django/docs/releases/3.1.txt

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Django 3.1 release notes - UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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*Expected August 2020*

Welcome to Django 3.1!

These release notes cover the :ref:`new features <whats-new-3.1>`, as well as
some :ref:`backwards incompatible changes <backwards-incompatible-3.1>` you'll
want to be aware of when upgrading from Django 3.0 or earlier. We've
:ref:`dropped some features<removed-features-3.1>` that have reached the end of
their deprecation cycle, and we've :ref:`begun the deprecation process for
some features <deprecated-features-3.1>`.

See the :doc:`/howto/upgrade-version` guide if you're updating an existing
project.

Python compatibility
====================

Django 3.1 supports Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8. We **highly recommend** and only
officially support the latest release of each series.

.. _whats-new-3.1:

What's new in Django 3.1
========================

Minor features
--------------

:mod:`django.contrib.admin`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.admindocs`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.auth`
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* The default iteration count for the PBKDF2 password hasher is increased from
  180,000 to 216,000.

* Added the :setting:`PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT` setting to define the minimum
  number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. This is encouraged
  instead of deprecated ``PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS``, which will be removed
  in Django 4.0.

:mod:`django.contrib.contenttypes`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.gis`
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* :lookup:`relate` lookup is now supported on MariaDB.

* Added the :attr:`.LinearRing.is_counterclockwise` property.

:mod:`django.contrib.messages`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.postgres`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* The new :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.indexes.BloomIndex` class allows
  creating ``bloom`` indexes in the database. The new
  :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.operations.BloomExtension` migration
  operation installs the ``bloom`` extension to add support for this index.

* :meth:`~django.db.models.Model.get_FOO_display` now supports
  :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.fields.ArrayField` and
  :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.fields.RangeField`.

:mod:`django.contrib.redirects`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.sessions`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.sitemaps`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.sites`
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* ...

:mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* The :setting:`STATICFILES_DIRS` setting now supports :class:`pathlib.Path`.

:mod:`django.contrib.syndication`
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* ...

Cache
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* The :func:`~django.views.decorators.cache.cache_control` decorator and
  :func:`~django.utils.cache.patch_cache_control` method now support multiple
  field names in the ``no-cache`` directive for the ``Cache-Control`` header,
  according to :rfc:`7234#section-5.2.2.2`.

* :meth:`~django.core.caches.cache.delete` now returns ``True`` if the key was
  successfully deleted, ``False`` otherwise.

CSRF
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* ...

Email
~~~~~

* The :setting:`EMAIL_FILE_PATH` setting, used by the :ref:`file email backend
  <topic-email-file-backend>`, now supports :class:`pathlib.Path`.

File Storage
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* ``FileSystemStorage.save()`` method now supports :class:`pathlib.Path`.

File Uploads
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* ...


Forms
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* ...

Generic Views
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* ...

Internationalization
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* ...

Logging
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* ...

Management Commands
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* ...

Migrations
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* Migrations are now loaded also from directories without ``__init__.py``
  files.

Models
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* The new :class:`~django.db.models.functions.ExtractIsoWeekDay` function
  extracts ISO-8601 week days from :class:`~django.db.models.DateField` and
  :class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField`, and the new :lookup:`iso_week_day`
  lookup allows querying by an ISO-8601 day of week.

* :meth:`.QuerySet.explain` now supports:

  * ``TREE`` format on MySQL 8.0.16+,
  * ``analyze`` option on MySQL 8.0.18+ and MariaDB.

Pagination
~~~~~~~~~~

* :class:`~django.core.paginator.Paginator` can now be iterated over to yield
  its pages.

Requests and Responses
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* ...

Serialization
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* ...

Signals
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* ...

Templates
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* ...

Tests
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* :class:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase` now implements the ``debug()`` method to
  allow running a test without collecting the result and catching exceptions.
  This can be used to support running tests under a debugger.

URLs
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* ...

Utilities
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* :func:`~django.utils.encoding.filepath_to_uri` now supports
  :class:`pathlib.Path`.

