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Release Notes
Release Early, Release Often
— Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Versioning
Minor version numbers (0.0.x) are used for changes that are API compatible. You should be able to upgrade between minor point releases without any other code changes.
Medium version numbers (0.x.0) may include API changes, in line with the deprecation policy. You should read the release notes carefully before upgrading between medium point releases.
Major version numbers (x.0.0) are reserved for substantial project milestones.
Deprecation policy
REST framework releases follow a formal deprecation policy, which is in line with Django's deprecation policy.
The timeline for deprecation of a feature present in version 1.0 would work as follows:
-
Version 1.1 would remain fully backwards compatible with 1.0, but would raise
PendingDeprecationWarning
warnings if you use the feature that are due to be deprecated. These warnings are silent by default, but can be explicitly enabled when you're ready to start migrating any required changes. For example if you start running your tests usingpython -Wd manage.py test
, you'll be warned of any API changes you need to make. -
Version 1.2 would escalate these warnings to
DeprecationWarning
, which is loud by default. -
Version 1.3 would remove the deprecated bits of API entirely.
Note that in line with Django's policy, any parts of the framework not mentioned in the documentation should generally be considered private API, and may be subject to change.
Upgrading
To upgrade Django REST framework to the latest version, use pip:
pip install -U djangorestframework
You can determine your currently installed version using pip freeze
:
pip freeze | grep djangorestframework
2.4.x series
2.4.4
Date: 3rd November 2014.
- Security fix: Escape URLs when replacing
format=
query parameter, as used in dropdown onGET
button in browsable API to allow explicit selection of JSON vs HTML output. - Maintain ordering of URLs in API root view for
DefaultRouter
. - Fix
follow=True
inAPIRequestFactory
- Resolve issue with invalid
read_only=True
,required=True
fields being automatically generated byModelSerializer
in some cases. - Resolve issue with
OPTIONS
requests returning incorrect information for views usingget_serializer_class
to dynamically determine serializer based on request method.
2.4.3
Date: 19th September 2014.
- Support translatable view docstrings being displayed in the browsable API.
- Support encoded
filename*
in raw file uploads withFileUploadParser
. - Allow routers to support viewsets that don't include any list routes or that don't include any detail routes.
- Don't render an empty login control in browsable API if
login
view is not included. - CSRF exemption performed in
.as_view()
to prevent accidental omission if overriding.dispatch()
. - Login on browsable API now displays validation errors.
- Bugfix: Fix migration in
authtoken
application. - Bugfix: Allow selection of integer keys in nested choices.
- Bugfix: Return
None
instead of'None'
inCharField
withallow_none=True
. - Bugfix: Ensure custom model fields map to equivelent serializer fields more reliably.
- Bugfix:
DjangoFilterBackend
no longer quietly changes queryset ordering.
2.4.2
Date: 3rd September 2014.
- Bugfix: Fix broken pagination for 2.4.x series.
2.4.1
Date: 1st September 2014.
- Bugfix: Fix broken login template for browsable API.
2.4.0
Date: 29th August 2014.
Django version requirements: The lowest supported version of Django is now 1.4.2.
South version requirements: This note applies to any users using the optional authtoken
application, which includes an associated database migration. You must now either upgrade your south
package to version 1.0, or instead use the built-in migration support available with Django 1.7.
- Added compatibility with Django 1.7's database migration support.
- New test runner, using
py.test
. - Deprecated
.model
view attribute in favor of explicit.queryset
and.serializer_class
attributes. TheDEFAULT_MODEL_SERIALIZER_CLASS
setting is also deprecated. @detail_route
and@list_route
decorators replace@action
and@link
.- Support customizable view name and description functions, using the
VIEW_NAME_FUNCTION
andVIEW_DESCRIPTION_FUNCTION
settings. - Added
NUM_PROXIES
setting for smarter client IP identification. - Added
MAX_PAGINATE_BY
setting andmax_paginate_by
generic view attribute. - Added
Retry-After
header to throttled responses, as per RFC 6585. This should now be used in preference to the customX-Trottle-Wait-Seconds
header which will be fully deprecated in 3.0. - Added
cache
attribute to throttles to allow overriding of default cache. - Added
lookup_value_regex
attribute to routers, to allow the URL argument matching to be constrainted by the user. - Added
allow_none
option toCharField
. - Support Django's standard
status_code
class attribute on responses. - More intuitive behavior on the test client, as
client.logout()
now also removes any credentials that have been set. - Bugfix:
?page_size=0
query parameter now falls back to default page size for view, instead of always turning pagination off. - Bugfix: Always uppercase
X-Http-Method-Override
methods. - Bugfix: Copy
filter_backends
list before returning it, in order to prevent view code from mutating the class attribute itself. - Bugfix: Set the
.action
attribute on viewsets when introspected byOPTIONS
for testing permissions on the view. - Bugfix: Ensure
ValueError
raised during deserialization results in a error list rather than a single error. This is now consistent with other validation errors. - Bugfix: Fix
cache_format
typo on throttle classes, was"throtte_%(scope)s_%(ident)s"
. Note that this will invalidate existing throttle caches.
