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v3.16.0

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 of UniqueConstraint with nullable fields which will improve built-in serializer validation.

Features

• Add official support for Django 5.1 and its new LoginRequiredMiddleware 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 from UniqueConstraint in #9360
• Fix raising on nullable fields part of UniqueConstraint in #9531
• Fix unique_together validation with source in #9482
• Added protections to AttributeError raised within properties in #9455
• Fix get_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 of DecimalField in #9515
• Fix usages of open() in setup.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 deprecated AutoSchema._get_reference method in #9525

Documentation and internal changes

• Provide tests for hashing of OperandHolder in #9437
• Update documentation: Add adrf 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 without queryset attribute in #9528
• Fix Transifex link in #9541
• Fix example httpie call in docs in #9543
• Fix example for serializer field with choices in docs in #9563
• Remove extra <> in validators example in #9590
• Update strftime link in the docs in #9624
• Switch to codecov GHA in #9618
• Add note regarding availability of the action attribute in 'Introspecting ViewSet actions' docs section in #9633
• Improved description of allowed throttling rates in documentation in #9640
• Add rest-framework-gm2m-relations package to the list of 3rd party libraries in #9063

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• ac50cec Prepare v3.16, release notes, and announcement. (#9671)
• e96b8e4 Drop Python 3.8 as EOL (#9670)
• 32dbd35 Add django-pyoidc as a third party authentication library (#9667)
• 73cbb9c Fix typos (#9662)
• 1e8ac7c Update usage of open in setup.py (#9661)
• 0e1c7d3 Update django 5.2b1 (#9657)
• fc98d35 Update relations.md (#9063)
• 17e9560 Fix unique together validator doesn't respect condition's fields (#9360)
• f30c0e2 add django 5.2a1 initial support (#9634)
• 28d0261 Add missing ignore_outcome=true for the Python 3.13 - Django main combination...
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