Validators
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* ...

Miscellaneous
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* The SQLite backend now supports :class:`pathlib.Path` for the ``NAME``
  setting.

* The ``settings.py`` generated by the :djadmin:`startproject` command now uses
  :class:`pathlib.Path` instead of :mod:`os.path` for building filesystem
  paths.

.. _backwards-incompatible-3.1:

Backwards incompatible changes in 3.1
=====================================

Database backend API
--------------------

This section describes changes that may be needed in third-party database
backends.

* ``DatabaseOperations.fetch_returned_insert_columns()`` now requires an
  additional ``returning_params`` argument.

Dropped support for MariaDB 10.1
--------------------------------

Upstream support for MariaDB 10.1 ends in October 2020. Django 3.1 supports
MariaDB 10.2 and higher.

Miscellaneous
-------------

* The cache keys used by :ttag:`cache` and generated by
  :func:`~django.core.cache.utils.make_template_fragment_key` are different
  from the keys generated by older versions of Django. After upgrading to
  Django 3.1, the first request to any previously cached template fragment will
  be a cache miss.

* The compatibility imports of ``django.core.exceptions.EmptyResultSet`` in
  ``django.db.models.query``, ``django.db.models.sql``, and
  ``django.db.models.sql.datastructures`` are removed.

* The compatibility import of ``django.core.exceptions.FieldDoesNotExist`` in
  ``django.db.models.fields`` is removed.

* The compatibility imports of ``django.forms.utils.pretty_name()`` and
  ``django.forms.boundfield.BoundField`` in ``django.forms.forms`` are removed.

* The compatibility imports of ``Context``, ``ContextPopException``, and
  ``RequestContext`` in ``django.template.base`` are removed.

* The compatibility import of
  ``django.contrib.admin.helpers.ACTION_CHECKBOX_NAME`` in
  ``django.contrib.admin`` is removed.

* The :setting:`STATIC_URL` and :setting:`MEDIA_URL` settings set to relative
  paths are now prefixed by the server-provided value of ``SCRIPT_NAME`` (or
  ``/`` if not set). This change should not affect settings set to valid URLs
  or absolute paths.

* :class:`~django.middleware.http.ConditionalGetMiddleware` no longer adds the
  ``ETag`` header to responses with an empty
  :attr:`~django.http.HttpResponse.content`.

* ``django.utils.decorators.classproperty()`` decorator is moved to
  ``django.utils.functional.classproperty()``.

* :tfilter:`floatformat` template filter now outputs (positive) ``0`` for
  negative numbers which round to zero.

* :attr:`Meta.ordering <django.db.models.Options.ordering>` and
  :attr:`Meta.unique_together <django.db.models.Options.unique_together>`
  options on models in ``django.contrib`` modules that were formerly tuples are
  now lists.

.. _deprecated-features-3.1:

Features deprecated in 3.1
==========================

Miscellaneous
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* ``PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS`` setting is deprecated in favor of
  :setting:`PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT`.

* The undocumented usage of the :lookup:`isnull` lookup with non-boolean values
  as the right-hand side is deprecated, use ``True`` or ``False`` instead.

.. _removed-features-3.1:

Features removed in 3.1
=======================

These features have reached the end of their deprecation cycle and are removed
in Django 3.1.

See :ref:`deprecated-features-2.2` for details on these changes, including how
to remove usage of these features.

* ``django.utils.timezone.FixedOffset`` is removed.

* ``django.core.paginator.QuerySetPaginator`` is removed.

* A model's ``Meta.ordering`` doesn't affect ``GROUP BY`` queries.

* ``django.contrib.postgres.fields.FloatRangeField`` and
  ``django.contrib.postgres.forms.FloatRangeField`` are removed.

* The ``FILE_CHARSET`` setting is removed.

* ``django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage`` is removed.

* The ``RemoteUserBackend.configure_user()`` method requires ``request`` as the
  first positional argument.

* Support for ``SimpleTestCase.allow_database_queries`` and
  ``TransactionTestCase.multi_db`` is removed.