------------------* Fix compression speed gains for the thread pool when running Django’s ``collectstatic``.The thread pool had no effect due to use of a generator for the results, a refactoring introduced when reviewing the initial PR.Thanks to Petr Přikryl for the investigation and fix in `PR 616 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/616>`__.

------------------* Raise any errors from threads in the ``whitenoise.compress`` command.Regression in 6.8.0.Thanks to Tom Grainger for the spotting this with a `comment on PR 484 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/484#discussion_r1818989096>`__.

------------------* Drop Django 3.2 to 4.1 support.* Drop Python 3.8 support.* Support Python 3.13.* Fix a bug introduced in version 6.0.0 where ``Range`` requests could lead to database connection errors in other requests.Thanks to Per Myren for the detailed investigation and fix in `PR 612 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/612>`__.* Use Django’s |FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME|__ setting correctly.This reverts a change from version 5.3.0 that added a call to Django’s |get_script_prefix() method|__ outside of the request-response cycle... |FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME| replace:: ``FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME``__ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/settings/#std:setting-FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME.. |get_script_prefix() method| replace:: ``get_script_prefix()`` method__ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/urlresolvers/#django.urls.get_script_prefixThanks to Sarah Boyce in `PR 486 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/486>`__.* Compress files using a thread pool.This speeds up the compression step up to four times in benchmarks.Thanks to Anthony Ricaud in `PR 484 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/484>`__.

------------------* Support Django 5.1.

------------------* Support Django 5.0.* Drop Python 3.7 support.

------------------* Support Python 3.12.* Changed documentation site URL from ``https://whitenoise.evans.io/`` to ``https://whitenoise.readthedocs.io/``.

------------------* Support Django 4.2.* Remove further support for byte strings from the ``root`` and ``prefix`` arguments to ``WhiteNoise``, and Django’s ``STATIC_ROOT`` setting.Like in the previous release, this seems to be a remnant of Python 2 support.Again, this change may be backwards incompatible for a small number of projects, but it’s unlikely.Django does not support ``STATIC_ROOT`` being a byte string.

------------------* Add some video file extensions to be ignored during compression.Since such files are already heavily compressed, further compression rarely helps.Thanks to Jon Ribbens in `PR 431 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/431>`__.* Remove the behaviour of decoding byte strings passed for settings that take strings.This seemed to be left around from supporting Python 2.This change may be backwards incompatible for a small number of projects.* Document “hidden” feature of setting ``max_age`` to ``None`` to disable the ``Cache-Control`` header.* Drop support for working as old-style Django middleware, as support was `removed in Django 2.0 <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.0/#features-removed-in-2-0>`__.

------------------* Support Python 3.11.* Support Django 4.1.

------------------* Drop support for Django 2.2, 3.0, and 3.1.

------------------* Drop support for Python 3.5 and 3.6.* Add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10.* Drop support for Django 1.11, 2.0, and 2.1.* Add support for Django 4.0.* Import new MIME types from Nginx, changes:- ``.avif`` files are now served with the ``image/avif`` MIME type.- Open Document files with extensions ``.odg``, ``.odp``, ``.ods``, and ``.odt`` are now served with their respective ``application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.*`` MIME types.* The ``whitenoise.__version__`` attribute has been removed.Use ``importlib.metadata.version()`` to check the version of Whitenoise if you need to.* Requests using the ``Range`` header can no longer read beyond the end of the requested range.Thanks to Richard Tibbles in `PR 322 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/322>`__.* Treat empty and ``"*"`` values for ``Accept-Encoding`` as if the client doesn’t support any encoding.Thanks to Richard Tibbles in `PR 323 <https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/pull/323>`__.

------------------* Gracefully handle unparsable ``If-Modified-Since`` headers (thanks `danielegozzi <https://github.com/danielegozzi>`_).* Test against Django 3.2 (thanks `jhnbkr <https://github.com/jhnbkr>`_).* Add mimetype for Markdown (``.md``) files (thanks `bz2 <https://github.com/bz2>`_).* Various documentation improvements (thanks `PeterJCLaw <https://github.com/PeterJCLaw>`_ and `AliRn76 <https://github.com/AliRn76>`_).