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Django 2.2 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
============================================
*Expected April 2019*
Welcome to Django 2.2!
These release notes cover the :ref:`new features <whats-new-2.2>`, as well as
some :ref:`backwards incompatible changes <backwards-incompatible-2.2>` you'll
want to be aware of when upgrading from Django 2.1 or earlier. We've
:ref:`begun the deprecation process for some features
<deprecated-features-2.2>`.
See the :doc:`/howto/upgrade-version` guide if you're updating an existing
project.
Django 2.2 is designated as a :term:`long-term support release`. It will
receive security updates for at least three years after its release. Support
for the previous LTS, Django 1.11, will end in April 2020.
Python compatibility
====================
Django 2.2 supports Python 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7. We **highly recommend** and only
officially support the latest release of each series.
.. _whats-new-2.2:
What's new in Django 2.2
========================
Constraints
-----------
The new :class:`~django.db.models.CheckConstraint` and
:class:`~django.db.models.UniqueConstraint` classes enable adding custom
database constraints. Constraints are added to models using the
:attr:`Meta.constraints <django.db.models.Options.constraints>` option.
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Minor features
--------------
:mod:`django.contrib.admin`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Added a CSS class to the column headers of
:class:`~django.contrib.admin.TabularInline`.
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:mod:`django.contrib.auth`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The ``HttpRequest`` is now passed as the first positional argument to
:meth:`.RemoteUserBackend.configure_user`, if it accepts it.
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:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Added Oracle support for the
:class:`~django.contrib.gis.db.models.functions.Envelope` function.
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* Added SpatiaLite support for the :lookup:`coveredby` and :lookup:`covers`
lookups.
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:mod:`django.contrib.postgres`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The new ``ordering`` argument for
:class:`~django.contrib.postgres.aggregates.ArrayAgg` and
:class:`~django.contrib.postgres.aggregates.StringAgg` determines the
ordering of the aggregated elements.
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* The new :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.indexes.BTreeIndex`,
:class:`~django.contrib.postgres.indexes.HashIndex` and
:class:`~django.contrib.postgres.indexes.SpGistIndex` classes allow
creating ``B-Tree``, ``hash``, and ``SP-GiST`` indexes in the database.
* :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.indexes.BrinIndex` now has the
``autosummarize`` parameter.
* The new ``search_type`` parameter of
:class:`~django.contrib.postgres.search.SearchQuery` allows searching for
a phrase or raw expression.
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:mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Added path matching to the :option:`collectstatic --ignore` option so that
patterns like ``/vendor/*.js`` can be used.
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Database backends
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Added result streaming for :meth:`.QuerySet.iterator` on SQLite.
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Generic Views
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The new :meth:`View.setup <django.views.generic.base.View.setup>` hook
initializes view attributes before calling
:meth:`~django.views.generic.base.View.dispatch`. It allows mixins to setup
instance attributes for reuse in child classes.
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Internationalization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* Added support and translations for the Armenian language.
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Management Commands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The new :option:`--force-color` option forces colorization of the command
output.
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* :djadmin:`inspectdb` now creates models for foreign tables on PostgreSQL.
* :option:`inspectdb --include-views` now creates models for materialized views
on Oracle and PostgreSQL.
* The new :option:`inspectdb --include-partitions` option allows creating
models for partition tables on PostgreSQL. In older versions, models are
created child tables instead the parent.
* :djadmin:`inspectdb` now introspects :class:`~django.db.models.DurationField`
for Oracle and PostgreSQL, and :class:`~django.db.models.AutoField` for
SQLite.
* On Oracle, :djadmin:`dbshell` is wrapped with ``rlwrap``, if available.
``rlwrap`` provides a command history and editing of keyboard input.
* The new :option:`makemigrations --no-header` option avoids writing header
comments in generated migration file(s). This option is also available for
:djadmin:`squashmigrations`.
* :djadmin:`runserver` can now use `Watchman
<https://facebook.github.io/watchman/>`_ to improve the performance of
watching a large number of files for changes.
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Migrations
~~~~~~~~~~
* The new :option:`migrate --plan` option prints the list of migration
operations that will be performed.
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* ``NoneType`` can now be serialized in migrations.
* You can now :ref:`register custom serializers <custom-migration-serializers>`
for migrations.
