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Django 4.2 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
============================================
*Expected April 2023*
Welcome to Django 4.2!
These release notes cover the :ref:`new features <whats-new-4.2>`, as well as
some :ref:`backwards incompatible changes <backwards-incompatible-4.2>` you'll
want to be aware of when upgrading from Django 4.1 or earlier. We've
:ref:`begun the deprecation process for some features
<deprecated-features-4.2>`.
See the :doc:`/howto/upgrade-version` guide if you're updating an existing
project.
Python compatibility
====================
Django 4.2 supports Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. We **highly recommend**
and only officially support the latest release of each series.
.. _whats-new-4.2:
What's new in Django 4.2
========================
Minor features
--------------
:mod:`django.contrib.admin`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The light or dark color theme of the admin can now be toggled in the UI, as
well as being set to follow the system setting.
* The admin's font stack now prefers system UI fonts and no longer requires
downloading fonts. Additionally, CSS variables are available to more easily
override the default font families.
* The :source:`admin/delete_confirmation.html
<django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/delete_confirmation.html>` template now
has some additional blocks and scripting hooks to ease customization.
* The chosen options of
:attr:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.filter_horizontal` and
:attr:`~django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.filter_vertical` widgets are now
filterable.
* The ``admin/base.html`` template now has a new block ``nav-breadcrumbs``
which contains the navigation landmark and the ``breadcrumbs`` block.
* :attr:`.ModelAdmin.list_editable` now uses atomic transactions when making
edits.
:mod:`django.contrib.admindocs`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.auth`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The default iteration count for the PBKDF2 password hasher is increased from
390,000 to 480,000.
:mod:`django.contrib.contenttypes`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The :doc:`GeoJSON serializer </ref/contrib/gis/serializers>` now outputs the
``id`` key for serialized features, which defaults to the primary key of
objects.
* The :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.GDALRaster` class now supports
:class:`pathlib.Path`.
* The :class:`~django.contrib.gis.geoip2.GeoIP2` class now supports ``.mmdb``
files downloaded from DB-IP.
* The OpenLayers template widget no longer includes inline CSS (which also
removes the former ``map_css`` block) to better comply with a strict Content
Security Policy.
:mod:`django.contrib.messages`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.postgres`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The new :lookup:`trigram_strict_word_similar` lookup, and the
:class:`TrigramStrictWordSimilarity()
<django.contrib.postgres.search.TrigramStrictWordSimilarity>` and
:class:`TrigramStrictWordDistance()
<django.contrib.postgres.search.TrigramStrictWordDistance>` expressions allow
using trigram strict word similarity.
:mod:`django.contrib.redirects`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.sessions`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.sitemaps`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.sites`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
:mod:`django.contrib.syndication`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
Cache
~~~~~
* ...
CSRF
~~~~
* ...
Decorators
~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
Email
~~~~~
* ...
Error Reporting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
File Storage
~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
File Uploads
~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
Forms
~~~~~
* :class:`~django.forms.ModelForm` now accepts the new ``Meta`` option
``formfield_callback`` to customize form fields.
* :func:`~django.forms.models.modelform_factory` now respects the
``formfield_callback`` attribute of the ``form``s ``Meta``.
Generic Views
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
Internationalization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Added support and translations for the Central Kurdish (Sorani) language.
* The :class:`~django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware` now respects a
language from the request when :func:`~django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns`
is used with the ``prefix_default_language`` argument set to ``False``.
Logging
~~~~~~~
* ...
Management Commands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* :djadmin:`makemessages` command now supports locales with private sub-tags
such as ``nl_NL-x-informal``.
* The new :option:`makemigrations --update` option merges model changes into
the latest migration and optimizes the resulting operations.
Migrations
~~~~~~~~~~
* Migrations now support serialization of ``enum.Flag`` objects.
Models
~~~~~~
* ``QuerySet`` now extensively supports filtering against
:ref:`window-functions` with the exception of disjunctive filter lookups
against window functions when performing aggregation.
* :meth:`~.QuerySet.prefetch_related` now supports
:class:`~django.db.models.Prefetch` objects with sliced querysets.
* :ref:`Registering lookups <lookup-registration-api>` on
:class:`~django.db.models.Field` instances is now supported.
* The new ``robust`` argument for :func:`~django.db.transaction.on_commit`
allows performing actions that can fail after a database transaction is
successfully committed.
* The new :class:`KT() <django.db.models.fields.json.KT>` expression represents
the text value of a key, index, or path transform of
:class:`~django.db.models.JSONField`.
* :class:`~django.db.models.functions.Now` now supports microsecond precision
on MySQL and millisecond precision on SQLite.
Requests and Responses
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
Security
~~~~~~~~
* ...
Serialization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* ...
Signals
~~~~~~~
* ...
Templates
~~~~~~~~~
* ...
Tests
~~~~~
* ...
URLs
~~~~
* ...
Utilities
~~~~~~~~~
* The new ``encoder`` parameter for :meth:`django.utils.html.json_script`
function allows customizing a JSON encoder class.
