# 0.18.2

## Bugfixes

* A bug was reported and fixed, whereby a persistent connection with a `:total_timeout` set was triggering the timeout and leaving the process looping indefinitely.


## Chore

The quirk of using the `:persistent` plugin with `:total_timeout` has been documented: https://gitlab.com/os85/httpx/-/wikis/Timeouts#total_timeout.