Remove manual release call in middleware (#10952)

Author: bdraco

CHANGES/10952.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9732.feature.rst

aiohttp/client_middleware_digest_auth.py

@@ -408,8 +408,6 @@ async def __call__(
             # Check if we need to authenticate
             if not self._authenticate(response):
                 break
-            elif retry_count < 1:
-                response.release()  # Release the response to enable connection reuse on retry
 
         # At this point, response is guaranteed to be defined
         assert response is not None

tests/test_client_middleware.py

@@ -891,7 +891,6 @@ async def __call__(
                 response = await handler(request)
                 if retry_count == 0:
                     retry_count += 1
-                    response.release()  # Release the response to enable connection reuse
                     continue
                 return response