* The private internal vendored copy of ``urllib.parse.urlsplit()`` now strips
``'\r'``, ``'\n'``, and ``'\t'`` (see :cve:`2022-0391` and :bpo:`43882`).
This is to protect projects that may be incorrectly using the internal
``url_has_allowed_host_and_scheme()`` function, instead of using one of the
documented functions for handling URL redirects. The Django functions were
not affected.
Validators
~~~~~~~~~~
* The list of common passwords used by ``CommonPasswordValidator`` is updated
to the most recent version.
.. _backwards-incompatible-4.2:
Backwards incompatible changes in 4.2
=====================================
Database backend API
--------------------
This section describes changes that may be needed in third-party database
backends.
* ...
Dropped support for MariaDB 10.3
--------------------------------
Upstream support for MariaDB 10.3 ends in May 2023. Django 4.2 supports MariaDB
10.4 and higher.
Dropped support for MySQL 5.7
-----------------------------
Upstream support for MySQL 5.7 ends in October 2023. Django 4.2 supports MySQL
8 and higher.
Dropped support for PostgreSQL 11
---------------------------------
Upstream support for PostgreSQL 11 ends in November 2023. Django 4.2 supports
PostgreSQL 12 and higher.
Miscellaneous
-------------
* The undocumented ``SimpleTemplateResponse.rendering_attrs`` and
``TemplateResponse.rendering_attrs`` are renamed to ``non_picklable_attrs``.
* The undocumented ``django.http.multipartparser.parse_header()`` function is
removed. Use ``django.utils.http.parse_header_parameters()`` instead.
* :ttag:`{% blocktranslate asvar … %}<blocktranslate>` result is now marked as
safe for (HTML) output purposes.
* The ``autofocus`` HTML attribute in the admin search box is removed as it can
be confusing for screen readers.
* The :option:`makemigrations --check` option no longer creates missing
migration files.
* The ``alias`` argument for :meth:`.Expression.get_group_by_cols` is removed.
.. _deprecated-features-4.2:
Features deprecated in 4.2
==========================
``index_together`` option is deprecated in favor of ``indexes``
---------------------------------------------------------------
The :attr:`Meta.index_together <django.db.models.Options.index_together>`
option is deprecated in favor of the :attr:`~django.db.models.Options.indexes`
option.
Migrating existing ``index_together`` should be handled as a migration. For
example::
class Author(models.Model):
rank = models.IntegerField()
name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
class Meta:
index_together = [["rank", "name"]]
Should become::
class Author(models.Model):
rank = models.IntegerField()
name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
class Meta:
indexes = [models.Index(fields=["rank", "name"])]
Running the :djadmin:`makemigrations` command will generate a migration
containing a :class:`~django.db.migrations.operations.RenameIndex` operation
which will rename the existing index.
The ``AlterIndexTogether`` migration operation is now officially supported only
for pre-Django 4.2 migration files. For backward compatibility reasons, it's
still part of the public API, and there's no plan to deprecate or remove it,
but it should not be used for new migrations. Use
:class:`~django.db.migrations.operations.AddIndex` and
:class:`~django.db.migrations.operations.RemoveIndex` operations instead.
Miscellaneous
-------------
* The ``BaseUserManager.make_random_password()`` method is deprecated. See
`recipes and best practices
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/secrets.html#recipes-and-best-practices>`_
for using Python's :py:mod:`secrets` module to generate passwords.
* The ``length_is`` template filter is deprecated in favor of :tfilter:`length`
and the ``==`` operator within an :ttag:`{% if %}<if>` tag. For example
.. code-block:: html+django
{% if value|length == 4 %}…{% endif %}
{% if value|length == 4 %}True{% else %}False{% endif %}
instead of:
.. code-block:: html+django
{% if value|length_is:4 %}…{% endif %}
{{ value|length_is:4 }}
* ``django.contrib.auth.hashers.SHA1PasswordHasher``,
``django.contrib.auth.hashers.UnsaltedSHA1PasswordHasher``, and
``django.contrib.auth.hashers.UnsaltedMD5PasswordHasher`` are deprecated.
* ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CICharField`` is deprecated in favor of
``CharField(db_collation="…")`` with a case-insensitive non-deterministic
collation.
* ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CIEmailField`` is deprecated in favor of
``EmailField(db_collation="…")`` with a case-insensitive non-deterministic
collation.
* ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CITextField`` is deprecated in favor of
``TextField(db_collation="…")`` with a case-insensitive non-deterministic
collation.
* ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.CIText`` mixin is deprecated.
* The ``map_height`` and ``map_width`` attributes of ``BaseGeometryWidget`` are
deprecated, use CSS to size map widgets instead.
* ``SimpleTestCase.assertFormsetError()`` is deprecated in favor of
``assertFormSetError()``.
* ``TransactionTestCase.assertQuerysetEqual()`` is deprecated in favor of
``assertQuerySetEqual()``.