Release Notes

1.8.2

  • 2023/11/20

  • Moved testing framework to nox

  • Moved build config to pyproject and “build” command

  • Added test target for Django 5.0

  • Fixed syntax warnings in regexes in CSS colours

  • Small changes to WRunner to be compatible with the signature change in 5.0

  • Moved test module up out of awl and into the repo root

  • Updated all package dependency numbers for local requirements

  • Re-built the sample site to be Django 5.0 based

1.8.1

  • 2023/06/29

  • Added test target for Django 4.2, dropped target for Django 4.0

1.8.0

  • Added {% qif %} tag

  • Drop support for Django 3.1, add support for Django 4.1 and Python 3.11

1.7.0

  • Added add_field and add_m2m_link to admintools

  • Deprecated add_display from admintools, replaced by add_field

  • Cleaned up documentation for admintools module

1.6.2

  • Add jsonify tag which turns context objects into JSON for directly embedding as Javascript in your rendered templates

1.6.0

  • Drop support for Python 3.6 (should still work, but no longer testing)

  • Drop support for Django < 3.1

  • Add support for Django 4.0

  • WRunner no longer re-orders test cases when given shortcut labels due to underlying changes in Django 4.0, likely not noticeable for most users

  • add tests for Django 3.2, 4.0

1.5.0

  • Add colour mapping features to the css_colour module

  • Fixed some documentation typeos

1.4.0

  • Fix html rendering problems with awl.rankedmodel.admintools move links

  • Add new admin_move_links method that compounds the move links into a single column

1.3.0

  • add “empty” arguments to admintools:add_link, add_fk_link, add_display allowing special handling of empty values in a column

  • add admintools:add_template_field, similar to add_formatted_field but uses a Django template instead of a %s string

1.2.1

  • fix bug in add_fk_link, filter query string assumed the name of the class would be the same as the name of the attribute, it isn’t always

1.2.0

  • add admintools link feature that gives a link to a filter of foreign keys

  • cleaned up some documentation

  • set the minimum Django level correctly in setup.py

1.1.0

  • update documentation for Choices object now that Django 3.0 has something similar

  • add {% nop %} template tag

1.0

  • dropped support for Python 2 and Django 1.11

  • cosmetic changes to django management command template used in create_cmd

  • update minimum Django version in compliance with security alerts

  • fixed some links in documentation

0.24.0

  • added django command for creating django commands

0.23.2

  • updated version of django in tests

0.23.1

  • made second parameter to json_post_required decorator optional

0.23.0

  • added json_post_required() decorator

0.22.2

  • updated minimum library requirements for django 2.0.2 and 2.1.2 to reflect security updates

0.22.1

  • test labels weren’t working properly, due to a problem in waelstow the bug was hidden; waelstow 0.10.2 fixes the issue; WRunner.build_suite() could be vastly simplified with the change as well

0.22

  • added ability to change the title for a list_display item using fancy_modeladmin()

0.21.1

  • fixed a bug where multiple uses of fancy_modeladmin() resulted all classes using the same list_display field

0.21

  • added fancy_modeladmin() which is a replacement for make_admin_mixin, simpler to use and supports other types of list_display modifiers

0.20

  • added print_setting django management command which prints django settings to the screen, useful for getting setting info into external scripts

0.19

  • added “add_obj_ref()” method to admintools make_admin_mixin utility

0.18.2

  • forgot to update sample_site with new test classes

0.18.1

  • fixed bug in admintools: django 2.0 admin requires explicit marking of strings safe, some

  • updated sample_site and test models to be understandable classes (Books, Authors, etc.) instead of abstract (Inner, Outer, Nested)

  • updated sample_site to work with django 2.0

0.18

  • added get_field_names() utility

0.17.1

  • upgraded dependancies to a working version of screwdriver

  • changed wheel build to be universal

0.17

  • Removed dependancies on deprecated “wrench” library

0.16

  • Support for Django 2.0

  • no longer test for Django 1.10 (should work, not tested)

0.15

  • WRunner now supports creating a temporary directory for MEDIA_ROOT and removing it on exit

0.14

  • removed Django 1.8, 1.9 compatability (may still work, no longer tested)

  • added Django 1.11 compatability

  • added python 3.6 compatability

  • added Choices object

    • easy way of creating django’s tuple-of-tuple structure used in choices lists, etc.

  • added QuerySetChain: a query set that chains other querysets together

0.13

  • added support for python 3.5

0.12

  • added support for Django 1.10

0.11.1

  • improved handling of messages_from_response() so that it can deal with responses without contexts but with the message cookie set

0.11

  • Added messages_from_response() helper in waelsteng which pulls contrib.message objects out of a response from client.get() or client.post()

0.10.2

  • added “follow=False” keyword to AdminToolsMixin.authed_get()

0.10.1

  • improved KeyError handling in the accessor template tag

0.10

  • made django-awl compatible with Django 1.9

  • separated models and abstract models to avoid deprecation warnings in Django 1.9

    • even if only loading an abstract model from models.py the module gets loaded and django sees the concrete models in the file which aren’t in INSTALLED_APPS and issues a warning

    • now only concrete models are in models.py and the abstract ones are in absmodel.spy

0.9

  • added css_colours module, tests for values that are valid CSS colours

0.8.2

  • fixed getitem template filter so that it handles key errors silently

0.8.1

  • added “as” syntax to accessor templatetag

0.8

  • added accessor templatetag

0.7

  • removed unused imports

  • added getitem template filter

0.6.1

  • yet another make_admin_obj_mixin null bug, yay! for testing

0.6

  • removed django 1.7 compatibility

  • internal change from AnchorParser to wrench.utils.parse_link

  • fixed bug where make_admin_obj_mixin wasn’t handling null FK properly

0.5.1

  • fixed documentation errors in rankedmodels

  • fixed bug where the wrong obj was being shown in the admin_obj_link

0.5

  • django version of default_logging_dict

  • fixed bug in WRunner where empty test labels did not return all tests

0.4

  • added utilities:

    • refetch_for_update

    • render_page

    • render_page_to_string

  • added model classes:

    • Counter

    • Lock

  • added model abstract class:

    • ValidatingMixin

  • re-ogranized testing structure to deal with migrations needed from the addition of the new concrete model classes

0.3

  • added context processor extra_context

0.2

  • added a new DiscoverRunner implementation: WRunner

0.1

  • initial commit to pypi