix(parse_query_string): only the first set of values for the same key are are split

* fix(...

* doc(request): clarify use of csv option

* doc(get_param_as_list): correct note regarding re...

* feat(testing): set default User-Agent string for simulated requests

* test: uncomment debug...

* feat(App): validate that sink methods follow the app's concurrency model (when possible)

* ...

* fix(App): cement the fact that body serialization error handling has been fixed

* docs(news...

* docs(tutorial): start porting the ASGI tutorial (work-in-progress)

* chore(tools): fix a PE...

* Initial fixes and formatting using autopep8

* revert fixes and updated master with upstream...

* fear(media): let media handlers deserialize an empty media.

* chore(pep8): fix style errors...

* refactor(request_helpers): Moved BoundedStream to stream module (#1583).

* refactor(request...

* refactor(Response): deprecate Response.body

rename Response.body with Response.text.
Respo...

* perf(media): optimize result type check for json deserialize

This patch optimizes type chec...

* chore: deprecate importing json from falcon.util

* feat: use media handlers when loading qu...

* test(test_sync): exaggerate race conditions to make tests more deterministics

* test(test_s...