This release is considered a significant release to improve upstream support with Django and Python. Some of these may change the behaviour of existing features and pre-existing behaviour. Specifically, some fixes were added to around the support ofUniqueConstraint with nullable fields which will improve built-in serializer validation.

Features

• Add official support for Django 5.1 and its newLoginRequiredMiddleware in#9514 and#9657
• Add official Django 5.2a1 support in#9634
• Add support for Python 3.13 in#9527 and#9556
• Support Django 2.1+ test client JSON data automatically serialized in#6511 and fix a regression in#9615

Bug fixes

• Fix unique together validator to respect condition's fields fromUniqueConstraint in#9360
• Fix raising on nullable fields part ofUniqueConstraint in#9531
• Fixunique_together validation with source in#9482
• Added protections toAttributeError raised within properties in#9455
• Fixget_template_context to handle also lists in#9467
• Fix "Converter is already registered" deprecation warning. in#9512
• Fix noisy warning and accept integers as min/max values ofDecimalField in#9515
• Fix usages ofopen() insetup.py in#9661

Translations

• Add some missing Chinese translations in#9505
• Fix spelling mistakes in Farsi language were corrected in#9521
• Fixing and adding missing Brazilian Portuguese translations in#9535

Removals

• Remove support for Python 3.8 in#9670
• Remove long deprecated code from request wrapper in#9441
• Remove deprecatedAutoSchema._get_reference method in#9525

Documentation and internal changes

• Provide tests for hashing ofOperandHolder in#9437
• Update documentation: Addadrf third party package in#9198
• Update tutorials links in Community contributions docs in#9476
• Fix usage of deprecated Django function in example from docs in#9509
• Move path converter docs into a separate section in#9524
• Add test covering update view withoutqueryset attribute in#9528
• Fix Transifex link in#9541
• Fix examplehttpie call in docs in#9543
• Fix example for serializer field with choices in docs in#9563
• Remove extra<> in validators example in#9590
• Updatestrftime link in the docs in#9624
• Switch to codecov GHA in#9618
• Add note regarding availability of theaction attribute in 'Introspecting ViewSet actions' docs section in#9633
• Improved description of allowed throttling rates in documentation in#9640
• Addrest-framework-gm2m-relations package to the list of 3rd party libraries in#9063
• Fix a number of typos in the test suite in the docs in#9662
• Adddjango-pyoidc as a third party authentication library in#9667

New Contributors

• @maerteijn made their first contribution in#9198
• @FraCata00 made their first contribution in#9444
• @AlvaroVega made their first contribution in#9451
• @james-mchugh made their first contribution in#9455
• @ifeanyidavid made their first contribution in#9479
• @p-schlickmann made their first contribution in#9480
• @akkuman made their first contribution in#9505
• @rafaelgramoschi made their first contribution in#9509
• @Sinaatkd made their first contribution in#9521
• @gtkacz made their first contribution in#9535
• @sliverc made their first contribution in#9556
• @gabrielromagnoli1987 made their first contribution in#9543
• @cheehong1030 made their first contribution in#9563
• @amansharma612 made their first contribution in#9590
• @Gluroda made their first contribution in#9616
• @deepakangadi made their first contribution in#9624
• @EXG1O made their first contribution in#9633
• @decadenza made their first contribution in#9640
• @mojtabaakbari221b made their first contribution in#9063
• @mikemanger made their first contribution in#9661
• @gbip made their first contribution in#9667

Full Changelog:3.15.2...3.16.0