Djblets 3.1: Token Deprecations and API Fixes

November 1, 2022 Christian Hammond

We’ve released Djblets 3.1, our collection of production-quality add-ons for Django.

This release features:

Ability to deprecate token generators
Deprecated token information in the API
Fixes for URI template name collisions in the API
Fixes for generating the new API tokens introduced in Djblets 3
Python 3 type hints for the djblets.registries, djblets.secrets, and djblets.siteconfig models

For complete details, see the release notes.

Djblets 2.3: Preparing for the Future

February 8, 2022 Christian Hammond

Djblets 2.3 is now out. This release adds compatibility fixes for Python 3.10 and gets our code ready to move to newer dependencies.

Highlights include:

Python 3.10 compatibility shims for Django 1.11.
Modern Django middleware support for extensions.
Babel 7.x for building extension static media files.
Full compatibility with Python-Markdown 2.x.
Support for caching data in cache_memoize() without needing to wrap in a list or string.

We’re getting 3.x ready for release. This will move the codebase to require Python 3.7+ and Django 3.2 LTS, finally bringing support for modern codebases.

See the release notes for the full list of changes.

Djblets 2.2.1: Fixes for extension packaging

May 20, 2021 Christian Hammond

Djblets 2.2.1 has been released, fixing an issue with building extension packages.

If a project (say, Review Board) made use of build_pipeline_settings() in its settings.py, it could cause problems when trying to build extension packages.

This happened because this function validates some paths that may not exist yet at that stage in the packaging process. This release temporarily disables path validation at this stage.

See the release notes for the full changes.

Djblets 2.0: Now supporting Python 3 and Django 1.11

December 22, 2020 Christian Hammond

We quietly released Djblets 2.0 a few days ago, now supporting Python 3 and Django 1.11. This is a major milestone for Djblets, as we’re finally leaving behind the formerly-necessary legacy version of Django 1.6, with our sights set on future major releases keeping up with the latest Django has to offer.

What’s Djblets?

Djblets is an add-on package for Django that provides a great deal of additions useful for building large, extensible web applications, like Review Board. This includes:

Dynamic site configuration and settings
Extension support for applications
Base for designing REST APIs
Consent-based, privacy-first foundation for features
Feature flags with extensible backends
Avatar rendering and extensible backends
Datagrid UIs
Database fields for Base64 content, atomic counters, and more
Mail sending additions supporting DMARC and smart From/Sender header spoofing
Rate limiting
Unit testing improvements

And plenty more.

What’s New?

Quite a lot!

Support for Python 2.7 and 3.6 through 3.9
Support for Django 1.11 (the last version to support Python 2.7)
New configuration forms CSS/JavaScript component library
New UIs for managing extensions and integrations
Extensions can now provide schema changes as evolutions or Django’s migrations
A new form widget for selecting related objects (for populating a ForeignKey or ManyToManyField)
Utility property for defining aliases (with optional conversion and/or deprecation warnings) to other properties
Utility property for defining properties requiring certain data types, with validation
Improved way of defining types for REST API fields
New template tags and filters for working with object data and custom template variables

Plus lots of new features and minor bug fixes.

The full list is in the release notes.

See the documentation or start using Djblets in your own project!