8 curated breaking changes across major versions of google-cloud-storage. Use this as a migration checklist before bumping dependencies.
The default checksum strategy for uploads has changed from None to "auto" ([#1383](https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/issues/1383))
Media operations now use the same retry backoff, timeout and custom predicate system as non-media operations, which may slightly impact default retry behavior ([#1385](https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/issues/1385))
The default checksum strategy for downloads has changed from "md5" to "auto" ([#1383](https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/issues/1383))
Retries are now enabled by default for uploads, blob deletes and blob metadata updates ([#1400](https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/issues/1400))
Get this data programmatically \u2014 free, no authentication.
curl https://depscope.dev/api/breaking/pypi/google-cloud-storageBlob.download_to_filename() now deletes the empty destination file on a 404 ([#1394](https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/pull/1394))
Deprecated positional argument "num_retries" has been removed ([#1377](https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/issues/1377))
Deprecated argument "text_mode" has been removed ([#1379](https://github.com/googleapis/python-storage/issues/1379))
Remove Python 2 support (#657)