2.3.x series
2.3.14
Date: 12th June 2014
- Security fix: Escape request path when it is include as part of the login and logout links in the browsable API.
help_text
andverbose_name
automatically set for related fields onModelSerializer
.- Fix nested serializers linked through a backward foreign key relation.
- Fix bad links for the
BrowsableAPIRenderer
withYAMLRenderer
. - Add
UnicodeYAMLRenderer
that extendsYAMLRenderer
with unicode. - Fix
parse_header
argument convertion. - Fix mediatype detection under Python 3.
- Web browsable API now offers blank option on dropdown when the field is not required.
APIException
representation improved for logging purposes.- Allow source="*" within nested serializers.
- Better support for custom oauth2 provider backends.
- Fix field validation if it's optional and has no value.
- Add
SEARCH_PARAM
andORDERING_PARAM
. - Fix
APIRequestFactory
to support arguments within the url string for GET. - Allow three transport modes for access tokens when accessing a protected resource.
- Fix
QueryDict
encoding on request objects. - Ensure throttle keys do not contain spaces, as those are invalid if using
memcached
. - Support
blank_display_value
onChoiceField
.
2.3.13
Date: 6th March 2014
- Django 1.7 Support.
- Fix
default
argument when used with serializer relation fields. - Display the media type of the content that is being displayed in the browsable API, rather than 'text/html'.
- Bugfix for
urlize
template failure when URL regex is matched, but value does noturlparse
. - Use
urandom
for token generation. - Only use
Vary: Accept
when more than one renderer exists.
2.3.12
Date: 15th January 2014
- Security fix:
OrderingField
now only allows ordering on readable serializer fields, or on fields explicitly specified usingordering_fields
. This prevents users being able to order by fields that are not visible in the API, and exploiting the ordering of sensitive data such as password hashes. - Bugfix:
write_only = True
fields now display in the browsable API.
2.3.11
Date: 14th January 2014
- Added
write_only
serializer field argument. - Added
write_only_fields
option toModelSerializer
classes. - JSON renderer now deals with objects that implement a dict-like interface.
- Fix compatiblity with newer versions of
django-oauth-plus
. - Bugfix: Refine behavior that calls model manager
all()
across nested serializer relationships, preventing erronous behavior with some non-ORM objects, and preventing unnecessary queryset re-evaluations. - Bugfix: Allow defaults on BooleanFields to be properly honored when values are not supplied.
- Bugfix: Prevent double-escaping of non-latin1 URL query params when appending
format=json
params.
2.3.10
Date: 6th December 2013
- Add in choices information for ChoiceFields in response to
OPTIONS
requests. - Added
pre_delete()
andpost_delete()
method hooks. - Added status code category helper functions.
- Bugfix: Partial updates which erronously set a related field to
None
now correctly fail validation instead of raising an exception. - Bugfix: Responses without any content no longer include an HTTP
'Content-Type'
header. - Bugfix: Correctly handle validation errors in PUT-as-create case, responding with 400.
2.3.9
Date: 15th November 2013
- Fix Django 1.6 exception API compatibility issue caused by
ValidationError
. - Include errors in HTML forms in browsable API.
- Added JSON renderer support for numpy scalars.