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Models
~~~~~~
* Added support for PostgreSQL operator classes (:attr:`.Index.opclasses`).
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* Added support for partial indexes (:attr:`.Index.condition`).
* Added the :class:`~django.db.models.functions.NullIf` and
:class:`~django.db.models.functions.Reverse` database functions, as well as
many :ref:`math database functions <math-functions>`.
* Setting the new ``ignore_conflicts`` parameter of
:meth:`.QuerySet.bulk_create` to ``True`` tells the database to ignore
failure to insert rows that fail uniqueness constraints or other checks.
* The new :class:`~django.db.models.functions.ExtractIsoYear` function extracts
ISO-8601 week-numbering years from :class:`~django.db.models.DateField` and
:class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField`, and the new :lookup:`iso_year`
lookup allows querying by an ISO-8601 week-numbering year.
* The new :meth:`.QuerySet.bulk_update` method allows efficiently updating
specific fields on multiple model instances.
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* Django no longer always starts a transaction when a single query is being
performed, such as ``Model.save()``, ``QuerySet.update()``, and
``Model.delete()``. This improves the performance of autocommit by reducing
the number of database round trips.
* Added SQLite support for the :class:`~django.db.models.StdDev` and
:class:`~django.db.models.Variance` functions.
* The handling of ``DISTINCT`` aggregation is added to the
:class:`~django.db.models.Aggregate` class. Adding :attr:`allow_distinct =
True <django.db.models.Aggregate.allow_distinct>` as a class attribute on
``Aggregate`` subclasses allows a ``distinct`` keyword argument to be
specified on initialization to ensure that the aggregate function is only
called for each distinct value of ``expressions``.
* The :meth:`.RelatedManager.add`, :meth:`~.RelatedManager.create`,
:meth:`~.RelatedManager.remove`, :meth:`~.RelatedManager.set`,
``get_or_create()``, and ``update_or_create()`` methods are now allowed on
many-to-many relationships with intermediate models. The new
``through_defaults`` argument is used to specify values for new intermediate
model instance(s).
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Requests and Responses
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Added :attr:`.HttpRequest.headers` to allow simple access to a request's
headers.
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Serialization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* You can now deserialize data using natural keys containing :ref:`forward
references <natural-keys-and-forward-references>` by passing
``handle_forward_references=True`` to ``serializers.deserialize()``.
Additionally, :djadmin:`loaddata` handles forward references automatically.
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Tests
~~~~~
* The new :meth:`.SimpleTestCase.assertURLEqual` assertion checks for a given
URL, ignoring the ordering of the query string.
:meth:`~.SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects` uses the new assertion.
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* The test :class:`~.django.test.Client` now supports automatic JSON
serialization of list and tuple ``data`` when
``content_type='application/json'``.
* The new :setting:`ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES <TEST_ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES>` test
database setting allows using Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces.
* Deferrable database constraints are now checked at the end of each
:class:`~django.test.TestCase` test on SQLite 3.20+, just like on other
backends that support deferrable constraints. These checks aren't implemented
for older versions of SQLite because they would require expensive table
introspection there.
* :class:`~django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner` now skips the setup of databases
not :ref:`referenced by tests<testing-multi-db>`.
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URLs
~~~~
* The new :attr:`.ResolverMatch.route` attribute stores the route of the
matching URL pattern.
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Validators
~~~~~~~~~~
* :class:`.MaxValueValidator`, :class:`.MinValueValidator`,
:class:`.MinLengthValidator`, and :class:`.MaxLengthValidator` now accept
a callable ``limit_value``.
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.. _backwards-incompatible-2.2:
Backwards incompatible changes in 2.2
=====================================
Database backend API
--------------------
This section describes changes that may be needed in third-party database
backends.
* Third-party database backends must implement support for table check
constraints or set ``DatabaseFeatures.supports_table_check_constraints`` to
``False``.
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* Third party database backends must implement support for ignoring
constraints or uniqueness errors while inserting or set
``DatabaseFeatures.supports_ignore_conflicts`` to ``False``.
* Third party database backends must implement introspection for
``DurationField`` or set ``DatabaseFeatures.can_introspect_duration_field``
to ``False``.
* ``DatabaseFeatures.uses_savepoints`` now defaults to ``True``.
* Third party database backends must implement support for partial indexes or
set ``DatabaseFeatures.supports_partial_indexes`` to ``False``.
