Release 3.7.0

What's Changed

Documented changes

Merged PRs

• Drop support for Django 3.2 by @ddabble in #1344
• Update package metadata by @ofek in #1348
• Add Django as installation dependency by @ddabble in #1349
• Prepare for release 3.7.0 by @ddabble in #1350

New Contributors

• @ofek made their first contribution in #1348

Full Changelog: 3.6.0...3.7.0

Release 3.6.0

What's Changed

Documented changes

Merged PRs

• Support customizing the history manager and historical queryset classes by @tim-schilling in #1306
• Add history diff column to admin change history table by @raunaq-sailo in #1128
• Fix m2m saved when simple history disabled by @MattFanto in #1329
• Fix Dependabot not creating new dependency PRs by @ddabble in #1332
• Fix O(n) queries when adding M2M objects by @ddabble in #1333
• Prepare for release 3.6.0 by @ddabble in #1345

New Contributors

• @raunaq-sailo made their first contribution in #1128
• @MattFanto made their first contribution in #1329

Full Changelog: 3.5.0...3.6.0

Release 3.5.0

What's Changed

Documented changes

Merged PRs

• Exclude bots from generated release notes by @hugovk in #1231
• Use django builtin for determining through field name by @mjsir911 in #1218
• feat: m2m_fields accepts field names by @legau in #1243
• Handle missing request by @Tenzer in #1256
• Batch with additional historical model fields by @NoelJames in #1248
• Add temporary asgiref requirement by @ddabble in #1261
• Use exists query instead of count in clean-duplicate-history command. by @bigtimecriminal in #1015
• add translation for Simplified Chinese (zh_Hans) by @renph in #1281
• Add Django 5.0 by @tim-schilling in #1289
• Prepare for 3.5.0 release by @tim-schilling in #1290

New Contributors

• @Tenzer made their first contribution in #1256
• @NoelJames made their first contribution in #1248
• @bigtimecriminal made their first contribution in #1015
• @renph made their first contribution in #1281

Full Changelog: 3.4.0...3.5.0

Release 3.4.0

What's Changed

Documented changes

Merged PRs

• Fix failing admin tests when testing against Django's main branch by @ddabble in #1140
• Update GitHub Actions by @hugovk in #1147
• evaluate history model permissions explicitly by @erikvw in #1017
• docs: missing comma in 'Signals' codeblock by @hector97i in #1132
• Change admin.py to use Django's registered User Model by @helmetwearer in #1177
• Fix doc typo to make code block instead of block quote by @mjsir911 in #1185
• add id translation by @kiraware in #1198
• Urdu Translation by @muneeb706 in #1199
• Fix MariaDB test container failing to start by @ddabble in #1200
• Update Python and Django versions by @ddabble in #1202
• Test that translation files are compiled by @ddabble in #1207
• Update utils.py with adding a return of function bulk_update_with_history by @zhaojiejoe in #1206
• Add Norwegian bokmål translations + a little translation cleanup by @ddabble in #1210
• use new style middleware and catch exceptions to be sure to clear request in context by @manelclos in #1188
• Use sync/async pattern for middleware since Django 3.1 by @john-parton in #1209
• Fix: Error when setting table name with inherit by @muneeb706 in #1196
• Prepare for release 3.4.0 by @ddabble in #1230

New Contributors

• @hector97i made their first contribution in #1132
• @helmetwearer made their first contribution in #1177
• @mjsir911 made their first contribution in #1185
• @kiraware made their first contribution in #1198
• @muneeb706 made their first contribution in #1199
• @zhaojiejoe made their first contribution in #1206
• @manelclos made their first contribution in #1188

Full Changelog: 3.3.0...3.4.0

Release 3.3.0

What's Changed

Documented changes

Merged PRs

• M2M support for inheritance and signals by @legau in #1042
• Fix KeyError when cleaning duplicate history by @ddabble in #1038
• Add Python 3.11 to CI, tox, trove classifers, and README by @joshuadavidthomas in #1053
• added Arabic translations by @Ibrahim-Aldhaheri in #1056
• docs - fix code example (historical_model) by @kfsz in #1069
• Base manager can now be used for clean_duplicate_history by @nick-traeger in #1115
• Fix failing tests by @ddabble in #1124
• Prepare for release 3.3.0 by @ddabble in #1139

New Contributors

• @legau made their first contribution in #1042
• @ddabble made their first contribution in #1038
• @joshuadavidthomas made their first contribution in #1053
• @Ibrahim-Aldhaheri made their first contribution in #1056
• @kfsz made their first contribution in #1069

Full Changelog: 3.2.0...3.3.0

3.2.0

What's Changed

• Replaces count by exists in populate_history command by @fabiocapsouza in #982
• [issue-983] querying history, convert to instance, chase foreign key on history_date by @jeking3 in #984
• [fix] add fallback_version to scm settings by @areski in #981
• Removed n+1 query from bulk_create_with_history utility by @twolfson in #975
• Fixed simple typos by @creyD in #996
• Fix code block in docs for Using custom OneToOneFields by @bheesham in #1011
• Added support for Django 4.1 by @hramezani in #1021
• Add pyupgrade to .pre-commit-config.yaml by @hramezani in #1022
• Enable diffing m2m fields by @thijskramer in #932

New Contributors

• @fabiocapsouza made their first contribution in #982
• @twolfson made their first contribution in #975
• @creyD made their first contribution in #996
• @bheesham made their first contribution in #1011
• @thijskramer made their first contribution in #932

Full Changelog: 3.1.1...3.2.0

Release 3.1.1

What's Changed

• Fix stale py36 references in pyproject.toml by @jeking3 in #978
• Fix local setup.py install versioning issue by @jeking3 in #978
• Prepare for 3.1.1 and remove py2 universal wheel by @jeking3 in #979

Full Changelog: 3.1.0...3.1.1

Release 3.1.0

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)

Release 3.0.0

Breaking changes:

• Removed support for Django 3.0
• Removed changeReason in favor of _change_reason (see 2.10.0)

Full list of changes:

• Removed support for Django versions prior to 2.2 (gh-652)
• Migrate from TravisCI to Github Actions (gh-739)
• Add Python 3.9 support (gh-745)
• Support ignore_conflicts in bulk_create_with_history (gh-733)
• Use asgiref when available instead of thread locals (gh-747)
• Sort imports with isort (gh-751)
• Queryset history.as_of speed improvements by calculating in the DB (gh-758)
• Increase black and isort python version to 3.6 (gh-817)
• Remove Django 3.0 support (gh-817)
• Add Django 3.2 support (gh-817)
• Improve French translations (gh-811)
• Remove support for changeReason (gh-819)

Release 2.12.0

• Add default date to bulk_create_with_history and bulk_update_with_history (gh-687)
• Exclude ManyToManyFields when using bulk_create_with_history (gh-699)
• Added --excluded_fields argument to clean_duplicate_history command (gh-674)
• Exclude ManyToManyFields when fetching excluded fields (gh-707)
• Use default model manager for bulk_create_with_history and
  bulk_update_with_history instead of objects (gh-703)
• Add optional manager argument to bulk_update_with_history to use instead of
  the default manager (gh-703)
• Add support for Django 3.1 (gh-713)
• Fix a bug with clean_old_history command's --days argument (gh-722)

* NOTE: This will be the last minor release before 3.0.0.