# 1.1.4 Release Notes

Channels 1.1.4 is a bugfix release for the 1.1 series, released on June 15th, 2017.

## Major Changes

None.

## Minor Changes & Bugfixes

- Pending messages correctly handle retries in backlog situations
- Workers in threading mode now respond to ctrl-C and gracefully exit.
- `request.meta['QUERY_STRING']` is now correctly encoded at all times.
- Test client improvements
- `ChannelServerLiveTestCase` added, allows an equivalent of the Django `LiveTestCase`.
- Decorator added to check `Origin` headers (`allowed_hosts_only`)
- New `TEST_CONFIG` setting in `CHANNEL_LAYERS` that allows varying of the channel layer for tests (e.g. using a different Redis install)

## Backwards Incompatible Changes

None.