* ``DatabaseIntrospection.table_name_converter()`` and
``column_name_converter()`` are removed. Third party database backends may
need to instead implement ``DatabaseIntrospection.identifier_converter()``.
In that case, the constraint names that
``DatabaseIntrospection.get_constraints()`` returns must be normalized by
``identifier_converter()``.
* SQL generation for indexes is moved from :class:`~django.db.models.Index` to
``SchemaEditor`` and these ``SchemaEditor`` methods are added:
* ``_create_primary_key_sql()`` and ``_delete_primary_key_sql()``
* ``_delete_index_sql()`` (to pair with ``_create_index_sql()``)
* ``_delete_unique_sql`` (to pair with ``_create_unique_sql()``)
* ``_delete_fk_sql()`` (to pair with ``_create_fk_sql()``)
* ``_create_check_sql()`` and ``_delete_check_sql()``
Admin actions are no longer collected from base ``ModelAdmin`` classes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For example, in older versions of Django::
from django.contrib import admin
class BaseAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
actions = ['a']
class SubAdmin(BaseAdmin):
actions = ['b']
``SubAdmin`` will have actions ``'a'`` and ``'b'``.
Now ``actions`` follows standard Python inheritance. To get the same result as
before::
class SubAdmin(BaseAdmin):
actions = BaseAdmin.actions + ['b']
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:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
-------------------------
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* Support for GDAL 1.9 and 1.10 is dropped.
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``TransactionTestCase`` serialized data loading
-----------------------------------------------
Initial data migrations are now loaded in
:class:`~django.test.TransactionTestCase` at the end of the test, after the
database flush. In older versions, this data was loaded at the beginning of the
test, but this prevents the :option:`test --keepdb` option from working
properly (the database was empty at the end of the whole test suite). This
change shouldn't have an impact on your tests unless you've customized
:class:`~django.test.TransactionTestCase`'s internals.
``sqlparse`` is required dependency
-----------------------------------
To simplify a few parts of Django's database handling, `sqlparse
<https://pypi.org/project/sqlparse/>`_ is now a required dependency. It's
automatically installed along with Django.
``cached_property`` aliases
---------------------------
In usage like::
from django.utils.functional import cached_property
class A:
@cached_property
def base(self):
return ...
alias = base
``alias`` is not cached. Such usage now raises ``TypeError: Cannot assign the
same cached_property to two different names ('base' and 'alias').`` on Python
3.6 and later.
Use this instead::
import operator
class A:
...
alias = property(operator.attrgetter('base'))
Permissions for proxy models
----------------------------
:ref:`Permissions for proxy models <proxy-models-permissions-topic>` are now
created using the content type of the proxy model rather than the content type
of the concrete model. A migration will update existing permissions when you
run :djadmin:`migrate`.
In the admin, the change is transparent for proxy models having the same
``app_label`` as their concrete model. However, in older versions, users with
permissions for a proxy model with a *different* ``app_label`` than its
concrete model couldn't access the model in the admin. That's now fixed, but
you might want to audit the permissions assignments for such proxy models
(``[add|view|change|delete]_myproxy``) prior to upgrading to ensure the new
access is appropriate.
Finally, proxy model permission strings must be updated to use their own
``app_label``. For example, for ``app.MyProxyModel`` inheriting from
``other_app.ConcreteModel``, update
``user.has_perm('other_app.add_myproxymodel')`` to
``user.has_perm('app.add_myproxymodel')``.
Miscellaneous
-------------
* To improve readability, the ``UUIDField`` form field now displays values with
dashes, e.g. ``550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000`` instead of
``550e8400e29b41d4a716446655440000``.
* On SQLite, ``PositiveIntegerField`` and ``PositiveSmallIntegerField`` now
include a check constraint to prevent negative values in the database. If you
have existing invalid data and run a migration that recreates a table, you'll
see ``CHECK constraint failed``.
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* For consistency with WSGI servers, the test client now sets the
``Content-Length`` header to a string rather than an integer.
* The return value of :func:`django.utils.text.slugify` is no longer marked as
HTML safe.
* The default truncation character used by the :tfilter:`urlizetrunc`,
:tfilter:`truncatechars`, :tfilter:`truncatechars_html`,
:tfilter:`truncatewords`, and :tfilter:`truncatewords_html` template filters
is now the real ellipsis character (``…``) instead of 3 dots. You may have to
adapt some test output comparisons.
