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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
3.1.x series
3.1.2
Date: 13rd May 2015.
DateField.to_representation
can handle str and empty values. (#2656, #2687, #2869)- Use default reason phrases from HTTP standard. (#2764, #2763)
- Raise error when
ModelSerializer
used with abstract model. (#2757, #2630) - Handle reversal of non-API view_name in
HyperLinkedRelatedField
(#2724, #2711) - Dont require pk strictly for related fields. (#2745, #2754)
- Metadata detects null boolean field type. (#2762)
- Proper handling of depth in nested serializers. (#2798)
- Display viewset without paginator. (#2807)
- Don't check for deprecated
.model
attribute in permissions (#2818) - Restrict integer field to integers and strings. (#2835, #2836)
- Improve
IntegerField
to use compiled decimal regex. (#2853) - Prevent empty
queryset
to raise AssertionError. (#2862) DjangoModelPermissions
rely onget_queryset
. (#2863)- Check
AcceptHeaderVersioning
with content negotiation in place. (#2868) - Allow
DjangoObjectPermissions
to use views that defineget_queryset
. (#2905)
3.1.1
Date: 23rd March 2015.
- Security fix: Escape tab switching cookie name in browsable API.
- Display input forms in browsable API if
serializer_class
is used, even whenget_serializer
method does not exist on the view. (#2743) - Use a password input for the AuthTokenSerializer. (#2741)
- Fix missing anchor closing tag after next button. (#2691)
- Fix
lookup_url_kwarg
handling in viewsets. (#2685, #2591) - Fix problem with importing
rest_framework.views
inapps.py
(#2678) - LimitOffsetPagination raises
TypeError
if PAGE_SIZE not set (#2667, #2700) - German translation for
min_value
field error message referencesmax_value
. (#2645) - Remove
MergeDict
. (#2640) - Support serializing unsaved models with related fields. (#2637, #2641)
- Allow blank/null on radio.html choices. (#2631)
3.1.0
Date: 5th March 2015.
For full details see the 3.1 release announcement.
3.0.x series
3.0.5
Date: 10th February 2015.
- Fix a bug where
_closable_objects
breaks pickling. (#1850, #2492) - Allow non-standard
User
models withThrottling
. (#2524) - Support custom
User.db_table
in TokenAuthentication migration. (#2479) - Fix misleading
AttributeError
tracebacks onRequest
objects. (#2530, #2108) ManyRelatedField.get_value
clearing field on partial update. (#2475)- Removed '.model' shortcut from code. (#2486)
- Fix
detail_route
andlist_route
mutable argument. (#2518) - Prefetching the user object when getting the token in
TokenAuthentication
. (#2519)
3.0.4
Date: 28th January 2015.
- Django 1.8a1 support. (#2425, #2446, #2441)
- Add
DictField
and support Django 1.8HStoreField
. (#2451, #2106) - Add
UUIDField
and support Django 1.8UUIDField
. (#2448, #2433, #2432) BaseRenderer.render
now raisesNotImplementedError
. (#2434)- Fix timedelta JSON serialization on Python 2.6. (#2430)
ResultDict
andResultList
now appear as standard dict/list. (#2421)- Fix visible
HiddenField
in the HTML form of the web browsable API page. (#2410) - Use
OrderedDict
forRelatedField.choices
. (#2408) - Fix ident format when using
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
. (#2401) - Fix invalid key with memcached while using throttling. (#2400)
- Fix
FileUploadParser
with version 3.x. (#2399) - Fix the serializer inheritance. (#2388)
- Fix caching issues with
ReturnDict
. (#2360)
3.0.3
Date: 8th January 2015.
- Fix
MinValueValidator
onmodels.DateField
. (#2369) - Fix serializer missing context when pagination is used. (#2355)
- Namespaced router URLs are now supported by the
DefaultRouter
. (#2351) required=False
allows omission of value for output. (#2342)- Use textarea input for
models.TextField
. (#2340) - Use custom
ListSerializer
for pagination if required. (#2331, #2327) - Better behavior with null and '' for blank HTML fields. (#2330)
- Ensure fields in
exclude
are model fields. (#2319) - Fix
IntegerField
andmax_length
argument incompatibility. (#2317) - Fix the YAML encoder for 3.0 serializers. (#2315, #2283)
- Fix the behavior of empty HTML fields. (#2311, #1101)
- Fix Metaclass attribute depth ignoring fields attribute. (#2287)
- Fix
format_suffix_patterns
to work with Django'si18n_patterns
. (#2278) - Ability to customize router URLs for custom actions, using
url_path
. (#2010) - Don't install Django REST Framework as egg. (#2386)
3.0.2
Date: 17th December 2014.
- Ensure
request.user
is made available to response middleware. (#2155) Client.logout()
also cancels any existingforce_authenticate
. (#2218, #2259)- Extra assertions and better checks to preventing incorrect serializer API use. (#2228, #2234, #2262, #2263, #2266, #2267, #2289, #2291)
- Fixed
min_length
message forCharField
. (#2255) - Fix
UnicodeDecodeError
, which can occur on serializerrepr
. (#2270, #2279) - Fix empty HTML values when a default is provided. (#2280, #2294)
- Fix
SlugRelatedField
raisingUnicodeEncodeError
when used as a multiple choice input. (#2290)
3.0.1
Date: 11th December 2014.
- More helpful error message when the default Serializer
create()
fails. (#2013) - Raise error when attempting to save serializer if data is not valid. (#2098)
- Fix
FileUploadParser
breaks with empty file names and multiple upload handlers. (#2109) - Improve
BindingDict
to support standard dict-functions. (#2135, #2163) - Add
validate()
toListSerializer
. (#2168, #2225, #2232) - Fix JSONP renderer failing to escape some characters. (#2169, #2195)
- Add missing default style for
FileField
. (#2172) - Actions are required when calling
ViewSet.as_view()
. (#2175) - Add
allow_blank
toChoiceField
. (#2184, #2239) - Cosmetic fixes in the HTML renderer. (#2187)
- Raise error if
fields
on serializer is not a list of strings. (#2193, #2213) - Improve checks for nested creates and updates. (#2194, #2196)
validated_attrs
argument renamed tovalidated_data
inSerializer
create()
/update()
. (#2197)- Remove deprecated code to reflect the dropped Django versions. (#2200)
- Better serializer errors for nested writes. (#2202, #2215)
- Fix pagination and custom permissions incompatibility. (#2205)
- Raise error if
fields
on serializer is not a list of strings. (#2213) - Add missing translation markers for relational fields. (#2231)
- Improve field lookup behavior for dicts/mappings. (#2244, #2243)
- Optimized hyperlinked PK. (#2242)
3.0.0
Date: 1st December 2014
For full details see the 3.0 release announcement.
For older release notes, please see the version 2.x documentation.