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@jeking3 jeking3 released this 23 Apr 01:01
· 298 commits to master since this release

Breaking Changes

  • Dropped support for Django 2.2 (gh-968)
  • Dropped support for Django 3.1 (gh-952)
  • Dropped support for Python 3.6, which reached end-of-life on 2021-12-23 (gh-946)

Upgrade Implications

  • Run makemigrations after upgrading to realize the benefit of indexing changes.

Full list of changes

  • Added queryset-based filtering with as_of (gh-397)
  • Added index on history_date column; opt-out with setting SIMPLE_HISTORY_DATE_INDEX (gh-565)
  • RecordModels now support a no_db_index setting, to drop indices in historical models,
    default stays the same (gh-720)
  • Support included_fields for history.diff_against (gh-776)
  • Improve performance of history.diff_against by reducing number of queries to 0 in most cases (gh-776)
  • Fixed prev_record and next_record performance when using excluded_fields (gh-791)
  • Fixed update_change_reason in pk (gh-806)
  • Fixed bug where serializer of djangorestframework crashed if used with OrderingFilter (gh-821)
  • Fixed make format so it works by using tox (gh-859)
  • Fixed bug where latest() is not idempotent for identical history_date records (gh-861)
  • Added excluded_field_kwargs to support custom OneToOneField that have
    additional arguments that don't exist on ForeignKey. (gh-870)
  • Added Czech translations (gh-885)
  • Added ability to break into debugger on unit test failure (gh-890)
  • Added pre-commit for better commit quality (gh-896)
  • Russian translations update (gh-897)
  • Added support for Django 4.0 (gh-898)
  • Added Python 3.10 to test matrix (gh-899)
  • Fix bug with history.diff_against with non-editable fields (gh-923)
  • Added HistoricForeignKey (gh-940)
  • Support change reason formula feature. Change reason formula can be defined by overriding
    get_change_reason_for_object method after subclassing HistoricalRecords (gh-962)