* Support for bytestring paths in the template filesystem loader is removed.
* :func:`django.utils.http.urlsafe_base64_encode` now returns a string instead
of a bytestring, and :func:`django.utils.http.urlsafe_base64_decode` may no
longer be passed a bytestring.
* Support for ``cx_Oracle`` < 6.0 is removed.
* The minimum supported version of ``mysqlclient`` is increased from 1.3.7 to
1.3.13.
* The minimum supported version of SQLite is increased from 3.7.15 to 3.8.3.
* In an attempt to provide more semantic query data, ``NullBooleanSelect`` now
renders ``<option>`` values of ``unknown``, ``true``, and ``false`` instead
of ``1``, ``2``, and ``3``. For backwards compatibility, the old values are
still accepted as data.
* :attr:`Group.name <django.contrib.auth.models.Group.name>` ``max_length``
is increased from 80 to 150 characters.
* Tests that violate deferrable database constraints now error when run on
SQLite 3.20+, just like on other backends that support such constraints.
* To catch usage mistakes, the test :class:`~django.test.Client` and
:func:`django.utils.http.urlencode` now raise ``TypeError`` if ``None`` is
passed as a value to encode because ``None`` can't be encoded in GET and POST
data. Either pass an empty string or omit the value.
* The :djadmin:`ping_google` management command now defaults to ``https``
instead of ``http`` for the sitemap's URL. If your site uses http, use the
new :option:`ping_google --sitemap-uses-http` option. If you use the
:func:`~django.contrib.sitemaps.ping_google` function, set the new
``sitemap_uses_https`` argument to ``False``.
* :djadmin:`runserver` no longer supports `pyinotify` (replaced by Watchman).
* The :class:`~django.db.models.Avg`, :class:`~django.db.models.StdDev`, and
:class:`~django.db.models.Variance` aggregate functions now return a
``Decimal`` instead of a ``float`` when the input is ``Decimal``.
* Tests will fail on SQLite if apps without migrations have relations to apps
with migrations. This has been a documented restriction since migrations were
added in Django 1.7, but it fails more reliably now. You'll see tests failing
with errors like ``no such table: <app_label>_<model>``. This was observed
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with several third-party apps that had models in tests without migrations.
You must add migrations for such models.
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.. _deprecated-features-2.2:
Features deprecated in 2.2
==========================
Model ``Meta.ordering`` will no longer affect ``GROUP BY`` queries
------------------------------------------------------------------
A model's ``Meta.ordering`` affecting ``GROUP BY`` queries (such as
``.annotate().values()``) is a common source of confusion. Such queries now
issue a deprecation warning with the advice to add an ``order_by()`` to retain
the current query. ``Meta.ordering`` will be ignored in such queries starting
in Django 3.1.
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Miscellaneous
-------------
* ``django.utils.timezone.FixedOffset`` is deprecated in favor of
:class:`datetime.timezone`.
* The undocumented ``QuerySetPaginator`` alias of
``django.core.paginator.Paginator`` is deprecated.
* The ``FloatRangeField`` model and form fields in ``django.contrib.postgres``
are deprecated in favor of a new name, ``DecimalRangeField``, to match the
underlying ``numrange`` data type used in the database.
* The ``FILE_CHARSET`` setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 3.1, files
read from disk must be UTF-8 encoded.
* ``django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage`` is
deprecated due to the intractable problems that is has. Use
:class:`.ManifestStaticFilesStorage` or a third-party cloud storage instead.
* :meth:`.RemoteUserBackend.configure_user` is now passed ``request`` as the
first positional argument, if it accepts it. Support for overrides that don't
accept it will be removed in Django 3.1.
* The :attr:`.SimpleTestCase.allow_database_queries`,
:attr:`.TransactionTestCase.multi_db`, and :attr:`.TestCase.multi_db`
attributes are deprecated in favor of :attr:`.SimpleTestCase.databases`,
:attr:`.TransactionTestCase.databases`, and :attr:`.TestCase.databases`.
These new attributes allow databases dependencies to be declared in order to
prevent unexpected queries against non-default databases to leak state
between tests. The previous behavior of ``allow_database_queries=True`` and
``multi_db=True`` can be achieved by setting ``databases='__all__'``.