Funding#

In total urllib3 received $26,615 USD in financial support
and distributed $18,622 USD to maintainers and community contributors.
We’re thankful for the financial support we receive from
our sponsors. Without funding our team wouldn’t be able to
compensate maintainers to continuously lead, upkeep, and secure urllib3.
Without funding, we couldn’t reward contributions from our team and the community and
larger project like urllib3 v2.0 would either never be finished or take even longer than the year+ it’s taken already to ship.
Let’s dive into our sources of financial support in 2022 and how the money was spent:

Open Collective#

• $12,900 from the Spotify 2022 FOSS Fund
• $1,433 from contributions via GitHub Sponsors
• $160 from contributions via Open Collective

We disbursed ~$6,500 USD from our Open Collective to maintainers and community contributors for their work on the project.
We go into 2023 with $18,827 in our Open Collective balance. In the new year our team will continue
using Open Collective funds for “issue bounties”
to attract new contributors and reward existing ones for their hard work. We’ll also hopefully have
time available for some contributors to work on larger initiatives as has been done in 2022.

Direct payments and awards#

We also had financial contributions that didn’t go into our Open Collective.
These are contributions that either dispersed directly from Tidelift to maintainers
of the project or from financial awards that were given to individuals for maintaining urllib3.

• $6,152 from Tidelift, split between Seth Larson and Quentin Pradet
• $5,000 from Tidelift to Seth Larson
• $550 from GitHub Maintainer Month to Seth Larson via GitHub Sponsors
• $420 from Indeed to Seth Larson via GitHub Sponsors

2.0.0 alpha is now available!#

The first pre-release of urllib3 v2.0.0 was made available in November 2022. Massive thank-you to the many contributors who helped achieve this milestone over multiple years. The final push in November required paid full-time
work by maintainers Quentin Pradet and Seth Larson. Both of them documented their experiences.
The release includes the following highlighted changes:

• Added a complete set o