- Added
transform_<fieldname>
hooks on serializers for easily modifying field output. - Added
get_context
hook inBrowsableAPIRenderer
. - Allow serializers to be passed
files
but nodata
. HTMLFormRenderer
now renders serializers directly to HTML without needing to create an intermediate form object.- Added
get_filter_backends
hook. - Added queryset aggregates to allowed fields in
OrderingFilter
. - Bugfix: Fix decimal suppoprt with
YAMLRenderer
. - Bugfix: Fix submission of unicode in browsable API through raw data form.
2.3.8
Date: 11th September 2013
- Added
DjangoObjectPermissions
, andDjangoObjectPermissionsFilter
. - Support customizable exception handling, using the
EXCEPTION_HANDLER
setting. - Support customizable view name and description functions, using the
VIEW_NAME_FUNCTION
andVIEW_DESCRIPTION_FUNCTION
settings. - Added
MAX_PAGINATE_BY
setting andmax_paginate_by
generic view attribute. - Added
cache
attribute to throttles to allow overriding of default cache. - 'Raw data' tab in browsable API now contains pre-populated data.
- 'Raw data' and 'HTML form' tab preference in browsable API now saved between page views.
- Bugfix:
required=True
argument fixed for boolean serializer fields. - Bugfix:
client.force_authenticate(None)
should also clear session info if it exists. - Bugfix: Client sending empty string instead of file now clears
FileField
. - Bugfix: Empty values on ChoiceFields with
required=False
now consistently returnNone
. - Bugfix: Clients setting
page_size=0
now simply returns the default page size, instead of disabling pagination. [*]
[*] Note that the change in page_size=0
behaviour fixes what is considered to be a bug in how clients can effect the pagination size. However if you were relying on this behavior you will need to add the following mixin to your list views in order to preserve the existing behavior.
class DisablePaginationMixin(object):
def get_paginate_by(self, queryset=None):
if self.request.QUERY_PARAMS[self.paginate_by_param] == '0':
return None
return super(DisablePaginationMixin, self).get_paginate_by(queryset)
2.3.7
Date: 16th August 2013
- Added
APITestClient
,APIRequestFactory
andAPITestCase
etc... - Refactor
SessionAuthentication
to allow esier override for CSRF exemption. - Remove 'Hold down "Control" message from help_text' widget messaging when not appropriate.
- Added admin configuration for auth tokens.
- Bugfix:
AnonRateThrottle
fixed to not throttle authenticated users. - Bugfix: Don't set
X-Throttle-Wait-Seconds
when throttle does not havewait
value. - Bugfix: Fixed
PATCH
button title in browsable API. - Bugfix: Fix issue with OAuth2 provider naive datetimes.
2.3.6
Date: 27th June 2013
- Added
trailing_slash
option to routers. - Include support for
HttpStreamingResponse
. - Support wider range of default serializer validation when used with custom model fields.
- UTF-8 Support for browsable API descriptions.
- OAuth2 provider uses timezone aware datetimes when supported.
- Bugfix: Return error correctly when OAuth non-existent consumer occurs.
- Bugfix: Allow
FileUploadParser
to correctly filename if provided as URL kwarg. - Bugfix: Fix
ScopedRateThrottle
.
2.3.5
Date: 3rd June 2013
- Added
get_url
hook toHyperlinkedIdentityField
. - Serializer field
default
argument may be a callable. @action
decorator now accepts amethods
argument.- Bugfix:
request.user
should be still be accessible in renderer context if authentication fails. - Bugfix: The
lookup_field
option onHyperlinkedIdentityField
should apply by default to the url field on the serializer. - Bugfix:
HyperlinkedIdentityField
should continue to supportpk_url_kwarg
,slug_url_kwarg
,slug_field
, in a pending deprecation state. - Bugfix: Ensure we always return 404 instead of 500 if a lookup field cannot be converted to the correct lookup type. (Eg non-numeric
AutoInteger
pk lookup)
2.3.4
Date: 24th May 2013
- Serializer fields now support
label
andhelp_text
. - Added
UnicodeJSONRenderer
. OPTIONS
requests now return metadata about fields forPOST
andPUT
requests.- Bugfix:
charset
now properly included inContent-Type
of responses. - Bugfix: Blank choice now added in browsable API on nullable relationships.
- Bugfix: Many to many relationships with
through
tables are now read-only. - Bugfix: Serializer fields now respect model field args such as
max_length
. - Bugfix: SlugField now performs slug validation.
