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Documented steps
Note openai-python v3.0.0 (2026-08-12) is a BREAKING major release: HTTPX2 is now the default HTTP client and httpx is no longer installed automatically.
If you use only the default client (OpenAI() with basic timeout/retries), upgrade is transparent - no HTTPX2 extra or extra install needed.
If you inject a custom HTTPX client/transport or use RESPX-style httpx mocking, it will BREAK: the SDK now expects HTTPX2 client types.
Temporary legacy escape hatch: `pip install openai httpx`, then pass a legacy client cast to Any: OpenAI(http_client=cast(Any, httpx.Client())) (same for AsyncOpenAI/AsyncClient).
Legacy HTTPX support is runtime-only: static type checkers (mypy, Pyright) will reject it, so use cast(Any, ...) or a targeted type-ignore.
A legacy client yields httpx.Request/httpx.Response and HTTPX transport exceptions even if cast_to=httpx2.Response is set.
Watch CA-cert behavior: corporate TLS-inspecting proxies or custom certifi bundles may need CA certificates installed, since HTTPX2 changed certificate verification defaults.
Migrate custom HTTPX integrations to their HTTPX2 equivalents per the official migration guide rather than relying on the runtime-only legacy path long-term.
Known gotchas
openai v3.0.0 is what `pip install openai` gives by default now - agents with no pin can silently jump v2.x -> v3 and break custom httpx transports/proxies.
The runtime-only legacy escape hatch fails static type checking; requires cast(Any, ...) or type-ignore.
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