# About FastAPI versions

**FastAPI** is already being used in production in many applications and systems. And the test coverage is kept at 100%. But its development is still moving quickly.

New features are added frequently, bugs are fixed regularly, and the code is still continuously improving.

* You can then modify further the `response` before returning it.

```Python hl_lines="8-9  11  14"
{!../../../docs_src/middleware/tutorial001.py!}
```

!!! tip
    Keep in mind that custom proprietary headers can be added <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers" class="external-link" target="_blank">using the 'X-' prefix</a>.

### Order of tags

The order of each tag metadata dictionary also defines the order shown in the docs UI.

For example, even though `users` would go after `items` in alphabetical order, it is shown before them, because we added their metadata as the first dictionary in the list.

## OpenAPI URL

By default, the OpenAPI schema is served at `/openapi.json`.

But you can configure it with the parameter `openapi_url`.

    ```

=== "Python 3.8+"

    ```Python hl_lines="3  17"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/path_operation_configuration/tutorial001.py!}
    ```

That status code will be used in the response and will be added to the OpenAPI schema.

!!! note "Technical Details"
    You could also use `from starlette import status`.

    And as the `Response` can be used frequently to set headers and cookies, **FastAPI** also provides it at `fastapi.Response`.

## Custom Headers

Keep in mind that custom proprietary headers can be added <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers" class="external-link" target="_blank">using the 'X-' prefix</a>.

```

Here, the `shutdown` event handler function will write a text line `"Application shutdown"` to a file `log.txt`.

!!! info
    In the `open()` function, the `mode="a"` means "append", so, the line will be added after whatever is on that file, without overwriting the previous contents.

!!! tip
    Notice that in this case we are using a standard Python `open()` function that interacts with a file.

In that case, you can disable this feature in **FastAPI**, with the parameter `separate_input_output_schemas=False`.

!!! info
    Support for `separate_input_output_schemas` was added in FastAPI `0.102.0`. 🤓

=== "Python 3.10+"

    ```Python hl_lines="10"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/separate_openapi_schemas/tutorial002_py310.py!}
    ```

=== "Python 3.9+"

    !!! tip
        Prefer to use the `Annotated` version if possible.

    ```Python hl_lines="3"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/path_params_numeric_validations/tutorial001.py!}
    ```

!!! info
    FastAPI added support for `Annotated` (and started recommending it) in version 0.95.0.

    If you have an older version, you would get errors when trying to use `Annotated`.