- Bugfix: Lazy-translatable strings now properly serialized.
- Bugfix: Browsable API now supports bootswatch styles properly.
- Bugfix: HyperlinkedIdentityField now uses
lookup_field
kwarg.
Note: Responses now correctly include an appropriate charset on the Content-Type
header. For example: application/json; charset=utf-8
. If you have tests that check the content type of responses, you may need to update these accordingly.
2.3.3
Date: 16th May 2013
- Added SearchFilter
- Added OrderingFilter
- Added GenericViewSet
- Bugfix: Multiple
@action
and@link
methods now allowed on viewsets. - Bugfix: Fix API Root view issue with DjangoModelPermissions
2.3.2
Date: 8th May 2013
- Bugfix: Fix
TIME_FORMAT
,DATETIME_FORMAT
andDATE_FORMAT
settings. - Bugfix: Fix
DjangoFilterBackend
issue, failing when used on view with queryset attribute.
2.3.1
Date: 7th May 2013
- Bugfix: Fix breadcrumb rendering issue.
2.3.0
Date: 7th May 2013
- ViewSets and Routers.
- ModelSerializers support reverse relations in 'fields' option.
- HyperLinkedModelSerializers support 'id' field in 'fields' option.
- Cleaner generic views.
- Support for multiple filter classes.
- FileUploadParser support for raw file uploads.
- DecimalField support.
- Made Login template easier to restyle.
- Bugfix: Fix issue with depth>1 on ModelSerializer.
Note: See the 2.3 announcement for full details.
2.2.x series
2.2.7
Date: 17th April 2013
- Loud failure when view does not return a
Response
orHttpResponse
. - Bugfix: Fix for Django 1.3 compatibility.
- Bugfix: Allow overridden
get_object()
to work correctly.
2.2.6
Date: 4th April 2013
- OAuth2 authentication no longer requires unnecessary URL parameters in addition to the token.
- URL hyperlinking in browsable API now handles more cases correctly.
- Long HTTP headers in browsable API are broken in multiple lines when possible.
- Bugfix: Fix regression with DjangoFilterBackend not worthing correctly with single object views.
- Bugfix: OAuth should fail hard when invalid token used.
- Bugfix: Fix serializer potentially returning
None
object for models that define__bool__
or__len__
.
2.2.5
Date: 26th March 2013
- Serializer support for bulk create and bulk update operations.
- Regression fix: Date and time fields return date/time objects by default. Fixes regressions caused by 2.2.2. See #743 for more details.
- Bugfix: Fix 500 error is OAuth not attempted with OAuthAuthentication class installed.
Serializer.save()
now supports arbitrary keyword args which are passed through to the object.save()
method. Mixins useforce_insert
andforce_update
where appropriate, resulting in one less database query.
2.2.4
Date: 13th March 2013
- OAuth 2 support.
- OAuth 1.0a support.
- Support X-HTTP-Method-Override header.
- Filtering backends are now applied to the querysets for object lookups as well as lists. (Eg you can use a filtering backend to control which objects should 404)
- Deal with error data nicely when deserializing lists of objects.
- Extra override hook to configure
DjangoModelPermissions
for unauthenticated users. - Bugfix: Fix regression which caused extra database query on paginated list views.
- Bugfix: Fix pk relationship bug for some types of 1-to-1 relations.
- Bugfix: Workaround for Django bug causing case where
Authtoken
could be registered for cascade delete fromUser
even if not installed.
2.2.3
Date: 7th March 2013
- Bugfix: Fix None values for for
DateField
,DateTimeField
andTimeField
.
2.2.2
Date: 6th March 2013
- Support for custom input and output formats for
DateField
,DateTimeField
andTimeField
. - Cleanup: Request authentication is no longer lazily evaluated, instead authentication is always run, which results in more consistent, obvious behavior. Eg. Supplying bad auth credentials will now always return an error response, even if no permissions are set on the view.
- Bugfix for serializer data being uncacheable with pickle protocol 0.
- Bugfixes for model field validation edge-cases.
- Bugfix for authtoken migration while using a custom user model and south.
2.2.1
Date: 22nd Feb 2013
- Security fix: Use
defusedxml
package to address XML parsing vulnerabilities. - Raw data tab added to browsable API. (Eg. Allow for JSON input.)
- Added TimeField.
