History

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6.1 (2023-09-07)

Compatibility

  • Fix warning make in regards to pkg_resources in Python 3.11+, (#146, thank you @blag)

Maintenance

  • Fix typos via typos
    • Special thanks to typo fix from @apoorvaeternity (Apoorva Pandey) in #145

CI updates:

  • Python: Support Python 3.11 and 3.12 in test matrix (#146, thank you @blag)
  • Django: Support Django 4.1 and 4.2 in test matrix (#146, thank you @blag)

6.0 (2023-09-07)

Breaking change: Missing DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD

This sets a DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD to BigAutoField for robots in AppConfig. Previously, there was no app configuration or setting for this. (#134, thank you @jan-szejko-steelseries)

Robots 5.0 included a BigAutoField migration file for django 3.2 support (see #112), however, this caused an extra migration to be created to set django.db.models.AutoField for certain users (see #124).

Breaking: Migration issues

New django sites should work fine.

Existing sites that manually created migrations for robots 5.0:

If you ran ./manage.py makemigrations to bypass the #112 issue, you may need to resolve this manually if a custom migration you made for robots was applied in django_migrations.

Resources:

Maintenance

  • Remove django-south migrations folder (#138)

5.0 (2022-01-08)

  • Dropped support for Python 2.7, 3.5, and 3.6
  • Added support for Python 3.9
  • Added support for Python 3.10 (#113), thank you @Andrew-Chen-Wang
  • Dropped support for Django versions 2.1 and below
  • Dropped support for Django 3.0
  • Added support for Django 3.1
  • Added support for Django 3.2
  • Added support for Django 4.0 (#112), thank you @umarmughal824
  • Improve documentation for Django 4.0 (#119), thank you @sergioisidoro
  • Sync files with @jazzband/.github
  • Add .pre-commit-config.yaml and run autofixes (#122)

4.0 (2020-01-04)

  • Support for Django 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 and Python 3.7 and 3.8.
  • Updated the requirements for dropped support of six in Django 3.
  • Restructure test setup to use setuptools-scm and more modern Python patterns.

3.1.0 (2017-12-11)

  • Add this changelog file
  • Support for Django 2.0 via GH-83, fixes GH-81, GH-79
  • Drop support for Django 1.10 and below. For older Django versions, use django-robots 3.0.0 and below
  • Fix docs to include README in index instead of duplicating

3.0 (2017-02-28)

  • Dropped support for Django < 1.8
  • Added support for Django 1.10 / 1.11
  • Improved admin changeform
  • Added support for protocol prefix to Host directive
  • Added support for sitemap named views (for non standard sitemap views)
  • Fixed an error which resulted in doubling the scheme for sitemap
  • Fixed support for cached sitemaps

2.0 (2016-02-28)

  • Dropped support for Django 1.5
  • Added support for Django 1.9
  • Improved code / metadata quality
  • Added Host directive
  • Added support to detect current site via http host var
  • Added filter_horizontal for for allowed and disallowed
  • Fixed error in which get_sitemap_urls modifies SITEMAP_URLS
  • Url patterns marked as safe in template
  • disabled localization of decimal fields in template

1.1 (2015-05-12)

  • Fixed compatibility to Django 1.7 and 1.8.
  • Moved South migrations into different subdirectory so South>=1.0 is needed.

1.0 (2014-01-16)

  • BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE change: The default behaviour of this app has changed to allow all bots from the previous opposite behavior.
  • Fixed some backward compatibility issues.
  • Updated existing translations (Danish, German, French, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian).
  • Added Greek, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Dutch, Slovak and Ukrainian translations.

0.9.2 (2013-03-24)

  • Fixed compatibility with Django 1.5. Thanks, Russell Keith-Magee.

0.9.1 (2012-11-23)

  • Fixed argument signature in new class based view. Thanks, mkai.

0.9 (2012-11-21)

  • Deprecated ROBOTS_SITEMAP_URL setting. Use ROBOTS_SITEMAP_URLS instead.

  • Refactored rule_list view to be class based. django-robots now requires Django >= 1.3.

  • Stop returning 404 pages if there are no Rules setup on the site. Instead disallow access for all robots.

  • Added an initial South migration. If you’re using South you have to “fake” the initial database migration:

    python manage.py migrate --fake robots 0001
    
  • Added initial Sphinx docs.