[Kludex]

Prepare 2.15.1 for httpx2 and httpcore2 with a changelog entry for #1253.

This is a patch release: #1253 stops CPU usage from growing over the lifetime of a reused client on Linux with OpenSSL older than 3.4.

Package versions remain derived from the release tag. No tag or release is created by this PR.

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This PR was developed with the assistance of either Claude or Codex. I've reviewed and verified the changes.

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📝 Code Review	✅ Completed 2026-10-19T20:11:26.662535Z	a070b12	PR opened

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Merging this PR will not alter performance

✅ 17 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 7 skipped benchmarks¹

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_{Comparing prepare-2.15.1 (a070b12) with main (7715bf0)}

Footnotes

1. 7 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