- Serializer fields can be mapped to any method that takes no args, or only takes kwargs which have defaults.
- Unicode support for view names/descriptions in browsable API.
- Bugfix: request.DATA should return an empty
QueryDict
with no data, notNone
. - Bugfix: Remove unneeded field validation, which caused extra queries.
Security note: Following the disclosure of security vulnerabilities in Python's XML parsing libraries, use of the XMLParser
class now requires the defusedxml
package to be installed.
The security vulnerabilities only affect APIs which use the XMLParser
class, by enabling it in any views, or by having it set in the DEFAULT_PARSER_CLASSES
setting. Note that the XMLParser
class is not enabled by default, so this change should affect a minority of users.
2.2.0
Date: 13th Feb 2013
- Python 3 support.
- Added a
post_save()
hook to the generic views. - Allow serializers to handle dicts as well as objects.
- Deprecate
ManyRelatedField()
syntax in favor ofRelatedField(many=True)
- Deprecate
null=True
on relations in favor ofrequired=False
. - Deprecate
blank=True
on CharFields, just userequired=False
. - Deprecate optional
obj
argument in permissions checks in favor ofhas_object_permission
. - Deprecate implicit hyperlinked relations behavior.
- Bugfix: Fix broken DjangoModelPermissions.
- Bugfix: Allow serializer output to be cached.
- Bugfix: Fix styling on browsable API login.
- Bugfix: Fix issue with deserializing empty to-many relations.
- Bugfix: Ensure model field validation is still applied for ModelSerializer subclasses with an custom
.restore_object()
method.
Note: See the 2.2 announcement for full details.
2.1.x series
2.1.17
Date: 26th Jan 2013
- Support proper 401 Unauthorized responses where appropriate, instead of always using 403 Forbidden.
- Support json encoding of timedelta objects.
format_suffix_patterns()
now supportsinclude
style URL patterns.- Bugfix: Fix issues with custom pagination serializers.
- Bugfix: Nested serializers now accept
source='*'
argument. - Bugfix: Return proper validation errors when incorrect types supplied for relational fields.
- Bugfix: Support nullable FKs with
SlugRelatedField
. - Bugfix: Don't call custom validation methods if the field has an error.
Note: If the primary authentication class is TokenAuthentication
or BasicAuthentication
, a view will now correctly return 401 responses to unauthenticated access, with an appropriate WWW-Authenticate
header, instead of 403 responses.
2.1.16
Date: 14th Jan 2013
- Deprecate
django.utils.simplejson
in favor of Python 2.6's built-in json module. - Bugfix:
auto_now
,auto_now_add
and othereditable=False
fields now default to read-only. - Bugfix: PK fields now only default to read-only if they are an AutoField or if
editable=False
. - Bugfix: Validation errors instead of exceptions when serializers receive incorrect types.
- Bugfix: Validation errors instead of exceptions when related fields receive incorrect types.
- Bugfix: Handle ObjectDoesNotExist exception when serializing null reverse one-to-one
Note: Prior to 2.1.16, The Decimals would render in JSON using floating point if simplejson
was installed, but otherwise render using string notation. Now that use of simplejson
has been deprecated, Decimals will consistently render using string notation. See ticket 582 for more details.
2.1.15
Date: 3rd Jan 2013
- Added
PATCH
support. - Added
RetrieveUpdateAPIView
. - Remove unused internal
save_m2m
flag onModelSerializer.save()
. - Tweak behavior of hyperlinked fields with an explicit format suffix.
- Relation changes are now persisted in
.save()
instead of in.restore_object()
. - Bugfix: Fix issue with FileField raising exception instead of validation error when files=None.
- Bugfix: Partial updates should not set default values if field is not included.
2.1.14
Date: 31st Dec 2012
- Bugfix: ModelSerializers now include reverse FK fields on creation.
- Bugfix: Model fields with
blank=True
are nowrequired=False
by default. - Bugfix: Nested serializers now support nullable relationships.
Note: From 2.1.14 onwards, relational fields move out of the fields.py
module and into the new relations.py
module, in order to separate them from regular data type fields, such as CharField
and IntegerField
.
This change will not affect user code, so long as it's following the recommended import style of from rest_framework import serializers
and referring to fields using the style serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField
.
2.1.13
Date: 28th Dec 2012
- Support configurable
STATICFILES_STORAGE
storage. - Bugfix: Related fields now respect the required flag, and may be required=False.
2.1.12
Date: 21st Dec 2012
- Bugfix: Fix bug that could occur using ChoiceField.
- Bugfix: Fix exception in browsable API on DELETE.
- Bugfix: Fix issue where pk was was being set to a string if set by URL kwarg.
2.1.11
Date: 17th Dec 2012
- Bugfix: Fix issue with M2M fields in browsable API.
2.1.10
Date: 17th Dec 2012
- Bugfix: Ensure read-only fields don't have model validation applied.
- Bugfix: Fix hyperlinked fields in paginated results.
2.1.9
Date: 11th Dec 2012
- Bugfix: Fix broken nested serialization.
- Bugfix: Fix
Meta.fields
only working as tuple not as list. - Bugfix: Edge case if unnecessarily specifying
required=False
on read only field.
2.1.8
Date: 8th Dec 2012
- Fix for creating nullable Foreign Keys with
''
as well asNone
. - Added
null=<bool>
related field option.
2.1.7
Date: 7th Dec 2012
- Serializers now properly support nullable Foreign Keys.
- Serializer validation now includes model field validation, such as uniqueness constraints.
- Support 'true' and 'false' string values for BooleanField.
- Added pickle support for serialized data.
- Support
source='dotted.notation'
style for nested serializers. - Make
Request.user
settable. - Bugfix: Fix
RegexField
to work withBrowsableAPIRenderer
.
2.1.6
Date: 23rd Nov 2012
- Bugfix: Unfix DjangoModelPermissions. (I am a doofus.)
2.1.5
Date: 23rd Nov 2012
- Bugfix: Fix DjangoModelPermissions.
2.1.4
Date: 22nd Nov 2012
- Support for partial updates with serializers.
- Added
RegexField
. - Added
SerializerMethodField
. - Serializer performance improvements.
- Added
obtain_token_view
to get tokens when usingTokenAuthentication
. - Bugfix: Django 1.5 configurable user support for
TokenAuthentication
.
2.1.3
Date: 16th Nov 2012
- Added
FileField
andImageField
. For use withMultiPartParser
. - Added
URLField
andSlugField
. - Support for
read_only_fields
onModelSerializer
classes. - Support for clients overriding the pagination page sizes. Use the
PAGINATE_BY_PARAM
setting or set thepaginate_by_param
attribute on a generic view. - 201 Responses now return a 'Location' header.
- Bugfix: Serializer fields now respect
max_length
.
2.1.2
Date: 9th Nov 2012
- Filtering support.
- Bugfix: Support creation of objects with reverse M2M relations.
2.1.1
Date: 7th Nov 2012
- Support use of HTML exception templates. Eg.
403.html
- Hyperlinked fields take optional
slug_field
,slug_url_kwarg
andpk_url_kwarg
arguments. - Bugfix: Deal with optional trailing slashes properly when generating breadcrumbs.
- Bugfix: Make textareas same width as other fields in browsable API.
- Private API change:
.get_serializer
now uses sameinstance
anddata
ordering as serializer initialization.
2.1.0
Date: 5th Nov 2012
- Serializer
instance
anddata
keyword args have their position swapped. queryset
argument is now optional on writable model fields.- Hyperlinked related fields optionally take
slug_field
andslug_url_kwarg
arguments. - Support Django's cache framework.
- Minor field improvements. (Don't stringify dicts, more robust many-pk fields.)
- Bugfix: Support choice field in Browsable API.
- Bugfix: Related fields with
read_only=True
do not require aqueryset
argument.
API-incompatible changes: Please read this thread regarding the instance
and data
keyword args before updating to 2.1.0.
2.0.x series
2.0.2
Date: 2nd Nov 2012
- Fix issues with pk related fields in the browsable API.
2.0.1
Date: 1st Nov 2012
- Add support for relational fields in the browsable API.
- Added SlugRelatedField and ManySlugRelatedField.
- If PUT creates an instance return '201 Created', instead of '200 OK'.
2.0.0
Date: 30th Oct 2012
- Fix all of the things. (Well, almost.)
- For more information please see the 2.0 announcement.
For older release notes, please see the GitHub repo.